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Would you leave kids upstairs in a pub room for a few hours?

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NoEffingWay · 06/02/2022 00:56

Have booked a family room for a few nights in a pub. It will be myself, DP and our two children. Would it be acceptable to leave the kids for a few hours in the evening so that DP and I could have a few drinks before heading to bed.

They are two boys, aged 10 and 12. The room is above the pub and only accessible by guests. They are sensible and able.

Please don't flame me! Fully accept that I might well be going to bed at 9pm as per DS's bedtime .

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Theimpossiblegirl · 06/02/2022 00:58

I would with phone contact. They're not babies. See how you feel when you get there.

OytheBumbler · 06/02/2022 00:59

Definitely. You're only downstairs and your children are old enough.

Hapoydayz · 06/02/2022 01:00

Yes, why not

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NuffSaidSam · 06/02/2022 01:01

I think it's fine. I'd maybe take a baby monitor/iPad or something just to keep a visual on them.

This is Mumsnet though so, no. The pub will definitely burn to the ground. It's highly likely all of the other guests are paedophiles. Both of your son's will inevitably sleep walk out of the pub into the nearest river. And there is a chance a cactus could fall on them and stab them to death or the windows explode and shower them with glass.

Tulips21 · 06/02/2022 01:01

No.

LostForWords2021 · 06/02/2022 01:07

Yes, please do.

Brett239 · 06/02/2022 01:11

Yes they are old enough.

NoSquirrels · 06/02/2022 01:13

10 & 12? Yes.

Although, by the time we’d eaten ours would probably be ready for bed about the time we were so would be irrelevant!

NoSquirrels · 06/02/2022 01:14

And there is a chance a cactus could fall on them and stab them to death

Wafflesnsniffles · 06/02/2022 01:15

Yes. Totally fine.

Theblacksheepandme · 06/02/2022 01:15

purplecorkheart · 06/02/2022 01:16

Most likely yes but would decide when I got there and saw the layout if accommodation etc. A few years ago I stayed in a pub accommodation where my room on the ground floor was looking out on a beer garden and had a fire door going out onto it. A couple of people knocked on it when it started to rain as it was a shorter route to get back in.

Bootskates · 06/02/2022 01:18

At 10 and 12 yes...unless I thought they were going to mess around or fight or something

Luredbyapomegranate · 06/02/2022 01:18

Of course.

They’ll be grand. Hopefully it’ll have some nice ghosts to keep them entertained.

ADisgruntledPelican · 06/02/2022 01:21

It depends on the layout and on the DCs. I've stayed in pub rooms where the corridors were complicated and there were lots of people wandering about. I wouldn't have left my DCs alone there.

Lockdownbear · 06/02/2022 01:30

Probably would but I'd want to see the layout first. I'd probably leave a phone with the just in case (of a incident with a jaggy plant 🌵)

DinosApple · 06/02/2022 06:47

I have children the same age and would leave them with a phone if they were happy.
But my eldest is a clingy sort so probably wouldn't be happy with that.

I'd also be happy for them to stay up with us as long as the landlord was ok (can't remember licensing laws- so with a bowl of chips if necessary.)

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