There should be child free and with children. Let the owners decide. If they go child free, it could go either way - sold out or empty depending on location and marketing.
I did ClubMed for years with the kids disappearing for chunks of the day to fun club things and spending quality time with us.
Now I would prefer the peace of adult only.
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I like hearing kids playing and having fun. Once they are not running around restos or jumping up and down on me I’m cool. However I don’t child free places should be banned.
I like the idea of child free resorts, mainly so you can chill in the evenings without too much screaming. Even better these days would be Russian free resorts (India and Maldives )
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I would like childless 1st class TGV wagons / cars. Never spent any time in a resort so have no option.
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Ditto Thailand and Vietnam. We have never been around more dour and unresponsive people. They never say hello or respond when you do, never return a smile and never mix with non Russians. It’s like you are invisible when you are around them.
I would like TGV wagons that were reserved for people who didn’t want to screech or cackle, make loud phone calls, and play very noisy games. Of any age. And preferably no tour groups, especially Americans ones. (Sorry US people, but en masse your fellow Americans can be very loud, and totally unaware that other people exist even when they are squishing them with their oversized bodies)
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We experienced American tour groups earlier this year whilst in Scotland. All older people and worse than any group of children, so tour group free, gets my vote 
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Do they still have ‘quiet’ coaches where you can’t use a phone? I got some French people told off for doing that years ago.
In general they all are now with lots of notices only to use your phone in the lobbies between wagons, but not enforced.
Keeps the rule makers employed though.
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You would love both the bullet trains and Tokyo underground. No handphones in sight and super quiet 
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Same in our circle of friends.
I think it’s a natural consequence of not having kids and it’s self-perpetuating.
My friends who had children tended to mostly drop out of the ‘social scene’ of pubs, clubs, concerts, football matches etc in their mid 20s and I had no desire to join in with their family trips to do kid-friendly stuff. (not that they would ask) We child-free types from various overlapping friendship circles coalesced naturally to form another circle.
Personally, I am all in favour of having the option of avoiding children and don’t want some law formulated by ‘breeders’ forcing me to ‘integrate’ .
Ah, now it sounds like I’m childist…almost like racist. 
That could get decidedly creepy depending on one’s age and sex … that’s all.
I mean that I wouldn’t choose a resort which had huge, noisy “attractions” for kids/families to enjoy… (no matter if it had been my favourite place as a kid 
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Nowadays I prefer a certain amount of calm… but not calm enough to be boring 
Amen to that.
On my last trip on Eurostar (London-Poitiers) I was surrounded by some very, VERY loud Americans who had the vaguest ideas of what was going on. They were on a European tour and had done Ireland, Scotland and England in the preceding 4 days.
After leaving St Pancras (I’ll include the autospell suggestion of Saint Pancakes as I really like it) the train entered a short tunnel under the Thames. After 30 seconds of darkness we emerged into Kent, accompanied by shrieks of delight: ‘Look, honey, We’re in FRANCE! It’s so different - so sophisticated!!!’
Once we were actually in France they kept remarking on how many fields of sunflowers there were - I was tempted to tell them that they were actually rape fields but managed to stop myself as god alone knows how they would have reacted.
When they started going on about how France would now be German had the good’ol’boyz of the US military not ‘bailed 'em out’ I found the guard and requested a new seat. She was very happy to help …
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The word you want is ‘canola’ - it’s what rapeseed is called in north America. 
But they do sound like a bunch that should never have had passports.
Indeed. But I wasn’t going to let that load of loudmouths off lightly.
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Hahaha, 
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Travelling over to Normandy by train for first time I was seriously questioning our decision to move there as I was surrounded by Americans heading to the D-Day beaches. No doubt some were thoughtful people on personal journeys, but if so they were overshadowed by arrogant trumpists.
I swapped my seat with one so I could move to the end row in the carriage and try to remain calm alongside an alarmed looking young French man.
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I’d love a week in a child free resort, where do I sign up and who wants my kid for a week?
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