Holiday accommodation-noisy children

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Currently on holiday in the UK at a holiday park and the accommodation is apartments where the back doors are in a courtyard formation with a big grassy area in the middle.

It's obviously an attractive area for young children to run about on. What time would you think is an acceptable time to your kids out in the morning to do this bearing in mind they are right outside other people's bedroom windows?

Just come back from similar, convinced the parents let the kids out to play on the green from 7:45 so they could have a lie in! Kids were still in pyjamas screeching and chasing seagulls until about 9. We were on the third floor and they were still loud.

Imagine going somewhere for children and then complaining about ......children ! I'd suggest you go elsewhere next time that isn't geared towards small kids that wake up early !

why do you think having children means not showing any manners and respect for others?

Of course it means accepting to be a parent, and looking after your own kids.

I have children. I don't hate children. My kids and my family have the right to enjoy family-friendly resort, without our time being ruined by selfish and lazy parents who let their own kids go feral.

Playing outside at 8am IS rude.

Some of us manage to have happy kids who ARE respectful of others. My kids don't enjoy being awaken at stupid o-clock by unruly little darlings whose mummy send them outside to scream because she's too lazy to look after them.

Someplace for children does not equal a place for children to run roughshod over everyone else.

There is no reason they need to be making noise to have fun. IF the parents were doing their jobs.

I would make sure I wasn't if it was being woken up at 8am by screaming.

9am at the very very very earliest! I wouldn’t let mine out probably until 10am but we aren’t early risers.

I'd happily give my kids a trumpet to celebrate our return to our own rooms and give a chance of the feral kids to celebrate with us 😂

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Little darlings ey. Honestly scrolled replies to find that phrase. Original

I can't believe sone people expect silence on a holiday park before 10am.

And the repeated comments that allowing your children to play outside is "lazy" parenting. Surely the lazy parents are the ones still snoring until 10am while their kids watch cbeebies/YouTube/god knows what. On holiday!

If you are in a centre park type accommodation then I would say 8am. If you are in a place which is not family oriented then 9am.

People saying 8! It’s a holiday… people are catching up on much needed sleep not getting up at the crack of dawn. The suns not even up properly at 8 right now.

9am. I don’t even wanna hear my kids running wild before then let alone subject it to strangers.

Because unfortunately you can’t enforce good manners on other people’s children. So you’re at the whim of their parenting. Which I think is too risky. Hence I never go to campsites or big holiday parks with loads of young kids.

With teenagers that lie in - you need a different holiday.

Yes, in an ideal world they’d all be well behaved and quiet until 9am. But the reality is normally different.

I have teenagers so our mornings start alot later than they used to but I remember the absolute purgatory of having to quietly entertain smaller kids in holiday accommodation while you try and get ready yourself so I don't really mind if I'm woken at the crack of dawn - if it bothers me I can wear earplugs. And actually the sound of kids laughing is quite nice, far more pleasant than being woken by loud drunk people in the evening.

Your idea of a holiday might be to stay up late and then sleep all morning but some people dont like to waste the best part of the day. Kids in particular should be out soaking up the fresh air and vitamin D in the morning. Personally I think 7 is fine for normal family noise (not shrieking).

No one is telling you what to do .

The difference between your family and mine is that mine won't disturb yours, and I won't let my kids run feral and scream around because they have nothing else to do 😂 and because they haven't been taught how to behave.

Even other kids find the screeching brats really annoying, no one but no one likes them.

It's not just teenagers who sleep past 8am! Young children too.

When they spend a day with parents, who are not lazy, who keep them occupied and entertained, they don't wake up at stupid o-clock and are so bored they can only run around screaming because they have nothing else to do and their parents can't be bothered to parent them.

even children need to catch up on sleep! They are really tired after the first half term, ask any teacher. They really do not need to be woken up by rude and entitled little darlings because their lazy mummy can't be bothered to parent.

Even my primary school kids don't wake up at 7am on a school day! They don't go to school until 8:45, they don't need 1h45 to get ready in the morning 😂

So expecting them to be awaken earlier on holiday is just rude.

If THEY wake up, they don't bother the rest of the place either.

I have quite clearly said that my kids do not screech, they are not feral, they are not brats and yes we make normal family noises outside sometimes quite early when on holiday. I dont care if you want to sleep the day away. Im not going to make my kids tip toe around a holiday park because you can't be arsed to get up and out with your DC.

we make normal family noises outside

what on earth is "normal family noise"? 😂
most families.. don't, so I'd say the NORME is manners and being quiet early morning. so basically you are one of the nuisance, don't worry we got that.

Who do you think YOU are telling other families and other children what time they should get up? If other children want and need to sleep, i'ts your problem because? you are jealous they have such busy lives they sleep until reasonable hours in the morning? 😂

The thing is some people are naturally loud and totally oblivious to that fact. I can well see how the line of ‘normal family noise’ for those people crosses into annoyance for everyone else. There used to be a dad at one of my daughter’s dance classes that was just so bloody loud the teacher had to come out of the hall sometimes to ask for a bit more quiet as the girls were getting distracted. He’d be a nightmare to be next door to in a hotel.

I would absolutely be telling my kids to be quiet before 8/9am if we were going to breakfast etc. They’d have been told before exiting the door that some people will still be asleep so they need to be quiet. If they’d been up ridiculously early and needed to let off steam then we’d go to a playground, not play by people’s rooms. Thats just basic common sense to me.

I agree. Surely it's a good thing to teach your children to be considerate of others, but then their parents probably wouldn't think to do this as they, themselves, are inconsiderate people if they are letting children out to make a racket at 7am and wake everyone up!

Why do you think it is it more acceptable for people to be up and out in the morning rather than in the evening? Presumably if your children are up the crack of dawn you probably aren't out at evening entertainment etc but would you be ok with people saying you are lazy because you aren't out at night?

Now my kids are a bit older, youngest is still 9 though, we tend to relax in the morning and go out early afternoon until 10/11pm as that's when the shows/entertainment they are interested in are on. I would make sure I kept my kids quiet walking back at that time to night to be considerate to others with younger children. You don't seem to think it works both ways though, can you explain why your family's needs are more important than other families?

I have said 3 times, my kids aren't loud or ferral or rushing around shrieking. But they do play outside in the morning. I dont have to keep them shut away because other people don't keep the same hours as me. Just like you don't let your kids shriek at 11pm but presumably they do still make "normal family noises" at that time and arent shut away in silence?