Cost of pitches
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I agree, but apparently it needed the deposit scheme to convince Members that this would prevent block booking of weekends. So that’s been a huge success🤭 The MWD were very popular, it made us use Club Sites more. Miss these. Or we will if we ever rejoin🤣2
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Gremlins again, empty post.
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Midweek has spaces, outside of summer peak, because most members are working perhaps. I did have the figures at home but contrary to popular belief the retired do not account for the majority. So nothing to do with prices in my view. Expecting full sites midweek is just not reasonable. Although there are a number of sites (my top 5 that I monitor) where getting more than three days in is almost impossible from May onwards.
To put this in perspective, this morning we went to Penrith for supplies. We went into the Cumbrian food hall, forget the name ( Bramstons?) and had two fantastic full breakfasts and drinks and it came to just short of £35 and the place was packed, in fact there was a queue. So £40 mostly for a club site doesn't appear bad at all.
For a comparison in Morrisons cafe it would have been £25. I suppose the CL of cafes😊
Btw, got back to the site at 12:20 and one motorhome and one caravan outfit were being turned away. Well done club.
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of course the pitches are, imo overpriced, everything is overpriced since covid and going up each year. So we don't go to the sites that have silly prices, which is a shame but I don't pay over £35 a night.
Of course you then have to add the membership annual fee , divide that between the sites you visit and it starts to mount up.
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……it starts to mount up.
Mmm, our weekly shopping bill mounts up to more and more each week as it has ever since the pandemic. I’m shocked too at how prices in supermarkets have risen this week as they do every Christmas, Easter and July/August when people are holidaying. Why expect caravan site prices to behave differently from those for food, energy, water, shoes etc etc?
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Cranstons at Penrith. We go up there every couple months. A nice ride out - up the M6 - breakfast and shopping (in Cranstons) and back down the A6 over Shap.
The cafe is reasonably priced, but in the shop most things are bit dearer than Booths. But it’s once in a while as a sort of treat so I don’t complain.
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Of course you then have to add the membership annual fee , divide that between the sites you visit and it starts to mount up.
@joanie There are various ways of getting your membership back. As a for instance, In the last year there have been 3 free nights which saved us over £120.
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I can't ever remember having 3 week's holiday at Easter, it was always 2 weeks up here. What I tried to say was that different areas have different holiday periods, up here it is the two weeks, and a bit, ending with Easter Monday, while others, such as in the Midlands, have the Easter weekend in the middle of their holiday period.
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But what sites have closed? The cheaper and more basic sites because we were told no one was using them, or using them enough to make them viable
That may be what they want us to believe, but perhaps the reason is that those site were not making such a large profit compared to that made at full facility sites, and by closing the more basic ones, thus reducing pitch number availability, they hoped that CC-dedicated members would start using the excessively more expensive sites instead.
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Ah, ambiguity!
I never had you down as a conspiracy theorist, Nellie 😆
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There are various ways of getting your membership back. As a for instance, In the last year there have been 3 free nights which saved us over £120.
Don't know how you managed that Steve, I only had one and I have not had the latest offer. Don't think I have ever covered the whole of the membership fee with offers.
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We had three come to our inbox. Although there were stipulations on when they had to be booked / used by that might not of suited everyone and although one of the offers could be used for a single night, the others were for two or more. We used the first for a booking at Baltic Wharf in March 24 , the second for a service pitch at Clumber with the granddaughter in October half term and the third on the first run of this year for a service pitch at Knaresborough March 25. All three bookings were over £40 a night. As our membership runs Jan to Jan, 2024 was easily covered and 2025 is a fair chunk of the way there. I’ve not had this latest one and couldn’t use it anyway but perhaps they’ll have one for this Autumn. 🤞
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We always covered our Membership costs by using some of the discounts negotiated with lots of places to visit, and discount off in various shops such as Mountain Warehouse. I recall one year we got a huge discount on North York Moors Railway, and Eden Camp was 2 for 1. I’d post a link, but not sure if I can access the full list of offers at the moment being a non Member. But it was extensive, all over the country, so you just got organised and planned ahead. Lots of places to take children I do recall.0
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Even if we didn’t benefit from any free nights / offers the extra cost because of membership for us would not be that great. Although we use others, we like club sites and spent 52 nights on them last year. We will likely do similar this year which will equate to £1.27 a night. Although as we would keep membership to access Mayday and Red Pennant it’s a bit academic.
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It’s usually well worth it for access to CLs as well👍1
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If the cost of pitches in the UK is really of concern, have you considered travelling further afield. See my story. Once across the Channel you can tour very cheaply, especially with a motorhome. With a motorhome, you will pay no more than 15 euros a night and in some cases it can be free. Checkout Camping Car and my comments on "Stop and Go" sites the latter are mushrooming in Spain. The cost of getting across the Channel can be recovered quite quickly especially if you already have travel insurance covering other trips (we have annual insurance) and of course the chances of better weather are considerably improved.
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That doesn't mean that it isn't true, though, @Tinwheeler, does it?😁😁
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Neither foes it mean it is true🤣🤣
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Each of us are allowed our own thoughts on the situation, whether we are believe what "they" say or not, thankfully.😙😙
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It no longer concerns me and I view issues as an outsider with an open mind but what I do see is some folk always assuming the worst of CAMC. There are quite a few on here.
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Perhaps the number on here reflect what the membership as although whole think!
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I doubt it, tbh.
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So far this year we've saved £60 on boots from Cotswold (you can get the discount if you're a member of the National Trust as well) , had a free night at Abbey Wood worth £35, and got paid £40 for taking part in a Teams meeting on website improvements.
We're very happy club members.
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@nelliethehooker I really can't see that, it doesn't make sense. 'Forcing' people to spend more money? No.
Also when these sites were closing people posted to say they had been on and they were sometimes the only ones using them.
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Again if that were true, full fat sites would be empty.
The number of regulars posting on here are what? Under 50? under 100? Compare that to the membership of 376,000, that 0.026%, even 200 regular posters would mean 0.052% of the membership. How can that possibly reflect what the membership as a whole thinks?
Never mind the age discrepancy between the membership and posters on here.
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Why wouldn't those who post on here not reflect what is the general opinion of the membership? Whenever polls are taken relatively few of the whole population are asked their opinion. As well as what is being said on here similar thoughts are also being expressed on the other caravan forums.
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https://clubtogether.caravanclub.co.uk/discussion/comment/876250#Comment_876250
I am lost for words that 0.05% at best (that is 5 in 10,000 people assuming 200 regular posters which is pushing it a lot) of any population could possibly represent that population in any way?
@nelliethehooker how do you or anyone know what number is taken for any survey?
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The simple answer to that one is that we haven't got a clue as to how representative we are as the numbers are nowhere near big enough. There are wide divisions in the belief of many members on numerous subjects and we simply have to accept the rules and decide if the club is for us. No one forces you to be a member and as long as you can voice your opinions in a reasonable manner I can see no problems. You just have to realise they are opinions and not facts to keep discussions friendly.
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