2022 great savings guide
Will the club be producing a booklet / vouchers this year
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Does anyone know if there will be a paper copy available to order from HO?
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We have been working really hard to secure as many Great Saving Guide savings as possible but due to the covid pandemic many venues were closed and/or staff unavailable in 2021 and start of 2022. Securing offers has been and continues to be VERY challenging. We are still approaching venues for savings and will continue to do so throughout 2022.
We do not have a physical booklet planned for 2022. Our focus is securing as many savings as possible and loading them onto the website as soon as possible (we aim to update the website on a weekly / bi-weekly basis).
To view all our current Great Savings Guide venues visit www.camc.com/greatsavingsguide
To view all of our other Member Offers visit www.camc.com/memberoffers
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Thanks, Ro, but not a lot of help to those that do not choose to use the web. It is not always possible to get a WiFi signal either when out in the wild however a published booked is always at hand and gives easy reference to what is available locally. Yet another example of discrimination against those without internet access.
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They take the same approach to proper pricing information on sites as well despite my protestations over a year ago. As NTH has observed, a totally useless attitude if, when touring, an internet connection is not available.
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I personally think too much is made of lack of internet connection. There can’t be many places in the UK where internet access either mobile or hot spot can’t be achieved with a minimal journey. I noted on the latest update of O2’s coverage checker that it is now even available at Altnaharra. In the case of this latest addition of the great savings guide, it makes every sort of sense not to publish a hard copy when it is still being compiled. Hopefully in the near future they will also offer a fully digital membership like the C&CC, who have just taken £14 less on the direct debit than this club.
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Going by what Rowena has explained, even if they had produced a printed version it would have been far from complete so it is possible it would on only been of limited use and would probably need several reprints to keep it up to date. Also what I don't understand about the possibility of not having internet access surely there is an element of pre planning when people go away on trips and much research can be done before you go? That equally applies to pricing.
On an associated topic I noticed that the choice of Tesco Club Card venues has been reduced due to COVID so its not only the Club that are having difficulties finding partners.
David
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Depends on the age group? and as it seems it is the silver haired age group that keep sites going off peak?
As said on rip off Britain this morning ,With the switch to digital phone lines by BT ,in the next few years ,unless you have a mobile phone as well, a power cut will leave many people cut off, especially the elderly, population which is getting bigger
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It is a fact of life that more and more of the everyday things we do are now online and life for those, who refuse to use the internet, will get more and more difficult and in some cases more costly. I can't imagine a world without the internet now. Do you know the reason for their unwillingness, is it a lack of understanding or trust? I don't know where this reluctance comes from. I am in my mid seventies and have been retired about 15 years now but when I was working computers were part of everyday life.
David
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I couldn’t understand how a mobile was necessarily going to be much use. When we had a power cut a bit back it was large enough to knock out the cell towers as well. Land line still worked though.😀 However, I suppose in most cases there will be a cell tower in range. We didn’t get a phone until I was in my teens, although there were phone boxes back then. The change is designed to improve things overall and keep costs down. I guess it’s something we will have to get used to.
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My Dad is 84 ... he uses the web at home and on his mobile which he's had for the best part of 30 years. So age isn't a barrier to living in the modern world. IMHO it's very short sighted to ignore the web completely ..... it's not going to go away.
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If I decide to take part in an activity that requires equipment I purchase or perhaps rent said equipment. Most folk wouldn’t think of caravanning without items that 20 / 30 years ago wouldn’t have even registered as being essential. Perhaps some sort of internet capable device is starting to fall into this category.
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I couldn’t understand how a mobile was necessarily going to be much use
A neighbour used to work for Hutchinson, a telecommunication company, he used to say their aim was for everyone to be able to have a mobile phone. We thought, why would we all need or want a mobile phone? How wrong we were. Rabbit
although there were phone boxes back then.
Push button A or push button B? 😉
We had a house phone since I was about 7 (1969) but that was only because the house my Mum & Dad bought came with one & they kept it ... it was originally on a party line! Neighbours used to knock with a 10p in their hand to ask if they could use our phone.
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How many members take a printer on holiday to print off great savings guide vouchers ????
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WiFi is only getting better, 6G is in the planning. The main issue with signal strength is an older mobile🤷🏻♂️
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Quite so, if you need printed vouchers to take advantage of any of the offers you have to pre plan by printing them at home before you leave. I did once buy a cheap printer to take away on our then long trips to Europe but quite honestly it wasn't really worth it, its probably still cluttering up some cupboard in the house somewhere!!! There are now some nice printers that are quite compact but they tend to be very expensive compared to home printers. Many venues only need the offer code so easy enough to note down before you leave or show it on a Smart Phone.
David
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My Dad (sadly no longer here) was positive and enthusiastic about the web. He first attended IT adult education lessons aged 86 and never looked back. In particular he loved to upload and exchange photos with my sister in Australia. He also sent email letters of complaint to the Council, Prime Minister & Alex Ferguson on a regular basis! However, he did have a deep irrational mistrust of those he imagined to be sat in the background somewhere watching what he was doing. He got very annoyed whenever he received some kind of error message - he was convinced it was personal to him. ED is right, age shouldn’t be a barrier but I can understand some older folks getting very confused and anxious about it.
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Or a screen shot👍🏻
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