Cost of EHU at CLs
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..........meanwhile, happily enjoying ourselves with heating on 1kw, up on top of Moors, it’s -1c outside. Both in t shirts. Dog panting. What you might call a well insulated little MH........been out of site all day as well, took 5 mins on gas heating to get us warm. 😁
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lol.
Put the one in in case anyone thought it was aimed at one.
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have to agree fully. If you're going on holiday worrying about heating bills, it's not a holiday.
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Then they shouldn't go on holiday or have calculated that into their holiday budget. To set off without doing that is just plain irresponsible.
And no it is not good fortune at all.
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As brutal as it first sounds MrC what you say is pure logic. Spending vast amounts on 1 item to then scrabble around in a panic for chump change does sound counter intuitive. Then again-there’s no accounting for taste, each to their own, choice is king👍🏻
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I do think you need to read my post carefully before jumping in Dave, I have no problem with your lifestyle (I think you mean caravaning btw?).
Nothing to do with warm places (where did I mention that btw?) or the distance as I think you well know. It is all about the money spent
To reiterate clearly what I find at tad amazing is those who spend whatever large amount on their holidays in whatever way and then worry about a few pounds by leaving the meter running. It would appear that many share my thoughts.
If caravans had been around in Dickens' time I'm sure it would be a characteristic of Scrooge and described in the book with the alternative happy ending of Bob being told he can leave the heating on gas, before dotting another i,and being told to go out and connect the EHU.
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I'll add a Christmas +1 (that counts for 2)
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We switch the heating off in the van when we are out, which is most of the time, not for economic reasons but because we think it is the right thing to do. Fifteen minutes on gas soon bring the van up to temperature then turn down and and revert to electric
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well done....to me that is what caravanning/MHing is all about, roughing it a little bit but keeping warm and dry as possible with minimum expense, trying to compare caravanning/Mhing with staying in a hotel, b&b cottage etc is a no brainer.
IMO the club will have to make some serious commercial decisions in the not to distant future re how they charge for utilities, it is no good aquiring more sites/pitches if people cannot afford them or look at the price and decide that there are other options for not a lot more money, yes currently occupancy rates look reasonable but i suspect most of the sites are only full during July/Aug/Sept maybe xmas/new year, and many of the people who use the sites during these periods are of a different ilk to the people using sites at other times, e.g. families vs retired people.
re CL's i will bet that any CL that now includes EHU has looked at their business plan very carefully and priced their pitches to include the cost of install and an ongoing profit from the units used, and if not metered they will be watching their electricity bills very carefully, and adjusting pitch fees accordingly.
i think metering would reduce the amount of electricity used on site and would help save our planet etc. personally i dont use club sites often because i think they are over priced and not good value, but, yes i will pay £50 per night maybe on a commercial site if it has the facilities we like.
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always do R2B
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you clearly dont live in the real world, some people scrimp and save just to spend 1 week on holiday and then have to count the pennies very carefully whilst away, surely you would not deny them the opportunity to get away from it all for just 1 week.
but i guess i could be just plain wrong, shame 
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Surely it’s about applying sense and logic, not about denying people things?
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Many, like myself, that started caravanning about 1980 were not well off and had to watch the pennies. Should I not have taken my family walking the lakes etc: Or using CLs to visit York or non-facility sites to holiday by the coast?
And no it is not good fortune at all.
Well I worked for what I have as you no doubt did. I still consider myself fortunate to have no financial constrictions.
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sure and the logic for some folk is that if i scrimp and save for 51 weeks i can have 1 week away and the sense is that whilst away i will watch the pennies and spend within in my means.
i seem to recall that you MH in nothing bigger than a Tesco delivery van so surely the simple act of switiching on the lights should warm that up. Good luck to you, very prudent.
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Your first paragraph doesn't make sense at all. I cannot answer if you should have gone or not.
Yet that is not my point at all. What I said was one plans a holiday and one works out what it is going to cost including all possible costs then you decide if you can afford it, One does not set off and then worry about if they can afford to have the heating on.
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Actually, LEDs don’t generate heat.
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But R2B didn't say that at all, his phrase was:
Spending vast amounts on 1 item to then scrabble around in a panic for chump change does sound counter intuitive
And it is totally nonsensical to live like that. As they say, fail to plan is to plan to fail. Budget for your holiday, all of it.
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One does not set off and then worry about if they can afford to have the heating on.
No but many folk do have to decide where they can save money in order to enjoy our pastime, I suspect that we are both fortunate in not having to do so.
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I don’t deny anyone anything at all-I reiterate. . .Choice is king👍🏻. ‘You clearly don’t live in the real world’ that’s our JV’s fave saying, are you JV2?😂😂
PS-your last line is quite incisive👍🏻
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And it is totally nonsensical to live like that. As they say, fail to plan is to plan to fail. Budget for your holiday, all of it.
And that is what many have to do. They do however 'cut their cloth to match their budget' where needed. They are still 'clothed'. My youngest daughter is a single mother of two 7 and 8 year old boys and money is tight. When she makes use of my eldest daughter's static she still has to pay attention to her financial constraints.
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Since it seems quite a few of us who post on here are of the generation who grew up in the "make do and mend" of the 1950_early 1960s ,compared to today's must have the latest gizmo, then throw away society, it is not any longer a matter of "cutting your cloth" credit cards rule as can be noted by the huge amount of personnel debt,so I can see where some obtain the latest must haves, in this case LVs but then "struggle" to realise it is not a "cheap" lifestyle
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"sure and the logic for some folk is that if i scrimp and save for 51 weeks i can have 1 week away and the sense is that whilst away i will watch the pennies and spend within in my means"
Whilst that is certainly true, and, for many families, sadly, it's even bleaker than that in that they are unable to afford a holiday of any sort, I'd have thought it highly unlikely that they'd be owning a car and caravan/MH for holiday purposes and even less so that they'd be spending that time on a club CL. So totally irrelevant in the context of this thread!
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