Does he want to go? I know sometime teens don't always want to. My kids are excited, they have cruised before but my 10 yeard old hates to leave her friends. We will also be in Florida for ten days before that so she feels like she will be gone from them for a long time. We have been on RC tiwce before and Holland America three times. Hopefully, we will not hit any hurricanes this vacation. we never have before but we never cruised in August.