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Are centreparcs joking?

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1dilemma · 10/01/2008 01:15

OK I need to go to bed
The flyer at the top of the page caught my eye.
Oh yes I thought a long weekend in centreparcs that will be nice lets go in Feb it will be cheap then.
Umm 2,000 pounds

Well 1,900 and something for 3 nights in feb in England it even told me to hurry there were only 9 left.

There will still be 9 left by the morning I think.

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Divastrop · 16/01/2008 16:47

fimbo-your husband is right.

well,my xp worked at the one in the lake district before it officially became centreparcs.most of the staff there had been poached from butlins,the entertainment was exactly the same as at butlins,the swimming pool was crapper than the one at butlins...basically its butlins for the middle classes.

wheresthehamster · 16/01/2008 16:51

But that was owned by Butlins wasn't it? When it was Oasis. Their attempt to break into the CP market. They obviously couldn't make a go of it so sold to CP

mumemma · 16/01/2008 16:54

Sorry but it is like Butlins, when I went to the pool at Elveden, I thought I was at Butlins - the tattoo count was very high.

LIZS · 16/01/2008 16:54

I looked at a midweek break for February half term a few weeks back, came in anything from £800 upwards.

bundle · 16/01/2008 16:54

lol @ tattoo count

mumemma · 16/01/2008 16:55

I also felt slim for the first time in ages

Fimbo · 16/01/2008 16:56

My other problem with it, is because I live so close to Elveden, half my village take week-end breaks. So my fear is going and it would just be like going on holiday with the neighbours.

My dh can't get his head around it at all, and thinks no matter how its dressed up, it is as Diva says Butlins for the middle classes.

Anyhoo we have booked hereinstead.

Fimbo · 16/01/2008 16:59

This link should work

ZippiBabes · 16/01/2008 17:01

why would you go on holiday to somewhere next to where you live?

Ellbell · 16/01/2008 17:03

Dh works shifts, tiredemma, so in December he's usually trying to ingratiate himself with his colleagues by working weekends so he can get a few days off over Christmas [complicated emoticon].

Fimbo · 16/01/2008 17:04

Because I have a school age child and to get the best deals out of school term time. I am from Scotland and want to see the most of where I am living now.

Also it means dd doesn't miss school, pick her up on a Friday and she takes her uniform with her and is back at school on the Monday morning.

May seem madness to others but works for us.

ZippiBabes · 16/01/2008 17:08

why can't you just get day tickets then?

Fimbo · 16/01/2008 17:10

Didn't know they did them. Oh well learn something new every day. Where do you get them from, are they on their website?

ZippiBabes · 16/01/2008 17:12

maybe they don't I think they used to..but i did just look and i couldn';t see them..maybe it was the other people who did

bobsmum · 16/01/2008 17:14

We've been a couple of times while the dcs were preschool, but now we're stuck with school holidays we won't be going back - it's a rip off at those prices.

Havgin said that, it' only dawned on me te second time that we were travelling from our log cabin in the woods, with lochside view, pheasants, squirrels and deer in the garden, to a log cabin in the woods, with a lakeside view, pheasants, squirrels and deer in the garden.

But we went mainly to be walking distance from an Indian restaurant

bobsmum · 16/01/2008 17:14

I think you can get day tickets for friends and family so they c an come and visit you while you're on holiday. Sounds a bit like prison visiting!

Dottydot · 23/01/2008 20:43

Well we're going in the Whit break for £125 per person and I can't wait..! And yes, we're big city folk who will be v. excited to watch squirrels and go on woodland walks and all that

mamamea · 27/01/2008 21:53

We've been to Longleat cp, and got the impression the high prices were intended to keep the Butlins sort away. Everyone seemed frightfully middle class.

It was nice, but having got there and paid £730 for a 2-bed (nice chalet) for 3 nights, pretty much everything was extra, and by extra I mean extra expensive. £730 btw I think is pretty extortionate, especially next to European prices.

Think £6 for a game of mini-golf, £8 to participate in the easter egg hunt.

And everything had been planned out by most attendees with military precision in terms of activities, so you couldn't just walk up and play badminton, nope, you had to book for Monday at 11am. Come back Monday of course, and it was fully booked.

I liked the low chav quotient, but did think they needed more walk-up and go activities (I think when we went, Easter weekend, is one of the busiest of the year, but it seems Centerparcs is almost always 100% booked, at least when we want to go).

I have heard that the ex-Oasis one in Cumbria is to be avoided, as it's nothing like the other, and not a proper centerparcs.

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