Seriously? £86 for family entry?

[biggirlknickers]

This is for a visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park for 2 adults and 2 children.

I mean, who can afford £86 on tickets? That’s before you’ve factored in petrol, extortionate icecreams / coffees and no doubt a huge gift shop that you are forced to exit through with kids.

We are professionals on decent enough wages - we’re not rolling in it but we are doing ok. But that is truly beyond our reach for a single day out!

I’m thinking too of all the lower income families that I work with every day as a primary school teacher, for whom this couldn’t even be a consideration. Yorkshire children who don’t have a hope in hell of ever going to Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

AIBU to think that it’s really too much?

@claralara42

If you want to compare prices you have to give actual prices. And I don't think 35eur is expensive for a full day at a theme park, at all.

You're being needlessly pedantic

€3 is hardly a huge difference to pull someone up over FGS.

You're being needlessly pedantic€3 is hardly a huge difference to pull someone up over FGS.

I'm not,and its not 3 euro difference . We're talking about kids and adults, pp said the AVERAGE price worked out as 38 euro. But since adults are 35 and kids are 31, for 2 adults and 2 kids the average would be 33, not 38. Which for 4 is a difference of 20. Since pp was complaining the price was outrageous, wouldn't you agree 20 whole euro less makes a huge difference?

Yabu. It costs about £50 just to go to our local small farm park!

This is just what treat days out cost.

PerciphonePuma- that £699, pass covers lits of attractions though - is it the Merlin pass? Doesn't help if you only want to go to one of course, and would seem like an astronomical sum to mist families or even a single person. I can see how money would be recouped at expensive locations, even with daily visits for 2 week holiday.

My fat fingers are hitting the "I" 😂

If it is too expensive don't pay it. Yorkshire has plenty of beautiful countryside.

"On the matter of discount codes, I don't think they are widely available for this particular place"

Yeah they are. They're on kids pass for one which is currently free on jars of dolmio.

Same for Edinburgh zoo. We paid £50 to go in for 4 of us and aren't stupid enough to pay £20 for 2 drinks. Spent all day there. The poster who said she's seen more animals in her garden must live somewhere exotic with her pandas and penguins.

Of course YWP are not being unreasonable to charge £86 per family. They have upkeep of the park and its grounds, looking after the animals and paying their staff.
Good quality days out don't come cheap.

@HomerSimpsonsDonut

Of course YWP are not being unreasonable to charge £86 per family. They have upkeep of the park and its grounds, looking after the animals and paying their staff. Good quality days out don't come cheap.

I think the point for many is that they aren't 'quality' days. They're seriously overcrowded due to management not restricting numbers sensibly so people can actual enjoy zoos and theme parks, and the lines can be ridiculously long to see things/go on rides. Can't even begin to imagine paying silly money to go to a theme park and then spend most of the day standing in ridiculously long lines, so getting perhaps half a dozen rides in. Or trying to peer around huge crowds to see animals because the parks are over crowded (to make money at the door).

I checked and London Zoo off-peak would cost £99. That's in September.

So in comparison not that expensive, but I agree out of the reach of many. Such as those about to get £20 a week less universal credit.

YWP doesn't get so ridiculously or uncomfortably crowded. We don't do theme parks, partly because you spend so much time queueing, and partly because they just aren't my cup of tea.

@Bopahula

Surely it's all relative though.

I deliberately after my split purchased a smaller house (with smaller mortgage and bills) so I could leave a couple of hundred pounds fun money every month. Because that's what I wanted for me and my daughter. Other friends I have, have double and triple my mortgage but don't go out as often. That's what they wanted to do as well.

I don't then look at things out of my price range and complain it's not fair. I debate if I want to save a couple of months of fun money to do the more expensive thing. Or accept I won't do it.
There is no right to go to wildlife parks/Alton towers etc.

This ^

Yes, life is "unfair" in that we all have different incomes (separate debate altogether) but what we choose to do with that income is much more in our own hands.

Some people spend £££ on things I wouldn't dream of, and I, no doubt have paid out £££ over the years on things others wouldn't dream of 'wasting money' on.

We don't need to go into a competitive "I spend less than you on......" but you have to see the disbelief in some people at how little some of us spend on a weekly shop, or how much we give our dc for pocket money, or our students at university. I sit with my jaw on the floor sometimes on the S&B threads. then what people spend on cars.... You can go on and on. For some people an 'experience' or day out is more of a priority than others. Apparently there are some parents that voluntarily pay to take pre-schoolers to soft play

There is now a zip line at Bluewater. You zoom down from the top of the pit wall to somewhere near the lake.

It is, wait for it, FIFTY POUNDS PER PERSON

The zipline in North Wales is £90 pp
They still have people queuing up to go down it.

Coming back to thread as we have just spent the day at Hampton Court and really feel ripped off.
For me and DH - £25 each entry to the palace, this did not include the flower festival which was £28 extra each.
£16 to park for the day in a muddy field.
£25 in the cafe for 2 cups of tea, 2 toasted sandwiches, a packet of crisps and a muffin.
And the sodding maze was closed!

@Bichette

Should have taken public transport and a packed lunch 👍

Yes you are right, but DH spent so much time faffing about this morning we didn’t have time to buy picnic stuff (staying in B&B) and it was raining.

The i360 in Brighton is 25 minutes and costs just under £17 per person. It's all relative. These fantastic things cost an absolute fortune. Can you imagine the maintenance etc.

Cost an absolute fortune to run. Plus buying/renting the land.

It is expensive but seems to be the norm for a day out unfortunately

Riff raff? Right so if you can afford it you’re a polite upstanding member of the community that Yorkshire wildlife parks prides it’s self on attracting 😂 what a stupid thing to say. The upkeeps on these places is astronomical so I understand the charges. I’m riff raff though so can’t go any time soon.
Maybe they should lower the prices for a day so all the riff raff go in their droves . Yorkshire wild life park can capture them and then when the prices go back to normal middle class/ posh elite can pay to view the new exhibits 😂😂

@Helloandhelloagain Yorkshire is full of riff-raff tha knows, I'm surprised YWP let any of them in at all
P.S love the idea of capturing all the common folk and putting them on display for posh people 😂 that could be a horror movie surely?

Well there's a comprehensive school next to YWP... maybe a viewing gallery of our savage children?
(Please note...this is tongue in cheek. Its our catchment school and DDs will most likely go there)

@Aroundtheworldin80moves you don't need to justify yourself - all us Yorkshire folk breed nothing but savage children 😁

@HomerSimpsonsDonut it’s a horror movie I may watch 😂 or even be a part of as my dna is a mix of riff raff / middle claaaasss .
Do we think we’ve focused too much on the riff raff part 😂 if I can ever afford to go ywp I may cause absolute carnage . Just be a general yob and stain on society 😉

It's not fair - they are so expensive

The snobbery is cringeworthy.