To think Center Parcs really isn’t middle class

[GodAgainstAll]

Just spent a few days there for the first time. It’s expensive and the people there seem to be v affluent in terms of clothes/cars, but middle class? I was surprised.

Pretty sure rich people can have tattoos too....

I agree, this is useful if you have young DC or even teen DC who want to take themselves off to the pool or want access to WiFi!

I haven't done wild camping with my Teens as I actually do want a holiday not an endurance test but I have done hugely overpriced glamping - way more expensive than CP, run by an ex-City banker named Biffy or something. It was my BIL's idea, we had two tents spread across one field and no one else to be seen. It was pitch black and you had to gather your own wood for everything, cooking, the hot water for a shower, lanterns everywhere that seemed a bit dangerous with the teenagers. In total 5 children ranging from 11 -16, the older three so 14,15,16 did not stop moaning about everything! I could not sleep as every night there was what seemed like a fairly large animal sniffing the canvas near where we were sleeping as the compost area had been set up near the tent.

Also useful if you have children that should read.

My BIL and family went home early, used work as a reason but actually I think they gave up.

I’ve never not enjoyed a break at CP. It’s a great way to get together with family of different ages, from different locations. The grandkids love the variety of activities, we went when they were tiny, now they’re teens. I don’t know why there’s so much dislike, perhaps it’s gone downmarket since we were there in 2022. I’m looking forward to a break with wider family later in the year.

I agree. That’s our experience too.

MN does have quite a vocal set of “I’m better and more upmarket than you” types. The MNers with the ‘inside’ info on Euro parks and ‘charming’ get-aways are some of the worst.

When the extended family has gone to CP together we include a GP, a surgeon, a barrister, a civil servant and a businessman. I doubt by any stretch that we’d count as common*. But every one of us and all the kids have loved it.

*unless MN been taken over by the landed gentry who’ve been to CP with their Norland nannies and butlers.