I too saw the programme and while I dont agree with the price hike during school holiday times and think it should be out-lawed, if someone is daft enough to pay 300% more to go that particular week then they I say more fool them.

I will qualify that by saying when our son was between school starting age and around 13/14 we saw nothing wrong with taking him out of school for a week or two for a holiday because we simply could not afford to go at half term or during the summer, also we had particularly sympathetic teaching staff at both schools. We stopped when he was studying for GCSE's and A levels, and the time he took out for holiday was infact the only time he had off - he even had chicken pox in the summer holidays ! I dont see those circumstances as encouraging truancy. I believe if a child is going to be truant they will anyway - holiday or not.

I think if the goverment will not do anything about this then parents have to vote with their feet and take their holidays to suit them. If enough do it something will have to happen, surely.