Don’t Get Carried Away
Oct 30th, 2008 by bobdootson
For those who think go-ape will be a good thing for future, I suggest you think again.
They make their money from Corporate packages, and like any other business they will direct their energies towards the areas that make the most profit (they would be silly not to).
Have a look at their Corporate prices and judge for yourself. For a minimum booking of ten delegates,the prices vary from £88 per delegate to £156 per delegate (choice of five packages).
The minimum of £88 means you will be paying approx £63 for a picnic.
I’m amazed at their family prices. For me to take my wife and two children would cost £90. Not much change out of £100 for perhaps as little as two hour’s entertainment. That’s not family-friendly, that’s ridiculously expensive.
So the only people who will be able to afford to go on this course will be the well-off and those on corporate freebies.
And one of the reasons for Chorley allowing Go Ape into Lever Park was to widen the appeal of Lever Park to people who wouldn’t normally go?
I presumed that Chorley would be targetting the hard-working, ordinary working class families of Chorley and Bolton – not the affluent middle classes and corporate fat cats.