Hoooow much?!

bestpud

It could be worse!

Some, believe it or not, actually charge for days when they are closed!!

If you search, there has been threads on here about it! And I always argue that is out of order!

But I do think it is fair to charge for days when you are on holiday. Some give a discount for the second week, if you take two, but they have to cover their costs, as said.

At dd's nursery, they would let the extra place go to parents who wanted a one off day/extra day, so more often than not received double the money. It backfired though, because parents were cheesed off with it and some didn't bother informing them when their child would not be in.

They'd have been better off giving a percentage off for the absent child, but only if they could fill the place imo.

bigred23

We pay £28.60 a day (9 hours) for our dd. Very good value seeing it got a very good offstead in the area and had a large waiting list. Our DD goes two days a week and loves it. We also have to pay when we go on holiday as they still have to cover there costs. They don't charge if they are closed.

Only have to give them a three weeks notice about holidays but if i rang up tomorrow saying we going on holiday next week they wouldn't mind as we are paying them. I believe if the kids go four or five days a week they don't have to pay the full amount while there on holiday.

Our friends are paying almost £45 a day. But they only have to pay half price when they go on holiday.

We have found the prices can very so much in the area.

carolan78

We have to pay regardless, no point taking holidays in school hols as suggested because you still pay. It does grate on me but I understand why they have to do it. We don't pay for the time they are closed over Christmas though but we do still have to pay for bank holidays which I think is a little out of order because they are closed so we do not have the option of using them. When you sit and work out what they have coming in from one class each month they should be able to cover the staff pay for bank hols very easily.

matimage

Cor, £16 seems about the going rate round these parts (hampshire) for dog. He's a lab btw. Anyone recommend a kennels cheaper than that in my area I am all ears!

As for the other comments, I am not a complete thicko and understand staff costs etc but it would be nice to have some flex like a couple have mentioned here.

galvanizersbaby

matimage wrote: »

Cor, £16 seems about the going rate round these parts (hampshire) for dog. He's a lab btw. Anyone recommend a kennels cheaper than that in my area I am all ears!

As for the other comments, I am not a complete thicko and understand staff costs etc but it would be nice to have some flex like a couple have mentioned here.

My children were both in a private nursery up until school age and it was the same for us.
Our nursery did not charge for the days they were closed (xmas and bank hols) but that was factored in to the overall per day price.

They were not flexible in any way with swapping of days etc...but I felt for my children the benefits of this particular nursery outweighed the flexibility factor.

I think if you are after greater flexibility with childcare you would probably be better of using of the services of a childminder.

~BamNaggy~

matimage wrote: »

Cor, £16 seems about the going rate round these parts (hampshire) for dog. He's a lab btw. Anyone recommend a kennels cheaper than that in my area I am all ears!

As for the other comments, I am not a complete thicko and understand staff costs etc but it would be nice to have some flex like a couple have mentioned here.

:eek: £16 per dog is a bit much. We have three labs and when they go into kennels it costs us £25 a day. As you can imagine...a two week holiday is a bit of an expensive luxury regarding the mutts.

Bennifred

:doh:Have you tried asking at the kennels if they take small children? Problem solved! :whistle:

tori.k

up to last year i had to pay £9 a day for 3/4 of an hour, no wonder the nursery was called happy days....

onlyroz

My daughter's nursery is closed for four weeks a year and we don't pay for those weeks - but the bills are spread evenly over the whole year so we pay the same each month. And yes I do expect to still pay when she is not in nursery, because they've still got to pay the staff regardless of whether she's there or not...

RoxieW

oh yes we even had to pay for Christmas day grrrrrrrrrrrr:mad: