Have CAMC over priced some sites
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The norm stays that seem to be popular on sites in the UK seems between weekends and several days, but for families at peak times two weeks , but the Max stay on club site as you should know is 21 nights (even seasonal I think)
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but why are you 'unable/unwilling' to spend other than 5 nights in a place....if a place is nice why not have 7 for the price of 5?
I prefer to move on BB simply because I have found very few places where I have not found things to interest us for at least 4 days. First day may well be just a local village and a few supplies. There have been many places with other things that I would have liked to see but they will still be available at another time. In general we are unlikely to visit an area on our tours more than once every 5 years. Over the last 15 years there are a few sites that we have visited twice, even fewer that we have visited 3 times. I like it that there are things that I wish to see but don't have the time as I will revisit at some time in the future perhaps. At every stop there is something to see.
My Touring pattern has not really changed. When Younger and arrival times were more fluid I would move every 3 or 4 days when touring and would only book the first night and maybe the Saturday on a bank holiday. The last tour that I had with my late wife and youngest daughter (1996) was over 7 weeks moving every 3 or 4 days. I booked 3 separate days; first day, bank holiday Saturday and one other. All other sites were booked over the phone the afternoon before travelling. We visited 15 sites. In those days it was possible to arrange to arrive at site at 10.30 for example, dump caravan and get off. The same year we flew to Cyprus for two weeks and hired a car, also the same for 9 nights in the Algarve. My touring style has not changed apart from my slowing down as I have got older
Yes we do plan more as a couple and book ahead because we know the route that we want. We do occasionally change plans but usually because we wish to fit another site in before returning home and so might leave a final site early to fit 5 days somewhere else or, fairly often, because we have done necessary jobs, weather is good and we have gone off early.
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Have you seen the distance you have to travel from East Norfolk before you can head north and so onward to Scotland, but that mileage is still nothing like the mileage we rack up over there. We are 6 days into our tour and we haven’t used the car for sightseeing yet and we are already over 1000 miles
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Gone are the days when we toured or holidayed to a tight budget, so I just can’t be bothered to faff about too much nowadays recording this and that.
We have had a strange year this year, spent more time in cottages, but mainly because we want to take Mum away as well. Got a couple of tours coming up soon in MH though, one has been booked for months, I was worried we might not get a pitch to watch Cycling World Championships. £20 a night, suits us fine. Looking at doing a late Autumn trip to Northumberland maybe. Two more cottage trips to fit in first.😁
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There are currently three UK site offers all year round, including 50% off midweek,
That's not the case though, Rowena, is it, as most, if not all, of the midweek discounts apply, as you have just posted, all year round!! They only apply over certain limited periods......False news I think!!
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Agree Nellie, mid week discounts are frugally applied. Not all no facility sites are on the “tour for £15 per night” either.
We shall just keep mixing up our sites, mostly CL, a few nice small private ones, the occasional good priced Club Site. That way we keep our nightly average where we want it to be. 😁
Edit: I’ve just had a look for discounts for November to February in Yorkshire area. It’s White Water Park or forget it.......Middlesbrough doesn’t do it for me any time of the year I’m afraid☹️
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I don’t have a credit card😁
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Not the way they're playing at the moment, anyway!!
Must say that we've enjoyed our stays there, especially in the snow!!I did forget about those non-facility sites that are dearer than the £15pn headlines, although if really canny one can get on the odd one of them for even less occasionally.
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You’d have to pay me to stop in Middlesborough. Only attraction for OH is Riverside. We miss Bolton Abbey, closes on 4th November now, it was a regular for us to go to some of Xmas Fairs round Skipton area....but no, Club have decided it’s to close early.
Might look at Castleton, haven’t stayed for ages. But it would need to be £20 or under.........
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and that's fair enough, but equally for Oneputt to highlight the 'high cost' of their European touring when they go at peak for just a short time isn't what most over there tourers do...
as they describe it, it's blooming expensive to do it like that.
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OH has one, for emergencies and security if paying for large items. I haven’t needed one for years, if I don’t have the cash in the bank I don’t buy it.😁
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Might look at Castleton, haven’t stayed for ages. But it would need to be £20 or under.....
tda, any midweek dates from 30th Sept to 19th Dec would do you fine then there.
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Yes, just looked. No wonder it has a midweek discount. Lots of Sheffield folk head out there around Xmas for lights and villages. Obviously only at weekends looking at availability. We went a few times years ago with friends. OH has just vetoed it anyway, reminded me dog walking is poor.
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which is exactly what we do...
other than, at the end, I do know what our 'vanning' costs for the year....but ,makes no difference, just curious....we continue to get 'away' as often as we can.
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While you are around MM, what’s Burrs CP like? Mid week, early December. Will trains be steaming at all, and are there any Xmas Fairs, you could recommend?
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Are you sure about that, BB?
I mean, I accept that many tour over there for protracted spells, but most ?
That must be most retired folk I assume because surely younger families etc have commitments which make that difficult if not impossible.
So Oneputt is simply stating the case for those who have to travel for relatively short periods in high season and, yes, for them it is "blooming expensive".
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Burrs CP had a 'Big Grill' the other week & it threw it down, consequently the field has some big areas of mud where vehicles got stuck ... surprise surprise!
December has a lot of Santa Specials running .... you'd better start saving if you're taking the family 😉 £16 per adult but remember that your CC membership gives you two for one tickets
Apparently there's a small German market stall in 'The Rock' but Manchester would be the place to go to.
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