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In the “Japan does a better job at hotels” and “Japan does a better job at taking children seriously”, for ~$12 our hotel had a 20 minute cooking class for children where they got dressed up as patisserie chefs and, under the instruction of a staffer, made themselves dessert.
I’m mildly in awe of the classroom management skills that had one staffer shepherd six children from four families through the steps almost perfectly synchronized. And I have to give particular props for not touching food or utensils at any point. The kids did it all themselves.
I can’t imagine this is a particularly large revenue line for the hotel (six kids at two windows per weekend day) but appreciate that it’s part of a broader strategy of having things for children to enjoy on the vacation.
(It doesn’t hurt that “Your child in chef cosplay holding the colorful dessert they just made” practically begs to be posted on Instagram/etc, and the photo op was explicitly part of the lesson plan. “Some hotels pay for advertising. Our guests pay to advertise us AND LOVE IT.”)