"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

www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/the-childrens-country-house-at-sudbury

This fucks me right off. I used to love Sudbury but I don't want an experience created for children. I want to see the hall and learn about its history the art and architecture. I want an old man to explain cantilever staircases to me at great length like previous visits.

Adults only either means loud and drunk or hushed and precious with everyone looking at their phones. Kids welcome means loud mayhem with out of control kids. You are picking the wrong places to go. I tend to go to places where kids are no more annoying than adults and you get a good mix of generations.

At the cinema I have only ever been disturbed by adults but then few kids would ever want to sit through the films I like plus there are age ratings. Restaurants - the kind I go to parents are either in control of their children or they don’t go there. Flights - other humans are annoying, regardless of age, because you are crammed in like cattle. Resort hotels- never go to them. Never been disturbed by kids in a regular hotel. Trains - mainly disturbed by adults with their phone on loud speaker or scrolling with no headphones. Museums and galleries - children never been an issue at the ones I go to. Pubs - I pick them carefully because there are loads which I would hate and kids are the least problematic customers in them. Supermarkets - There are never many children in the ones I go to but if you go early in the morning you get them virtually to yourself.

And I've never been to an adults only place that's like you describe.

This is the childfree section and I was asking the opinion of those without children.

I have kids but would definitely pay more for kid free flights, restaurants and holidays.

Is it just special event or is it all week aimed at kids?
I think balance has to be had between encouraging kids in and also having more quiter days and adult tours and learning. Few days of each would just work well and made everyone included. Including many with sensory issues who cannot bear loud spaces.
I agree with @JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon about some places being basically exclusionary.

No this is permanent

This Canadian airline does an annual April Fools video. They had lots of requests to take this one seriously!

As for the cinema. Omfg. I went to a later showing, the film not not start until 9pm midweek. It was a 12 and one family took several very young children including a baby. The baby started screaming before the film began, probably shattered and wanting to go to sleep. Several of their dcs were up and down throughout the film. I think someone nearby kept telling then to be quiet because one if the adults kept standing up and glaring at people.
You would hope common sense would prevail but sadly not.
The same for the tea room I mentioned. It’s the most child unfriendly place in town yet no, parents with screaming toddlers in there.

I'm not childfree, but can't stand it when I've paid for a babysitter to go out somewhere and find it over run with dc whose parents can't be bothered to parent them.

Theatre is a bugbear of mine.
Pubs to some extent, but I have the option of going to another pub - theatres, you don't, if you want to see that show.

A child free holiday would be wonderful. Currently on holiday and starting to think a child and DH free holiday would be even better!

Cinema
Theatre
Restaurants
Christmas events! I'd like a train ride somewhere pretty on a nicely decorated train with some snacks and a glass of wine.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'd pay more but I would welcome separate family seating at sporting events though, more for their sakes than mine. Always makes me feel weird to be cheering loudly and drinking with someone else's small child sat close to me at a rugby match, not to mention some of the drunken antics and swearing that goes on.

I will say, I'm married to a teacher so our holidays are always in school breaks but children very rarely cause us any issues. There are the odd ones that are like excited bottles of pop or very tired and grumpy but that's understandable.

A childfree Quiet train carriage. Or policies which exclude families from booking into the Quiet Carriage on trains.

Having been subject to about an hour of an ear-piercing child's tantrums last week coming home from working overseas and a loooong flight, I'd pay for that.

Gigs. I mean gigs in night club / bar venues. I've been to several gigs at Rock City over the last couple of years where it's a totally different atmosphere since they started allowing 14 year olds in. Half the fun of gigs was a mosh pit... they don't seem to exist anymore as they are full of kids filming on their phones at the front or with a parent standing with them who glares at you if their precious child gets knocked. A gig in rock city used to be a bloody good night out. Just boring now. I feel sorry for the bands working hard and getting nothing back!

This is one thing I liked about lockdown - shopping with no kids (I say this as a mum myself 😂)

I was a regular at Rock City back in the 1990s and am horrified by this!!

Adults only either means loud and drunk or hushed and precious with everyone looking at their phones. Kids welcome means loud mayhem with out of control kids. You are picking the wrong places to go. I tend to go to places where kids are no more annoying than adults and you get a good mix of generations

Any tips on how to tell in advance what sort of place it is and how people and children are going to behave so it's the right place to go?

Hair salons
Nail bars
..
Currently getting what I hoped would be a relaxing manicure. No chance !

Flights. I really would.

And this.

*You know how some women become mothers and then their whole existence becomes defined by the fact they've happened to reproduce?

I kind of feel like OP is the same but the opposite. Like her whole existence is defined by the fact that she DOESN'T have children?*

Hardly surprising given that this is the CHILDFREE BOARD. Just in case you missed that and the message at the top of the thread CHILDFREE SECTION

Oh right. Just seen who the poster is. The one who on another thread thinks we're all so damned selfish not letting parents have Christmas off work in perpetuity.

My kingdom for an ignore button, MN.

ODFOD @Holly60 Didn't you notice this is the Childfree board? We don't need entitled parents to tell us what to think or how to feel.

Of course she noticed. She just doesn't care. I think I'll go onto the breastfeeding board and give them the benefit of some totally unwanted and inappropriate advice.

I also propose we all ignore because I also remember the username. Or we will just derail the thread

Agree 100%