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Why are adult only holidays and hotels so expensive and why can't the holiday companies and hotels do more to help those of us who just want a quiet holiday in the sun without being overrun with noisy kids?
I have just returned from a week long holiday in with Fuerteventura my partner and the only thing that spoilt it was the children. We stayed in a all inclusive hotel and we purposely picked a week out of school holidays to avoid the brat brigade. Everything was fine until half through the week when we were unceremoniously woken up at 7am by screaming kids who were allowed to run wild disturbing everyone apart from their parents.
It seems that as soon as they land some parents just let the children run riot without giving anyone else who happens to be on holiday a second thought. All my partner and I wanted to do was have a well earned rest after working hard, and up until half way through the week we got just that. However, when the the family from hell moved into an apartment nearby they woke us up at daft-o-clock every morning!
On returning to the UK I decided to check out adult only holidays only to find you have to pay a lot more for the privilege of getting the quiet room you deserve, and on top of that you are not alway guaranteed a brat free hotel. In an ideal world hotels would be aware of this when checking in guests keeping the kids to one side of the hotel, so they can cry, scream and squawk to their hearts content and us couples looking for a bit R&R to the other side and never the twain shall meet. I feel we are penalised for not wanting other people's' screaming brats around us.
By: Lancashire Lass
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Those of us that chose not to have children should not have to put up with the unruly behaviour of others children. All I ask for is a bit of basic consideration from parents. Is that really unreasonable? When I am sat in a restaurant I expect to be able to enjoy the social occasion. I don't expect to have to ask for every word spoken to me to be repeated as I cannot hear because of the din from the screaming brat at the next table, or to be the centre piece around which a game of chase is going on! That's not unreasonable at all. I totally get that children will play and be noisy but there is a time and a place for that. Restaurants, cinemas, bars, supermarkets etc are neither the time or the place yet the parents do nothing to control their children and you're not supposed to complain for fear of being called a grumpy old git! Well that isn't acceptable! I don't blame the kids, I blame the incompetent morons posing as their parents. It amazes me that if you want to buy a dog you have to be 'vetted' yet any imbocile can have a child!
I don't dislike children and I know a lot of very pleasant kids. I also accept that kids will be kids but let's be reasonable. It isn't all about them all of the time!
Having escaped serious injury twice while on holiday due to uncontrolled children I prefer to go somewhere where there will be no children or just a few.
Why shouldn't those of us who have brought up our own children be allowed to have holidays without the company of the badly behaved children of others?
grumpyoldwoman
As it happens the gom and I are off to Turkey on Wednesday, we usually stick to smallish hotels and go during term time; that way if there are any children there they will be few in number.
By the way, if you do an internet search for "adult only hotels" you will get some very interesting results, not all what you are looking for!