To wish they didn't sell alcohol at soft play?

[tiredtrumpet]

Took 2 year old dc to soft play today to try and escape the heat. Our garden is exposed and simply too hot to be in.
Around 11am and the place is packed. There's a table of dads sat there with beers being rowdy getting one round after another.
Their kids were around the ages of 2-3, so when hanging around the inflatables to supervise their kids they were rowdy, shouting, yelling at each other and generally being tipsy at a kids soft play area.
Plus they reeked of alcohol and It wasn't even noon.
AIBU to think that if I want to escape drunken dick heads in the hight of a heatwave I should be able to take my kids to soft play without them seeing all that kind of thing? Is it like this everywhere up and down the country?

Oh wow, we just get juice pots and water at ours!

I don’t really see the point but then most of the ones round here are on out of town industrial/retail type estates that most drive to.

But yes, glad they don't sell it at ours. Couldn't imagine anything worse than alcohol+soft play parents

All the soft play options we have are a good 30 mins drive away. (Rural) I'd say 99.9% of the parents drive their kids there. Alcohol available at soft play? Too tempting and Not a good idea IMO.

There's a soft play near me in the bowling alley, so there is a bar there but not totally on top of the soft play area but I wouldn't be surprised if people brought a drink over.

Why the heck does everyone need to have the option to get pissed everywhere?

Only one near me sells alcohol, it’s part of an indoor sports centre

There's a really good soft play in the nearest city to us but it's part of a Megabowl complex and there is a bar on site. I went once with my eldest grandson, but got really angry about a dad with three kids who was drinking pints at 11am, and letting them nearly break their necks on equipment they were too little for. Staff didn't give a shit either and were clearly used to it.

There needs to be some sort of database of soft plays with alcohol.

Don't they worry about people getting shitfaced and passing out in the ball pit?

Dc got an elbow in the face, not an accident, and also got pushed over, pissed parents being rowdy, we just left early in the end

YANBU

Rowdy beery men are not the type of people you want to be beside at 11am on a Saturday. Especially at softplay.

A drunk adult deliberately elbowed your child in the face?

@Wellmet no no, sorry if that wasn't clear, another couple of children pushed and elbowed my dc.

Alcohol at soft play.

Sounds like heaven

I used to work at a wacky attached to a pub and it was HELL! Had to phone the police once because 2 dads started fighting!

A couple of years ago my then toddler DS was playing in a large ball pit - I was encouraging him by chucking the balls around. In among the plastic balls, some of the similar size foam ones had got in, and when I picked up one of those....it was entirely saturated. With a mystery substance. Which was seeping out of the ball and through my fingers.

If I had been half cut at the time, the memory would be much more hazy and perhaps I wouldn't still want to cut my arm off at the elbow.

I think it's really crap for parents to go out like that and get pissed in front of their kids, especially when they're supposed to be supervising them. And it's not only a shitty example, but what if one of their kids actually got hurt, which does happen at soft play? Will they be competent enough to help them? Certainly won't be able to drive them home or to A&E.

One of my saddest moments is a 7 year old girl telling me very matter of factly about the drunken behaviour of her mother and how she ruined holidays and parties due to her drinking.

That does seem like a bad idea. As a pp said, can't they survive an hour or two without alcohol?

EleanorOalike That's so sad... I remember feeling uneasy around adults who'd been drinking, when I was a child. Nothing particularly awful ever happened to me, but it made me uncomfortable and was sometimes a little frightening. It's probably a big part of why I've never been a drinker, myself, tbh!

The only time I took DGD1 on my own (very good friends with the party child's DM) to a party at a soft play, I could have done with either a large glass of or a and tonic to get me through it as it was horrific, to be fair I wasn't the only one as one of the Mums felt the same. One of our sport Centres has a bar next to the soft play, My DD had DGD1's 2nd birthday there, I sat with a leisurely glass or three while DS (who was driving) supervised his DNiece on the equipment.

My youngest is in his early 30's now and I remember a pizzeria/sports bar we used to frequent when he was a toddler.

They had an area for people to eat, drink & watch sports and another area with a ball pit and other children's play stuff with tables close by for the parents to watch their children.

We couldn't stand the noise of the children playing so we sat in the grown-up bar area and let our little nipper tough it out alone with the other kids. My husband with have a beer with his grub but I didn't.

Everyone was well behaved.

They serve alcohol at the soft play near me. It’s in a leisure centre with bowling and a swimming pool.

They serve alcohol at the one near us. Mostly because they open it up in the evening once a month or so for all the adults to have a go 😂

Totally inappropriate

That would make the ordeal that is soft play so much better!

Seriously though, my husband and I would never go to soft play together which would mean whichever one of us that went would be driving so would only have one light drink max...getting drunk at soft play is clearly unacceptable but 1 or 2 drinks (if not driving) would make it so much more bearable...

@Jebuschristchocolatebar 😂😂