to think that all female parties of adults who go to center parcs

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need to really take a long hard look at themselves

( presume i am being unresonable really.)
i just hink oh GO SOMWHERE NORMAL not kiddy based

I don't think Center Parcs is kiddy based. Ok there's lots there for kids to do, but there's lots more for adults.
I've been as part of an all adult group and also with DH and DS and had a great time with both doing completely different things.

Agree that the Disney thing is a bit weird, that is actually aimed at kids and as for soft toys...do people actually do that?

Yes some adults do have lots of soft toys; just like some have prcelain dolls or star wars figures.

I feel the same way when I see couples in Frankie & Benny's or similar

Well go to Warners "adults only" hotels then it is positively club 60-70.

Are you suggesting that only people with children, should go to places that make provision for children?????

never been

some slightly twee friends of DH's invited us this year, for a weekend in peak season. they also invited a number of single childless folk . fgs, you could get a weekend in barcelona and some top quality pharmaceuticals for that sort of money.

OMG I agree with this.

Adults in Disneyland with no children is v odd. No doubt they're the ones who buy the adult sized Disney tops on sale (and queue up for the next Harry Potter instalment the minute it goes on sale).

I've been to Disneyland without kids with another couple. We had a blast. I'd do the embarrassed face, but I wasn't. I'm not. So I won't.

Yes centreparcs is expensive. But now my children are grown up, we go on a lot of holidays. So the choice is not centreparcs or Amsterdam for the weekend - we would do both.

I wouldn't want to go to centreparcs for a week and use up annual leave. However for a long weekend it makes a perfect break.

I have also been to Legoland with just my OH using vouchers, so it was very cheap to get in. I loved the minature legoland city. The kids being taken around this didn't in the main, seem that interested.

The spa at the one near carlisle does amazing deals with a full day and 2 treatments for £40 if you buy 2 passes. It's really, really nice as well. Up there with Ragdale Hall. My sister and I went and left our kids behind. I was so impressed I then took DH, again we left the kids behind (I love my daughters, but no way are they ruining spas for me like they have coffee shops).

Just to add to the adults in Disneyland thing..

We were in Disneyland Florida this summer, I went with friends and we had 5 kids between us, it was the youngest's 5th birthday while we were there so we paid to have a cinderella lunch in the castle where each of the princess spend time at each table and it only costs a million pounds anyway at the table next to us were an adult couple who complained that our kids were hogging the princesses and they weren't getting to spend long enough with them.

Honestly, Belle actually looked mortified having to sit and talk to them!!

no centerparcs spa is for PROLES

go to a proper one you idiots

Think its up to individuals where they spend their money, and where they go.

Lots of judgey people on here today.

Each to their own.

er hello
you are on an aibu thread!

agedknees Loving your subversive intent. You rock!

i think each to their own is hte most annoying thing in the world too

Each to their own

I'm going to The Grove Sequoia Spa in Watford this coming week which is a "proper" spa and the steam room there isn't as good as the one at Centreparcs Nottingham. Just about everything else is though, obv.

Champneys Henlow Grange is a "proper" spa under some definitions and I've never felt like I was more in a production line, I am still trying to forget being housed on the "Jimmy Saville Wing" and all the leering photos of long dead corrie stars that cover the walls.

lol @smethwick

please feel free to set yourself up as administrator as "Proper " spa rules book

I've never been to a spa where I've felt genuinely relaxed and come away uplifted by the experience.

(Have been to a handful of beauty- -salons spas and am borderline socially phobic - but even so....)

The only proper 'spa' is a place where water (pref. warm) gushes out of a hole in t' ground. So, only Bath ticks those criteria in the UK.

A spa is categorically not defined as paying $$$$$ to take up residence in a garden shed and splash about in a jacuzzi with grubby grouting.

Mind you, I know someone who got married at Disneyland. Even more worrying, she is reasonably intelligent.

YANBU - however the spas there are quite good and I think you get deals on lastminute etc so maybe that's why.

But the pool etc......bizarre.

Oh FFS DP and I went to Disneyland Paris a couple of years ago (for the day, as a stopover on the way back from a holiday further south) and we don't have kids. I can't believe that there are people that would actually moan about that and think we're odd. No, we don't wear Disnay sweatshirts or get autographs of the princesses. We just enjoyed the rides.

Some people can be so intolerant :(

That said I've never been to centerparcs so can't comment on the spa - the Sanctuary is nice though for a lazy day, although it seems very crowded lately.