Increase in membership fee
I read that the membership fee is going to increase to £66.. I never use club sites, so why can't there be a fee for just using CL's. First Joined the club in 1978 and spent many years rallying ,with old age & health comes different requirement .If I have to pay for a facility that I do not use then I will consider leaving the club.
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If you and others are allowed to pay a lower membership fee, CAMC’s overall income from membership fees will drop. Ergo, the fee for full membership would need to increase in order to compensate. Would you wish that on your fellow members?
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You pay the cost of club sites in site fees not through the annual membership fee which would go nowhere in the costs of sites if part of it was used in this way. The club has closed any sites running at an unsustainable level rather than use fees to support them. The membership fee covers the operating costs of the club as a whole including head office and free services.
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I’m not sure why you think there should be a reduced charge. The licensing and inspection of CL’s is not cost free and I as a non CL user are contributing to those in my membership fee, as well as paying to use club sites to the sum of at least £1500 in an average year. You say you don’t use club sites, therefore you are hardly paying for a facility you do not use. Surely it would be a bit self defeating to leave the club, over what is a relatively small annual increase of £3, as it would mean you could no longer use the CL network.
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Well I could say that as I don't use CLs so I should really be paying less for my membership?
But I know that a lot of members use CLs (and other club services I don't use) and my membership fee helps them all.
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I caravanned in ten countries just paying overnight costs and without needing to pay any membership fee at all. Three friends with camper vans do that in UK too .
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Did you not bother with ACSI then? @eurortraveller
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There is perhaps an argument that members only using CL's should be charged more not less. Other than perhaps being a reason why some members belong to the Club they make no money from having the CL network and yet they, no doubt, have to spend a considerable amount of money publicising CL's , inspecting CL's and paying for support staff at HQ. So I can't see any logic for a reduced membership fee if member decide only to use CL's.
David
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With any membership fee it gives you access to all the benefits regardless of whether you choose to use them or not. It’s the same as all memberships be that the caravan club or a streaming service for example, some aspects you use some you don’t. That’s the choice we make when we sign up.
for example, I don’t watch horror movies on Netflix but I don’t expect a discount.
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Oh, yes, and Layton's not far off. 👍🏻
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No annual fee for independent campsites, Premier Inn, Booking.com, AirBnB, and anywhere else I stay in the world. What an anachronism this business of annual membership fees. Time they went.
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Why do remain a member then?
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They do not provide other services the club do and the costs of running the business that the club has are included in the charges for the room. The difference is where they put the charges not if they exist. The club is a different business model but the principal of covering overheads is the same, if those businesses charged a membership fee they could have cheaper rooms.
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@layton1837 the trick to getting your monies worth is to make full use of the special offers and partner discounts that the Club offers and negotiates. Every year we paid our Membership we got discounts on clothing, days out, etc…….. it always saved us more than the Fee. The Club is a licensing agency for small campsites as well, so does make sure that the CLs adhere to certain criteria and H&S standards, so you do get access to these often fat cheaper sites.
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@eurortraveller You're making it sound as if this membership fee is somehow mandatory? If it wasn't popular for whatever reason then people wouldn't buy it and it would fade away. You pay it.
Actually I do pay into some membership fees, one including accomodation, that gives me reduced prices for that product.
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