Holiday prices outside the school terms

[green1]

I think school children should be given 20-25 days holiday per year, to take when is convenient to them... just like they'll do when they work full time.

There would be a hell of a lot of kids on holiday at exam time. Sorry I can't do my exams I'm away.

 

[green1]

I'd blame the old people creating demand. It's like the Post Office queue on a Saturday morning. These people have all week to go and buy their "5 first class, 6 second class, 2 European and could I have some of those little Par Avion stickers please?" but oh no, 10.30 Saturday morning, that's the best time to go.

I'd ban pensioners from shopping at weekends. They've had all bloody week! Some of us don't want to wait while they empty their Pandora's box of a hand bag to find their purse at the very bottom.

 

[Globalti]

Here here! No pensioners in the shops on Saturdays and a special window in post offices for all those annoying Ebayers with stacks of identical little packets wrapped in black plastic.

 

[screenman]

I think school children should be given 20-25 days holiday per year, to take when is convenient to them... just like they'll do when they work full time.

Unless they are a teacher.

 

[PK99]

I think school children should be given 20-25 days holiday per year, to take when is convenient to them... just like they'll do when they work full time.

in that case... teachers too?

 

[Roadrider48]

Given the UK's current position in education league tables I would suggest that more time in school rather than less is the way forward

A week or two holiday per year will make no difference to anyone's education!
The problems you mention are related to education as a whole.

 

[Roadrider48]

Isn't it just one of the things that comes with having a child? Like the first 6 months without sleep etc.

No!!

 

[screenman]

Isn't it just one of the things that comes with having a child? Like the first 6 months without sleep etc.

Yes!!

 

[MontyVeda]

in that case... teachers too?

of course! Either that or we all continue to get 12 weeks paid holiday throughout our working life.

 

[screenman]

of course! Either that or we all continue to get 12 weeks paid holiday throughout our working life.

If that was of interest to you why do you not go into teaching? must admit being in front of 30 teenagers each day even for only 40 weeks a year is not for me.

 

[400bhp]

Yes but if we can have a debate about holiday prices which is also purely supply and demand?

Well, is it?

Given that things like milk can, to some extent be price fixed by the large supermarkers, why not holidays?

It isn't a perfect market, there's a few big players and therefore an ologopolistic type market. There are some financial reasons why there might be price fixing going on.

So, perhaps it's not a bad thing to ask the question, albeit in a (IMO) a dysfunctional way.

 

[400bhp]

There's also a wider question perhaps here.

Are we a nation geared towards children/families or a nation geared towards self?

What I mean by that, is there a legitimate reason to have some cross subsidies towards families?

BTW I have a child in school and accept that holidays cost more. Holidays are a luxury and not a right in my opinion.

 

[TheDoctor]

IIRC (and I admit I can't remember the exact details) the reason for holiday companies going to the wall was to do with cash flow rather than profits (or lack of them). It was something to do with them having to pay the hotels and airlines before they had received the money from the punters (or something like that).

I've actually given up with package holidays as last year I found it cheaper and better to book direct with the hotel and airline and then put decent insurance in place just in case.

This.
A gazzilion times over, this.
Expedia, seat61, booking.com, TripAdvisor and you're sorted.
Last time I crunched the numbers was for a walking holiday. The people who booked through Exodus paid 15% more than we did. They flew on Easyjet.
We went first class on Eurostar and TGV and stayed a night in Paris at each end. And still saved money.

 

[screenman]

Be nice to get a teachers view on this, I know what my two boys who are teachers think.

 

[Tanis8472]

As the parent of a 14 y.o. I'm on the other side to most of the poster on here and I think it stinks. Why the hell should we pay three times the standard rate for our holidays just because we don't want to take our child out of school? Irrational I know but damned annoying, all the same.

What's a standard price for a holiday?
Also, surely it's your (not you personally, but every parent) choice to have kids.
Have kids and live with or dont and live with it