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To be shocked by the cost of this?

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squashedsandwich · 25/07/2024 12:21

It’s £20.95 per adult to walk around our Christmas light trail this year. Tickets have just been released. It does look fantastic, but it’s only a mile long.

It’s £15.95 for a 3-15 year old, and free for under 2s.

They’re doing family tickets, 2 adults and 2 kids for £60.

I think it’s sad that at some point soon these activities are reserved for only those who can afford them. Maybe that has always been the case and I have been living under a rock but as someone who is pregnant with their first, I can’t see how families aren’t bankrupt over the school holidays and festive periods just simply from doing these kinds of activities! As with anything, the more DC you have the more it bumps the price up. I know you can intersperse them with free things to do, but I’m sure lots of families at Christmas will feel compelled to pay over the odds just to make it a nice and magical time.

We will likely go. It will be nice for baby’s first Christmas. £40 for us and an under 2 would be affordable right now but I can imagine when you have two in primary the cost must get crazy.

AIBU thinking these companies are taking the mick?

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Shoxfordian · 25/07/2024 12:25

Most activities are reserved for people who can afford them, that's how it is so yabu

squashedsandwich · 25/07/2024 12:24

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 25/07/2024 12:23

I think it’s sad that at some point soon these activities are reserved for only those who can afford them.

That's how businesses work. What else do you think should be free? Or rather free for you, as somebody would have to pay.

I never said free. More reasonable though, absolutely! Something like that you could have as many people paying as possible with no upper maximum capacity. Make it a tenner for an adult, a fiver for a child.

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jgjgjgjgjg · 25/07/2024 12:23

£60 for a family to walk around and look at some lights?? Absolutely no way I'd be doing that.

MeowCatPleaseMeowBack · 25/07/2024 12:23

I think it’s sad that at some point soon these activities are reserved for only those who can afford them.

That's how businesses work. What else do you think should be free? Or rather free for you, as somebody would have to pay.

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