To have genuinely thought Center Parcs was enclosed in a giant bubble?

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I am at a stage in my life where Center Parcs may be just the thing. But I had this idea that it was all under a giant (and yes it would have to be bloody ginormous) bubble, a la Eden Project.

I do not mean "metaphorical bubble of getting away from it all".

Was there some kind of advertising at some point that gave me this idea? DP thinks I'm barmy.

Fav that is good news, we're going there tomorrow and the weather looks crap all week.

I went to the centre parcs in elveden before 2002 and it wasn't exclusively in a dome

There were cabins and cycling and outdoor activities too I'm sure

I used to think the same. I thought it was a clever idea to combat the unreliable British weather.

I went when I was little once and there was snow outside, it was fab because the Rapids went outside and it felt very decadent to be in a heated pool in the snow

Tbh, if someone says they are going to Centreparcs, my mum mind just flicks to the Mumsnet Centreparcs and bumsex thread....

I also used to think that it was all in a dome and as a result was desperate to go as a child!

Well, this is news to me, I really thought they were all under a dome!

You're all insane How would you breathe? And who wants to go on holiday inside a giant greenhouse? Surely you'd roast?

Well the pool and restaurants and stuff is under a dome at the one I went to.

Do some people think that the cabins are within the dome too? That would be one big-ass dome! Like the Simpsons movie!

I presumed it was in order to cope with the vagaries of the UK weather!

Oh Maybe roast was a bad choice of words. Thinking about it it does sound like a horrendous building design for fire containment purposes. Glad nobody was hurt.

I thought the same, until I went. Was very disappointed.

I now have an image of a huge dome covering an entire town like in the Stephen King book, and that did not have a happy ending!!

I thought everything was under the dome - trees and all. Like The Truman Show...

Yep, me too! That's why I never fancied it. I get claustrophobic being stuck inside!
It was only being on MN, and reading about the real Centre Parcs and the bumsex that put me straight.

Yep, I though EVERYTHING was under the dome, exactly like the Simpsons

Centre Parcs is a bubble and that's why I like it so much, however the only stuff in the actual real life bubble is the pool, some shops and some restaurants. It would be unbearable to have everything under a dome - claustrophobic and far too hot. The open air spaces are quite peaceful.

I went when I was little once and there was snow outside, it was fab because the Rapids went outside and it felt very decadent to be in a heated pool in the snow

We went one year in the winter and we were sitting in the outside jacuzzi, with snow falling and covering the pine trees. It was magical.

I went to the centre parcs in elveden before 2002 and it wasn't exclusively in a dome confused

What Petula said. No Centre Parcs has ever been totally built inside a giant bubble.

I thought it was under a dome too! But I'm from Scotland, so as a child that was the only way I could conceive of people being warm and happy in the great outdoors...

No, I thought it was in a giant bubble for years.

I thought it was partly under domes, like the Eden Project, and partly outdoors for example the wooded areas.

I thought it was all under a bubble too . . .until we were booking to go and realised it wasn't all under a dome like the Eden project after all. This thread has made me happy that we weren't the only ones who were confused by the adverts