AIBU to feel annoyed about discounted attractions for benefit claimants?

[Sheldonsheher]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15721199/Benefit-claiming-families-UK-attractions-working-Brits.html

I know I’ll get slated as the origin is the daily fail but, but this kind of annoys me too! I mean as a single parent I don’t want to pay £60 to go to the zoo either.

Oh, that is a great image. It really does do that.

Do you also object to discounts for OAPs?

Exactly this. There are so many children who otherwise will never see these places. It's not taking money out of anyone else's pocket (if they stopped doing it, everyone else wouldn't pay less).

Wtf where are you getting ice cream from

from outdoor venues and attractions the icecreams at the zoo are £6

also no I have not lost my reasoning faculties I’m not a right wing reform voter. You can’t say anything without being shouted down. You are not allowed to have your own rational opinion. Probably by people that are benefiting from the status quo.

Then surely the thread you meant to start is AIBU to think zoos are too expensive?

Yes, but just because it's being going a long time largely under the radar it doesn't mean that it's right or has public support. I imagine you would try and apply the same logic to for example questioning Prince Andrew's behaviour or sewage being dumped into our seas? Just because something has been happening for a long time going largely unchallenged doesn't mean that we shouldn't debate and question it now.

I get the argument that children shouldn't suffer from their parents' lifestyle choices. But as a business owner, I don't think it's good business sense to have different pricing tiers. The people who pay most are going to be the ones put out - and losing their business ultimately means the biggest money loss.

We never went to zoos, theme parks, museums, restaurants or even the cinema as kids. Its sad really all kids should get these life experiences

I mean it’s been trending on twitter

It was a comment on your discussion where a poster has gone on to a thread, read it, and then commented that we shouldn't be discussing it. Ricky Gervais compared this phenomenon on social media in his stand up, to an advert for guitar lessons where people respond aggressively that they don't want Guitar lessons instead of just ignoring an finding something they are interested in.

I like him. I think he's funny.

Yes, but that argument works with any socioeconomic group and arguably would be better for the attraction if they targeted people with more disposable income.

What are you questioning though? Cheaper access to attractions for those struggling financially? It's a non issue, it doesn't cost you more to enter because they are being offered a cheaper rate. In the same way my bus journey doesn't cost more because an OAP is getting it for free.

I didn't get to go to these places either but my parents weren't on benefits. Not many working families who aren't on benefits can go to these places a lot. They are prohibitively expensive.

But all businesses do it blc, senior discounts, student discounts, large group discounts, family discounts. Its always been a thing and nobody cared until reform decided to comment. So do you think its only uc discount that should be got rid of what about the other discounts

Well presumably these businesses are currently successful and viable and so know what they're doing in offering discounted rates.

It does though. If a discount is provided to some, general admission is higher to subsidise the discount.

In short, these cheap tickets are an act of charity, by a charity because they have to. If they didn’t perform acts of charity, they wouldn’t keep their charitable status.

You are jealous because you believe that you should get free charity too. You aspire to be so disadvantaged that you qualify for charity. You begrudge young children a day out.

I don't know if my parents where on benefits or not I just know we where poor. And that my mum had multiple jobs

Do you honestly believe if they cut all discounts that prices would come down. Or do you think they would just make more profit

On the one hand, I don't think it's "fair", no but on the other, I like the fact that these children have access to culture that their parents could not afford to give them otherwise. That's the bigger picture and I like that. Personally, I would make places like the Tower of London/ historic royal palaces free or heavily discounted for domestic visitors and charge more for tourists from abroad. Plenty of other countries do this, it isn't unheard of.

Universal credit is an in work benefit so

"working people get a discounted entry into an attraction"

Doesn't quite have such a headline grab does it?

You lot need to get your act together. You're posting the same rage bait threads too closely together in your efforts to whip up resentment towards people on benefits. 1/10.

DS is entitled to the HAF holiday activities as he has autism. Would rather he didn’t have his challenges than a few free activities. As it is, he won’t even go to them.

I grew up in poverty. I didn’t even see the sea until I went to Uni! Holidays were miserable as I wasn’t at school - that’s what these offers are for. Poverty line that still exists. My friend teaches primary at a school local to us. They took Year 5 to Weston for the day. None of them had even felt beach sand before.

Only if they are at capacity and have to limit ticket sales, the big zoo near me hasn't been sold out all Easter so I doubt this is the case.

They are just letting people go to the zoo who wouldn't go otherwise, so it's not a lost sale and won't impact prices.

These families might buy chips/ice cream and increase their profits slightly.