Eh? I said that last year (when he was 9) was the first time we'd felt OK about him walking through a hotel complex back to our room to get stuff for himself. Partly because, prior to that he would probably have got sidetracked by something and forgotten whatever it was that he was fetching...
Totally agree. My son is ten and it was only last year when on holiday that we felt comfortable letting him go and fetch stuff from our room on his own while we were by the pool etc (he is massively forgetful so that was part of it).
We're far from overprotective though, but the idea of leaving...