Tell me what you think.
3 DC: 8,7, & 6. None of 'em can swim.
Phoned the lady who does private lessons at our local health / leisure club. She says it's £202 for a block of 10 private lessons, and that you can put however many children you have in at once. So I pay up, and all my 3 have a half hour lesson together every week.
At the end of 10 weeks, I pay £202 again.
Today was the end of the block. I went to pay at reception. The receptionist asked how many DC I had, and (being a truthful type) I told her I had 3.
She says I have to pay £517 because I have more than 1 child in there at once.
Their rationale is that they've decided that private lessons = 1 instructor:1 child.
My rationale is that
a) they can't put the price up by 156% without any prior warning whatsoever and expect me to be fine with it.
b) the DC aren't going to get anything different for this than they have got in the last 20 weeks.
c) my children are in fact having less attention 1:1 than in a private lesson
d) the swimming instructor tells me that she doesn't get paid any more for having 3 of them, and they won't get any more pool time.
The bottom line is that I won't be paying for a block at £517 because I plain can't afford it.
I do know that I've been getting a good deal for a private lesson for 3 DC at £20.20 a pop, but it does seem a crazy increase from £202 to £517. That's over £100 an hour, which is more than I pay my solicitor.
AIBU?