Just interested really, as I can see this being more of a problem in the future, and wondered how folk handle it?
We were skiing last week, and stayed in a chalet with another family who had kids EXACTLY the same age as ours, and all the kids almost instantly got on brilliantly, and were 'new best friends' for the week.
Obviously that is great on one level. However their 'new' friendships began to take over the holiday. The kids wanted to ski together, eat together, spend loads of time in each other's rooms (4-bed family rooms, so a bit of a pain sometimes), and even sit next to each other on the coach and plane home!!
In this particular case it wasn't really an issue, as we liked the parents too, and we all rocked along OK. However on the last day I felt a bit wistful that we hadn't actually spent any time together - just the 4 of us - as our own family.
When kids get wrapped up in new friendships it does rather seem to take over, and we would have had to positively say, "no - you can't ski with X&Y" which would have been hard to do, given that we all left the chalet and arrived at the lifts at the same time.
I just wondered if this happens to others, and how to handle it (especially if we weren't keen on the parents next time!)