Uk hotels with bedrooms visible from bar/dining room

[leannac]

Anyone know of any hotels where bedrooms are visible from dining room/bar? Aside from spread eagle just south of London? Preferably within 2 hrs drive of London

[YouOldSlag]

Op, you'll just have to suck it up that when you have two 18 month olds, you can't always do what you want, when you want.

[GoldenPeppermintCreams]

Rent an apartment/cottage/caravan and get a takeaway.

[YouOldSlag]

Also, they might sleep through the night at home, but at 18 months they certainly know when they're in a new place and they certainly know when you are not around in that strange place. I doubt they will go down at 7pm and allow you to slip out to dinner.

Just get room service. They are still babies!

[AnyFucker]

bye then

make sure you look after that relationship won't you ?

[cestlavielife]

Room service eg get a suite so they in bedroom
Get a babysitter
Or put them sleeping in double buggy and take to restaurant

[putri]

Wasn't this what the McCann did? While OP might want recommendation, it's a bit hard not to suggest other methods. Leaving an 18-mo-old alone in a room, whether the door is visible or not and with a monitor is too dodgy for me.

[YouOldSlag]

Yes mine escaped at 18 months too Startailoforgangeandgold

When we stayed in hotels we just got room service.

[Growlithe]

This isn't Oxygene. He's singing karaoke in a guest house in Blackpool

[Startailoforangeandgold]

At 18 months my little horror could climb out of her cot and therefore was not to be trusted.

When she was younger, I wouldn't have worried at all.

[YouOldSlag]

korma- I agree.

[YouOldSlag]

So people who wouldn't leave their 18mo alone in a hotel bedroom are uptight and don't like germs?

Interesting. And a bit mad.

I am currently covered in germs, not remotely uptight, but at that age I didn't like to leave my baby out of sight unless at home, in a cot, in my house.

[TheHeirOfSlytherin]

Why do you think you can only be a good wife by abandoning your baby in a strange room in a hotel for the evening?

[leannac]

Thanks for the suggestions that were legitimately helpful. Doing the job I do I know that the worst risks to children are actually people & therefore I'd never be comfortable leaving my child alone in a room with a stranger, even if they were recommended by a hotel. I'd feel far more secure with her alone in a room that I could see the entrances to.

Special thanks to the person who private messaged me - I'd never have found that travel agent myself but how fab that there is a whole company dedicated to providing recommendations for just these sorts of places. I'd searched for ages & not found them so thanks.

I think I'll stick to the childbirth board from now on where people are FAR les critical & negative. I prefer to relax & enjoy life rather than be upright all the time & the negativity of this board has been a bit sad. Off to play with mud in the garden with my girl. Which doubtlessly many of you would also consider bad parenting ..... Think of the germs!

Thanks again helpful mums!

[YouOldSlag]

Get a babysitter or use Room service

[YouOldSlag]

Nobody said you were a bad mother, I think I suggested room service and in answer to your question, at 18 months, my children were never out of my sight unless asleep, in my house, in a cot.

I wouldn't do what you suggest until my child was older than 18 months, and even then I just don't like the idea.

[peggyblackett]

Have a look at Calcot Manor. They offer a baby sitting service I think. Or Woolley Grange.

[Alibabaandthe40nappies]

OP if you stop the whining, then you can look for hotels that have babysitting services. In London you will have to pay a premium, we like Bedruthan Steps in Cornwall.

[Chubfuddler]

There's this amazing thing called room service. Try it.

[AmberLeaf]

Get a babysitter!

[BillyBollyBandy]

Try some of the boutique types maybe, or a flash B&B? The smaller the better I would think if you want rooms close by.

[leannac]

Jeez I hadnt posted that much on mumsnet before but had always thought it seemed a useful site for getting help with finding out information....and I'd thought it looked a lot less bitchy than some of the American sites I used whilst pregnant (wte etc) but now I've totally revised my opinion of mumsnet. I shall not be posting on here again to try get any advice. I didn't realise this is how it would work.

It's such a shame that people feel the need to give such unsolicited advice, all I looked for were hotel suggestions. I really don't understand how mums have the time to read a post & think 'well, I can't help that mother with the answer to her questions but I can interfere with her mothering skills & try to make her feel bad'. Although I've never understood that type of behaviour as I only last wk saw a poor pregnant woman reduced almost to tears by a total stranger pretty much accusing her of being a bad mother for having a glass of wine in a restaurant with her dinner. I guess some people just like to feel pious. As far as some of the posters here are concerned I expect you must keep your children in a room with you 24 hrs a day so they are never out of your sight. Good luck with that kind of confining life. My daughter is the love of my life but my husband & my relationship is important too so I am still going to try to find a hotel with a bedroom off the restaurant so that we can have a nice dinner to celebrate our recent wedding.

I know this statement will prob get a few of you crazy but quite frankly balls to people who think I'm a bad mother for wanting to do this. I'm an excellent mother & am now Trying to be a good wife as well.

And that's the end of my mumsnet posting! By the way thanks to the genuine suggestions of help, I'll look into cherry tree & will try find another few using good old google.

[YouOldSlag]

You can't have an OP like this and not expect to get opinions as well as hotel information!

I think 18mo is too young to be left out of sight in a hotel. they could have an accident, overheat, climb out of cod or bed, bang their head,and get up to all sorts of dangerous stuff and you can't see through a wooden door.

Granted they could do all this at home, but why make it all riskier?

Have room service. I couldn't enjoy watching a baby monitor and wondering how they were all evening.

[LynetteScavo]

So seeing the door is important? What about the window?

And will your monitor work if other parents have the same idea?

[Fairyloo]

Totally oxygene