Extravagant Trips for Kids

Gee! I wish my senior trip could've been that good. We got to go to Disneyland in southern California. To me, the reward for those girl scouts IS way too extravagant! Not to mention the fact that those girls will be traveling so far from home. As a parent, I would be very hesitant about letting my child go that far away.

That is extravagant! That will be the experience of a lifetime for them. I just hope it is fair. Because you have all these girls going to Ireland a trip that might be the trip of a lifetime but for only those girls who parents can afford for them to go. What about the ones who reaches their goals and get nothing no trip then have to have it rubbed in by the ones going..not fair. With the way things are right now wouldn't it be safer to have the kids in the United states incase something happened? I know the USA isn't half as exciting as Ireland or Scottland for that matter which both of these places I have always wanted to visit but have only through books and television. Ours was a trip to Camden park. I just hope these girls will enjoy themselves and take lots of pictures and make a trip journel to write things down as they go so they don't forget a single fasinating thing about Ireland..

Class trip..get out, we didn't even have a picnic. With girl scouts, we had a picnic, all the troops at the town park. It was for the day. I guess I was not as affluent as the kids going to Ireland. My nephew is going to Disney next year for his senior class trip.

Wow, that is extravagant! It would be very cool though. Our senior band trip was to Washington DC. We got to go thru much of the Smithsonian, a tour thru the White House, a session of Congress, our pictures taken on the steps of the Capitol building, the band got to play a concert in the park behind the Capitol. We got to see most of the spectacular sites of the city. It was all very neat and lots of fun. We worked extremely hard to get our trip, lots of bake sales and candy bar sales, raffles and many other things that we had to do to get it. Hard work should be rewarded equally. If they can work hard enough to get the trip then they deserve it.

Holy moly...a trip to Ireland if the girls reach their goals? I'll say times have changed!! I WAS a girl scout and all we ever got for achieving various goals was to get a crummy badge, and we felt we were doing great ...LOL And you're right...my grandmother used to belong to the AARP and they did have nice day or weekend trips but not to Ireland or anywhere else that extravagant As far as when I was a kid what kind of trips arranged by my school ..not much...must have gone to a cheap school--LOL--sure maybe we had "trips" to the Museum as part of a class program but that was about it

I agree. After all the stuff about the terrorists I wonder why they would take a bunch of kids to Ireland. I understand that some might never have another opportunity but giving something that big so young is out of line!

Hi Amber, Iam part Irish and would love to go to Ireland.But,I can't afford it and have a fear of flying.Maybe,I should become a 46 year old girl scout and get hypmotized to fly,lol I have only been on vacation once in my life when I was 15 and 16.I left in June,when I was 15 and returned in Aurgust after I turned 16 in July.When I was a kid,there was never any trip's that I knew of anyway.I was never in the scout's and such.When my boy's were in the scout's,baseball,bowling in the 1980's and there were just simple trips earned,like scout camp and the beach.

No such happened to me when I was a child or a teenager. The most I ever had was a skiing trip in year 11, & a Tasmaniamn holiday in year 12. I see more & more of the more expensive private schools, & even some state primsary schools, taking their classes on long, expensive holidays. I pity the poor parents who are pressured into paying for this. I agree that it is extravagent.

I think that's a bit much, but anyway who knows they might have enough funds to do it. In my case, no never had my days in school where we would be given a trip abroad when we won something. I might forget but it just didn't seem very common those days.

gracious, that is really over the top for a girl scout troupe to make - we did not have a senior class trip per se, though the language classes went on trips. french, german and Italian went on one trip and visited their perspective countries - not spending much time in any place spanish went on a trip to spain - this is the one I went on and it was incredible. my folks had me save half the fare and then surprised me by paying for the whole thing. I am glad they did that, so many of the other kids just partied on the trip and missed out on so many fun excursions and adventures - they did not appreciate going.. it was a very big deal for my parents to have sent me, and my father had always longed to go to europe himself, never did make it.

well, that sound like a good motivation. In our company, if we reached good metrics, we get to join a raffle and win trips, ipods, cellphone, entertainment showcase and a lot more. Thats why most of us workd hard because we get to travel all expence paid.

Wow. You're so right...senior trips are not that good. I should have joined the Girl Scouts.:P I've never been anywhere that awesome with any group or family trip. LOL...that kinda bums me out. A class I took in high school took a bunch of people to London, but I didn't know that many people in the class so I figured it might have sucked to not have had anybody to really pal around with. Plus, I don't think my mom could have afforded it at the time.

Oh wow, I am glad my daughter isn't reading this. She was in Girl Scouts since second grade and they said they would save their money for a trip across Europe in their senior year. At first they had like 12 girls and of course as they got older, the numbers went down to by the time my daughter was a freshman, there were three.And of course during there last few years, our counsel switched to another city and they don't contact the leader for when meetings are or when the cookie sale is. So here they were,had enough for 1 1/2 people to go and if they had continued to sell, they probably would have made it for them all to go, but now they are talking about a cruise. (my daughter hates swimming and water sports, that would not be her first choice) So whether or not they do that,I don't know. Maybe they ought to just stay in the U.S. and travel it, but unfortunately, the other 2 have money and probably has seen every bit of America, they may not go for that. So are the rewards more extravagant?, if they work for it I don't think so. Isn't it the same as if you worked hard and got a bonus? Of course it would be interesting to see if they can earn that much money, usually any money a troop gets is from selling cookies or donations. (I would hope that they get most of it from selling cookies and not someones relative donating a lot of money, that would be wrong)

Although you posted this a while ago, I still felt like responding so I hope you don't mind. At first when I was reading this I thought you were talking about a senior Girl Scout troop with juniors and seniors from high school in it. But to take 10-14 years olds on a trip to Ireland from the US is crazy. What are they going to have to look forward to when they are older? Now, if they are planning to start to raise money now and travel when they are older I can understand. It will be great for them to work towards such a wonderful goal. I did have lots of different opportunities in Girl Scouting, but I never took advantage of international ones because at the time they were for individuals (my troop was into camping and cancoeing) and my parents did not have that much money (plus I was an exchange student through a high school club to Bolivia, so maybe that's another reason why). I also got to go to an East Coast trip in 8th grade where we toured up the coast for a week and that was a great trip - it was a trip of a life time for me at the time, and I remember what fun I had, but the details are all gone now, but I have lots of pictures to look at.

That's pretty extravagant. I guess it depends on what the parents can afford. I know my cousins went to England on one of their Girl Guide trips, but they were really actively involved in guiding. My senior trip wasn't really a senior trip - anyone who was taking French could go: we went to France and Italy.

wow ireland can i go?when i was a senior we went to great adventure,it was pretty neat but nothing like ireland,i'm jealous i would love to go there,i'm irish.pattie

I wish I had this kind of trip at my time. I don't think they make this here in my country either. It can be a good thing for a teen, but I don't think a child would take advantage of this trip.