[HN Gopher] High-end California hotel begins banning children
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High-end California hotel begins banning children
Author : bookofjoe
Score : 19 points
Date : 2025-03-05 19:21 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.sfgate.com)
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| "...any hotel that bans minors in California violates California
| Civil Code 51 -- also known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which
| provides blanket legal protections against discrimination in
| California businesses."
|
| Of course California technically bans adult-only public
| accommodation.
|
| Wonder if the solution is malicious compliance or conversion into
| a non-public venue, _e.g._ "invitation only" or whatnot.
| Ancalagon wrote:
| Not that I agree with this but couldn't the easier way to do
| this be to just serve alcohol everywhere?
| lotsoweiners wrote:
| Sounds good to me whether my kids are there or not.
| JumpCrisscross wrote:
| I was thinking clothing optional. But yours is a better idea.
| jhbadger wrote:
| I don't think that would work. Sure some places ban minors
| from places _just_ serving alcohol, but restaurants that
| serve alcohol alongside food are generally open to everyone
| (even if they don 't serve alcohol to minors).
| Yeul wrote:
| Child free resorts are being advertised here in the Netherlands.
| I think it's a great idea. Many people go on holiday to de-
| stress.
|
| Personally I plan my vacation time in off season September and
| October but that's not an option for everyone.
| Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
| > Many people go on holiday to de-stress.
|
| A friend of mine that has kids said that once you have kids,
| there's no such thing as going on vacation. You're just being a
| parent somewhere else.[0]
|
| I personally am skipping the side-quest of parenthood, but have
| certainly seen his claim play out. My wife and I were at
| Universal Studio Hollywood, and some couple had a baby in a
| carriage that wouldn't stop crying, and I just couldn't help
| but think...imagine spending hundreds or even thousands of
| dollars to go on vacation, and you still gotta deal with a
| screaming baby.
|
| I couldn't deal with that.
|
| [0] For anyone saying "Just let the grandparents/some other
| family take them for the week", this isn't an option for
| everyone for various reasons. In my friend's case, it's because
| he lives in London, but his parents live in the USA, and his
| in-laws live in Malaysia.
| lo_zamoyski wrote:
| The fact that you characterize parenthood as a "side-quest"
| confirms that you probably _shouldn 't_ become a parent.
| K0balt wrote:
| Yeah.
|
| If you're not looking forward to it being the main event,
| you probably should just skip it all together and save
| yourself the disappointment.
|
| Parenting is extremely undervalued in modern society.
| bcrosby95 wrote:
| If you have kids, you need a vacation from vacations. Even
| well behaved kids require a _lot_ of extra logistics on the
| part of the parents. It 's _significantly_ more work than
| just staying at home.
|
| I remember our first trip - I had two carseats strapped to my
| back, rolling 1 large bag, and had and 3 other bags I was
| carrying. The lines, the airplane ride, .... Then you get to
| your destination, have to make sure they don't do anything
| stupid while waiting 30-60 minutes for luggage, have to get
| the (larger) car, have to get all the carseats in properly,
| etc.
|
| Figuring out food for everyone. Entertaining everyone. The
| extra bathroom breaks. Etc.
|
| One of my favorite is actually to just go camping. There's
| not a ton of extra work involved. You have a home base. You
| have entertainment. There's food but you pack it and its set
| in stone rather than having to figure out food on the fly.
| brongondwana wrote:
| Just stayed at a couple of places in Portugal which were "adults
| only" and it was fine. Also stayed at places which were
| explicitly child friendly and designed with facilities for
| children. Seems perfectly reasonable so long as there are a mix
| of places in an area available for different needs.
|
| (I guess a hotel which had children allowed and non-children
| allowed sections far enough apart that you could have a child-
| free area would be a possible workaround; in the same way that
| not EVERY room needs to be handicap-friendly even if you need a
| certain number which are)
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I recently stayed at a group of resorts like this. The left-
| hand side was geared towards families with young children; the
| middle side was geared towards vacationing families; the right-
| hand side seemed geared to singles there to engage in drunken
| debauchery, like me.
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