No nursery visit until taking a place?
tldr; 2 school nursery's, one won't let us visit until we take a place
Just want to get a sense check on this.
Child is 3 and currently with a child minder, from September he's going to go to a local school nursury. We are bang in the middle of two.
Nursury a) attached to a school which seems to flip between 'needs improvement' and 'good' (currently on 'good'). Undersubscribed so no problem getting a place but the nursury seemed nice enough on a visit. Good chance it's where he'll end up at primary school as there are loads of spaces. Would require picking up and taking to childminder - I work from home and it's 15 mins so no big deal.
Nursury b) attached to a school with 'excellent' rating, childminder does collections from here so wrap around care sorted. We're just outside the catchment area for the primary school part. But we've been lucky and got a place at the nursury, the problem is they won't let us do a visit only a 'stay and play' later in the year once we have accepted and given 30 hour code etc.
Keen to get some views as to whether this is normal or red flag etc and any general thoughts from people who have been through it!