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Original poster

to think that adults who go to them parks without kids are fucking odd?

117 replies

cat · 10/09/2012 12:39

Thorpe Park at the weekend. Fairly busy - but there was an abundance of couples there without kids.

I don't mind rollercoasters/rides etc. I'll go on them with the DCs. But never in a million years would me and DH go to one our own for a day out.

I'd feel bloody daft. Standing in a queue with my backpack and cagoul, and a bunch of excited kids surrounding us.

Even worse - adults who go to Disneyland without kids. Someone I work with went to Eurodisney on her honeymoon.

Flame me. Go on.

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rubyslippers · 10/09/2012 12:40

The best way to do theme parks is without children

Grin
BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 10/09/2012 12:41

YABU - I love rollercoasters and theme parks....I DO have a DS but if I didnt I would still go.

I actually think YOU are a bid odd for posting this! Not serious enough for a flaming tho :)

WorraLiberty · 10/09/2012 12:41

How do you know they didn't have teenage kids with them that were on other rides?

I'd quite like a day at a theme park without kids really.

JeremyKylesPetProject · 10/09/2012 12:42

Yabu. The best hen do I ever went on involved Blackpool pleasure beach, pouring rain and kiss me quick hats. :o

margerykemp · 10/09/2012 12:42

It is the generation of extended adolescence.

gallifrey · 10/09/2012 12:43

I thought Thorpe Park had a lot of thrill rides and not so much for kids these days.
Mine are 9 and 17 months and I am putting off going there until I can find someone to look after them both for the day, or take grandparents with us so they can look after them while we go on the rides.

The minimum height for the thrill rides etc is 1.40 so my 9 yr old couldn't go on them anyway, and myself and DH would be taking it in turns to go on by ourselves!

LettyAshton · 10/09/2012 12:43

How nice that people standing there, having a good time and minding their own business are being judged as "fucking odd" by you. I'm sure you do a few activities that would make people scratch their heads.

What should proper grown ups be doing? Visiting garden centres, playing golf, boozing in all-day pubs?

WhatYouLookingAt · 10/09/2012 12:43

Which are them parks?

Kids aren't big enough for the best rides anyway, waste of money bringing them.

boschy · 10/09/2012 12:44

Totally reasonable pov in my book! esp. Disney, and what's with grown adults wearing denim shirts with Winnie the Pooh embroidery?? wrong.

choceyes · 10/09/2012 12:44

Yanbu. It is very odd. I was checking reviews for Gullivers world on trip adviser and on there a lady is complaining about not being sold a ticket as she didn't have a dc with her. It is a theme park for little ones fgs. Why on earth would you want to go there if you don't gave dcs??

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cat · 10/09/2012 12:44

Yep. Gardening or looking at fabric samples in Laura Ashley.

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TunipTheVegemal · 10/09/2012 12:50

Before my kids were born my mother-in-law went to Eurodisney with her old lady friends. I'm sure they didn't go on any of the rollercoasters or anything, either. Maybe they stared hungrily at everyone else's grandchildren.

Molehillmountain · 10/09/2012 12:51

We loved theme parks when we didn't have dc. Can't stand them now. But obviously not ones aimed at very small children! Used to love Alton towers and all the big thrill rides but if the adults were at peppa pig world then that would be very strange.

degutastic · 10/09/2012 12:52

I can understand adults going to places like Thorpe park for the thrill rides, but Gullivers world and Eurodisney seem odd choices for adults Shock However, each to their own, as it very much were...

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cat · 10/09/2012 12:53

*theme not them obvs

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Lilithmoon · 10/09/2012 12:53

YABVVU, judgmental and rude. Not my idea of fun, but plenty of people enjoy theme parks. Many of the rides aren't even suitable for little ones due to height restrictions.
Adults having fun.... whatever next?!?

Itsjustafleshwound · 10/09/2012 12:53

Yanbu - and add to it those chaps over the age of 25 who still play computer games ...

KeemaNaanAndCurryOn · 10/09/2012 12:53

I prefer to go to parks without the children as it makes it difficult to go on the rides that children can't go to.

We do take the children to "kids" theme parks like Gullivers and would never go there alone, but Alton Towers etc is no kids at all if possible!!

kim147 · 10/09/2012 12:54

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Goldenbear · 10/09/2012 12:54

YANBU, are they the same kind of adults that put teddies on the back shelf of their car?

PatriciaHolm · 10/09/2012 12:54

Thorpe Park's best rides are for those 1.4 metres and over, not little kids. DH and I have a day there without kids every year! (we have Merlin passes). The thrill rides are aimed at adults and older teens anyway.

I wouldn't go to a park aimed at young kids such as Chessington on my/our own, but Thorpe Park is great fun. Oh and I never take a cagoul...

SystemofaDowny · 10/09/2012 12:54

I have thought similar things also. Big thrill seeker, rollcoaster type rides I can understand, but when its the teacups/ merry-go-round/ flying dumbos I find it a bit Hmm especially when its a single adult on their own! I can't see the appeal myself, but its their choice I guess.

Trills · 10/09/2012 12:54

YABU - I agree with rubyslippers!

GoldPlatedNineDoors · 10/09/2012 12:55

Theme Parks are better suited to adults.

Had my Hen at Alton Towers.

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cat · 10/09/2012 12:55

Itsjust - yepyepyep

Don't get me started on grown men an games consoles. That's a whole other thread Wink

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