How much would you pay for a Gin Tasting (with childcare during event)?

[BajanRumPunch]

Would you rather pay more for a ticket, along the lines of £40 per person, if it included free food, gin, and about 3 hours of event crèche or nanny-service?

Also, what time would be ideal to do something like this?

3:30 to 6:30, home in time for bedtimes?
Or 7:30-10:30, get a sitter and get home before midnight?

I would have said that's a child free evening...

I wouldn't go to a gin tasting with my children even if there was childcare. It would have to be a childfree evening for me. They'd still have to be transported home, then details like taxis and car seats become a pain.

A lot will depend on the demographics.

£40 would be extremely expensive for our area, even if it included childcare.

Literally zero.

surely it's after the gin tasting you need the childcare?

Nothing
I wouldn’t want to take my dc and I wouldn’t want to go somewhere where there were other people’s dc

Child-Free event for me.

I went to a gin tasting evening not long ago, was £25 for 4 gins and a buffet. For me it started too late, about 8 I think and the food didn't come out until about 9.30.

I think an earlier start and earlier food would have made the evening more enjoyable. I was starving and also as I didn't want to be too late home I felt like I was having to knock back the drinks in order to fit them all in.

As above. Plus I would not be leaving my child with a stranger in a strange place to get drunk.

3 hours of drinking followed by wrangling your child home does not sound like fun.

Awesome, thanks for the feedback everyone. I just know event crèches are very popular with mum retreats - so that aside, how much would you be willing to pay for a Gin Tasting. It’s a fairly well-off area in the Cotswolds and I think people pay £24 for a wine tasting.

I would never ever take my kids to that, swim booze and expect to look after my kids/take them home after. So I would never buy a ticket for that.

Doesn't food ruin the tasting?

Thought you'd need a clean pallete for proper 'tasting'

*swig

You do not have food at a gin tasting.

Or children.

So it's just a money making expensive and average meal out dressed up as a 'tasting'

Definitely child free where anything alchohol related is involved, people can arrange their own babysitters.

Agree that you don't need food.

I'd pay £20

For context, I paid £30 to attend a tasting at the Sipsmith brewery.

Included: a g&t on arrival
A talk
A tour
3x tasters of gin (2 regular and sloe)
1x vodka taster
Gift box to take away containing 50ml sipsmith and shot measurer.

Was worth the money. I wouldn't pay more than that especially if it's not at an actual brewery.

Would not contemplate taking children to this sort of thing ...as pp has said you still have responsibility of getting them home/bathed/settled for bed etc. If it was a child free evening out then would spend perhaps around £30 ?

Sorry, I mean DISTILLARY not brewery

The Cotswold Distillary (gin) charges £6 for a tour or £10 for a tour which includes gin tasting
They are fully booked for a while though