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But it's a trap you've chosen to walk into, when there are literally millions of alternative ways to spend your holidays that don't involve staying on a company's private estate whose main attraction is a wide range of chargeable activities which it's the only provider of in the area. As with activity prices on cruises the natural response isn't "gollygosh how did you survive?" it's "if that sort of thing bothers you why did you pick that holiday?". As the rest of the article goes on to clarify, it isn't even like the operators are actually making a killing when you consider the amount of investment involved in buying woodland and waterslides (and that the half-term surge prices for accommodation are the bookends for months of low occupancy).

Plus if you really hate their catering prices, there's nothing stopping you driving to the cafe or supermarket in the next village and bringing your own bikes