Am I a CF to expect free lunch for my DD?

[jasminemaya]

Booked a two week holiday with DP and DD (3).

The hotel has advertised 'kids stay and eat for free'.

We have booked half board. Me and DP won't need lunch but obviously DD will.

Am I a CF to assume she can have a little plate from the buffet at lunch time? Or do I need to budget an extra fiver or so a day to buy her lunch?

Ive always swiped lunch from the breakfast buffet. A cheese roll and a yogurt does me. The last place I stayed at even had paper bags out for us cheeky skint fuckers who scrape and go without all year to give our kids a break.

OP if she’s going to the kid’s club they do usually feed them! So you might not have to worry about sorting her lunch at all.

Lying round in the sun all day? I gather when you said you don't holiday much you haven't yet been on holiday with your child...?

Careful OP - many children will have nothing to do with kids clubs - no matter how expensive!!

Also to add - your DD might mean that rather hitting the breakfast buffet at the end of the service and sitting there eating a big, leisurely lunch, she's got you walking in as it opens, then wanting to rush off before you can have usual big breakfast on holiday...

Budget for you all eating lunch, even if it's just something light. Be happy if you don't want to every day and have a cheaper room bill than you thought you would, but don't feel you have to go without because you've not budgetted for it and ruin the holiday being a bit grumpy/worried about the size of the bill at the end of the week.

OP if she’s going to the kid’s club they do usually feed them! So you might not have to worry about sorting her lunch at all.

OMG fingers crossed! That would be ideal.

sorry, meant to say eating a long leisurely breakfast might be out, not lunch! You might not get to have a big breakfast with a small child, or at least, will be sitting down to breakfast several hours earlier than you would holidaying pre-children. It can make it a long time until dinner!

I'd make up a wee roll and take a banana from breakfast too, it's hardly the crime of the century.
If you don't want to do that then just buy a loaf and a pack of ham for your room, it won't cost much.
Depending on which country it is you may find the restaurant staff where you eat lunch feed her for free anyway.
When I was took Dd to Indonesia when she was little I could barely go anywhere without her being given food!

BrendasUmbrella

Do you think "kids stay and eat for free" means that I can drop off my teenagers to have a free room and free food, despite DH and I not staying in the hotel at all? After all, they're "kids", so entitled to "stay and eat for free"

Yes, everyone thinks precisely that hmm

Not familiar with sarcasm are you?

We stayed in a very posh overpriced five star resort and they could not keep the fruit bowls filled fast enough. Everyone, everyone, was blatantly hauling multiple fruits and cakes away. Nobody was bothering stuffing them anywhere, it was just a given.

Can you really not stretch to a couple of euro of whatever to buy her a sandwich or muffin for lunch?

Give her a bigger breakfast than normal and she will be fine with just a snack till dinner!

I would do a roll at breakfast. I very rarely eat breakfast, so have no shame in taking my breakfast meal with me for lunch, when I have paid for breakfast.

ha ha, I would never have left one of mine in a kids club.
I was a kids rep, hardly slept as we were out getting pissed most nights.
Gosh, we were such a risk to those kids, looking back.

Dear god, there's no end to some people's take, take, take mentality. Of course you're being a CF, the fact that you had to ask makes me wonder how much of a CF you are in the rest of your life.

Check re kids club - most start at 4 and many only run for an hour or two

Munchkin do a silicone toddler dish that folds down. I’ve just bought some for my DC for the first stages of weaning when they’re happy with just a bit off my/our plates. They’d be good in this circumstance to pop a bread roll in. They are tiny though.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NATWUJY/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_api_vL-LBbTNW6T2H?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Also good for carrying an appropriate size portion of crisps/snacks from the massive bags that seem to be the only ones available on holiday!

Is it not a bit strange that two adults already know they won’t be hungry at lunch time? I mean, both of you just happen to need not to eat? Or is it a way of keeping the costs down?

You can't take her in for lunch if you're half board.

They might feed her at kids club.

If there are non-perishable snacks she likes such as rice crackers, breadsticks, cereal bars etc it'd probably be worth you packing a few of those in the suitcase (small bags/ individually wrapped are easier!)

Just pick up a piece of fruit and a muffin from the breakfast buffet - she's not likely to be that hungry in the heat. Maybe bring some crackers in your suitcase?

Off the point of the actual OP question but I’d love to know which hotels at Disneyland Paris all these people were stealing food from breakfast for their lunch because we’ve been going regularly since it opened and I have never once seen anybody packing Tupperware containers or obviously taking food away except for the odd bit of fruit .

My kid would never go to kids clubs. Has always hated organised fun

Is it not a bit strange that two adults already know they won’t be hungry at lunch time? I mean, both of you just happen to need not to eat? Or is it a way of keeping the costs down?

I never eat between breakfast and tea when I’m on holiday in the heat-nothing to do with money, the heat kills my appetite

So many condescending, rude, know it all fuckers on this thread

OP, have a wonderful holiday

shesparkles I get that the heat kills some people’s appetite it just seems a coincidence neither of them eat and just so happen to be so strapped for cash that she is considering sending her child to kids club so she doesn’t have to pay for her child’s lunch.

Yes you are unreasonable.