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to think we may be spending new years eve with older people??

69 replies

wispywoo1 · 05/11/2013 11:58

My boyfriend and I would like to arrange something for new years eve to avoid the usual disappointment attached to it all. last year we went to Berlin for the weekend which we loved. This year we thought about Paris but the accommodation is so expensive.

I have found a really lovely hotel/restaurant in Windermere which is doing a package which includes two 5 course meals , afternoon tea, stay in hotel, breakfast and evening entertainment for 2 nights. I'm just really worried that it will be full of OAPs. We are both 25 and enjoy nights out but just hate the chaos of New year. What should I do??

OP posts:
AngryFeet · 05/11/2013 12:00

Yep that sort of thing is always full of people aged 50+

AngryFeet · 05/11/2013 12:02

What about Edinburgh? Then you can go and have a meal and drink in the city and watch the fireworks. We did it one year and it was fab :)

WowserBowser · 05/11/2013 12:02

I'm not sure what you are worried about? You are going for afternoon tea in the lakes, not ibiza.

Nothing wrong with older people

BettySwollocksandaCrustyRack · 05/11/2013 12:03

Why does it matter though it there are people there a lot older??

AngryFeet · 05/11/2013 12:03

Or try one of these www.countryfile.com/countryside/top-10-new-years-eve-celebrations

TheFarSide · 05/11/2013 12:06

Sounds great actually Wink

I just got back from a cruise where most people were OAPs and I met some very interesting and fun loving people. Best of all, they weren't all falling about drunk and incoherent every night.

KhunZhoop · 05/11/2013 12:07

I really really hope there's a forum of OAPs somewhere hoping that they won't get stuck with a bunch of "youngsters" on NYE. Go if it's a lovely hotel, and it's what you want to do, don't if you don't - who decides on a holiday destination based on the potential other guests anyway?

DidoTheDodo · 05/11/2013 12:10

Oh and of course people over 50 have no idea how to have fun. They'd like a sedate tea dance to some 1940's music and bed at 9pm with a cup of tea.

Whilst I appreciate you don't want to be with "older" people at New Year there is some awfully ageist language on this thread!

BigBoobiedBertha · 05/11/2013 12:11

It sounds like the sort of place that isn't child friendly, at least for New Year package so I would suspect that mostly it will be middle aged or older couples who have older children who are out doing their own thing on New Year's Eve.

However, does that matter? If the whole thing looks good, if the entertainment is not 'old people' entertainment I would just go for it and have a nice time. Go out and about during the day to get away from being stuck with the same people all the time and relax.

FWIW, I don't like New Year and avoid it as much as possible now but when I was your age about 10 of us used to get together and go out to dinner in a restaurant or somebody's house. It wasn't a lot different from what you are suggesting. We aren't all out clubbing and getting rolling drunk, even in our 20's

Beeyump · 05/11/2013 12:12

Oh no, not OAPs! That would be unbearable for you.

magimedi · 05/11/2013 12:16

People in their 50's & 60's were never:

Young

Listened to great music & remember seeing amazing bands live.

Went to the first ever Glastonbury

Took a Magic Bus to India

Smoked a lot of weed

Behaved badly, slept around & enjoyed themselves hugely.

OH no - we were all born at the age of 60.

Beccagain · 05/11/2013 12:16

Yes I am truly intrigued as what constitues a 'worry' about a cohort of OAPs.

Even if there were some generic type, and even if that type were undesirable (sheesh) you won't catch the old you know!

Rosencrantz · 05/11/2013 12:17

OP is getting a hard time here.

Obviously she means that she likes stylish bars, nightclubs and wants a mucky weekend with her boyfriend. She said she loved Berlin... A busy city with lots going on.

She's not being ageist... She's just concerned that Windermere may cater to an older audience and not be what she is looking for.

Christ.

Beccagain · 05/11/2013 12:20

Lighten up Rosencrantz...people are just having a little fun: as someone else has said, it's not the wish per se so much as the rather thoughtless language in which she has couched it.

Btw Mr Gain and I had an ace time in Berlin (and Amsterdam) recently and we are within spitting distance of 60. Hope we didn't spoil it for anyone! Grin

WowserBowser · 05/11/2013 12:21

If that was true Rose she certainly wouldn't pick the lake district

Rosencrantz · 05/11/2013 12:21

I recommend Dublin OP!

Nights out there are wild! And it's a beautiful city, with plenty to see and do.

elskovs · 05/11/2013 12:21

Give OP a break... who would want to spend the biggest party night of the year with people old enough to be their parents! Im 30 and don't want to socialise with 50+ and I doubt we are their idea of good company either!

Fact is there is a huge difference between a generation, and age is NOT just a number.

WowserBowser · 05/11/2013 12:22

I'm surprised they let you in Becca

Beccagain · 05/11/2013 12:25

Grin wowser

So am I. they won't make that mistake again!

Have also whooped it up in Paris, New York, Dublin, and we hit Edinburgh Fringe EVERY year where there is a huge mix of ages.

age is NOT just a number

Think I'm going to have to disagree with you there elskovs

Rosencrantz · 05/11/2013 12:25

Well exactly Wowser... Hence the OP posting.

Coupon · 05/11/2013 12:29

Sounds like most of what you'll be doing is eating.

Why would it make any difference how old the other guests are? Confused

WinterButterfly · 05/11/2013 12:31

Lake District sounds beautiful but sedate and will attract people who love nature, quality, beauty and have the money to pay for it. This may not be families but could well be a mix of older generation and prosperous pre-kid city types - I would guess more of the former.

Could you ask the hotel what profile of people they expect - they'll be fully clued up, it's probably the same-ish every year.

If you want to be mostly with younger generation, Lake District for NYE may not be for you tbh Grin You don't really sound the sort of person who will feel relaxed with different age groups, so why not choose somewhere that fits your own profile - loads of small funky hotels that don't cost the earth.

stickysausages · 05/11/2013 12:31

Wouldn't bother us, good food... then retire to our room with some bubbly to shag see in the new year Grin

Amibambini · 05/11/2013 12:33

My partner and I once spent a NY in a tiny Scottish hamlet that was full of snow and hardly anyone under the age of 60. We went to a celigh (sp?) and had a brilliant time. And all the oldies partied us under the table!

Go! It's always fun to try something different.

nokidshere · 05/11/2013 13:04

Windermere is definitely not for you.