To be annoyed play centre held a party at the same time as open session?

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The whole playground probably wouldn’t be joining in on that though. So not really the same.

But you said every other child was at the party. Not every child apart from yours. Make your mind up.

It's a business. They have every right to have parties. Your son enjoyed himself. End of.

Some times it’s good to be Jack and some times it’s good to be Jane.

92% say YABU and VVV entitled. Your DC got to play so what’s the problem? They didn’t get invited to a random’s birthday party. You need to explain, as their parent, that they can’t always get what they want. Distract, interact, whatever you need to do but not sure why you are having a go at the business.

I am sorry…I don’t get the issue!

there was a party which sounds lovely. Your kids made friends, again, fabulous. You were playing at a play center…great!

I mean…if the issue is that your kids weren’t invited. Meh. Please teach them that they don’t need to eat a slice of every pie they see! They should be excited for when it will be their birthday not sad coz they didn’t get to eat…They will have their turn?

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Did you expect parent of birthday dc to invite your dc to their party?

I had to explain to my 4 year old why she couldn’t stay at the extremely fun looking party that her 5 year old sister had been invited to on Saturday. She wasn’t best pleased, but then she got over it and we watched Moana.

That’s life.

Ah christ alive

Some people are offended by anything

How can you survive if you're this sensitive to nothing?

YABU

Did you pay for a play session that they didn't get, or got less of? If so, you are right to be annoyed.

All this "life lesson" nonsense as well.

Successful parties don't have life lessons imo. Everyone just has a good time. It's a sign of a badly-organised party or one gone wrong if people have to console themselves that at least some little children will learn a "life lesson".

Of course it's silly to have, say 25 party kids and 5 non-party kids in a venue. It's a shoddy way to run a party and unfair on everyone.

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OP, you do realise that if they'd close it to the public for the party, you'd then be on here whingeing that you made a special trip there only to find it closed!

What do you want them to do?

Only have parties in the middle of the night when it's closed to the public?

Some of the 93% think the OP wanted her children invited to the party, some thought she wanted the party turned away altogether and some just like to be contrary to liven up their mediocre lives. You’d be better off doing the opposite of most things MN suggest.

Because I'm not a big believer that an OP should just roll over and accept anything based on the poll. People don't always read threads properly. I've seen plenty of threads where the poll is one thing but the actual replies are more mixed.

Ita under the first post 93% disagree with OP.

So we have op asked aibu, 93% say YABU. OP says no they aren't. Still 93% say YABU.

Now we have sure they didn't read it and they only want to be contrary 🤣.

You may have a point of it was 50/50 but let's be fair.

If a venue sells 25/30 places they have available for a birthday party with specific catering and entertainment then of course they should close to other people! They're probably making a lot more money than 30 non-birthday entry tickets. It's really weird. It'd be like somebody booking out a whole pub for a party for 100 people but letting one group of four book a table in one corner without warning them.

I don't claim to know what the percentage is but there are some posts that reference larger soft plays.

Also we all know that this forum is full of bored people who like to disagree and kick OPs just for shits and giggles so that's probably a small proportion too.

Why do you believe we haven't read the posts? So 93% didn't read it properly 🙄

Nope we are perfectly capable of understanding, these small role play cafes are everywhere its not something unusual we haven't experienced before.

It cost a LOT more for private hire, I know because unlike OP I have actually hosted kids parties before (many, many times for my multiple children in the 16 years of being a mam) as have many people responding.

OP has no experiance or awareness as she has very tiny kids, when she has been through this herself she will realize how nuts she is being.

I look forward to posts about rude party etiquette like how at £20 a head some people brought 3 uninvited siblings along making everything awkward sending the kids over to 'join in' and the parallel thread of how mean a mam as DS school was for not offering cake and a party bag and party game inclusion to little Timmy, he is only 1 little 3 year old it would 'make no difference to add him' to the party.

NAIL ON HEAD.

The people who want their kid invite to the party simply can't be arsed to parent their own kid. Which is a pandemic at play places (parents who ignore their kids even though its not a creche and everywhere states you must supervise your own) but expecting other parents to invite your kid to a strangers party so you don't have to is next level entitled insanity.

Having the play area to yourself is fantastic... its also possible that OP could have paid in and found there was only one or two other families (slow sessions happen) and they may have left 10 minutes in and her kids would have lost play mates and been alone anyway. Or maybe there is 8 other older children their who have no interest in playing with a toddler either so ignore them the whole session while playing with their own aged kids (which is their right they are children who paid to play they are not caregivers there to babysit toddlers).

Going to a soft play does not guarantee your kids get to play with other kids, they are only guaranteed some use of the equipment. You can't force other people to be involved with your kids.

83% of slots where taken by the party (so nearly 20% of the venue spaces where not booked) not 99%... there wasn't 200 space with 198 booked for a party.

Its insane made up stats like that that make the 'offended' peoples 'opinion' hard to take seriously.

The parents had manner, that they where forced to say something because you lacked them.

Of course you don't just accept the 'invite' they offered out of trying to defuse your badly handle situation, it rhetorical social politeness. You what what Britain is forever mocked for by the rest of the world (where we say something polite when someone is out of line but all know its means 'your being rude').

Totally agree with you, but in this situation the OPs children were complete strangers.

If you have to remove your child because they can't behave that on you, you do not get to ruin someone else's party. We have all been through it, I have had to remove my kids from the cinema and theater before missing something I spent far more than £30 on... that what you do as a parent.

OP paid £30 for 2 and the other parents paid for 25 so £375 (probably more as party packages often charge more for food/juice/party bags/co-coordinator).