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Anyone taken the children to Lapland at Christmas?

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:17

Looking into this for next year - just a short break.

Did a quick google and priced it on Cosmos and it came out at around £4500 - that can't be right - surely you can do it a lot cheaper than that?!

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LIZS · 17/12/2006 21:19

igluski.com had them starting at around £800 for a family of 4 for a day trip a few weeks ago.

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:33

Thanks Lizs - wow, a lot for a day trip really and wanted a couple of days but it's majorly expensive!!

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Yorkiegirl · 17/12/2006 21:34

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:38

So we'd be looking at £2000 for a DAY?! Hmmmm.

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LIZS · 17/12/2006 21:41

have a look here

tooldtobedoingthis · 17/12/2006 21:45

went a couple of years ago it was a rip of, took dd and myself plane late in leaving so everything was late, suppose to have outdoor clothes supllied but they had run out, lunch ended up at 4.00pm (last time kids ate was on plane at 7.00) running so late that artic storytime was dropped, seemed to spend most of time on a coach. Waited 90 mins in the snow freezing to meet santa, cost £750.00 for the day would never do it again

Saturn74 · 17/12/2006 21:49

Phone Cosmos and haggle!
We did, and got four nights for about £2800 (for two adults and two children) a couple of years ago. That included three meals a day, flights, accomodation and all the activities.
It was fantastic!

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:50

Oh dear toldtobedoingthis - who did you go with (so I can avoid!).

HC - good idea - will do some more searching.

Lizs - they are coming up very expensive on that site - we need to go from Manchester which always seems more expensive to me.

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:51

HC - our youngest would be 3.4 - is that too young or OK for the activities do you think?

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Saturn74 · 17/12/2006 21:55

I think it would be fine, and more time to rest when you're there for a few days, obviously.
We stayed in an apartment, rather than the hotel, which was much quieter.
The age range was massive, from babes in arms to teenagers.
We flew from Manchester too.

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 21:56

ANd you rang up and haggled with Cosmos?

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tooldtobedoingthis · 17/12/2006 21:57

went with TRANSUN, from Bournemouth to Kitilla in Finland. The following year there was a big piece in the Telegraph about the amount of complaints they had got.
We went 2003

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 17/12/2006 22:00

ah, just looked at their website actually - will not go there again!

Sorry it was rubbish for you. I suppose it's a big risk with short breaks isn't it - delayed flights? We were delayed 24 hours on a week holiday to Majorca this year - that was bad enough.

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Saturn74 · 17/12/2006 22:00

They sent us an email with a discounted price, and DH phoned up, using the code they gave us, and managed to get it even cheaper.
This was in October time I think.

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