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People moaning about holiday prices in school holidays

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Vodkamartine · 04/04/2017 08:35

Say holiday to some hotel or centre parks cost 1,000 for them to make a profit. in the holidays they will fill the spaces easily on January week day they won't. so they put the price down it's just sale and demand why don't people get this. Everyone i know keeps moaning that holiday company's are mean and keep pricing them out.

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EnglishGirlApproximately · 04/04/2017 16:09

The price they charge will also come down to things like the cost of the take off slots at the airport- so if Manchester airport doesn't hike its prices until the English schools break up then the price will reflect that - also, number of check in staff needed etc. Tour operators pricing is very finely tuned, it makes sense when you know how a package price is put together.

wavinghello · 04/04/2017 16:27

Surely, you just cut your cloth accordingly.... For the last 8 yrs, we've chosen to take a week's holiday at the end of May during summer half term because we get more for our money. Southern Europe is definitely hot - I try to buy budget flights early so reasonably cheap and then book our accommodation which will be significantly cheaper than end of July/August prices. It's not crowded at the end of May/beginning of June. You can't really escape the crowds nor expense in the summer apart from maybe the last week of August/beginning of Sept.

TrollMummy · 04/04/2017 16:48

I have just looked at Centerparcs and a week for a family of 4 in August is just under £2k which is in the basic accommodation. I would honestly rather stay at home than pay that for a week in an overcrowded holiday park in Wiltshire. For the same money we can get to somewhere nice Europe with pool, beach and for 2 weeks. It is possible.

motheroftwoboys · 04/04/2017 17:19

I work in a private school and you can't take your children out of school during term time. Why would it be any different? Support staff like me don't get school holidays but we have to take our holidays out of term time. Catch 22.

Meekonsandwich · 04/04/2017 19:23

Meh.

Decide to have children, you decided to take on the responsibility and cost.

I don't hear dog owners winging that they have to board their pet which is usually more expensive in summer when they want to go away. They just accept its part of being an owner.

Paying more for holidays, having to lose out on money to take care of them when they're sick, its all part of the responsibility you take on.
Maybe I'll get more het up about it when I have children.

But until then I'll enjoy my off peak travels as a childless couple, after all
My life couldn't possibly be complete without a family, I'm not a proper woman until I've had a baby, I don't know true love until I've given birth, so I'll take my cheaper holiday as compensation for that then ;)

chilipepper20 · 13/04/2017 12:03

Decide to have children, you decided to take on the responsibility and cost.

there are natural costs, and then ridiculous costs brought on by the government.

This attitude, and the other attitude of "you know the rules" (that's the debate. Not what the rules are, but whether they are just and reasonable), are plain silly. It would apply if the government just levied a 1000/month tax for having a child.

lostatsea1 · 13/04/2017 12:15

The way holidays are priced has not changed - either uk or foreign holidays have always been much more expensive in peak times which are scools holidays.

As a child - I am now in my 50's - my parents could never have afforded to have a holiday abroad at all and not in the UK during holiday times. So we went in school term time like just about everyone else.

The same was true when my children - now in their 30's - we predominantly went camping to festivals and they had 2 or 3 days off school in a week several times a year. I have not done a systematic check but I think everyone I knew took their children on holiday in term times at least once.

Holiday companies have not changed it is school rules that have - we need to make sure the blame lies in the right place.

1bighappyfamily · 13/04/2017 12:18

It's not so much the money that bothers me as having to holiday when everyone else is- hate crowds!

Cactus I'm with you. We've had three years of lovely Eurocamp style holidays in late June/very early July. Fab weather, fab sites and the weather's been generally kind. Great value too.

Would I want to go to them in August for three times the price with the double the number of people there? I'd rather poke my eyes out.

Charley50 · 13/04/2017 12:28

Gamma - most ridiculous, ignorant comment ever.

Re: holidays. Just learning to swim confidently is educational and fun. I think the government needs to ease off the pressure and fines for taking kids out of school for a week. It's almost like they think that poorer people don't 'deserve' family holidays.

Charley50 · 13/04/2017 12:29

And I agree Id rather go when it's quieter and when airports aren't so mental.

astormgivenflesh · 13/04/2017 12:34

I always feel terrible thinking about the holidays my parents took me on when I was younger; Africa, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, European countries galore ... and I don't remember any of them really see lovely pics of my sister and I in all these far flung places but am literally blank! I wasn't even that young for most of them and a teen for lots but still, nothing! Only holiday I can remember was a three day trip to Disneyland Paris that I loved!

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