I will start by saying that I did it too. When neither my friends nor I had children, when the babies I knew best were the ads, when I was still carrying books or music to try to relax during a trip ... I have changed seats to avoid being close to children.
Therefore, although many people consider that this behavior is unworthy of human beings who were children, today I take it with humor when I see that other people undertake this small and more or less disguised "escape" when they feel close to my noisy family.
I understand them, and luckily the ship or the train are big enough to choose a place and everyone is more or less happy. In the end, it seems that families are grouped together, immunized to the "noise", although in high season few "single" can be with that idyllic tranquility and silence ...
If you go by plane the matter changes, maybe that's why you have reached the extreme of pleasing everyone and creating “child free” spaces on flights, in the manner of hotels that do not accept children. But those are other stories.
Provided that children are respected and understood (for example, that they are not unbelievable when they cry) or that parents ensure that children maintain behavior that does not disturb others, comprehensive living will be possible in common spaces, or so I want to believe.
I would not like that next year they would have made an exclusive room for families with children on the boat, or that I would encounter some difficulties for the reservation such as those that sometimes occur when trying to book accommodation. On the contrary, I have observed with pleasure that they have let us embark before (when the line was in full sun) or that on board there is a new children's entertainment program.
I like to live with people who have and who do not have children, and among those who do not have children, with those who are interested in mine and talk to them sympathetically along with those who change seats to seek some peace of mind.
Many of them, like me, will have the time to "transfer" books and music by diapers and pots. And they will keep having them people who change seats because they have their children nearby…
