to spend nearly £350 on a soft play party for a 3yr old?

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DH thinks so.

DS will be 3 in November and I realy want to have a proper party for him, but our house is too small to accomodate 15 toddlers and their parents (whose house is??).

I want to do a soft play party and it is going to cost £341 for 15 children and 30 adults, inclusive of food, party bags, 2hr of soft play etc. Nothing for us to do but turn up.

Is this a normal price for a party like this? DH thinks we can't afford it. Well money is tight as we pay nearly a grand a month for childcare for two DCs and I only work 3 days a week, so we don't have much spare money.
But DS is invited to a few parties like this and we've never done anything like this. HAd a party at home for his 1st birthday, which was fine, but the kids were a lot younger and more easily entertained.

So AIBU for spending a small fortune on a party for my 3yr old when money is tight, and is it worth it?

YABU £350 is way to much to spend on a 3 year olds party. You don't need to have a big party for them .

That doesn't even begin to make sense. Why the bleedin' Nora do you have to pay for the adults to get into the party?! With two young boys, I've had loads of soft play parties, invited nearly all the class and it's never gone anywhere near that amount!
It's definitely not normal to have to pay per head for the adults, and anywhere that did try to charge me that I would be avoiding like the plague.
Either that or getting my money's worth and planting myself in the middle of the ball pool to chuck balls about and then going head first down the slide.