EU Price discrimination Center Parcs

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Looking at booking a holiday to Center Parcs in Belgium

The price for the holiday on Centerparcs.com is €699 (everything is in English, I selected visitors from the Uk')

If I price the same holiday on Center Parcs.be the price is €519 as there is a 'last minute discount' it's all in French but I understand enough to be able to book)

Great, I will book.

As soon as I start booking and register that I am in the UK, even though I am still in he .be website and everything is in French, the discount is removed!!!

AIBU to think this is totally against the law and is effectively price discrimination?

Same holiday, same accommodation but as soon as I indicate anywhere I am in the UK, the price rockets, seemingly just for being Brutish?

Can the Scottish government be done for discrimination against English students where they have to pay more thanEU students including NI?

Sorry - I thought you had indicate the increased price was in £Stg.

It might be outrageous that they can do this but just wait until 2019 and 2020 when this will be the norm and you'll also have to pay for a visa to visit the country too...

I can't think why that wouldn't be illegal under EU law. Interesting!

If you ring to ask, then if your French isn't up to it, press for Dutch. More Dutch speakers speak English than the Francophones here.

Lac d'Ailette is great for pre teens, not so sure about older kids.

When all's said and done EU center parcs are way cheaper than UK ones.

This is geoblocking and the EU is currently debating a law to prevent it from happening. Obviously with Brexit we probably won’t benefit from that law so the problem will continue for us and be resolved for the rest of Europe.

i did this with featherdown farms a few years ago. I booked it on the french site (un lit au pré) and i saved quite a bit taps nose

I just did a comparison on the disneyland paris site, french and UK sites, for the exact same package it is £500 more to book via the UK site. Outrageous. I had noticed the center parcs differences before, and is why we have never gone to a UK CP, absolute rip off.

@BlooperReel I know, it's not always the case with DLP it does depend on offers at the time, however, if you continued to book that holiday through the French site, it would allow you to put in your own postal address in the UK and the holiday wouldn't shoot up by €500 during the booking process. Which it was the CP site does

Is it because us Brits are pretty stupid and will pay the outrageous prices?

We are financially comfortable but still couldn't afford UK Centre Parks - well, we can afford the cheaper tatty accommodation but not the cleaner more superior apartments.

im assuming now that the papers will see this thread and theyll make sure this trick doesnt work anymore

If people in the UK stop going there, they will have to adjust their prices eventually.
I wouldn't be able to book it now, knowing they were utterly taking the piss.

I'd try using a vpn if I were you.

Download and run protonvpn and set it to Belgium.

@IWannaSeeHowItEnds - If people in the UK stop going there, they will have to adjust their prices eventually.
How is that exactly? Does everyone from the UK have to stop or just a few?
There will be plenty of other people from plenty of other countries that will pick up the availability that will be made if and when people from the UK stop going there.

Maybe, maybe not. If a company stops getting customers from a particular group of people and they want to retain that business, they will presumably look at what they need to do in order to keep it. But yes, it would take most of the UK customer base to a)be aware of the extra charges and b) to withdraw their custom.
Personally, I would book elsewhere as it would piss me off to pay more than someone booking from Belgium for the exact same product.

Sorted it! Re-registered with a different email snd it gave the discount. Don't know if it was a system glitch or what but the discount applied this time

It's not discrimination if English people are welcome to use the foreign websites.

Lots of places have different prices on different sites

Glad it has not stopped working. I always book Euro CP through the French site. It saves a lot.