Quote Originally Posted by Kycha View Post
Unfortunately, I have worse luck on airplanes with kids. On an 8 hour overnight flight to Ireland, there was an infant(seated 2 rows ahead of me) that cried the entire flight.
Oh my gosh, this happened to me on every leg of my flights to and from Hawaii this summer. I felt sorry for the infant but especially coming back I was at the end of a very long, stressful business trip and really needed to sleep or at least have some quiet. There isn't an easy answer in that case as they didn't have the option to take the kid out, but restaurants are a different story.

I would never take my kids to V&A even at 8 and 10, and am glad to know if DH and I sprung for a special meal there that there wouldn't be other children there who didn't behave properly.

We do eat out frequently and our kids behave well in restaurants, but Disney is a different story. Kids are tired, parents are tired, everyone is cranky, and my kids bicker more than usual. In fact we had an ADR at California Grill and I thought better of it and canceled remembering that the trip is for them, too, and decided to eat someplace more child-friendly that night. No point ruining someone else's expensive dinner.