Glamping Pods
Having been a member for more years than I care to remember, as a former caravan and motorhome owner at various times, my age and health has curtailed those activities. However I have remained a member to benefit from Club offers. In particular I am keen to try the Glamping option, which although comments suggest that other members don't agree with them, they do in my opinion provide an alternative niche alternative. But not at those prices!! The website states that they are from £59 a night. Really! I can't find one at that price. Looking to book in May or early June, but well over £100 per night and not even high season rates. I only want to stay in one, not buy it !!
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It's probably £59 in January in the same way that the from prices advertised for pitches are hard to find.
When you consider pitch fees are now over £35 at times, I suppose the pod prices aren't too foul as you don't have to buy them as you do a caravan/MH.
Check out non-club offerings for alternatives and comparisons.
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I don’t think the prices are that bad, considering what is provided. A three night stay (for two) mid week in June at Moreton in Marsh, would work out at £98 a night with members discount. A service pitch would cost £35 a night for the same period. There is bound to be a premium for just driving up in your car and taking residence.
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+1 SL, I’ve used pods all over the Country, the prices aren’t that bad at all👍🏻
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We used one personally and the price is based on a family, we had a 'six berth' one and linen provided. It did come fully equipped with heating and full sized shower, plates, cups, glasses, pots and pans, large TV with inputs for a games console, and even a dishwasher. Outside there was a brick BBQ, plastic seats and a storage box on the veranda, a large bench with a sun umbrella. So for what you're getting I thought it was reasonable.
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I've just checked the price of a Glamping Pod at Abbey Wood, London for a 2 night stay in the first week of June. For the 2 adults it would come to a total of £104.00.
I consider this to be a bargain for a stay in London, particularly for those who are used to a camping experience.
If there was a show or exhibition on that I particularly wanted to go to I would use this facility rather than tug my caravan down there.
Obviously the OP may have wanted a bigger, better "Pod" for more people but I can't really see a great deal wrong here.
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Perhaps I can offer a slightly different train of thought to the OP. Although the headline cost is obviously much more than say a camping pitch if you have reached the stage where you have given up touring paying for a pod in reality is likely to be less than the overall yearly costs when touring. So no large towcar, no servicing, no insurance, no campsite fees or increased fuel costs etc. So unless you intend to spend as many nights in pods as you did touring the annual outlay could be a lot less. You may have to look at costs in the round rather than individual costs. You probably also have to look at other self catering costs for a real comparison.
David
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There seems to be a fault with the web site. It seems to be throwing out the price for the Camping, rather than the Glamping pods. Much fewer frills and no en-suite facilities. This is possibly because all Glamping pods are taken. One is available for the 14 / 15th June and is £178.
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Unfortunately, the Club tends to call all its Pods, “Glamping Pods”. The range is quite different. Some are the basic wooden shed type, with little more than space, a basic heater and a plug point, sort of a rigid tent. These are possibly the £59 ones. Then there are the more swish Pods that are self contained with beds, ensuite bathroom, all sorts of other luxuries. These are a lot more expensive, but still look good, with some discounts depending on time of year etc......
Lumping everything together as Glamping is misleading. The wooden ones would be better called “Camping Pods”, that’s what they are really, a wooden tent.
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We have found the “Glamping Pods” ensuite bathroom ones, expensive compared with booking a cottage for a similar time period, and of course you get a lot more usually with a cottage. More space, more bedrooms, proper kitchen, garden etc...
Some of the discounts are worth considering though.
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Anyone who thinks shed when they see the word pod needs to check one out, they are very comfortable & so not shed like👍🏻
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A shed is still a shed, no matter how comfortable it might or might not be.
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The pods we stayed at are actually more caravan than shed. They are made by Swift.
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They are classified differently TDA. The basic camping type supposedly starting at £39 per night. The better equipped Glamping type with en-suite facilities £59.
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Say no more!!
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And a tin box is still a tin box no matter how much folk love em. The difference being the shed don’t cause 5mile tailbacks of irate motorists wherever they pootle.
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Caravanners and motorhomers would be far more likely to pull over for vehicles to go past them if they had the occasional acknowledgement thanking them for doing so, but that seems to be as common as hen's teeth! It wasn't that long ago that I was reading in the comments section of a newspaper, someone complaining about tractors being on country roads. Perhaps the person who wrote the comment thought that crops simply just grew in fields with no human intervention, then beamed themselves onto supermarket shelves.
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Caravanners and motorhomers would be far more likely to pull over for vehicles to go past them if they had the occasional acknowledgement thanking them for doing so
Do you actually need thanking in return for doing the correct thing? If a queue behind you is due to your outfit and/or driving then do the right thing and where safe/possible pull over and let them pass, if you feel the need then get out and stamp on the ground because of lack of acknowledgement then do so.
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Blimey, what do you tow your tin box/shed/home from home with in Yorkshire?
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A bit unnecessary there Metheven. Another David never claimed it was anyone else's fault, in fact he explicitly said it wasn't.
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Isuzu DMax, with C/van it’s over 40’(PS-shed ain’t on Wheels👍🏻)
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That might be the case but I got the impression the OP wanted to keep the connection with camping?
David
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