Insidious Development
Question!!! Why and Who made the decision to install static accommodation units on Club site's.Surely these sites are provided for members who take to the road in their own funded vehicles,why are we now being asked to fund the life style of these "Static Dwellers".Are these Static Units really for the use of friends and family? If so why is their a 10percent discount for members.No they will be rented out to people who have not the slightest interest in our way of life.If friends or family want to experience caravaning and motorhoming their is always the opportunity to hire.I would be pleased to be enlightened on what the perceived benifits are to the caravan and motorhome club member A further point is that the number of pitches available to members will be reduced this is especially important at peek periods.A large area at Coniston Park Coppice has been allocated to these Static Units complete with their veranda decking.We members are funding this cost and will not derive any benifit.It is time to stop this Insidious Development.
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Don't agree.. Statics can be highly profitable for the Operator ( The CMC ). This income can subsidise the overall running costs of campsites which are only busy at weekends.
Who says that the CMC is a touring organisation any more anyway. Most Caravanners just pitch up on one site and stay there for the duration of their holidays. You are more likely to see real touring being done by Motorhomers who will stay a couple or so nights on one site and move on to another site, doing their touring on route.
Yes I like the idea of choice and if the CMC is promoting Statics Cabins and Yurt type accommodation, good for them They are giving their customers a real choice.
K
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I think the answer as to who, is the club
Why? to make more money
Hiring costs money and if under a certain weight/age will need a towing test. Buying an outfit costs money, then insurance and storage... This way will allow people to visit a campsite cheaply and who knows maybe like the look of the caravans and motor homes and decide it's for them. How many of us started out in tents?
My daughter and boyfriend are going to use one when we're at Coniston late August and September.
The thing is these pods will either be successful and the club will maybe get more, or they won't and they will go.
It's called progress, at one time people didn't want tents and/or MH?
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Some still don’t
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I have a dream that one day this club will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all outfits are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Chatsworth the sons of caravaners and the sons of motor-homers will be able to wash together at the dishwashing area.
I have a dream that one day even the state of overthere, a state sweltering with the heat of not booking, sweltering with the heat of arrival anytime, will be transformed into an oasis of the club values and peace.
I have a dream that outfits will one day live in a club where campers will not be judged by the colour of their dogs but by the content of their character
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Don't think so Corners.. The CMC is to most Caravanner's eyes still the "Caravan Club" (for towed caravans only.)
Motorhomes are apparently just tolerated so long as CC campsites don't have to be modernised in any way to accommodate them. Statics and cabins and lodges even less so.
Until the Towed caravans reduce in numbers, as they certainly will due to forthcoming restrictions on Towcars, the CMC will still bend over backwards to support the intransigent views of the diehard Caravanners first and foremost above all others.
K
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My children and grandchildren love cabins and lodges on campsites. Does the Club have places like this ?
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Let us rally to the call - caravanners, motorhomers, tenters, podders et al. Under the outer shell, we are as one. 👍🏻
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I wish i could understand why some Campervan and Motor Caravan (the recognised by DVLA name) owners/leasers/,hirers, still have a chip on their shoulders about the "senior"caravan ownership when every one seemed to get on quite well since 1972 when first accepted by the Caravan Club
Ps the Caravan Club have had other holiday accommodation than touring pitches on several sites on the network for decades
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Chip? Do you mean me? No chips here other than those with my fish. I couldn’t give a ...(supply a word of your own choice)... what others think of my unit or method of vanning. Likewise, I couldn’t care less what description appears on my V5.
What is clear, though, is that some still regard a non-towed van, a canvas structure, or a wooden camping unit as the spawn of the devil.
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completely disagree, -1
As much as you want discord I suggest you go on a club site and see all types of units all happily getting along.
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Is that an apology?
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So true, M. If there are any harrumphers on site, they keep their views to themselves. It tends to be on here that the adverse comments appear. Remember some of the vitriolic posts when the name change was announced?
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I have a dream that one day Cornersteady will say something negative about the CAMC.
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well it's nice to know you dream about me
I'm ... well quite touched really.Would you have preferred to tell a lie, that open warfare happens on club sites, the caravans make a static circle while the MH circle around?
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When you re-join, Swifty, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover what a positive experience it can be these days.
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Not at all 👍🏻
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These alternative means of staying on site are in the grand scales of things insignificant in number. They do, however, offer the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to continue enjoying holidays with us. We stay on a pitch, they in a pod. One day it is my dream that they too will own caravans or motorhomes of their own but until then the pods mean we can all enjoy time together on just a few sites.
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The club will never forsake touring pitches for alternative camping (I think)
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I that wishful thinking, JK?
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I suspect the Club are hedging their bets. Perhaps they have done market research which suggests that the younger generation will be less likely to buy a caravan, although a motorhome might well be a future dream, but they might quite like the idea of Glamping as I think its called. We must not assume that the hobby that we grew up with will necessary be the blueprint for the future so I think the Club are being realistic in exploring other types of holiday accommodation. It's pretty small scale at present so personally I think they are right to experiment.
David
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I wonder why Stano liked his own post? 🤔
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Perhaps he just caught it when scrolling down. I tend to use the thumb of my right hand on the pad, and with how I hold it this is very close to the like. So I often find I have "clicked on it" by mistake. Of course if it was mine I would unlike,😀 otherwise I rarely bother. It would be better if it brought up a like OK / Cancel, rather than just doing it. Better for me anyway.😂
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especially one who has taken great trouble to conduct an experiment to tour a whole country (for a year was it?) without using a club site?
No recent experience at least?
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