I wouldn’t have a problem with this if it weren’t for the annoyingly large fraction of parents who let their ill mannered spawn run free and let them do whatever they want.
Right? That’s kind of why they exist.
It’s not everyone’s thing to be sure, but I started going to a nudist resort largely because of this. I really just wanted a place to go hang out that has a pool that’s not overrun with kids.
It is technically a family resort, not too many people actually show up with kids, but there’s occasionally a few, and while I don’t particularly want to see naked kids (or honestly most of the adults either, nudists are rarely the kinds of people you’d want to see naked,) the parents are obviously keeping an eye on their kids there and keep them under control.
…or they tell other non-parent adults what they can do or say around their children.
I absolutely agree that certain language and behavior shouldn’t be around young children, but then that means there must be child-free places allowed for adults to do these things with other adults.
No idea what French parents/children are like but across the pond I’ve had many a good time ruined by children acting way out of line and parents doing nothing at all. I wish there were more explicitly child free attractions here for that reason
Can they not have policies and kick unruly customers out?
We absolutely, positively, one hundred percent need adult only spaces as well. Especially when the goal is to relax.
A lot of parents simply aren’t doing proper parenting. As a child, I was taught not to be a nuisance to others. And those others would also correct said behaviour in kids. But these days? Kids apparently have the right to be as annoying as they can be, and god forbid you tell them to knock it off… the parent actually gets offended!
So parents are really doing this to themselves. And that’s not even mentioning the fact that we have a TON of actual child friendly vacation options. Let the adults have a proper place as well.
And if child free vacationing being on the rise bothers you? Maybe look at your parenting style.
I’m for a ban on children and little yapping dogs
And big yapping dogs.
I am a parent. I have no problem with “adult-only” spaces. I don’t bring my kid to a lot of places where it is not appropriate. There are plenty of child-friendly places activities for kids. Yeah, it sucks that I have to make arrangements ahead of time if want to go to an adult-only space, but that’s what you do as a responsible parent.
It is only an issue if parents face discrimination for something that actually matters, like access to housing, food, and medical care or career opportunities.
This is basically just the sanitized internet conflict again, only it’s the parents wanting to force adult-only spaces to disappear instead of advertisers. What’s next, banning gay and lesbian bars for not catering to straight people?
Calm down Karen it’s ok to have different choices.
make it a porn hotel then
Swingers Hotel, the logo is a jazz trio and a wink 😉
Even parents want a break from kids.
A notable exception to equal opportunity law in the US us that you are allowed to discriminate against an individual on the basis of their age, as long as it’s not old age.
Split it up so there’s a family-friendly section and an adults-only section. Adults-only section can have the bar (adults in family-friendly section can still order a drink, it just has to be brought over). Family-friendly section has a play place. Each side has a pool.
As a parent, that’s actually genius.
Just describing something some restaurants do already, and applying it to a hotel <_< >_>
When I was small my parents just didn’t bring me to hotels that weren’t explicitly for families. Those normal boring grown-up hotels just weren’t for us until we were old enough, so we went to the fun hotels with playgrounds. Why can’t we go back to that?
And people wouldn’t be so annoyed by children if the parents didn’t insist that they should be allowed to run around and do whatever they want. It’s not just “let me go everywhere with my kids”, it’s “let me bring my kids and then let them yell and smash things and cry as much as they want because they are kids.” There’s a nice café in my city where I don’t go anymore, because it’s full of mothers with their toddlers from the nearby playground who just continue playing as loudly as ever. Last time I went I ended up with sand in my coffee when some kid waved around his toy car that was full of sand from the playground. The mother refused to buy me a new coffee because “he’s just a kid”. A beach bar by the river actual changed their policy and now refuses entry to children under 12, because it had become too expensive for them to keep replacing food and drinks every time a kid threw the sand around. And of course the parents usually refused to pay for what their kids destroyed.
If parents can’t be trusted to make good decisions like “My 4-year-old who can’t sit still for more than a minute should not be brought to a spa where people come to relax.” or at the very least feel responsible for what they destroy, this is what happens. And if too many parents refuse to pay up when their kid destroys something, owners will prefer to ban kids.
People who say they don’t like children are being hated on, but 99% of the time they just don’t like children who are allowed to do whatever they want whereever they are and parents who take zero responsibility under the guise of it’s just a child.
Some adult people with sensory related disabilities that get overstimulated by noise and business are going to have a bad time vacationing in France soon. Guess they’ll just need to go somewhere else.
Just generally ban 'em bloody children and that’s it. Who needs them anyway - except bigots in patriarchist male-female relations and fucking libtards who think they have the right to flood the nation with their godless spawn?
An excellent example of Poe’s law right here. Bravo.
