Center Parcs Costs?

I don't know if this helps but we just booked centerparcs in holland for a week in august.paid around £360 ..where as centerparcs at Sherwood forest was over £1,000 for an economy villa for 4 of us...I know the centerparcs website for europe gives prices for bikes and activitys...have a look at https://www.centerparcs.com and look at the ones in the netherlands..I don't know if this helps but may give you some idea...I think you go to activities and then arrangements..It's in euros but might give you some idea of prices....It's more affordable to go to Holland then UK...I would'nt pay over £1,000 for 2 adults and 2 children to go to sherwood forest for a week and then pay for all the activitys..

The thing with Centre Parcs is that it is execellent if you have a young family, that is to say, if you just want to go to the swim park, then that is included. But.....if you have teenagers that need to be entertained then forget it, it will cost you an absolute fortune. The eating places years ago used to be good and fairly priced, now like everything else just a ripoff. We enjoyed our stays there, but our kids were young and swimming was all they wanted, but we used to look at the price of the different activities and we used to say the we could never have afforded many of the activities, just too expensive.



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I have just come back from sherwood forest and have a booklet that could help to post all the cost of extras would tale an age
Adult Mountain Bike £9 day £16.50 weekend £17.50 midweek £24.50 week
American Pool for an hour £5.30 Table Tennis 30mins £3.70 Ten Pin Bowling £18.90 an hour for a lane Crazy Golf 9 holes £3.30 adult £2.20 Child Sailing £9.80 an hour Spa Session 3 hours £30 just some of the things we did. Went to Huckleberries (american style diner) 4 adults 4 children aged 9 - 13 cost £124 whcih included free refills of soft drinks for children 4 pints bottle house red

hope this helps

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I have a nine yo and a 7yo and they still get plenty of fun with the free activities so this was the first time ever that we paid extra for anything. We went in half-term to Longleat and they both went to archery and flu-flu golf (I'm not making that up!) which is a nice little game of archery through hoops in the woods.(About £18.00 total for two activities each for 2 kids) We also did 'fun' ping pong on the smaller tables for £1.00 per go. These tables were never booked up whilst the large professional ping pong tables were. We also did outdoor bowls in the snow which was a highlight of the holiday for sheer silliness.(£4.50ish)

We nearly always cook in our lodge as my dh and I really enjoy the chat whilst we chop and the food tastes much better. We had one meal in the Grand Cafe which was lush and one burger type lunch at the American place which was blah and expensive.

We take our own long lasting logs for the fire (1/3rd of the price) and a case of wine. We all ahve a happy, happy time.

You get the brochure to pre-book activities a few weeks before and you can get the kids to make their choices then. Mine got one activity on me and used pocket/holiday money to buy the ping pong.....I am very tight. We take our own bikes but I'm not going to bother with mine next time as I've susses out which lodge is cheapest and close to the pool.

We go back at the start of July. We live right by the seaside so this is a real break for us.