Birthday Party. Would you do this?

[mrsnec]

We are not in the UK. I have a 2 year old dd and a 1 year old ds.

They have never met their cousins and I am not in regular contact with any relatives and neither is dh.

We are going to be in the UK for a holiday later in the year and a local tourist attraction has an excellent deal on birthday parties that works out better value than the standard entry fee.

My children have never had proper birthday parties and I don't have any friends with children the same age so I'm wondering if booking a birthday party with their cousins and our old friends would be a good idea but would it be weird that none of the kids or parents know each other?

Under the same circumstances would you go and would you travel? Relatives all live in the Home Counties and the venue is in Dorset

"Because, if the latter, that is a whole level of difficulty unlikely to be solved at a family party"

This ^^

I am nc with one sibling who has no children and wouldn't be there but the others are in contact with him and he lives in the area that was just to say that would indicate they are used to the distance.

My contact with most of the others is sporadic fb messages but a couple of them always react to everything I post and seem genuinely interested.

You book a specific time for a meal in the party room and get alloted times for a couple of activities so we wouldn't all be together the whole day.

Emailing to gauge interest before booking sounds like it might be the way forward.