To think don't go to a family focused holiday place if you don't want to be around children!

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On holiday at a small apartment complex which advertises itself heavily on being family and young child friendly. The owners are very hands on and have been absolutely lovely with us and our DC one of whom is an 18 month old.

Anyway, today round the pool there was an older couple with no DC who sat by us on some sun loungers and then proceeded all afternoon to tut and look at each other / mutter to each other whenever our youngest made a noise. He wasn't bad, just a typical 18 month old. A couple of whinges throughout the afternoon, one short cry when he fell and then the odd shout / shriek when playing with his brother and dad in the pool.

AIBU to think why go to a place like this (it's all over their website and description on booking sites that it's for families) if you don't want to be disturbed by small kids and why sit next to a family with a small child even more so and then moan about it?!

There were other DC around too making more noise than us but our youngest is one of only 2 babies I've seen here so far (only a handful of apartments in the complex).

People tut tutting forget that they were once children too. They made noise. Crack on. Life is for living. Ignore them and enjoy your holiday.

I was with you OP until this comment. Why should people have to pay a premium for adult only holidays to avoid badly behaved kids?

Children should play and laugh and have fun, but there are a lot of kids who are brats and whose parents let them get away with it. Not saying that’s you, btw.

And us lot up in that there Scotland have been off for weeks!!

YANBU.

Don't fret about them. Don't hush your children around them.

Some people are grumpy fun sponges who don't like children. That's their problem, not yours.

I don't have kids, I just came back from a holiday, the pool was very full of children. The kids running around, laughing, jumping, playing etc, didn't bother me I could sun bathe and relax through that noise fine, it was the parents who were just wanting to get pissed but couldn't be bothered moving so just shouted "STOP RUNNING", "COME ERE NOW" from afar rather than actually getting up and supervising that I found more grating....but I guess thats another issue!

It's not rocket surgery.

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Idiots! But then we went to a showing of Matilda in the west end a few years back, pre-pandemic. It was a Saturday matinee with subtitles and adaptations for children with additional needs. The two women in front of us complained bitterly about the noise mine made - along with every other child in there. Honestly - why not go to a showing in the evening that wasn’t billed as child-friendly?!

Badly behaved isn't the same as annoying. They obviously found my DC annoying hence the tutting and looks /mutters. That doesn't mean they were being badly behaved.

Badly behaved isn't the same as annoying. They obviously found my DC annoying hence the tutting and looks /mutters. That doesn't mean they were being badly behaved.

If you find kids being kids annoying don't go to a family holiday place! Or suck it up.

I don’t have children but I work with them. I’m with you. I don’t have a problem being around them and of course they make noise, cry, shout etc they are young kids. it’s their issue not yours. Like you said there are places to go if you really don’t want to be around them.

Unruly feral kids that are causing a proper annoying disturbance and not being watched or parented by their parents is a whole other thing though.

We went on a family holiday in May the first one with my 2 year old and the hotel was advertised as a family hotel with splash park etc there was one old couple on there own and who enjoyed watching the kids play but a separate one were always tutting and left a review saying too many kids baffling because a hotel with a splash park will be filled with kids of all ages

Ridiculous! Stick with what you are doing and enjoy your holiday!

We were at Center parcs in the Easter holiday and they have an 'evening' swim session that starts at 6.30 and the outdoor pools were lit up. At about 8pm we were outside as a family with a teenager and there appears to be lots of teenagers that visit at that time together without their parents, there was an older couple that kept tutting and outwardly moaning about teenagers being in the pool at that time and bigger moans if younger children were about! I mean a) of course teenagers are more likely to be out in the early evening and b) who visits Center Parcs in the school holiday if you don't like young people or children. The teenagers were not doing anything just happened to be present or would dare to go in the Jacuzzi and sit with their parents in our case and behave like any other person- not boisterous as he was with us.

Oh and outdoor pool is encircled by the rapids so yes a bit of noise at that point anyway.

We totally avoid anywhere with children. Would never book a hotel that wasn't adult only.

Because what will they moan about when they get home?!

That's equally as posaible as them being just simply dicks.

It nearly happened to us once. Hotel advertised as great for adults but luckily I am an obsessive googler so suss out it's VERY family oriented.

People without kids go to butlins??!!

A pool area in a family holiday spot can be very noisy and annoying IMO, when full of children.

Not badly behaved, but noisy, and very annoying.

Not where I would want to be even having children, but certainly not if I was childless.

I think it is very rude to be tutting at an 18 month old child doing normal things at a pool in a family orientated hotel.

Its a bit like sitting on top of the baby pool where lots of splashing goes on and complaining about getting splashed.🙄

I find that some folk forget what it was like when their own kids were small.

Yes this is absolutely the schools fault, we sent out letters to all the families with feral children and suggested they go on holiday for the last week of twen to give us all a break....don't tell anyone but we also gave them a voucher to pay for it!!

Some people just want to moan. We are recently back from 2 weeks on Menorca - the Balearic island which is the family friendly one. The hotel where we stayed is clearly advertised as having kids clubs, kids pool, mini disco. Also that it serves an international clientele - when we were there it was a pretty even split between Spanish, French, British and Italian.

Yet there are endless moaning reviews on Tripadvisor saying that there were too many children and foreign people. I read Spanish and interestingly there are Spanish reviews complaining the staff speak too much English and there are too many British people, and reviews written in English saying the staff don't speak Engluish and there are too many Spaniards.

This happens all the time on cruise ships. They book on a family friendly cruise in the school holidays and then moan about kids running around and playing. Plenty of adult only ships or ships not so catered for kids (cunard being one) go on those! I do think some people just like moaning.

I'd be interested as to where you are (area, not complex) for context. If the complex are specifically advertising that they are family friendly, does that suggest that the overall area isn't one overly popular with families usually?

I'm just wondering whether they picked this place thinking it would be really quiet?

It's easy for older people to get confused online with words like swings, swingers, etc. They were probably mis-sold.

But I think it's important to remember that we were all annoying, irritating children at one time or other. Some of us still are...