Santa's Grotto What would you pay?

[MrsWhatToDo]

Feels like a million years away I know... But...
I have been asked to put together a christmas/grotto event for a local charity. The event would include:

Greeting and help with creating letter to santa
Land Train to the grotto
Entertainment while waiting turn
One on one with Santa (chat, giving him the letter, plus opportunity to take photo)
Small gift from Santa
Land Train back to car park

Total time would about 1 1/2 hours.
Each child brings an adult for free. The question is how much do people consider reasonable for this type of event? The land train costs a lot to hire!
For reference the event is in Essex/London border

I've been on similar. We were on a stream train there and back, about a 30/40 min journey each way. We paid about £12 per child. We have 3 children so £36 altogether. We are in a much cheaper part of the country so maybe £15 per child for where you are. Maybe people with only 1 or 2 kids would pay more per child.

It was a lovely way to take them to see Santa.

£6 for santa and £6 for the train is definitely reasonable

Thank you Rider and Galla

It's interesting to get an idea. The first price thought was about £10 but we'll only just cover costs with that. So won't raise anything for the charity. I was thinking of raising to £12-£15..
Hoping for some more feedback...

I think 15 is reasonable for all that.

Don't forget to sell bits like Christmas cookies, reindeer food, mulled wine etc. And make it clear on the ticket that these will be for sale.

ooh Glen. That's given me more ideas! Thank you

I would pay up to £15 for that. Sounds great.

I think you could charge £15 if parents have no charge.

See when I read it laid out like that £15 seems a really fair price, especially for charity.

However, sounding really cold, when it came down to it I'd likely find a cheaper Santa with less add ons if that makes sense as they just wouldn't be £15 (or £30 by the time they've both done it) worth of into it. But they are less into santa than some of their peers so it's all relative I guess!

I understand what you mean Hairspray.

The alternative would be to miss out the land train. That's the most expensive bit.. So then it could be cheaper. But without it there's nothing 'extra' special about the event... It's in a forest too, I forgot to mention.

The key thing for me would be how far in advance you can book. I'm less likely to splash out near Christmas as there's so much else to buy, but if I can book things in October or even earlier then it's not so bad.

Could you not make a walk through with bits and pieces for the children to find/look at instead of the train?
How good a present will it be?
I recon £12, maybe £15 if it included something else like making reindeer food, cookies etc

I'd happily pay £15 for that, it sounds lovely

This gives you an idea of comparable prices for this exact thing around here (Surrey)

www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/santa-train-rides-cruises-christmas-11879260

Going rate seems to be about 10-15 each, charging for parents too.