The standard of lost cost holidays is appalling but there’s very limited options

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I know term time holidays will always be expensive for what they are, but I feel people on a budget are hit worst than ever as the squeezed middle classes are now “downgrading” their holidays to cheaper options, thus helping the price creep up. And of course everything is more expensive, food, staff wages.

I can’t tell you how many people wearing crew clothing and having children called Rafferty I’ve seen at Butlin’s this week! Unless you are in the premium lodges then you are literally staying in a dirty out of date shacks to get a break away somewhere, despite both of us being full time workers.

That is term time though, not holidays.

Well those who have children in private school can save money on holidays as they break up earlier.

But they’ll be moaning again when their newly state educated kids have their school hols at the expensive time.

John fowler is the best!!!!

Nah, if I take mine out of private school I’ll have an extra £32k a year for holidays 😁.

This won't be a real price but something they have priced high to prevent people booking it for whatever reason

Butlins low cost! We looked at 4 nights in summer holidays in the 'nicer' accomodation in Bognor and Minehead, was £1400 with no food!

Touché 🤣

Not sure how a thread about holidays has become another thread bashing private schools 🥱😴

@TheBottomsOfMyTrousersAreRolled
True. Bad example. They often have school holidays ones as well. They advertised one last week for teachers.

They advertised one a couple of weeks ago for June (I know not school holidays) to Kafalonia, for 2 weeks, flights transfers etc for £269 pp. I thought that was great.

Yes. This is the issue. The entire point of the thread is how much more expensive holidays are in school holiday time rather than term time. Even when it is an equally attractive time to travel. Even when the school holiday time is a terrible time to go to a particular destination, it is still more expensive.

Wow, DC has two little friends called Raffy and all this time I assumed it was short for Raphael!

It was actually women fighting. They were escorted out by security. Not-toddler DD was agog.

Oh well, you certainly created a picture in my mind!
Glad you found the place clean and had a good week anyway.