Spending Money

We get lots of question about how much spending money the Cadets should take and to be honest there’s no hard and fast answer.

Over the last couple of years the average seems to be about €15 per day or about €150 for the whole trip. But the Cadets can take more or less than this if they so wish.

Also, some Cadets like to take some extra money to buy a present for mum, such as Belgian Chocolates from Ypres, but please beware… on previous trips these Chocolates have been known to simply disappear before we even get as far as the ferry home! How very strange.

Plus, this year we will be visiting Disneyland for a day and the Cadets will no doubt want to buy soft drinks, sweets, burgers and any number of souvenirs so please be sure to allow for this too.

And don’t forget to give them a few UK pounds to spend on the journey out and the journey back home as we will be stopping at motorway services etc. and the ferries have quite large shops and cafés on board.

What we do encourage is for parents to put individual days money in separate envelopes with the Cadets name on them and a short description such as “Day 1” or “Day 2” or “Present Money” or “Disney Money” or “Emergency Money”. These envelopes are then held securely by one of the adults who acts as “banker” and allows the Cadets only their allocated amount each day. This ensures two things… firstly they don’t accidentally lose all their money and secondly they don’t go and spend it all at once. Each day we ask them to sign for their money just in case they forget they've already had it (which has been known to happen).

This system has worked really well over the last few years and it is definitely something we suggest you consider doing, but there’s nothing stopping the Cadets from holding on to their own money if they so wish, but please ask them to be careful.

We’ll be holding a Parents meeting about the trip at the Hut so if you have any questions please let us know.