To think if you pay £70 for passes you shouldn't have to pay extras ?

[Rachel778]

Went to a Holiday Site and paid the above for passes for 5 of us (2 adults , 2 children , would have been 3 adults but somebody had to pull out) , ,Passes are for entry to swimming pool, amusements, club house and dining areas . . Fair Do;s. However on top of that if the kids want to do archery , target shooting, aqua diving etc its extras . Considering we only ate out on site once , and went to one bar one night for karaoke and kids used them to get in the swimming pool Im a bit miffed about it . .

Lol at glue

A bit late now, but you should always check what is and isn't included in the price you pay. Sometimes it's just not so much of a bargain when you add in the extras. If they didn't make it clear, maybe you should name and shame so mnetters can make a big fuss.

if I'd paid £128 to get in, I'd let any toddler in my charge climb as slowly and as often as they wanted....
sounds hell (we paid less than that for an annual Historic Royal Palaces pass - no extras, even for the school holiday activities)

The sun hoildays always say which of the places you have to pay for the passes used to go with the ex and we always choose the free passes my dp and just book from the hoilday camp website

DP, DD(aged six) and I got a day ticket to Butlins this summer, just for the life experience - cost us £50 for all of us.

Hardly anything was included in terms of fun park rides or activities. We had use of the massive water park, but they wouldn't let us in till late afternoon as it was "full." And we couldn't see any of the shows as we had to leave at 6pm. Do I didn't reckon much to that life experience tbh.

Yabu you should always check these things out rather than complaining later.
I dont think it was really expensive, and I'm not loaded.,
This site isn't a nest of vipers just people being honest.
You came here and seems rather than wanting opinions you wanted to be agreed with.
Think its bit hypocritical to say that vmittens is uncouth, bad mom, foul etc after the things you said about her.

Omg warwick castle is so fucking expensive!!!i thought this when i went a decade ago just with my partner!!

The staff member who did, not done.

In a nutshell: you bought passes for something without finding out what they covered, and then think this is unfair. Your fault, try reading the info first.

I am really surprised at the price of Warwick castle. Is it really impressive for that price? That is a hell of a lot for a day trip.

If anyone is ever in the north Devon vicinity I can recommend Watermouth castle. It's not a real real castle (built in the 1800s as a folly) but it is RIDICULOUSLY funny. It has dungeons full of strange waxworks, somewhere called gnome land, little rides which you would ONLY get in North Devon theme parks, a camera obscura and a waterfall show. It is relatively inexpensive and it's great fun. And if you get sick of it you cross the road and go to the beach, a very pretty little cove.

Now I want to go home to Devon and go on a tour of all the ropy albeit marvellous attractions.

Warwick Castle is like a theme park version of a castle, very little history but hot dogs and candy floss galore. And it was packed. I went with work, so thank fuck it wasn't my own money!

Chepstow castle is lovely. Proper castle with arrow slits and everything. Only cost a ewe quid to get in.

Few quid. I didn't have to rustle any sheep to get in.

YABU, those activities are usually run by an outside company. If it was Butlins it may well have been PGL running them, JCA I think do one of the other holiday companies (I think).

They tend to in-house qualify their staff to do various activities. They're likely not GNAS qualified either, usually things like archery, climbing, abseiling, etc are basic in-house qualifications. The only thing they'd be qualified for realistically is rifle shooting and watersports. They will likely have a 4 hour first aid too. My ex did Butlins with PGL and I worked on one of their camps. a few years ago.

Lol at ewe quid! Welsh currency typo perfection.

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Oh for fuck sake

If anyone is ever in the north Devon vicinity I can recommend Watermouth castle

Oh yes we went there on a Saturday in August - it was closed

If passes included archery etc etc they would be way more expensive. It would be fair to expect a family with two toddlers for another family with teens to do activities such as archery I think.

I would fully expect to pay additional for things like that I have to be honest.

Ewe quid!

Haha at shut on Saturday. Yes that's the strange thing about North Devon theme parks, a lot of them are shut on Saturdays because of the old tradition that Saturday was changeover day.

Quaint.

I went to Warwick Castle once on a work jolly. We did the the tour of all the waxworks shite in the dungeon, then sat down to dinner surrounded by all these suits of armour. Half way through my apertif, 2 of them leapt to life and started having a sword fight. I nearly shit myself.

Shat, I suppose that should be actually. I don't often feel the need to conjugate that particular verb....

Warwick do a special Princess in the tower thing.

Don't do it.

They purposefully lock the doors at the top whilst the Princess is talking. This is to stop yourself hurling merrily off the tower rather than endure just one second more.

Or you can watch the trebuchet. This involves 45 minutes of incomprehensible droning about something you can hear properly due to feed back. An hour and a half to load to bloody thing. A further 45 minutes to do a safety check then 11.5 seconds of brief excitement when it groaningly lobs a rock 10 feet across a field.

If that doesn't appeal you can queue for 45 minutes for something they call a hot dog. One man did. He got a tinned rats penis in a bun made of wood shavings. He was sad and poor as a result.