Fascinating little thing

[unicornduke]

One of the things we do are group outings and often people book them for birthday parties. There are a ton of people who assume parents will be free which isn't the case because when the parents come along, they are still using our hayrides, often picking pumpkins, going through the corn maze, sitting around our campfires and so on.

It's actually kinda wild how many people assume that parents are free. Why would they be? This isn't a kid's birthday place specifically, we actually have adults book birthday parties here and they pay for everyone. I've had a couple of people ask if they could do it anyway but we just have no way to tell who is doing what. We do the honor system for the corn maze, but to do it for the whole outing is a bit of an ask.

Anyway. Brought to you by emails. Many emails.

~business~~~~

Comments

[ranunculus]

Maybe a note in the checkout function reminding people not to forget to get tickets for the adults in the party as well as the kids?

[unicornduke]

We do the birthday booking manually, so I've been emailing back and forth with people and mention it and three or four people already have gone, "oh wow, why do we pay for parents too" and then never gotten back to me. We probably need to emphasize it somewhere in our information though. We do everything per person for the group outings because it affects what wagons we use and what sites we put them in, plus the cider and cooking sticks, so it's a big deal to add more people. But it's also only 8.50 a person, so like, eh

[reedrover]

Why would parents be free? I liked one business rule I saw that was “if you are old enough to use the toilet, you pay.”

[unicornduke]

I don't know why they think parents would be free! I wonder if places that specialize in kids birthdays only charge for kids? But like, that's not us, sooo they gotta pay.