To think parents can spend an hour in an trampoline park without alcohol

[belay]

Our local trampoline park has started to sell alcohol. I'm not impressed and won't be going back. This should be a safe space where children don't see adults drinking

Alcohol is sold at bowling alleys, I’m not sure I see the difference?

So if it demonstrably makes people act like gobshites, why can't OP say she'd prefer it not be served at a children's venue without getting her hair blown back?

Because if you ask for opinions, you tend to get them. You can’t complain when they’re not the ones you want.

I also don’t understand the people painting this as a peculiarly English trait. Doesn’t McDonalds serve beer in France? Don’t they serve alcohol at Disneyland Paris when it’s only available in the restaurants at other Disney resorts? Aren’t the French famous for giving children wine at home from an early age? You never see the same eye-rolling and ‘typical French’ on here - in fact, you’d be excused if racism if you said it.

as parents are supposed to be around to supervise their kids, yanbu!

I don't think kids are traumatised because parents have a drink though, but not in a place like that.

All trampoline parks around here are in the middle of nowhere, so people have to drive to get there. It would make it even worst!

But we have to try a lot harder.

Not for some

But since going sober last year I must admit I’ve started to really question why we need alcohol in any of those places. I don’t mean to sound judgy as they’re all places I used to happily drink myself. But now I see people clutching their plastic cups of crappy cheap wine at the cinema and can’t help wondering... why?

But why do they need popcorn, or an ice cream, or a bag of Revels? Do we have to demonstrate a justifiable need for any item before we can buy it?

In Spain museums and the like all sell alcohol. They don't have the binge drinking culture of the UK. The problem is not availability it is how people approach drinking. Frankly though I have better things to do than police and judge other people and their drinking habits.

There is a soft play centre near me that sells alcohol. Soft play centres are hell, but they are designed for younger children who need parental supervision so it doesn’t seem appropriate to sell wine/beer.

I have to say that Me and my sister found Legoland far more bearable after a swift glass of wine taken half way round.

I once saw four teenagers , holding onto, and drinking from bottles of beer or cider,whilst bouncing and jumping on a trampoline in a park area. It didn't bother me at all, I was just walking past, it's the foolish way of things sometimes.

I would hate this too. I want alcohol free spaces in my life!

Ah I think A&E will be loving the combo of drinks and trampoline parks . Trampoline parks, ice rinks and roller discos are just ankle and wrist fracture factories.

“Safe space” 😂

Fuck me, have you ever been to a trampoline park? Horrendous places.

I've often had a bottle of beer or glass of wine at a children's birthday party. I don't think that made it 'unsafe' for the children. But maybe you are one of these snowflakes I read about?

German soft play centres are mostly converted ice hockey halls and because of that they usually have an inherited drinks license. Hardly anyone bothers though because the only thing worse than soft play is being a bit hammered at soft play.

Why doesn't the NHS serve beers in the AandE waiting rooms then? Or how about maternity wards? Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings. Expand their business, make money

I was handed a wine list when I chose my evening meal at the private hospital where my prolapse was fixed. I didn’t partake, I was in no fit state to, but possibly people in for less invasive surgery might have.

YABU - trampoline places are the work of the devil.

Schools could sell beers at parent-teacher evenings
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Well our annual school quiz night is BYOB

Our last quiz night had cocktails

I’m worried about how the adults are going to go on the trampolines without spilling their drinks!

Sippy cups MrsG

Being at an English panto with the smell of booze and people getting progressively louder is grim as fuck.

To be fair, being in a panto is hardly the highlight of ones career. Of course some of them are bound to be on the vino during the act.

I think people are missing a lot of what trampoline parks are about. The one my kids go to is massive and toddlers and small children bouncing about is just part of what they do. They offer evening "dark" bounce DJ sessions for older teens. Student nights. Over 18s only sessions. Keep fit sessions. Some sort of bouncing basketball sports sessions. Team building events. Parkour classes.

It's a very narrow minded view to think that every adult who might be in one of those places is supervising children.

Can you buy wine at the cinema in England? And on a train? And drink alcohol in a park? Every day is a learning experience on mumsnet.

I was visiting a friend in England during the summer and I nearly died of shock when she said that the PTA had a bar at the school fair. My pearls were well and truly clutched, I can tell you. It's a different world across the sea

I hope you have been practicing your outraged face for the local papers op.

Also do people really have so little life experience that they can't see how this would work? Trampoline place books in a group of 6 adults or students for an evening bounce. As they have a licence that group can then stay in the trampoline place for their glass of wine or pint of beer rather than schlepp around looking for somewhere else - not easy as lots of these places are on industrial estates miles from anywhere.

Nobody's trying to simultaneously bounce and swig a bottle of beer.

Can you buy wine at the cinema in England?

Yep but they give you a plastic training cup. Presumably because they are worried if the film is crap you may decide to glass someone in the face. You have to watch the old timers going to watch Mamma Mia, things can get pretty rowdy..