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state school ski-ing trip too expensive?

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swanthingafteranother · 14/06/2012 10:07

It's £1,500. To go for a week at Easter to America. They always go there, facilities and snow very reliable etc.

Now I think for beginner ski-ing it is in some ways a bargain, because a family ski-ing trip for five is obviously going to be so much more, and anyway my Dh hates ski-ing so we would never go in the first place..

But surely they could have chosen somewhere in Europe which was slightly less expensive, say at Feb half term or even Xmas/New Year?

Anyone else's experiences?

I want to send ds because I can afford it and because he is hopeless at sport and really wants to be better and really really wants to go and has never been and never will go skiing with us, but why is it such an outrageous price so as to discrimate against most of his classmates?

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blonde83 · 14/06/2012 10:26

wow!!!
i am going to add 'waaay cheaper than the school' to the list of selling points for the trip that i am helping to organise! we do a week in the bavarian alps with the cadets for £600 all in. I guess we can only manage that because we have our own instructors though!....

ZZZenAgain · 14/06/2012 10:25

for flights to America, accom., instruction, etc it is a reasonable price I suppose but I agree with you that for a school trip it is an unnecessarily expensive option that will put a lot of families on the spot.

elastamum · 14/06/2012 10:21

Way too expensive. Thats more than twice the cost of my kids schools trip to Austriaover easter which includes everything. IMO it has probably been put on because the teachers, who get a free place, (Which you are paying for BTW) want to go to the US.

redskyatnight · 14/06/2012 10:20

Obviously depends on the intake of your school, but I would imagine even a cut price budget ski trip would be beyond the ability to pay for a good number of children?

maples · 14/06/2012 10:20

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Pootles2010 · 14/06/2012 10:18

I must say I think these sort of school trips are disgusting. Can you imagine how awful the children who can't go will feel?

pimmsgalore · 14/06/2012 10:16

thats actually about the same price as a school ski trip to Europe so I think it is actually quite reasonable. The snow will be much more reliable as well and the instructors are usually pretty good in the US with no language barrier