HOW PONCY IS MY PARTY IDEA- BE HONEST!

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DD is going to be 6. she wants a swimming party. the first leisure centre i called charge £230 for 25 children, including pizza and chip lunch.

i called another leisure centre, as the first was v expensive, imo. now, it just happens to be next door to a pizza express...which has a £5 children's menu. so...the total cost to hire pool and eat at pizza express would be £180 for 25 children. (we could have less children)

what i'm asking is, do you think it is just to ridiculous to have a 6th birthday at pizza express, on principle. too poncy?

btw, we move house the same weekend as dd's birthday, so we really do have to go somewhere that'll involve zero effort on our part.

why poncy?

Pizza Express is great for kids

Not poncey at all IMO. Pizza Express is great, but hardly The Ivy

We did exactly the same (moved house and dd started a new school on her birthday) so we returned to where we used to live and did that for her birthday. It isn't poncey, it is practical.

sounds great to me.

My 3 lurrve PExpress and would adore that party.

If I were 6 I would love that,

If you can afford it and its less hassle during your house move then go for it!

Can I come?

(I thought it was going to be something actully poncey like a childrens formal 'cloudy apple juice and cheese board party' or something!!

i like the idea

maybe not poncy. extravagant, might've been a better word.

God no! Of all the fast food joints I've been to, Pizza Express is by far the best. Did you know that many of them actually do childrens parties? They get to make their own pizzas.

Not poncy. Not sure I'd want to try and control 25 yos in pizza express, personally, but then I don't have any

phew. thanks for your feedback, ladies. just thought people might assume it cost more than in does and think it was OTT.

Our local Pizza Express do pizza parties for children.

Def not poncy or too extravagent. Sounds a great idea.

We are having dd's party at a local leisure centre and they charge £150 for soft play and trampolining (irrelevant of the number of children) then charge £8 a head for food and party bags(no option to bring your own) then you provide a cake! So that is about £160 for food. But as it is on tuesday and we have all been sick most of christmas with gastric flu, I really don't care.

Sounds great, but I would check on your adult to child ratio for the pool before you go, you don't want to be disappointed!

blimey, Cof V, thats exp.

panicpants, the ratio is 1:2 so we will have to get the parents to join us.

maybe i shouldve asked in my OP how many of you would get in the water willingly!

will say on the invitation that we need to have lots of adults. will have to think how to word it persuasively.

Sounds fabulous!! And much better than the crap posing as food that most leisure centres put out. My dd is also 6 very soon, and is having a Build a bear party. They advertise that Pizza Hut are a "food partner" and as such will give %10 off. Well, Pizza Hut wouldn't even reserve a table for us . I bet Pizza Express would have!!

At least you're aware of it. I remember a time when my friend took her 3 children swimming and she wasn't allowed in as (due to their ages) she needed more adults

so purple and panic, would YOU get in the water??

Ummm........

Think it would depend on how much ds wanted to go tbh

So if you need half as many adults as children, then how expensive will it be at each place to feed them?

flo, i wasnt planning on feeding the adults. did you mean that?

option 1 is £9 per child, with food.

option 2 is £50/60 pool hire, plus £5 per child for pizza express.

Yes I did mean that. If they are all there over lunch too because they have had to come swimming, then will they not expect it? I think I would tbh.

I don't, ds's 7th was a football match and trip to PE. Not poncy, perfectly sensible imo

Oh god, yes, be careful abvout adult to child ratio.

i dont think it'll be a problem, flo, for 2 reasons. firstly, the meal will be at 5pm if its at pizza express, so adults wont miss a meal. secondly, i dont belive the adults will expect to be fed. not for one minute! altough we might get a couple of bottles of wine.

lunch time party would be at the leisure centre, and finished by 1pm. so adults could prob hold out till then.

my dds have been to plenty of parties, at lots of diff times. the adults have never been given lunch!

Ok cool, as long as you've considered it. My dd isn't school age yet, so I have no first hand experience.