... to not want to stay at this resort now?

[LizLimone]

We have planned a few days away next week, leaving tomorrow, where we will be staying in a city we like and then taking a trip to stay for three days at a resort on the coast. It was planned as a kind of mini babym

Just now I was looking up the resort to check something and a news story came up about a baby that was found dead in one of the rooms, most likely murdered, and the police are searching for the parents who have disappeared.

This story is so sad and has creeped me out now. I don't really feel like staying there anymore. It is a busy resort town and it will be hard to find anything else at short notice. DH's colleague owns a holiday home further up the coast, however, and did offer for us to stay there if it's free. WIBU to take him up on this now and cancel our booking? Or AIBU and over sensitive? I'm pregnant at the moment and have a 3 year old so maybe I am just overreacting...?

Mini baby moon that should read I.e. our last holiday before the new baby arrives. Posted too soon!

Also should clarify it's a pretty nice resort, quite upscale but marketed as family friendly, the kind of place people go to year after year, not some sketchy roadside motel!

Even though it's not 'rational', YANBU because you're pregnant and sometimes you want to avoid some things for fear they'll jinx you.

Are you going to be able to get through it and enjoy your trip away if you stay there?

If you don't think you can just go up the coast, why try to think round such a distressing event if you don't have to?

Yanbu in my eyes, I couldn't stay in a place a baby was murdered.

Who cares whether or not you are being reasonable? You are freaked out by this story (rightly or wrongly), you are pregnant with a young child as well...

If you have the offer of free accommodation, I would say take it! This is no time for false pride, do not be afraid to have the relaxing break you deserve and will need before dc2 is born..

DH has said he will chase up with colleague to see if the house is available. Just feeling really unsettled by this. The (unpleasant) thought did occur to me that as it is recent there's no chance of us being booked into the same room it happened in as police are still investigating but still...gives me the heebie jeebies...

I think of they are pretty sure it was the parents so therefore there is no actual risk to your child then the sensible thing would be to go, especially if you won't be booked into the same room.

It sounds like a horribly tragic thing to have happened but there is nothing you can do to make it any less tragic.

If it had been an accidental death because of a fault the resort had made I'd say cancel but the resort hasn't done anything wrong.

No, I wouldn't go either.

Ask nicely for a refund, I'm sure they'll understand.

I don't think it would bother me and I would feel very sorry for all the hotel employees who are losing business because of the bad luck of being associated with murderers, but if that is how you feel then you can't help it and it would clearly spoil your holiday.

Mini baby moon?

If they are still investigating it I wouldn't go. YANBU.

This happened yesterday OP, if it's the one I'm thinking of - one sibling injured and in hospital?

I think it'd be pretty hard to relax with Police and forensic investigators in and out of the building, crowds of clamouring press outside and probably a public response there too.

It doesn't look like a huge resort either. I'm surprised they are open.

I wouldn't go either, but more for the fact that it will be crawling with law enforcement and people investigating, which is 1) better to stay out of their way and let them do their jobs, and 2) would not exactly make for the relaxing holiday I had planned.