{"id":113116,"date":"2025-10-10T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113116\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:15:13","slug":"center-parcs-is-charging-like-ryanair-heres-the-dynamic-pricing-we-paid-on-a-three-day-break-at-longford-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/113116\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Parcs is charging like Ryanair \u2013 here\u2019s the \u2018dynamic pricing\u2019 we paid on a three-day break at Longford Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Occupancy averages 99pc, but the add-ons and algorithmic approach can feel like a shakedown at times, says P\u00f3l \u00d3 Conghaile\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Center Parcs Longford Forest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cb9fc4da-b9b3-4931-9a7e-fe01552a481e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Center Parcs Longford Forest<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve stayed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/travel\/ireland\/center-parcs-ireland-review-whats-it-really-like-to-stay-at-longford-forest\/38362107.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center Parcs<\/a> three times since it opened in Ireland in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Its pool and slides are exceptional, its activities can be thrilling, it caters well for coeliac needs, and its young staff could teach some top hotels a thing or two about genuine customer service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Occupancy averages 99pc, but the add-ons and algorithmic approach can feel like a shakedown at times, says P\u00f3l&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,12735,18,19,17,2440],"class_list":{"0":"post-113116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-center-parcs","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-pol-o-conghaile"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}