school holidays

bradders1983

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Going to be? I thought it had been that for years. Maybe just in the area where I live.

I wasnt arguing otherwise, mate.

hollie.weimeraner

maman wrote: »

With all the different types of schools these days, OP needs to check with the actual schools his children attend to be certain.

Stupid thing is even Primary Schools and Secondary Schools in the same area can have different holidays. Must be a nightmare for working parents.

Gloomendoom

bradders1983 wrote: »

I wasnt arguing otherwise, mate.

I was just a bit confused when the OP said "but with holidays changing". I wasn't aware that they were.

bradders1983

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I was just a bit confused when the OP said "but with holidays changing". I wasn't aware that they were.

Well they have in Sheffield this year, as I already alluded to, but only at Easter: we now get the first two week of April off no matetr when Easter is, in an attempt to standardise the term lengths either side of it. Sensible really as if Easter is early or late it means either the winter or spring/summer term is ridiculously long

Means this year the kids have 2 weeks off, then go back for 4 days, and then get a long 4 days weekend. Worked to our advantage as been able to book a dirt cheap city break the first week of April.

Maybe that is what he means, I have no idea.

Murphy_The_Cat

hollie.weimeraner wrote: »

Stupid thing is even Primary Schools and Secondary Schools in the same area can have different holidays. Must be a nightmare for working parents.

Conversely, it should alleviate pressure on flight availability, as parents with sprogs aren't all condensed into teh save few days/weeks.

Ganga

NoodleDoodleMan wrote: »

From what I've heard, a few years ago, package deals from Newcastle rose into peak period from the end of June because a significant number of Scots were flying from NCL the first two weeks of July when the tribes north of Hadrian's Wall were on first fortnight of their schools holidays, but the locals weren't.

Newcastle is our local airport but everytime we go on holiday,( 5 time last year ) the airport and normally the flight is full of Scots as the price of holidays from Scotish regional airports is often a lot more than the fuel/rail fare to travel down.

PasturesNew

Certainly staying within England, the weeks adjoining the August bank holiday Monday are often very very much cheaper than the previous week for caravan holidays. There can be huge differences.

NoodleDoodleMan

Newcastle is our local airport but everytime we go on holiday,( 5 time last year ) the airport and normally the flight is full of Scots as the price of holidays from Scotish regional airports is often a lot more than the fuel/rail fare to travel down.

That was my point, if English schools are not on holiday and Scottish ones are it is often a better deal for the Jocks to travel to NCL.

Other factors have come into the Newcastle equation recently - AFAIK there now no longer any package holiday deals to Portugal from Scotland by Tui or Thomas Cook, although Jet2 may still do them.

Greenqueen_2

A half hour playing around with a flight only website should give a strong guide to when the schools are out! Jet2.com, for example, show a full month at once so you can see at a glance when it’s cheaper.