The purpose of this paper is to discuss the open day at grammar schools in Slovenia (a post-socialist country) from two perspectives, namely from that of marketisation and commodification of education and from the point of view of marketing education. Slovenia, as have many countries around the world, undertook the restructuring of public schools in line with marketisation and privatisation. In two grammar schools an observation of the open day was carried out, documents were analysed, i.e. mainly school publications and other printed materials, the principal's speech was recorded at one school, an interview with one principal conducted and unstructured interviews with parents and students--promoters of their school carried out. The findings were discussed within Baudrillard's framework of simulacra and critically reflected through marketing perspective. (Contains 7 endnotes.)