to think £30 is an awful lot to pay for a 7 year olds dance class?

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am I just mean or is this the going rate?

If it's for a term YABU if it's for an hour YANBU. If you want anykind of reasonable reply, we might need a few more details

how many sessions?

For one hour. £140 a month actually. It isn't a one -to one like music lessons.

For how long?

It's all down to what you can afford and what you'll pay though really.

I'd balk at a fiver an hour, others would think that cheap for an hour.

DD is doing a three day John Muir Award next week. It's costing me £15 and the price of hiking boots which my friend is getting me off E-Bay for £5 max.

If I had more, and DD wanted it, then I'd perhaps spend more.

what sort of dance?

crikey that sounds fearfully expensive, a term's ballet (45 min class weekly) at our leisure centre is £120....

Madness. If you live in somewhere like Kennsington then it's mad but to be expected I suppose - if you live anywhere else in the world it's both mad and completely unreasonable. If it were me I'd have to find dd a cheaper hobby.

£30 for one class .

Yanbu - I pay less than £4 a week for a half hour lesson.

How old is your dc? Is it somewhere prestigious like the Royal Ballet??

£30 a class

i would expect 1/2 a term for that lol

per class?

yes, that's too much.

That's ridiculous! I pay £36 an hour for a private lesson for myself (aged 29) with a top teacher (she's an examiner and has trained numerous national champions).

My ds does 4 sessions a week, half an hour each, back to back.

dance gymnastics
tap
street dance
musical theatre

Its costs £50 per month.

No that is ridiculous. To give you some perspective - I pay £70 a month for my daughter's gymnastics glasses, but she trains for 6 hours a week.

Ballet, I pay £9 a week for three half hour lessons (ballet, tap, modern). She is 6 and grade 1.

I pay £120 a term. You seem to charged way over the odds. Where is your daughters class? Is it one to one with Darcy Bussell?

Sounds like a total rip off, is there anything else in your area, for that price I would expect one on one tutorial.

My niece lives in Crawley and is a chubby 7-year old, so it's not White Lodge. at one to one with Darcy Bussell.
I'm glad a lot of people say it's way too much.

Thats a crazy amount. The very posh ballet DD used to do (Finchley ballet school) was £95 a term (they had pianist as well) so £10 per lesson (45 mins) for a group of around 14 girls.

I think £30 a lesson would be ok for a one to one with very experienced teacher for 45 mins or maybe if it was just 2 children for an hour perhaps but even then thats a lot(and thats me thinking about London prices).

Wow thats good MNWL, I grew up in Edgeware and know the area a bit, would not mind paying £10 per lesson if my dd really wanted to do ballet.

we pay £36 a term for 30 minutes ballet/ 15 minutes tap in one lesson. but we are in yorkshire, class just outside birmingham that dd1 went to was £3.50 a lesson for 45 minutes

That is crazy. As an adult I pay £5 an hour for my regular classes and £30 for 4 hour advanced workshops with a "master" teacher (in a class of 12). The most I have ever paid for non-private for an hour was £40 with an internationally renowned dancer/teacher who had flown over for a weekend event!

in SW London I pay £52/term for DD2's ballet. half hour lesson 1x week. About 10 lessons/term I think.
tbh i thought it was quite a lot considering the class has about 20 girls in.

and the ballet teacher has an assistant
and a pianist.

maybe IABU!

DD1's dansicality class 45 minutes after school is just £32/term, but is in the school hall so i guess costs are lower.

Well DD is paying £21 an hour for driving lessons which obviously includes petrol, insurance, wear and tear on the instructor's car etc. A dance teacher's overheads must be much lower than that, I would have thought.

So £30 for an hours dancing lesson, not even one-to-one, sounds absolutely crazy to me!!

We pay just over £80 a term for weekly 40 minutes ballet classes for my 5YO. I think 7YOs are charged about a tenner more per term. This is SW London.
Your charges sound ridiculous!