Do most take dc to Lapland?

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Do most take dc to Lapland?

Lol, no.

Obviously not. Why?

No, it's ££££, in both of my DC's classes of around 30, I'd say at most, 3 or 4 from each class have been.

No - and as someone who used to be involved in organising Lapland trips, many of the kids taken were too young to properly enjoy it because it was so bloody cold

No. Unless you’re in very leafy parts of Surrey. Might be normal there based on the one relative I have in naice Surrey who did take his dc to Lapland.

As in North Pole Lapland? I'd imagine only a privelidged few would. Its obscenely expensive.

No. Nobody i know did it either.

No. Mine were satisfied with shopping centre FC, possibly because we aren't a household that goes crazy over FC.

No, most people don’t take their dc to Lapland.

That's like asking "don't most people ski?" errrrm no the vast majority of the population don't but if you live in a little bubble in the south east surrounded by wealthy-types then you might be forgiven for thinking it's the norm.

'Yes of course, I don't know anyone who hasn't been', says just about no-one ever.

No, most people wouldn’t spend £££ on a holiday that is bizarrely creating a huge lie for their children that they then have to keep going for years.
One of my friends took her boys and said that when they found out Santa wasn’t teal he was devo and was like “why did you take us all the way to Lapland to just sit on a random man’s lap???”

I know 0ne family that's been.

I know more children who have never been on a plane than have been to lapland.

I'm not sure I know anyone who has? And I know lots of very affluent people.
We're going this January, but with my teen son and NOT to see Father Christmas!

Lol no

Poor as a Church House, Me so Nope. .. No such treats for my DC when younger

I've just looked and it looks like it would cost around £2.5-3k for a day trip for a family of 4

Me and DS went last year and have booked to go again next year. The only other person I've met in my entire life that's been (aside from the people I met there, obviously) is one of DS's teachers.

So, no.

”why did you take us all the way to Lapland to just sit on a random man’s lap???”

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No it's obscenely expensive for what you get and pretty twee. Definitely for the insta generation to photograph and brag about rather than for the kids (see also most Christmas activities).

I didn't know many who took theirs, one family did paid for by a "wish" charity because the mother was terminally ill

Christ no, awful thing IMO.
Its meant to be MAGIC, the last thing i want to show them is something that takes from that. An extremely expensive load of bollox if you ask me.
Let Santa be in the imagination.

Most what?
most rich people? Maybe. Most people? Clearly not.

I have however been to North Pole alaska, that was fun (in summer) - Santa in shorts, t shirt, cap and shades! (Still big beard)

Of course not. What are there like 12 million children in the UK? Plus any other nationalities that might go. It would be impossible.

Also, many of us would rather take them elsewhere, even if we do have the cash! DD wants to go to Japan. Then Korea, NZ, a hundred other places.

No. Most definitely don't. It's very expensive.

We did though, and we are definitely not rich. We had had no holidays for a long time as we had moved house. We went for three or four days, which wasn't very much more expensive then than the cost of the day trips and we fitted so much more in.

It was very many years ago though. Our children were then 9, 6 and 2. They are all in their twenties now. I do remember that early morning flight from Stansted Airport to Ivalo in Finnish Lapland. It was surreal.