To judge these parents

[BaggyJumpersandLeggings]

Currently on holiday abroad.
I've noticed a family here, kids are I'd say - one is around 20 months and the other about 4, if not younger. Mum looks around 7months pregnant.
Our room overlooks kids club where there is a park and soft play and other activities. The sign on kids club says it's open 9:30-12:30 then 14:00-17:30. Now this couple drop their kids off there after breakfast not long after it's opened, they must get them for the lunch break but then they drop them back off as we've seen them collecting them around 16:00ish.
In the meantime, the parents sunbath at the pool all day.
Aibu to think this is just shit!? Why book a family holiday if you're just gonna pack them off to kids club for strangers to look after your kids pretty much all day in another country?!

Today I took my DC in there to use the park for an hour whilst I remained there and I noticed the 1 child sat on the swing looking really sad, just sat there with nobody pushing the swing and their shoes were on the wrong feet, clothes dirty from where they'd been running about/colouring in, just sat there with the tabard on showing that they're there without parents and was looking so sad and down. My heart broke when I saw that child, the younger sibling was being carried about by the staff. I went over and said hello and asked name and offered to push the swing whilst I pushed my DC. Their little face lit up just to have someone talking to them for a short while.
I just don't understand how some can do this, I couldn't ? I get maybe some need an hour or so peace here and there especially if they're live wires - and maybe some kids like it and ask to go...but for hours everyday?? I've seen those kids round the pool once all holiday, and that was late in the day, around 16:30 for an hour. Apart from that never seen them round the pool since. Poor kids.
Aibu to disagree with this holiday parenting?

JFC OP leave the poor woman alone.

I'm a lone parent, my DD when she was younger loved the kids club. I worked very very hard and needed a break and to sit in the shade and read.

My DD14 still talks about those holidays where we would breakfast together then she would go do loads of activities then swim together in the afternoon, have a fun evening with dinner, play cards and dominoes.

You have no idea about their family, their needs or dynamics. Just mind your own business.

I'll never understand why people are so judgemental. The mother is 7 months pregnant, in a couple of months she will have three young children to deal with why should t she get some peace and quiet on her holiday so she is recharged and ready for the onslaught. I had three children and, much as I lived it, it was bloody hard work. Luckily, I didn't ever care about obnoxious people like the OP, some people get very hurt by it.

If she has a 4yo and a 20m yo and she's about 7 months pregnant, then in the past five years (60m), the mum has spent about 25 months pregnant, and presumably a minimum of 12m on maternity leave, and will be about to do it again. So a rough estimate of 50% of her life dedicated to pregnancy and childcare alone, let alone the daily grind.

I'd say that she's earned a break before she goes into the next slog.

Yabu and you’re not here to judge people

Perhaps she's been up with the kids through the night, and she needs a rest. Perhaps the 20 month old wakes still. Good parenting means meeting your own needs too.

I need to get myself a holiday like this OP. Have been doing it wrong all these years with four DC.

Good for you!

I used to work in a holiday kids club in the uk. It was just me and another teenage girl all day in a smallish room with toys and a tv. We always tried really hard, but the kids were all different ages and it was really hard. I felt sorry for the kids, it just seemed like a weird message that on a family holiday, your parents have left you here all day, rather than do activities with you.

Why is everyone focusing on the woman?

The dad is there too. Notice the judgement doesn't seem to extend to him. He could spend time with them while she rests, he's not pregnant is he.

I think you need to wind your neck in 🙄😳

I completely agree with you op. I think dumping your kids in a holiday club all day, every day on what should be a family holiday with everyone doing stuff together is really shit parenting. Don’t care what anyone else says. It’s not the same as using childcare at home where the kids get to know their setting / care givers and the other children. It’s a very new environment with strangers and they must realise Mum and Dad have fucked off to enjoy themselves. It’s just horrible.

There’s this, and there’s also the fact it doesn’t sound like great provision if the kid’s just left alone on the swing. Perhaps the parents think it’s rather better than it is!