Wifi Price rise
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It is also done on the club's AS , just looking at Lidalia this morning.
(Great site but not been for a long time)
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I've bought a yearly pass for some years now but no longer - with 4G becoming so available and the CAMC sites I use generally only having hotspots and even those are often useless, I'm going 4g only this year.
If there was genuine quality wifi - across the full site - then I'd go back to a pass, just to save the phone as 50p a week is actually reasonable
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I’ve been using the mobi network for some years now, Solo, and find it far better than site Wi-fi.
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Actually been using mobile data and only reading this has made me realised I haven't been using the club's wifi
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it's only 50p a week if you're on site using it every week of the year...
go away for a couple of weeks a year (as some are limited to...) and it's a lot dearer....per week.
like many others, with the relaxing of mobile 'rules' for European use, just having one 'system' (for all destinations) works best for us.
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Just logged onto the club WiFi ( the free part) and I can't really see an great improvement over mobile data.
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We have been useing the on site wifi system since it was available for a twelve month payment, and on the majority of sites where it is available,has normally been quite usable, except clumber park but even mobile phones are a no no there,the times when it is really slow is normally where it is not used as specified (ie streaming films and games)
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Once all the trippers come home and start using it, the chances are the mobi data will be better, Corners.
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"Where it is available" has a bearing on my choice, JV. A lot of club sites north of The Border don’t have site wifi and privately owned ones certainly don’t so my £27.50 would be largely wasted.
Even where it is available, I find site Wi-fi pathetically slow a lot of the time so I’d sooner not bother.
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At £27 per year wifi shouldn't be costing the club any money. I think this charge is too high. I recently stayed on a C&CC club site in the Lake District and enjoyed free wifi with a good reception. Most private sites we have visited also have free wifi only sometimes not very good.
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I am currently on beechwood at York the cost of a weeks wifi on air angel is £10. The service is absolutely rubbish. It keeps buffering and cutting out. I went into York and got free wifi in Greggs and other places for nothing. Airangel who supply the service are the worst I have come across. Why are we paying for it. Most companies including shops busses trains etc provide for free. I live on a park home site in South Yorkshire and we use quickline which is similar to airangle. However it costs less and and you can get 39megs for what the caravan club charge. I have been on other sites all over the country using airangle and they are all useless. I ask you why are we paying at all and especially as it is rubbish. Ps been been a caravan club member for over 35 years but I think we are being ripped off on this issue. Any comments.
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Yep, I’ll comment.
We are not all being ripped off. I’m not because I don’t pay for the rubbish. Don’t assume we're all in the same boat.
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I will also comment.
I pay the £25 a year. Just spent a week on a site that was full for half term. WiFi was good for 95% of the time. Just a few blips, I think the warden had to kick the router😂.
It does vary from site to site, depending on broadband provision into the area, just like at home. We are lucky with a 70MB connection, others are fortunate if they get single figures.
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I think that the CC wifi generally works fine for us. But for those buying per day or per week it is expensive. Typically I find that charges for wifi on non club sites is £10 a week but that is usually for two devices. With CC it is about that price for one device.
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You were also unable to try before you bought in.
We tried before we bought at ML Betws-Y-Coed
We were on there in 2017 for 5 nights. Usually I buy two 3 day passes as that works out the same as a 7 day pass for us at £10. On this occasion We were out with friends on the first evening and didn't purchase wifi. The next day I asked in the office if their wifi was any good. They gave me a 1 day pass free to try it out.
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I doubt that my sim would have used more than £3.50 for our typical 5 night stay. I can't remember now why I chose to pay £10 (well, as it turned out £5). Normally would use our own if not on a CC site.
Did buy wifi at Gaer Hyfryd Caravan Club Site (affiliated) as it was £2 for a week and a £10 refundable deposit on the plastic card with the password on it
I expected to use our mifi this year at Wagtail Country Park but they have now included the wifi.
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Sadly I think the club is starting to price itself out of existence. Club sites are no longer low cost holidays, in fact quite the reverse ! Likewise WiFi which I have found patchy and slow, despite the club's assertions that new tech has speeded it up. And only one device can connect ? Buy yourself a MiFi router and data card. If you got 4g, you got fast broadband and multiple devices can connect securely. Should pay for itself in couple of years. Been a member for over 30yrs, but prices now deter me from using club sites.
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Adequate and used as intended.... as intended by whom? Its certainly not adequate for me and i am not a high data user. It is simply rubbish and too many private sites show how it can be done with free high speed wifi. The club bought a pup with the current provider.
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I have a share in a narrowboat and use a dongle to access the internet on my laptop. Last year it cost around £15.00 with "3" for 3GBs and lasted for 3 months from when I first used it so I think that £27.50 is very reasonable. Of course it depends on which sites you use as of course, some are not C&MHC internet accessible and how much you use it as to whether you would consider it reasonable.
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I'm on Vodafone and have unlimited data text and calls,
As a lorry driver and spend the week away in my truck, so can watch T.V. on the many apps available to me. I use my phone as a hot spot and use my tablet to watch t.v.
Used club wifi a couple of times and found it near useless.
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The yearly price is liveable with but as all the sites are closed and likely to remain closed for at least another three weeks shouldn't the club be suspended wifi dates? Being a member of the Camping and Caravan club they have announced that all memberships will be extended until the campsites are open again.
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