Holiday other mum

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In a goregous holiday bungalow with another family. Men went out to play golf at 7am, my dcs woke up and made some noise.
Normal noise, but other mum came out of her room mad and begged "please let my child sleep a bit longer, its seven o'clock!"
To us this isn't early.
We're in an open plan bungalow which they booked. It's a bit ridiculous imo to be precious about sleep at this time of day?

I think it's unreasonable of you to expect them to have the same schedule as you. If they want to sleep at 7am while they're on holiday, you should respect that. YABU

Ds is awake for the day at 5am. I wouldn’t let him be loud enough to wake others up at any point of the day though certainly not 7am.

When do they wake up? Can dcs sit and watch a tablet/go out/whatever for 30 minutes at least?

I think it would kind to keep things low key at 7am on holiday.
I’m an early bird myself but appreciate that others like a longer lie.

To us this isn't early.

But to them it obviously is. Just get your dc to play quietly.

If I was lucky enough for DD to sleep past 7am I'd be mighty annoyed if someone woke her

DD has always been an early riser & I would do my best to keep her as quiet as possible if there are others still sleeping.

They were just getting their breakfast it's an echo chamber - all brand newly renovated and all shiny surfaces.
They were talking in low voices for sure, but not monk's silence vow.

7am is way early for my dcs too, they wake up around 9 on days we don’t need to get to school/work. I’d be pissed off with noise before 8/9 ish to be fair, and you should definitely make an effort to minimise the noise. I don’t think she’s being ‘precious’, you need to be a bit more considerate of sharing a space with other people.

She probably knows her child will be a nightmare later if they wake too early.

7am is very early! This is why we don’t share holiday homes anymore, we get ones next door as all our friends keep very different hours to us. At weekends we say no getting up before 8 and no making noise til the last person is up. I accept that we are unusual and most people with kids don’t think twice about how their noise affects others. Only holiday in the same house with people who you know share your routines!

They can play/watch a film quietly in their rooms or go outside and be loud. This isn’t rocket science.

Point taken. Not sure we'd do this again though, it's the wrong accommodation for such varying schedules.

Never go on holiday and share accommodation with other people. Can only lead to trouble.

Op, try not to let this spoil this gig. Get your kids on board, make it a game to be the quietest, quietest overall in the week gets a crappy prize of some sort.
We do still holiday with friends but get two cheaper places side by side, there are absolutely loads honestly. Best of both then, you all get to keep your chosen schedules but yo get to share time too. Try to make the most of this though, remember you really like these people!

Unfortunate acoustics then.
You’ll have to be super quiet I’m afraid.

Early riser here with early rising dc too. My hubby says he thinks us early risers think we’re morally superior to others 😂
Tbh though you go on holiday as a group with small kids you can’t really control it to that extent. What if one of the kids has major meltdowns etc, obviously general courtesy, not letting yours deliberately wake theirs but no you’re not being unreasonable.
Also if yours went to bed earlier would they adhere to the same vows of silence at cocktail hour? Kids are asleep when they’re asleep, if they wake they wake - enjoy your holiday 😊

Yeah, we are on holiday with our very good friends right now too. Their kids are up at 7.30-8, ours sleep closer to 9 (when they have had late nights) so we got our own accommodation next door to each other. Obviously it costs more, but I need my own space/privacy too. Take this as a learning experience OP!

Agree with pp, never share accommodation! It's almost impossible not to be annoyed at other people's kids and vice versa.

Also all these folk saying it’s U for you to expect them to adhere to your schedule, surely the same is true in reverse! It’s about compromise. Her kid likes a lie in but you can’t force yours to stay asleep either!

Omg nightmare. Don’t bend over too much though.... 7am is a perfectly normal kids get up time and although of course you won’t let them run around screaming, they will be talking and getting breakfast bowls as a matter of course. I’d have had to be a bit brisk in reply but you probably need to set expectations. My toddler gets up very early and although I would do my very best to keep him quiet, there’s no way I could keep him silent.

It is hard to keep children very very quiet, but I would make every effort op. It is good manners if someone is asleep. It does not sound like a very enjoyable holiday though, and maybe think twice before going again with them if you aren't very compatible.

They booked it, did they also pay for it?

7am is early to my family but it depends how old the children are. If I went on a shared holiday with v young children I'd expect them to wake us up. (Which is why I don't go away with others!!!)

Since it's all open plan and noise carries, I'd probably have said to the DCs to keep quiet and then had a picnic breakfast in their room or outdoors.
My DC gets up at 6am usually ( even earlier this morning ) but we currently have guests so he came quietly into our room to say he was awake then went back to his own room to read. It's just being considerate.

7am is ridiculous! That’s way too early to be making noise .
Just because your little darlings get up at that time doesn’t mean everyone’s does.
Have some respect for others and stop being so self entitled

7 o’clock is fine and not too early.

Maybe she was thinking that you were expecting her child to get up then, rather than the noise issue per se.

Had she warned the menfolk to stay quiet when they set of for golf?