Cost / Number of school trips

missbiggles1

mum2one wrote: »

Jam on benefits - but as there. It local authority run I don't get a penny towards them, the outsold bound is a rip off, luckily she did the place with her primary school - she doesn't want to go again.

Think she's opting for London, with a push and a shove - clever budgeting can do the trip, feel quilty not being able to offer her the choice of the others

When we had the meeting for the France trip they said they don't have the cheapest firm, guess when your adding 5 adults for the trip - soon adds the child's ticket up x

Accompanying adults normally get free places when booking a package - the children/parents don't cover their costs directly. Staff/student ratios are regulated as well.

missbiggles1

mum2one wrote: »

I'm sorry I had laugh, the thought of paying that much and having to dig out the toilet..... at that price I'd want 5 star luxury...

Just reminded of something DD did....

We went to the Dom Rep for my 40th (she was 8 1/2 then), upgraded to premier on plane, nice hotel, later that year we went to Tunisia as were getting onto the plane, the crew were directing us to the seats, they'd said go down and xx rows.... DD pipes up, wheres the 1st class, I only fly first class).... it was so funny.

Now - Its hair straightners, make-up, lush bath bomb (bath is a luxury - we have a wetroom), phone, tablet... how we ever managed without the internet I would never go.


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To add she is over the moon about London, I'm pleased for her, not because its the cheapest, but I think she would get more out of it xx

You must have had an irony bypass when you posted this.;)

Jagraf

OP - £1500 for a ski trip :eek: I thought my DD was expensive at £850 but she's now paying half herself.

Sometimes paying for a child to go with school can be cheaper fr a family as you don't all have to go abroad. You can have family time in UK and then just adults can go somewhere (which is what we will do this year). That way everyone gets a holiday. (Depending on age and the number of kids you have obviously).

Personally I'm glad we're through year 8/9 with girls. Didn't like that stage at all :eek::o

Homeownertobe

missbiggles1 wrote: »

You must have had an irony bypass when you posted this.;)

I had a feeling the OP had posted about school trips before and I was right.

Back in June she posted about sending her daughter on a school trip to France. Obviously this single mum on benefits (though strangely then claims she has a contributing partner) can quite easily to afford to pay for these trips.

Shocking, isn't it?

Jagraf

CathA wrote: »

I remember when one of my twins came home with a letter about a school trip to Spain. If I remember it was about £700 for 5 days!! (This was about 9/10 years ago?
They were going camping, hiking, mountain climbing, sleeping in a tent, bivouacking, digging their own toilet trench-for that money, really? Her older sister was going on a German work exchange trip (she was doing A level German) and her twin sister was going on holiday to Greece with her best friend's family, which they were paying for. Her argument was that they were going overseas on holiday, only fair that she went to Spain.
A 14 year old, obsessed with make-up, hair straighteners, internet (think it was MSN messenger then, rather than Facebook!) who hated getting dirty and showered every day, thinks going halfway up a Spanish mountain and shi**ing in the woods is going to be lovely time? Character building perhaps but even if they were going to be staying in a 5 star hotel I would still have said no.
Ridiculous amounts of money are charged by schools for these trips. More parents say no than yes for these trips, hence the majority of them get cancelled before they get off the ground. The only ones I agreed with were the ones relating to the languages they were learning.

I thought that when my DD and her girlfriends did DofE but actually they had a fab time as didn't have to worry about those things. I think girls are much happier when they don't feel the need to dress up to impress. Not saying you can't do that cheaply though, you don't need to go to Spain for it.

GwylimT

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Accompanying adults normally get free places when booking a package - the children/parents don't cover their costs directly. Staff/student ratios are regulated as well.

The 'free' places are paid by the child/childs parents, thats why x amount of children can have x amount of adults. The cost of th adult place is included in your childs end cost, travel companies don't pay for adults!

GwylimT

My son did some trips, Spain/france which was a combined geography and MFL trip, New York which was just a jolly, a show and a baseball game. He went to Austria skiing. He also went camping at a local activity centre. All of which were in the school holidays.

I think skiing was the most expensive, it was a ten day trip and cost £750.

missbiggles1

GwylimT wrote: »

The 'free' places are paid by the child/childs parents, thats why x amount of children can have x amount of adults. The cost of th adult place is included in your childs end cost, travel companies don't pay for adults!

They're costed in by the TO, as I said, not paid for directly as was implied. There's a difference.

missbiggles1

Ski ing trips were on offer when I was at school, just as expensive then as now. I didn't see the point then and I don't now.

Jagraf

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Ski ing trips were on offer when I was at school, just as expensive then as now. I didn't see the point then and I don't now.

The only advantage I can see is that I never have to ever ever go skiing again as a parent as I hate it with a passion