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Kids and Small Hotels and Breakfast Time Nightmares

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  • PasturesNew
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    mrcow wrote: »
    Out of interest, how big is this hoard?

    There are only seven rooms. How many families are we talking about here? How many children?
    Four loud/irritated parents and 4 whiney toddlers/babies.
  • PasturesNew
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    Errata wrote: »
    If children are running riot in the hotel why aren't you complaining in the strongest possible terms to the manager?
    They're running riot in their rooms - and as it's a 'standard house' and they're on the top floor, the manager can't do anything about it ... and right now the manager's cooking breakfast.

    It's "just a house" to look at. More of a Seaside B&B than anything.

    And I don't like to complain .... I'm only here another week.... then it's onto the next one, which I've still to find/book.
  • mrcow
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Four loud/irritated parents and 4 whiney toddlers/babies.

    lol so it's two families with two small children each. And they've driven all the regulars to change their breakfast routines!

    How long have they been staying there for?
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • PasturesNew
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    mrcow wrote: »
    This description is not representative of pretty much all of the families I know.

    If it's not a buffet, how can the children be shoving? What are they whining and moaning about? Most kids will just sit down and eat their breakfast. And most of them will do so pretty quickly.


    I'd be going in later, not earlier. It's a communal area, you have to expect there to be people around.
    The kids are shoving each other to get to the table and the parents stand at the door wondering which of the tables they will sit at (hey genius, it's not difficult ... it must be the one in the window that's 3 tables together - and not the three "tables for 2".
  • jolfc
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    They're running riot in their rooms - and as it's a 'standard house' and they're on the top floor, the manager can't do anything about it ... and right now the manager's cooking breakfast.

    It's "just a house" to look at. More of a Seaside B&B than anything.

    And I don't like to complain .... I'm only here another week.... then it's onto the next one, which I've still to find/book.

    could be even more children staying in your next b and b, as summer holidays are now in full swing. :)
  • PasturesNew
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    mrcow wrote: »
    lol so it's two families with two small children each. And they've driven all the regulars to change their breakfast routines!

    How long have they been staying there for?
    It's serial families. Not the same family. Last week ... and now this week.
  • PasturesNew
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    jolfc wrote: »
    could be even more children staying in your next b and b, as summer holidays are now in full swing. :)
    It'd make more sense for them to have booked a holiday home.... more room, their privacy, cheaper for the total booking - and stuff for the kids to do and the beach nearby.
  • Lotus-eater
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    I suspect PN, knowing you, unless the children were victorian models of quietness and being seen and not heard, you would not be happy.

    So at that I'm going to leave it.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • gingin_2
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    It'd make more sense for them to have booked a holiday home.... more room, their privacy, cheaper for the total booking - and stuff for the kids to do and the beach nearby.


    I've found that hotels are quite often cheaper than self-catering. It's also nice as a Mum to be looked after once in a while and not have to make the breakfast, or the beds.
  • PasturesNew
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    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    I suspect PN, knowing you, unless the children were victorian models of quietness and being seen and not heard, you would not be happy.

    So at that I'm going to leave it.
    Correct. :)
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