Is this landlord BU banning children from his pub.

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He's being interviewed now on This Morning. No children under 10.

I'm looking forward to the phone in

Makes perfect sense to me - there are child-friendly pubs, there should be pubs for those who don't want kids around.

I wish he was the landlord of my local! There was a brat chucking stones at the cars in the pub carpark the other week - whilst his parents sat inside getting pissed. Pubs should be adult only - there are loads of places for kids.

Good on him. Most places only allow kids if eating. Thats what havester, hungry horse etc are for. To me these aren't proper pubs. They're just restaurants that sell alcohol. There should be child free pubs. If I go out with friends for a drink I'd prefer it to be adults only. We want a break from our own kids so don't go anywhere we would be around other peoples

We take ours to pubs a lot, but during the day and we also have a meal and they are child friendly .

Mine are very well behaved when out because we have been doing it for years.

That said, he is not BU to make his own choices for his own pub. I like the idea of child free pubs for those that want them.

Ofcourse he's not being unreasonable.

I went out to a local city pub with a bunch of uni friends a couple of years ago, we are a respectable bunch in our mid 40s but the conversation got a bit loud and language a bit more wild as we reminisced. My friend was tapped on the shoulder and 'reminded' there were children present by the family next to us! Totally understandable on a train or in a restaurant or almost any other public environment but we were in a pub, in the evening.

I have 3 under 10s and whilst I know how to behave I don't want to live a completely PG life. Fair play to the landlord for making it clear.

Some pubs are child friendly, some aren't. I would rather places were open about their stance in advance than end up feeling uncomfy somewhere.

Years ago, kids weren't allowed in pubs anyway, and it was fine, few people really minded. Child friendly pubs have evolved which is great for those who want them, but I think it's perfectly fine for there to also be child free pubs. If I'm having a few drinks with friends, I'd far rather it be child free, but each to their own. At the end if the day it's his right to make this decision and there are plenty of drinking establishments around which do cater for children (and to be honest I think there are far more fun places to take the kids than to a pub!)

The landlord is not being unreasonable.

I was having a conversation with my mother the other day about children in pubs & she was saying about how, when she was younger, children weren't allowed in certain parts of the pub or in some there would be a line drawn on the floor around the bar & children weren't allowed to step past that line. My mother doesn't go to pubs that often but she was a teenie bit surprised that it was the norm that kids were allowed in almost all pubs nowadays.

When you think about it, a pub isn't really the place for children, it's effectively an adult's playground

He is catering for a market who do not want to be surrounded by children. I think he has made a reasonable business decision and I wish him the best of luck.

Nope not at all.

We have a couple of what we call 'old man' pubs near us (that is not beeing agesit before anyone jumps on me). Theyre lovely old, real ale pubs, no food, no kids allowed and now way would I want to take my kids in there.

I love to go there when we have a babysitter, its nice and quiet and civilised.

I'd rather an age limit than no pushchairs etc.

Definitely not being unreasonable. And I love that Mumsnet appears to be unanimous on this!

I'm a bit half and half about children in pubs.

you don't have to be for or against. I don't see a problem with some adult only pubs. Why not? They don't all have to have an adult atmosphere or child friendly one. that's why we have more than 1 pub in this country (among other reasons).

He is NBU. Totally his choice and I don't really blame him.

We take our kids to the pub quite often and I still agree with this landlord. His pub, his decision and sometimes a child-free space is very welcome.

Not U at all. There's a pub near me that has never allowed children in and it's never empty! If we want to go for a quiet drink we go there and if we want to go out for tea as a family we go somewhere else.

Probably would be lynched by some MNetters, but a couple of weeks ago I told off some children in a pub garden . They were running round and round my table. I said, quite icily but politely, that they were disturbing us and could they go and sit down. They did that slack-jawed staring thing at me, as if they couldn't believe that an adult had spoken to them, and then I saw them with their parents pointing at me. Luckily I lived to tell the tale!

Where is his pub? Does he do advanced booking?

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Just what I thought.

Seems completely reasonable to me, I can't see why having some adult only pubs is an issue. There's plenty of family friendly pubs out there so it's not like families are unable to go in any pubs.

What on earth is U about making a decision for his own business?
Usually the parents that whine about things like this are the parents of feral brats anyway.

he isn't bu. Fair play to him. I grew up (pretty much) in Smokey pubs (used to have a meal at a pub at least once a week). Cant say it was fun for me to have to speak to the drunkards next to me at 8. (this was at a time when children could purchase their own drinks from the bar whilst there parents could be in a completely separate part... I did get good at playing snooker however, only good thing I suppose lol)

I just think the word pub means "a place where there shouldn't be children" just like nightclub or strip club...

He is definitely NBU.

There are plenty of family friendly pubs around, so why shouldn't there be some adult-only ones as well? He's made a perfectly reasonable business decision and I hope it works out for him.

My grandparents owned a pub until I was about 13, and I knew quite a few of the regulars. One of them was an author who I talked to quite a bit and found him very interesting, but if he was in when the pub was busy (more than about 10 people in) I was given "the look" by DGF and had to get out of the bar. Obviously, if I was waitressing (which I did from about the age of 10) it was different!

Haven't seen the piece so I don't know the particulars of this pub - is it in an area where there are lots of alternatives, or is it the only village local for miles around?

I guess the bottom line is it's his pub, his business, his choice.

We tend to steer away from the 'old men and dogs' drinkers' pubs towards the family friendly ones anyway, or go early in the evening and leave before it gets rowdy - I don't particularly enjoy my evening in a pub being spoilt by rowdy pissheads, hen/stag parties, or bloody dogs slithering around my feet while I'm trying to eat, but that's another thread I think ;)

He is not BU in the slightest. Not everyone wants children rampaging about the place - I don't know where his pub is but would give him my custom.