"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

Sorry that was to who ever called me a top shagger down thread

I don’t want anyone behaving badly anywhere, unfortunately more often than not it’s adults.

So yes I do book the quiet carriage, hoping there won’t be a noisy rabble of under 10’s but instead there is an adult thinking we all want to listen to their tinny music or loud one sided phone convo.

@roberta12345 if your child is deaf, do you not support subtitled sessions at the cinema? Are they exclusionary to hearing people? Or are they an excellent resource for people with hearing impairments that people without hearing issues should avoid as it's not for them? All people on this thread are asking for (or not even asking for, purely hypothetically discussing!) is something similar for the childfree.

I'm sorry to hear what you went through, but this isn't a sensitive topic to post that on. We have members on this branch of the forum who have been through fertility issues and didn't get their happy ending. They come to the childfree section to avoid parents crowing.

This thread has confirmed that we can't have one single thread without being told we're wrong and awful. The rest of the Internet pretty much tells women that daily. I don't need it from here. I hope you manage to get the board hidden from Active. Good luck.

I'm willing to bet that if this thread had been started in Chat, with the same title but by a parent wanting some adult-only 'me time' it wouldn't have attracted a tenth of the goading it has here.

I'm reminded of the thread that descended into 'parents are just so much more empathetic, here's the study to prove it and I'm going to spend the next three pages telling you how much better I am than you.' Yet another thread hijacked and descending into squabbling because some people have this pressing need to tell us how awful we are for not centring children all the time.

So bloody depressing.

I think it's actually a few arseholes who for some reason have problems with women like us sharing their space and seem determined to have this board shut down.

I'm guessing that the best way to deal with them is the same way toddlers having a tantrum are dealt with...ignore until they calm down. Or go away.

Oh fuck off.

You are talking out of your arse and couldn't even gather the wit or intelligence to read the title or opening post before you started spewing bollocks all over a thread that is not for you.

The thread isn't about banning children from anything. It is about being willing to pay extra for a Childfree experience sometimes.

One screen at a multiplex being adult only or one performance a week at the theatre or one room in the pub. No one needs to be locked up.

My local has four rooms, they are child friendly, the landlord has primary aged kids but two of the rooms are adults only. Incredibly popular, the pub wins awards all the time.

There is room for all preferences to be accommodated so get off your soapbox and take your rage to AIBU

I think it's actually a few arseholes who for some reason have problems with women like us sharing their space and seem determined to have this board shut down

I've said as much on Site Stuff - some poster has said this place is goady and it's no wonder parents come here to pick fights. Leaving aside the breathtaking immaturity of that attitude, I've suspected for a long time that there's a concerted attempt to derail and hijack and get the board shut down.

Actually many years ago I travelled by train to Plymouth in a carriage full of primary school children (about 8/9?) on their way home from a trip. They were charming and chatty and well behaved and a credit to their school. I even wrote to their school to this effect. The head replied thanking me and saying he'd read my letter out in assembly and said they were delighted with themselves.

But pubs. Just no.

Yes I know this is child free section but this thread popped up and infuriated me

I see a lot of threads that pop up and infuriate me. I, however, am an adult able to decide whether or not it's a constructive use of my time to hijack a thread and that I have control over my responses.

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon - 👏

Me too. And I thought we were supposed to be the immature ones.

I'm just reporting and not responding.

Why are you all so aggressive and angry at the world? Kids? And people like me?

Oh look. Now we've got the 'you sound angry' accusation - the one used a lot to shut women up.

I don't give a flying one about you, poster. You're of no interest to me whatsoever, apart from the fact that I'd like you to get off a thread and a board that you've admitted you came here to be infuriated about.

HTH.

I’m officially done posting on this board. I argued vociferously for it on @musixa’s thread, I’ve commented on many threads offering support or other contributions, and I’ve loved chatting to likeminded souls but I just can’t do it anymore. I just look at every thread now and think “I would comment but how long before a parent pops up and calls me weird/mean or accuses me of bigotry?”

I get enough of that in real life. I don’t need any more of it. So whilst I know this ain’t an airport and I don’t need to announce my departure, I’m done.

I hope the rest of my fellow CFers manage to get the board removed from active, and I wish you all peace from these incessant thread-hijackers.

GWR used to have a 'family carriage' - I don't know if they still do since they brought the Azumas in - I think it had children's activity packs and extra space for pushchairs as well as being near the buffet. Something like that to encourage families to use it is a good idea, but of course train companies nowadays care only about cramming as many people into the train as possible.

@fitzwilliamdarcy don't go. It's playing into their hands and you are such a brilliant poster who posts interesting thoughts. Don't let them drive you out.

Have to admit, I'm thinking along the same lines. I see a thread being opened on here and I have a little bet with myself as to how many pages in before the people determined to pick a fight turn up. I think I'll stick to WhatWe'reReading. My CF status doesn't seem to infuriate people there.

Seconded. We shouldn't be forced out of our own space.

Wow this thread has gone to places it really didn’t have to. Can’t people be civil and respectful? Why is that so flipping hard? All this meanness does not make the world better, and goodness knows it’s shit enough already. It’s like Thumper said: if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.

I know many are not fans of reddit but you can have private topic groups on there....
Like an exile

Don't let the bastards get you down or drive you out.

They are bullies belittling and harassing people they see as different. If we keep reporting they will get bored eventually.

Hopefully hiding the thread from active will help, although it will be a shame the board will be less visible and that we will lose the thoughtful and considerate contributions from parents.

@MNHQ Please take our childfree mumsnetters threads off active.

The unbelievably nasty responses from parents on threads such as this one is stopping me from starting new childfree threads. Which is of course what some people want.

If you can't deal with different moods and noises that come from different humans then the problem is with you I'm afraid.

what are you talking about?! 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?! It's not a concept only understandable to rocket scientists. Bloody hell.

I will continue to roll my eyes at adults without children tutting at kids in pizza Express at 5pm, but I will be right there with them when they're trying to enjoy a late night meal, an adult theatre experience but can't because children are being allowed to run riot.

I'm another who can't see why parents have to come on here when the space isn't for them.