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When free child places are not really free

Merymcs · 2020-01-05 20:12:22

We have recently booked a holiday and qualified for "free child" places in the group booking (5 adults and 2 children) for which we paid a total of £6315, but out of curiosity we checked the price to see if it had changed and found that the cost of the holiday with no free child places comes to £6461. Meaning for 2 "free…

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strawb_shortcake Posts: 3,697 Forumite

15 May 2020 at 1:33PM

Don't travel agents average the cost of a holiday out per person even though the cost for an adult, child and baby will all be different? So you never see the breakdown of the true cost per person.
When I've looked for holidays, the free child places can tend to let you book a better holiday for a little more.
At the end of the day if you were happy with the price when you booked, I'd not worry about it

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