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School trip: is this a rip-off?

Voyager2002 · 2006-11-14 18:18:06

My son (13) came home from school all excited. After trying his best to be good for the evening, he gave me a letter about a forthcoming "residential". It is a trip to Spain, Barcelona in fact, which is odd because they do not learn Spanish in his year. In fact the trip is offered by the Design and Technology department,…

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cannyscot_2 Posts: 1,040 Forumite

15 November 2006 at 12:35AM

It's difficult to refuse these trips as I guess they feel peer pressure. I did refuse a skiing trip when mine was 10 as I felt it was too young to go abroad without parents. I paid £404 for 5 people to go to near barcelona in oct ,ryanair , carjet car and cheap accom from internet so i guess i'd probably not want to pay £330 for 4 nights plus I prefer something with more direction personally.

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