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A rare opportunity to dine in peace

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After much hard searching I've found a childfree restaurant fairly close to me. The The Waterfront Public House , Barton Marina, Burton upon Trent makes this statement on its website: NO children under five years-of-age are allowed inside The Waterfront premises Children over five years-of-age are welcome until 7pm. Children over fourteen may dine with an adult after 7pm. A recent review on TripAdvisor says: At last an evironment NOT full of parents with noisy children Thank God for the watershed time restriction on children in this beautiful venue. You can sit and eat without the constant screaming of uncontrolled children all around. AND the food is top drawer as are the friendly and cooperatively knowledgeable staff. I will be paying a visit very soon to sample the atmosphere and food.
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Wy have Warner Leisure dropped explicit 'childfree' messages in their ads?

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The 2017 TV advert for Warner hotels has quite an explicit 'childfree' message.  The current ad takes all of that out. They seem to now be relying on a sideways reference to the fact ("we're all grown up")  The Warner Leisure website has no proper mention of the childfree policy as far as I can see, not even in their Ts & Cs. Other than the cryptic tagline: "we're all grown up" printed quite discreetly near the top. I must admit that the earlier ad does turn me off a little. It does sound like too many TV ads; an attempt at humour that isn't quite working. As a 'grown up' myself the second ad does work better for me, despite the fact that it does not speak the name of the thing that I'm most keen to discover. Maybe that's the reason. A decision to focus on the positive. But I'm concerned that they may have been forced to remove the reference to families because they crossed some line, maybe a legal one, maybe
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I'm Shea and as I grow older I'm becoming grumpier about the noise around me. When I moved to my current home and town fifteen years ago it was a small, friendly town and my location fairly idyllic. The town has spread, I'm no longer sitting between town and fields but surrounded by development. As air traffic has increased, I've become aware of the flights to and from the nearest airport which are frequent, low and overhead. There can sometimes be groups of small children kicking balls around or riding bikes and scooters. There seem to be more young chaps with very noisy cars and motorbikes who seem to enjoy nothing more than repeatedly announcing their presence to the neighbourhood. When I go out to eat, it feels like a lucky evening if there are no hen parties or children running rampant or just being noisy. I bought a home cinema after a particularly bad screening involving people munching,  walking past to visit the loo, generally commenting or vocalising.
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