Expensive CL's
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We normally look for CLs at around the £15 mark but it does depend on location and what the alternatives in the location are. One of our favourites is £20 a night, and for that you gate a HS serviced pitch, toilet & shower, wifi, dog (s) and awning included and the most superb views across the adjacent valley, with loads of walks direct from the site. The alternatives are a "full fat" commercial site just down the road, surrounded by high trees for £35 a night, or the nearby C&CC site, down in the town with no views at all for about £25 a night. So I reckon that £20 is money well spent!
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Freddie - it's Drake House Farm, near Clitheroe, Lancashire. Very welcoming owners, brilliant views across the valley to Pendle Hill. We were there at "bluebell time" and the walk down through the woods behind the site was just a sea of flowers.
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We're probably like you, Freddy, in that we tend to head for the lakes and pass the area around Clitheroe and the Trough of Bowland by. (In fact we discovered this CL as a stop off on our way to Troutbeck Head a few years back.) Which is a great pity because the area has a lot to offer, stunning scenery, great walks and some very interesting towns. The walk up Pendle Hill from Barley is exhausting but worth it for the views from the top and there's also a fantastic walk along the valley from Dunsop Bridge, reckoned to be the geographical centre of GB. Certainly worth a few days' visit.
PS - and yes, Cowman's Sausage Shop is certainly worth a visit in Clitheroe. In fact if you time it right, just before lunchtime and you could get a free lunch on the samples alone!
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What do you call expensive?? This is the modern world we live in Going back a bit petrol was 35p a litre before that even cheaper wages were around on average £25.00 a week just look at them now!!! Look at the expenses the Cls have. Would you open a CL for for under £10.00 a night.
Brian
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Hiya moulsey👍
Funnily enough, we’re visiting Troutbeck Head for the first time in June, amongst other places. I’ve got a couple of CL’s lined up at strategic points en route. It won’t be this year, but I’m liking the sound of Drake House Farm, so one for next year 👍
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However with the cost of a litre of diesel at £1.299 it is not worthwhile going away for a weekend especially if the site is more than an hour's drive from your home. It is more cost effective to go away for 5 or more days hence the need for EHU for many campers. Also why pay more than £15 a night if a commercial site just down the road is charging a little extra a night?
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"Why pay more than £15 a night ....?"
Well, it depends entirely on what you're looking for, surely? It might be worth paying a little extra for the relative peace and quiet of a CL, compared to that busy commercial site just down the road. Price and value are not the same thing are they?
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When most vans have full facilities why do we have so many of this type of site? What about the quiet, peaceful site with a tap, bins and toilet disposal.
Just like this one, £13p.n. with 16A EHU.
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Looks good, peedee. May I enquire where it is?
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Thanks, peedee. I'll make a note of that one.
EDIT It says on it's website that it's still a CS and one has to be a member of C&CC to visit, which we no longer are.
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It has only recently obtained a licence. It is possibly out of date unless the owner intends to keep it as members only. I will check later today. Currently there are 8 outfits on site, 4 caravans and 4 motorhomes and acres of space. It is often used as a THS when the NEC caravan shows are on.
I am aware of a CL which went down the same route but eventually separated the CL from the adjacent commercial section.
peedee
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Can you define "busy" commercial site? What do you mean by busy? We have stayed on many commercial sites in the past 2 - 3 years and I don't think I can describe any of them as "busy" however we do use them in off peak times. The commercial site is better value for money than a CL charging more than £15!
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The commercial site is better value for money than a CL charging more than £15!
I don't generally use CLs but I do consider them when suitable alternatives are not available. Some CLs seem to have styled themselves on CC sites with stoned access tracks, well laid out hardstanding, shower and toilet provision, EHU, water on pitch and in some cases a copy of CC water/waste disposal points. Such sites have for me gone the extra mile and if they are available where I want to be I would personally be happy to pay £20 a night.
When we next stay in the area between Macclesfield and Chelmsford I have a CL earmarked that charges £40 a night. We have stopped off in that area twic in the last 10 years as we don't revisit areas that often. We have used the Royal Vale site once in 2013 and the Capesthorne Hall site in 2017 but whilst the location was fine they were not sites that we both liked. Next time we will try the £20 a night https://www.welltroughcaravansite.co.uk/
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of course they were not busy, they were not club sites
Your busy definition request is a wind up? or are you saying that just because you have seen not-busy sites off peak, it must be the same in peak?
Value for money is very personal.
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Now that is a CL I would stay at.
It's a mini club site really
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As I said, Surfer, price and value are not the same thing, are they? If your commercial site has more than 5 vans, it's patently busier than a full CL. What makes it "better value for money" than the CL?
I'm not really sure where you stand on this to be honest, Surfer. On recent threads you've criticised a CL owner for supplying "extras" which increase the cost, but then said you couldn't go on a rally because it didn't have EHU. Now you're saying, I think, that you'd rather use a commercial site than a CL.
It's all down to personal choice of course - we probably have very different ideas of "value". No problem!
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This is my idea of a busy commercial site.......sort of a camping hell really, not for us.
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As opposed to this, a lovely little private site, ex CL in fact, and doing very well out there in the private world.
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Thanks peedee. Just the sort of info I'm after.
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It’s Cliff Farm, on the Helmsley to Pickering road. It’s about 10 minutes from Pickering, so a great location for getting up onto Moors. Loos and showers are superb, little laundry and honesty freezer. It’s one of our Winter getaways. First time there, it only had 15 pitches I think, but the busy busy farmer did all the landscaping etc, for another 15 pitches set slightly higher up. They are nicely staggered so you get some privacy. Lovely little site.
Tour going well, but I bottled the no booking for the weekend, I knew our next choice of CL would be busy, so I phoned today.....got the last pitch😁 very busy up here, lots of MHs about, and more caravans than usual this early in year. We are going over tops to Ribblehead and down into Ingleton next, that should give MH a good work out! 😲
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A couple of years back we stayed at Mill House CV Park near Chelmsford which, at the time, was £12 pn. 25 pitches with EHU best described as a sort of jumbo CL.
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I thought it strange that I had not come across such a site in Chelmsford
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