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Has anyone run into these situations before.  
On a recent trip to Bismarck, we had our grand kids.  
We stayed at a place with water slide , pool, hot tub etc.  
Any way it states in your room, at the pool entrance that all children must be supervised by a adult.  
Anyway, in the middle of the afternoon, a group of 5 children all under the age of 12 i would say showed up, unsupervised.  
Running around, rushing up the water slide stairs past others, running through the wading pool, being very unrespectful.  
Anyway, they spotted the lift chair for handicap persons at the hot tub.  
Well they thought, this is great fun.  
One would sit in it, and two others would swing it around trying to dump the other one into the hot tub.  
Eventually they tore the bolts out of the cement.  
ruining it for someone who needed it.  
Meantime, the parents, sitting in their pool side room at the end of the pool, oblivious to all this because i think they figure they don''t have to parent anymore.  
My daughter complained to the front desk just after this circus started, and they didn''t send security or anything.  
This is the second insistent like this we have encountered.  
The other at a different hotel.  
I wonder how do parents feel about this.  
Do you leave your kids unsupervised at hotels.  
If you have a pool side room , do you stay in the room and never check what your children are doing.  
Is this what you do at home.  
 
Edited by sprinter, 2016-05-10 19:40:35

Aside from complaining to the front desk, did you say anything to these disruptive kids?  
 
While I am in a hotel pool area, I say something. Too often these unruly beasts aren't aware of the danger to themselves and others. If their parents are offended that I parented their kids? Too bad. They weren't doing the job so someone had to.

A friend of mine works at a hotel in Brandon. Due to government legislation, last summer they decided they could not longer do birthday parties due to liability. Parents are not watching their kids on the waterslide and too many kids in the pool, etc.  
 
Pools are going to wrist bands with only the amount signed into the room as paying guests receiving the wristband. Too bad it has come to that.  
 
Parents who want their kid to have a "pool" birthday party better think about their own financial liabilities if they are going to sneak a pool party into a hotel that no longer allows pool parties due to no lifeguard on duty. These parents aren't paying attention and when a kid gets injured? They are on the financial hook.  
 
Edited by CheapTrickz, 2016-05-11 19:59:04

I dared give one of the little darlings on one of our local hotel slides crap for their consistent rule breakage, he toddled of to his mother and they both laughed at me, while her kids continued to behave like animals. Most parents can't take their eyes off their damned phones long enough to give a s*^$.  
 
Edited by Mommydearest, 2016-05-11 21:00:27