To ask teachers if you just accept the inflated holiday prices?

There is not a choice here. Teacher either go on holiday and pay the high prices or they don't. I can't afford to higher prices so haven't been away for 8 years. Not even in the UK as prices are just as high here.

Yes teachers accept high prices and hot weather in August. The only comment DH made when I said I wanted to leave teaching was ‘good. Now we don’t have to go away in school holidays’. Not only do teachers have to pay higher prices but they can’t take days off when the washing machine needs repairing. those so called long holidays come at a price.

I do get it that teaching is a hard job. Couldn't do it myself and you must have the patience of saints. Teachers seem to think they are the only people who work hard. Try managing 12 weeks of school holidays with five or six 10/ 11 hour days a week and only six weeks annual leave. I can't go on holidays out if term time either.....and have to pay for childcare... please stop whinging.

Prices are not "Inflated" in school holidays. They are priced correctly.
The number of people who are logistically able to take holidays out of school holiday times is a lot lower. Holiday providers whose properties stand empty at such times will make a loss.because they still have fixed costs to cover. They therefore deeply discount those holidays to attract the people who are able to holiday then.
Moaning about full priced holidays in standard school holiday time is like moaning that you had to pay full non-sale prices for yoir christmas shopping when you bought stuff on 20th December and yet the same items are now half price on 28th December and you think you ought to have been allowed to buy them at half price on the 20th. It's so obvious that life doesn't work that way. Why would any seller put a sale discount on a popular item at a popular time to buy it? You put discounts onto the things that are more difficult to sell or if you are selling them at a time when they aren't at the peak of their annual popularity cycle.

Ayr?
You mean (Glasgow) Prestwick?

It's not only teachers who have this issue.

But still it can be years and years as parents. We had our first in 1997 and the last in 2013.

Btw my husband is a teacher.

When we lived in Germany the school dates were changed so we managed to get cheap ferry prices by booking quickly. Once the ferry company caught on to the change they amended the prices to put our dates in the high rate and expected those who'd already booked to pay the extra! They were unsuccessful.

Asking a civil question is hardly whining, maybe civility is lost on you!
Maybe we allow teachers time off in term time for a cheap holiday, like all other parents can for a small fine, and then we'll see who's whining.

They don't have the option of paying a small fine to save a lot of money though.
In workplaces where parents expect to be prioritised when holiday weeks are allocated, being married to a teacher but having no children isn't taken into consideration.

But most families don't have children in school for 40 years.

Most parents are not stuck with school holidays once their children are at uni or have left home.

For most families it is a set number of years not an ongoing situation.

Why just teachers?!

Teachers? All parents face this!

I'm not saying inflated holiday prices isn't a problem , but I think if you are looking at Christmas, that is whole other ball game with regards to one week being expensive and the next not so much, also Easter might be the same, unless I've misunderstood the dates you mean.

@LoveBluey

As others have said it's the same for all working parents

But it's not the same - when I was teaching pre-children I still had school holidays as the only time I could go away. Presumably once your children are older you can go back to holidays outside of school holidays. I'm not complaining btw as I'm really grateful to get the time off.

Never paid high prices for a holiday. Ever!

In Ireland you have to be granted it within 6 weeks of the date you requested .

Given I no longer have kids in school, I see the prices as vastly cut in term time. Great discounts to be had. Just as pre-kids, I never went in the holidays, only when the offers were on in term time.

If I totted up how much we spend each year on childcare for school holidays it would more than cover the difference between a term time and school holiday, holiday. Also now DS is at school we can't take him on holiday in term time , fines now increasing plus threat of prosecution if you do it more then once in a three year period, so we pay the premium (or don't go away) AND pay for school holiday childcare.

Oh fully in the suck it up category!

Pre my son, we did a mix of abroad and camping. Now it’s mainly camping but have saved for Center Parcs in October. Currently saving for Lapland next year.

I’ve always been a teacher so it’s just part of the job. I think I’m lucky really! I get to do a job I absolutely love and get all the holidays with my son!

I tend to go away at Easter to save money.
Some part time staff I know will swap days with their job share to go away during the term.

I think they should spread the cost of holidays more evenly throughout the year, or at least spread the costs more evenly throughout May-September.

All my friends who are not Teachers take their children out of school to have such lovely holidays, and they’re always saying that they just could not afford to do so if they had to go away during the school holidays. I always tell them, we have no choice in my family as we are Teachers and this is why we haven’t been able to afford a holiday for 2 years.

I don't understand why you think it's 'inflated' Surely that's standard full price in the school holidays, and off peak is the discount rate?

You can take 4 weeks parental leave per year per child, up to age 18, but it is unpaid.