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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
Howdy all and NEMO types,
I'd appreciate some suggestions in regards to curfew and such for 18 hour bus rides. This year's trip to Atlanta will be via bus and will be 18 hours in transit. My thoughts are to treat it like a hotel situation and have a 'curfew' at XX:xx PM with seat checks. At curfew each set of seats will be same sex. I'm even thinking that I need to section off the bus a bit and have a female and male section???
What kinds of meals do you typically serve en route? We are leaving @ 7:00 PM so I am asking students to have eaten dinner before boarding and then having snacks for them in the evening. My plan is to then have breakfast items for the AM, Sam's club stuff. We would then stop at a pizza buffet somewhere for lunch and then do dinner in Atlanta.
Besides having a collection of G and PG movies, do you provide any other type of entertainment/amusement? Are there standard bus games that teams play?
Any comments and suggestions are more than appreciated,
Thanks,
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Over the past few years 384 has delt with many situations on the bus, many which I don't wish repeating for the sake of RVA team unity. But, here's what I've found.
-Clean up is key. Do a spot check of the bus and make kids throw off trash at every stop.
-We had a "lights out" policy at midnight, basically, no bus lighting, no movies, no loud stuff, but kids could still watch movies on laptops and play games.
-Food, we were told to eat beforehand, and then we did breakfast in the morning. This was for a 10 hour trip. I'd set up a lunch & dinner stop too, snacks can only go so far.
-It's sometimes mandatory to stop every few hours to let the driver take a pee/drink/cig break. Use this time to let the kids run around, get somehting to drink, and just stretch the legs.
-Don't be affraid to have parents "switch" seats with bad kids to break up loud groups.
-Generally, we had movies that both the parents and kids wanted to see, although we wern't allowed Disney movies for some odd reason. I'd recomend TV shows myself, since they tend to work better on the road. Get someone who has the DVD sets of Family Guy, The Simpsons, etc.
Oh, make sure to agree on everything before hand, such as movies and things. Pack more entertainment than you'll need, people like movies, just not the whole bloody trip