Filling my Fresh water tank.
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A very good point Steve.
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based on your hundreds of responses to any suggestion of change, ever since ive been a member.
Easy to write and post BB yet so hard to prove what you are writing is the anywhere near the truth.
have you heard of proof by counter example? It's a well know procedure in the world of maths. You find one example of where the reasoning/algebra/logic fails and it all fails.
Memo to myself, wonder how the club is coming along with my suggestion for changing all pitches, to service pitches, getting rid of grass pitches, and when steve suggested
It would be a good use for all the grass pitches. Remove the EHU's £10 a night non bookable, two nights maximum, no awnings. So minimal grass damage. It would have the added advantage that the only bookable pitches would then be hardstanding. 😉 Works for me😀
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yes go with that, but a max of two per site, the rest all HS, but I wonder how popular they would be? Maybe when it doesn't rain?Well BB that's three times as many counter examples than I needed.
PS loved your joke about well heeled, bet you used that a lot when working for Clarks shoes.
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Coming half an hour too late to ridicule this as it has already been done........
But we got married in our mid to late twenties, bought our first house together and had a very secondhand car.
A neighbour had an old caravan for sale in his garden for £600 and we eventually got it for £500. We fitted new carpets & my wife made new curtains. We were very proud of it. We still had it when our daughter was born and had some great breaks away in it.
We joined the club because its sites and toilet blocks are usually the best.
£200 for a week away is not at all expensive compared to just about any other form of break away.
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I'm not quite sure how we got from tank filling to the cost of CAMC site fees yet again (excuse me yawning!) which, from what I can make out are actually far more reasonable at peak holiday times than many of the alternative providers. And I'm struggling to think of any other comparable form of family holiday which can be had for £200 a week - anyone got examples?
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One of our daughters bought an old van conversion. Inspite of the best efforts by OH and a friendly local garage it proved too expensive to keep going. She and her boyfriend are back with a tent now, same as our son and family
When young a caravan was too expensive for us and we didn't want one either. It would not have been worth it for our very limited works holidays.
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I agree with you.
We did the sums (naturally) and had a choice, either one big family package holiday abroad a year or buy a caravan and use the same money all year though. It did involve a big outlay at first but 'paid for itself' after a few years, when all we had to find was the site fees.
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+1 and no I can't.
I really don't think anyone is being forced to go wild camping, with a motor home or caravan because of site fees (either club or not) are they? There are plenty of far cheaper CL or THS to use.
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In Scotland wild camping in some areas in a tent with no footprint left is allowed. Also some carefully designated small areas by landowners for vans and only with their permission. It's not a given it's a system which will cease if abused.
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Just a random thought...........Who would go into a restaurant in England,use the facilities and walk out again?????
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Probably not quite the same thing in fairness because the OP was offering to pay......
but we were staying on a Club site in Scotland and the warden was telling us that he has to regularly intercept motorhomers wild camping in the adjacent public car park and trying to sneak into the shower block.....
He said that he explains that they don't do free showers on club sites but the person could try the hotel up the road and see if they do.....
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And I'm struggling to think of any other comparable form of family holiday which can be had for £200 a week - anyone got examples?
Possibly the YHA, certainly the case for a couple for a week and a family might just get accommodation for only just over the £200 mark.
I see the focus is still on wild camping and yes I have used restaurant/hotel facilities when there has been a need but I have always asked or paid for the service even if it was only buying a drink, usually coffee. That is much like I would see a drop in service from the Club being used. e.g been to the National or stopped on a CL and I want to get rid of my waste rather than struggle across a field to use the awkward disposal points. Unlike a restuarant/hotel. I have already paid a membership fee which includes the use of sites. It would be nice to know it extended to being able to drop in to use the MSP but it is not a deal breaker for me at the moment because so little of my touring is done in the UK and at even £7 I can always fall back on the C&CC's drop in service.
peedee
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TT, each to their own and so glad you didnt get to ridicule my post, BTW is that allowed in the T/Cs?
perhaps if i was as sensitive as some, id be chatting to Ro...
have a good night
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David, you probably need to go back and read the thread properly....
The £200 a week was BB's reference to site fees. I've already said how much my van cost and by the way we sold it 2 years later for £450 so it did'nt actually cost us very much at all other than the "working capital" involved......
Like most working young couples nowadays we already had a car, if you haven't then I guess caravanning is not going to be the hobby for you....
As for insurance, I can't remember what we paid if we even bothered on a £500 van but it wouldn't have been a lot.....
As for servicing it, I put two new tyres on it and changed the hydraulic A frame damper myself.....
The point has already been made earlier in the thread that taking all those costs into account even, caravanning (even on sites as "expensive" as CC sites
) can be done for less than the cost of a package holiday for a young family.I appreciate that you and I probably have rigs worth far more now but I'm assuming you have done a lifetimes hard work the same as I have...
Both me and the missus would happily swap all we have now to go back to those days.....
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BB, I know you love a bit of argy bargy on the threads, otherwise you wouldn't be such a prolific poster and wouldn't have returned to CT from your 10 week absence.......
And I know you wouldn't go running to teacher when there's a robust challenge to one of your posts....
No not that "teacher"....I meant Ro......
Good night to you too.......
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David, I'm sorry I still dont understand what you are trying to say.....
On pg 28 Moulesy asks if anybody can come up with a family holiday for 200 quid and the only response to that is from Peedee suggesting youth hostelling, which is a fair point......
As for comparing a family holiday on a CC site with a package holiday,well we must have a different view of holidays
I have no idea what your view of a "holiday" is, but I know which I prefer......
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