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Today I went to a "Child Friendly" Pub with a soft play area attached with....

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shimmerysilverglitter · 25/09/2010 21:09

a farkin Bar in it! Yes A full Bar right there in the middle of soft play and loads of parents standing around supping pints and glasses of wine, I mean a separate warehouse type area with all the climbing areas in and A Fully Stocked Bar.

I have never been anywhere like this before. And the drinking vessels were all glass as well.

Is this normal or AIBU to be shocked by this? I will stand by the opinions on here but never saw anything like this before.

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shimmerysilverglitter · 25/09/2010 21:30

No, Beeston.

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bigchris · 25/09/2010 21:31

Activate - I eat and drink in peace, dh minds kids in soft play
everyone happy Grin

TheCrackFox · 25/09/2010 21:31

All softplays should sell copious amounts of booze to the parents to help them numb the pain.

CristinaTheAstonishing · 25/09/2010 21:41

We went to a small softplay with a few tables serving beer right in the middle of Berlin, on Kufusterdam. Nice place, good beer, you pay by the hour (or half hour) depending on how much you've stayed. Very civilised.

5inthebed · 25/09/2010 21:41

I'd rather have my kids running around a soft pay burning off energy than sit in a pub with them twitching with boredom at a table in a pub.

Can't see the problem with soft plays, especially on rainy days when the dc are bored at home.

shay2006 · 25/09/2010 21:42

I'm in Nottingham and usually go to The Bee Keeper most weeks to meet up with friends. They do have a bar in there but it is stocked with crisps and fruit shoots, and very rarely has anyone serving behind it. It must be a new thing that they serve alcohol there now, which seems strange as glasses are strictly not allowed in the play area bit, they make you take plastic cups in from the main pub/restaurant.

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shimmerysilverglitter · 25/09/2010 21:44

Was definitely glasses today, that is what was so surprising to me.

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MoonUnitAlpha · 25/09/2010 21:48

Gambado softplay sells beer and wine.

shay2006 · 25/09/2010 21:50

Might be in there more often now lol

KaraStarbuckThrace · 25/09/2010 21:50

Sounds like a great idea to me Grin After chasing my 2yo around soft play I usually need a bloody drink or three

But I do get what you are saying about the glasses, it is probably better to have plastic ones - IME the children then to run in and out of soft play so plenty of opportunties for drinks to get knocked over!

kreecherlivesupstairs · 26/09/2010 06:55

Why did we ever leave Nottingham? (mainly because i loathed living there). Seriously, DD is getting a bit old for soft play, but the premise sounds great - apart from the glass glasses.

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shimmerysilverglitter · 26/09/2010 09:24

Why did you loathe it Kreecher?, in Nottingham I mean? I got that way as well, even yesterday driving back in I felt a bit depressed! I don't know there is something about Nottingham that makes me feel a bit hopeless iyswim? Apologies to all Nottingham inhabitants.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 27/09/2010 14:33

Shimmery, DH was doing his PGCE there so we were only in Lenton for about a year. I think it was because it wasn't one thing nor another. Neither proper North or proper South. And I loathed being called Ducky and I had a real proper muscle bound stalker.

OrmRenewed · 27/09/2010 14:35

But it was a pub.

ChippingIn · 27/09/2010 14:39

Sounds brilliant :)

(Would swap glass for plastic though)

emptyshell · 27/09/2010 14:49

Oh god, you all live a bit too close to comfort to me.

No comment on the pub at all - sounds like an ideal way to numb the pain of the hell that is those places though. Just I'm going to hide behind the sofa now since I'm about under a mile down the road from there.

stressedout29 · 27/09/2010 14:59

If it's only for 1 while the the kids play its better than being dragged to a pub to watch the football as many parents do. So if used responsibly its ok.

I wouldn't go to somewhere like this myself as not everyone will be responsible and I don't think kids should see this as a normal part of their life?s at such an early age.

It is illegal to be drunk in charge of a child under 7 for me this is only 1-2 drinks

taintedpaint · 27/09/2010 15:48

Ooh this sounds great! Sorry, pretty sure you didn't want that reaction OP!

muggglewump · 27/09/2010 15:54

I'd take DD to soft play more often if it had a bar.

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/09/2010 15:58

I never ever took dd to a softplay. I think they are hideous vile places of satan.

She is happy.

(Cue MN post in 20 years: "AIBU to think my mother is a BITCH for never taking me to softplay)

Seriously, a family friendly pub with softplay? Loads of kids shrieking, vile food and pissed parents? I would rather sit on the grass verges of the M5 with a wordsearch book.

GetOrfMoiLand · 27/09/2010 16:01

Also (builds up head of steam on topic) why encoyrage the thought that mealtimes = playtimes.

If you want a bit of rouggh and tumble go to a park etc.

If you want to have a meal go to a cafe or a restaurant.

Don't combine the two and end up in some hellhole where people let their children run riots past your table where you are eating.

OrmRenewed · 27/09/2010 16:18

Tend to agree getorf. It's hard to teach your children to behave well at mealtimes when everyone else's DC are tearing around like lunatics. Thankfully my 3 like eating enough to find that is enough to engage their attention Grin

But it is a pub so why would there not be a bar?

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