With many families booking their 2016 family holiday, it is again obvious that holiday prices are extremely higher during the school holiday period than booking the equivalent holiday in term time. This makes it almost impossible for some families to be able to avoid the holiday they want. Often the cost for a holiday abroad for a family will double if taken during term holidays. With the government introducing fines and strict rules regarding taking a pupil out of school, some families simply cannot afford to go.

Some schools have actually started to change their school holiday dates to try and help parents out with holiday planning. They often take a week off the usual six week summer holiday and put an extra week in somewhere else in the year. If all schools started to do this, it would make it virtually impossible for holiday companies to increase the prices so much as there would be no set holiday period.