{"id":382765,"date":"2026-03-13T07:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382765\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:40:10","slug":"10-alternatives-to-center-parcs-in-ireland-from-cabin-stays-to-hotels-with-adventure-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/382765\/","title":{"rendered":"10 alternatives to Center Parcs in Ireland \u2013\u00a0from cabin stays to hotels with adventure centres"},"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\">Center Parcs does what Center Parcs does best \u2013 but what alternatives are out there?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A lodge at Drumhierny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f3625956-f624-407a-86ba-963f937af924.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)\">A lodge at Drumhierny<\/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)\">When searching for a family-friendly break in Ireland that ticks all the boxes, it\u2019s hard not to end up on the Center Parcs website. Since its arrival in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/travel\/travel-news\/pol-o-conghaile-what-center-parcs-plans-next-for-longford-forest-from-a-forest-glider-to-six-bed-lodges\/a434851554.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longford Forest<\/a> has raised the bar for staycations.<\/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)\">Today\u2019s family holidaymakers want more than dusty old games rooms and a few chicken nuggets on the menu. Center Parcs comes with a heavy price tag, however, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/life\/travel\/ireland\/center-parcs-is-charging-like-ryanair-heres-the-dynamic-pricing-we-paid-on-a-three-day-break-at-longford-forest\/a566874475.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">some have questions<\/a> around its food quality and overall value for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Center Parcs does what Center Parcs does best \u2013 but what alternatives are out there? A lodge at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[12735,18,117,19,17,2440],"class_list":["post-382765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-center-parcs","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pol-o-conghaile"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116220738236276311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382765","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=382765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}