He admitted Kingswood needed to market peak season places at the company's highest prices, to fund the refurbishment and enable lower prices off peak.
But he reiterated the company's commitment to Liverpool - although he could not guarantee places would be kept for the city's children, unless schools booked well in advance.
He said: "We do understand people's concerns that poorer families will be disenfranchised, but we have pledged to do our utmost to provide the best quality experience to the children of Liverpool.
"We have written a guarantee into our 30-year lease that Liverpool schools will be offered first option, and we are providing a £3m subsidy to the council and it is up to them how they spend it."
Testing out the new climbing area yesterday was a party of Sheikhs invited by the army as part of a major ethnic minority recruitment drive.
Luther Magliore, community liaison officer for Army recruitment in the North-west, said: "These are certainly the best facilities I've seen, probably outside our own para training centre in Catterick."
"What they've created is fantastic because it's all in one place. "We'd like eventually, if at all possible, to find a way to bring people here regularly."
It could be a sign of the future as Kingswood is keen to look into the option of expanding use of Colomendy for adult groups if it needs to fill spaces - although the idea of an on-site hotel has been ruled out. Liverpool's executive member for education last night put his full weight behind the deal.
Cllr Paul Clein said: "Colomendy never was exclusively for Liverpool schools - it always had bookings from outside, although the proportion of these has declined in recent years due to better facilities being available elsewhere albeit at a higher price.
"Kingswood's profit margin is not particularly high given the several millions of investment they are incorporating into the site and they will have to finance from their own resources and we have driven a hard bargain with them."
"Twenty-four Liverpool primary schools, including mostly primaries from inner-city areas, used Kingswood environmental education facilities last year in preference to Colomendy even though the cost was higher, compared with 37 Liverpool primary schools who used Colomendy.
"This is out of a total of about 150, a few of which are infant schools only and would be unlikely therefore to go."
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