"Adult Only" things you'd pay a premium for. ** CHILDFREE SECTION**

[SoRainbowRhythms]

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Whether it exists or not, what do you / would you pay more for?

DH and I always pay through the nose to stay in a nice adults only resort when we go away. We won't even entertain staying somewhere with just an adults only section no matter how nice.

I went to London Zoo for Zoo Lates this year and it was adults only with drinks and nice food - worth every penny.

Wishful thinking - I would give my right arm for childfree flights or a truly adults only restaurant.

thread title amended by MNHQ at the OP's request

Childfree people (or people just out and about without their children) cope with other humans, including children, all the time. That's the entire point of this thread.... now and again it would be nice not to?!

And it would be nice if now and again (actually, most of the time) parents actually parented, and controlled their children when in public, instead of inflicting their bad moods and excessive noise on others.

I was on a train journey home from an airport (after a long sleep-deprived flight) the other day, and was subjected to what I suspect was inadequate "gentle" parenting. A father & two girls - maybe 4 and 3-ish. The 4 year old getting more & more strident, to the point of a full on tantrum, executed at ear-piercing pitch. Not once did this excuse for a parent admonish his daughter, to say "Please be quiet" etc etc. He allowed her to dominate the entire carriage with her screaming, and responded by saying only "I understand that you are cross."

He should have taken her out of the carriage until she'd calmed down. But instead he allowed the child to go over the top and work herself up to screaming pitch.

The child was badly behaved, but the father was culpable.

Just lately all the boards seem to be cursed with people who just want to tell someone they're wrong or horrible or unfeeling. In just about every case, the posters who want to say you're wrong haven't even read the original post properly, never mind anything the Ops said later. This thread isn't "nobody's child should be in the pub", it's wouldn't it be nice if there was an adult's only time, but it's like catnip to some people- those dreadful childfree people think children shouldn't go anywhere.
Ironically, twice recently my DP has been in the pub, gone to the toilet but leaving behind a drink/jacket/kindle and come back to find someone's DC in his seat whose DM says "sorry, I didn't know anyone was sitting here". He is real, I can see him, he's not my imaginary friend

I think coffee shops should have adults only days. After all drinking coffee is mainly an adult activity.

After all drinking coffee is mainly an adult activity.

I was drinking my fathers moka pot coffee at 4 #hardcorecoffeedrinker 🤪

Not me, no worries.

And I am so sorry for what you went through.

It's really sad that just because this is the internet, people think they can be awful to one another on here.

If you have children - great. If you don't - great. Why the fight! Question not directed at you, Roberta.

This thread has turned into a complete bun fight between people who don’t ever post on CF threads but want to have an opinion anyway.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4921213-childfree-posts-showing-on-active?page=1

Apparently people on the CF threads as other posters for examples of times when CF threads have been anti children and then get the MNHQ to delete it for being a TAAT.

I have no idea why my post was removed? I didn't say anything other than 14 year olds now days are very different to 14 year olds 20 years ago, can someone explain why my post was removed?! I was talking about the experience of going to gigs 🤷‍♀️

I'd pay extra to have adult-only cinema screenings. I'm sorry, but I plan my cinema outings as well as I can to avoid children-choosing films that don't appeal to kids, going later, not during school holidays, and someone still manages to bring their kids in.

Restaurants. Theatres. Flights. Cafes.

I know that kids are a part of society, but perhaps it's a sad indictment of how terrible some people's parenting is that people would pay extra to get away from your kids.

@CleverLilViper I think one of the worst ever decisions was to bring in the 12A classification. So many people bringing in children that are really too young, just because they legally can. At least when it was 12 it kept most of the bored and fractious under-10s out.

As there's at least one poster on there determined to paint posters on here as toxic and unpleasant who've had threads removed 'countless times' (we haven't, to the best of my knowledge) despite her hardly ever visiting the board, and is clearly itching for a fight to prove whatever her point is, I decided not to engage any further.

Lol. "You are all childhaters on this CF board"
Yeah😂

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4932457-youre-out-for-a-coffee-cake-and-people-watching-in-a-cafe-what-annoys-you-and-spoils-the-experience

No doubt someone will be along to say that all the people saying kids are childfree. Even the one saying “my kids”.

Blimey, the poster getting wound up because people have the cheek to READ in coffee shops is bizarre.

Perhaps because the topic is universal? Child free people and parents both might want child free spaces (myself included!) I realise it's become a thread bashing each other though.

There are lots of threads in Black Mumsnetters that are of interest to people of other races. But I don't join in because it's a topic for Black people and my voice isn't needed or wanted.

When they introduced quiet carriages on V/Line trains in Victoria years ago it proved a joke. The conductors weren't required to enforce it, it was voluntary - which meant every arsehole who wanted to be noisy, was, and it was more noticeable than in the general carriages. And expecting other passengers to keep the noisy ones quiet - I mean, really?

Public transport
Planes
Museums and galleries
Restaurants
Theatres and cinemas
Libraries

If only! 😂😂😂

I have long felt the same, though with the brats I see running around and screaming like a retirement village is a playground, I'd start younger!

It would be nice if parents didn't insist on taking their kids to free art galleries every weekend if they are too young to actually be interested. They let them run wild and screeching loudly, they have no interest in the art, its just the parents trying to get them out the house but in doing so they are spoiling the enjoyment of people who actually want to enjoy the gallery properly.

Child free restaurants/pubs, flights, antique shops, supermarkets are all things I'd pay extra for.

Would love a childfree week at Disney.

Because one child is autistic and less likely to meltdown in a quiet place?

That's no reason to negate everyone else's desire for quiet.

Assuming that you are replying to me, I would expect the children booked into the quiet carriage to be kept quiet by their parents. It rather defeats the point of booking little autistic Olivia into the quiet carriage if her neurotypical brother Tarquin is going to be allowed to run riot.