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

[steps2change]

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.

[sunflowerblue]

(I was also a dome-believer til I read this thread). I definitely think the Truman Show must have been inspired by this.

[VivaLeBeaver]

The shops and restaurant aren't under the dome at Sherwood. The dome is Just over the pool. And I can't believe they've changed it since they built it in the 80s because nothing else about the place appears to have been upgraded since the 80s!

[CuddlesTC]

I remember a comedy programme (The Now Show possibly?) describing CP as "great for anyone who wants to spend a week in a greenhouse outside Nuneaton".

[NerfHerder]

Just asked DH, and he too thought it was under a dome. This is completely false advertising!

This thread has just put huge numbers of MNers off CP. I'd have thought we were their ideal target clientbase, too.

Does anyone know if the ones on mainland Europe are under domes? I thought there was a place in Germany that was like CP, but not CP IYSWIM.

[VivaLeBeaver]

Who dares me to email and ask for a partial refund due to false advertising?

[PetulaGordino]

I think cp is a Dutch company originally? I seem to remember family members going on a junior rugby tour to the Netherlands which involved a trip to cp there

I am pretty sure that nowhere in Europe is there a holiday park that is entirely under a bubble including forest

I do like the idea of writing to them for a refund "you promised me a british holiday the weather couldn't spoil. Well it did."

[MissDuke]

Hubby and I also thought it was under a dome, like Sandy's house in spongebob. We were glad in the end that it wasn't though as the dome gets mega hot!

[3monkeysmum]

I always thought it was too lol

[PhaedraIsMyName]

I asked husband and he said how on earth could it be; greatest feat of engineering, yadda , yadda.

[AntiDistinctlyMinty]

I remember being about eight and asking my dad if you could see cp from space because of the giant dome

[tara49]

I thought it was!

[NoodleOodle]

raises hand

I also thought it was all under a giant dome until a few years ago when a friend went there and told me it wasn't. The adverts definitely gave that impression, at least as understood by a child.

[KD1983]

I'm gutted that the dome thing isn't true :-( those adverts were obviously made by the very best marketing team!

[SARMITAGE4]

Never been and kinda glad now, would have been devastated!

[Sparklingbrook]

Not under a dome? not chav free? never been and I am not going now.

But you do have to go everywhere by bike-that's true isn't it?

[PetulaGordino]

your feet are fused to the pedals on arrival sparkling

[Sparklingbrook]

What if you can't ride a bike?

[PetulaGordino]

you get a bit bruised

[PetulaGordino]

you were clearly under the misapprehension that it was supposed to be some sort of holiday!

[Only1scoop]

You have to go In the bikeless dome dweller section with extra palm plants

[Sparklingbrook]

Sounds great. Is D&V compulsory or has my friend having it every visit just her?

[PetulaGordino]

wow she must be very lucky to have it every visit! they allocate it to every 1 in 50 families

[Sparklingbrook]

She probably books it up early.

[PetulaGordino]

i bet she's one of those who pays for priority boarding with easyjet too

[tabulahrasa]

"Do you all realise how absolutely enormous a dome over the whole resort would be? It would be the biggest building in the world. The structural engineering involved would be immense, let alone all the climate control required. "

No, because I was 9 when that advert came out...lol.

I thought it was under a dome until a few years ago as well, I wanted to go until I realised it was just a holiday park.