To be travelling first class with three children?

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Am I ?

I've booked first-class for DP and I and my three girls, aged 6, 4,and 18 months. It is a five hour journey on Virgin.

I hate their trains. They are overcrowded, stuffy tubes of hell.
First class is a treat and not too much extra as I booked in October.

But some peopl I have mentioned this too have expressed sympathy for the other first class passengers and now I am feeling a bit guilty.

So AIBU?

Do it, who cares about anyone else?

Do people really think that if you don't pay first class they deserve to have noisy children inflicted upon them?

In my mind most trains have a quiet carriage....if you want peace and quiet that's where you sit.

First class is usually near the buffet for those divine bacon sandwiches.

If people don't like kids in first/business they can in the first instance kiss my arse and in the second take it up with the train company or airline who sold me the tickets.

I don't think anyone said they don't like kids in first, they said they don't like unruly badly behaved kids.

You are definitely nbu. As long as you try to occupy the kids & don't leave them to cause chaos, you've as much right to those seats as anyone. And that also applies to flying. I've done 4 upper class flights with my now 4 year old & (apart from one half hour crying episode cos he was teething badly & wouldn't go to sleep) he was one of the best behaved on the flight (cabin crews words!). We'll be doing first class train & flight with a by then just turned 5 year old & 10 month old in april & I know ds1 will be v well behaved cos he'll have loads to occupy him & the baby will sleep & have stuff to occupy also. I find as long as people see you're doing what you can to occupy/pacify them then they understand, it's when people ignore the little darlings that people start to disapprove.

Hope the journeys more relaxed for you

Please take your mob on the first class train, I can't afford to travel first so would prefer to enjoy my cramped surroundings in peace

Do check it is not the quiet carriage though. Some parents don't. There will be a sign on the window and go to the first class not silent if you've been accidentally booked in there.

I don't travel first class on principle but it is hard if a family sit around you. I was on a train the other week and had to work for 2 hours and next to me at the table were a mother and father and toddler and baby. IT certainly had an impact on the work but the worst bit was they seemed unable to read the window. They were a lovely family and I just accepted it and said nothing but it did say quiet carriage on the window and they could have gone into a non quiet carriage very easily.

I always travel first class with my kids on trains. As the train, company sells the ticket I don't see how others can object. As for the quiet carriage - never known one to be quiet as train travel is a disruption in itself.

morloth think you said it for me

And if you really object to children in first/business (planes or trains) then you better work on the means of affording less public transport.