God, I hate soft play parties.

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The screaming. The bad lighting. The claustrophobia. The smell of greasy food. The noise.
DS is 5, but has medical needs so I can't drop and run. He had a great time. I'm so thankful that it's over 😁

I hate soft play full stop.

Yes, thank god mine are teens now, I used to take two nurofen before I walked in to those places.

Oh, 100%.
I hate soft play, full stop - doesn't need to be a party.
Glad mine didn't really go until they were old enough to be dropped off and collected at the end.

I'm way past my soft play days. However I'm currently at a concert with my young teen. Noise, smelly, definitely claustrophobic. I think I prefer soft play

How does anyone choose to work there!?! Willingly turn up and spend 8hrs in those absolute hell holes.

I used to work at a mega soft play / indoor amusement playground with carousels etc for under tens. Put me off children until I was well into my thirties! The worst was when we got a code brown the ball pit :( happened regularly and it was a massive ball pit

My youngest is 5, we are near the end of soft play hell, can't be many more years left!!

Glad I'm not alone in my hatred of the migraine inducing, germ riddled pest pits. I took to my bed to lie in blissful darkness as soon as we got home!

I was also at a soft play party today with my 5 year old, she had a great time but I absolutely despise soft play!

I have to go to one tomorrow morning.
It helps to go with a list of things that are worse.
Eg root canal and the anaesthetic doesn't work.
Someone using a pneumatic drill right outside for hours.
Having to be the poor sod at the vets whose job it is to clear up all the animal excrement.
My youngest isn't quite up to me dropping and running which means I have to sit there and Socialise. Shame I'm driving or I'd hide gin in my coffee.

Yes, having to make small talk whilst pretending it isn't really shit is the worst bit!

I once got asked to babysit my colleagues two year old. As she couldn't go to nursery. I was so excited to take her to soft play. I had a ball, until my bum got stuck on the slide!

Soft play used to be a novelty when I was a shiny-eyed new mum. Then I realised how vile it is!

This era is over for me, thankfully.

Coffee and wifi were the only upsides.

I don’t mind soft-play, and I actually enjoy the stodgy food
What I hate is when brats go in and start indiscriminately beating the crap out of any (usually much younger) children standing near them, while the parents drink their coffee and ignore it. And yes they are choosing to ignore it.

I’m actively counting down the days until my 6 month old is old enough to be let loose even in the baby section of soft play. It’s 24 degrees already here and the ONLY thing that she is happy doing today is being walked round and round the house on my or her dad’s hip.

Yesterday we tried a nice walk around the village. The HORROR when people dared to look at her 🙈🙈🙈

Grumpycatgrumpycat please come back to this thread in 5 years and let us know how much you still love it then 😁