2016 Site Fees and Site Renovations

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your comments and feedback which I have been forwarding on to the relevant departments and are valued by The Club. 

In response to your comments and OP regarding Club site pitch fees for 2016, this rise is largely due to increased operational costs including government levied increases of the national living wage and unavoidable inflationary increases on utilities. In
real terms, this has resulted in site fee increases from 25p up to £1.25 per person per night. 

As a Club we really value our members and do all we can to provide you with the highest quality sites. Your site fees go towards maintaining the wonderful network of 200 sites, managed by 800 comprehensively trained staff, dedicated to providing you safe
and happy holidays. In addition to this, we are continuously striving to deliver a programme of redevelopment works to ensure that sites are maintained to the highest standards. This winter alone, we will be upgrading 10 sites across the network at a cost
of £4.5 million, ranging from exciting full scale redesigns to road resurfacing. To read more information regarding this, please visit the

site redevelopments page of The Club website. There are many more already in the pipeline for 2016 and beyond on our continuous improvement plan.

With regards to Scotland, there are no major works going on in Scotland currently, but we do minor works across the network all the time which enhance and improve sites. Scotland has been a major focus of The Club over the last 5 or so years with The Club
investing millions of pounds in 3 fabulous new sites – Lochside, Stonehaven and Strathclyde. We have an ongoing development programme that is prioritised each year based on need and planning approvals, at this time other regions and sites have a greater need
but this is constantly reviewed and there are developments in Scotland on the plan for future years.

Please be assured we are working hard to continue to provide competitive prices and value for money by offering midweek discounts at selected sites, extended family offers, and reduced pitch fees at Southland on the Isle of Wight as well as a number of sites
where prices have been flattened to offer great value all season long.

We strive to provide quality sites and as such £9.7m was reinvested into the sites network in 2014; an increase of £2.4m compared with 2013 bringing the total investment in sites over the past five years to £46m (an average of £9.2m per year). 

I hope this hekps provide further information and thank you again for your contributions. 

However if it is full at weekends this could end up costing it money, unless it had separate weekend pricing.

Even B&Q have a 10% off day?

look at it this way - if weekends are full it really means they are over subscribed

so if by offering mid week at a cheaper rate some weekenders change to mid week. the week end spots will most likely be filled by others

Result - increased pitch use and profit

It really is not rocket science  

 It just needs the will to try something different such as mid week discounts across the board

However if it is full at weekends this could end up costing it money, unless it had separate weekend pricing.

Even B&Q have a 10% off day?

look at it this way - if weekends are full it really means they are over subscribed

so if by offering mid week at a cheaper rate some weekenders change to mid week. the week end spots will most likely be filled by others

Result - increased pitch use and profit

It really is not rocket science  

 It just needs the will to try something different such as mid week discounts across the board

...The B&Q 10% is for over sixties? midweek discounts attract the retired already,so I think it would not alter the W/end bookins that atract the "less fortunate" ie those that are working

I have been a long term advocate of market driven pricing. By offering large mid week discounts the CC company would benefit from otherwise empty pitches being used. 

This would of course mean that there would be a number of well subscribed Urban sites where mid week discounts would not apply. 

Head office would have to decide which sites require mid week discounting. 

K

Supply and demand, price should reflect this,  popular site's and popular weekends when demand outsrips supply, price should increase, less popular times decrease, most of the sites that I visit reflect this,the more expensive are always packed cheap ones
seem to be empty. CC should take note.

Not quite sure I follow your logic there. Are you saying the CC should increase its prices at popular sites until folk stop using them? 

Write your comments here..NO supply and demand means popular sites are oversubribed especially wk ends,so bang the price up get the money in tocut the rate at unpopular site's this is what most holiday company's do in fact there are one or two cc sites they
would have to pay me to go.

"It just needs the will to try something different such as mid week discounts across the board"

I'm not convinced midweek discounts across the board are the answer - many sites do very well mid week as it is - but I could see an argument for late booking discounts midweek on sites which have vacancies, even if only out of peak season.

Most if not all sites have vacancies mid week and especially outside peak period and so the midweeks would always be discounted.

Personally I have never taken much notice of which sites have a discount.

Where are the many, Malcolm? Even with Midweek discount I can only find 4 that are less than £13. Even the basic non-facility sites have gone up to £14 this year.

That £14 also represents a 10% annual rise over the past four years as well. Most definitely a squeezing of pips.

! I'm not sure but it looks as though the Meek family are here too right opposite where we are. We recognised them from the photos in the club magazine. 

you will have to pop over and say hello, or you could take them a pizza.

Read their latest story in the stories section....they sort of missed the boat for Spain recently..

 The difficulty is when these low price sites close in the winter leaving us all with less choice at that time of year. I believe caravanning should be an all year thing and not just a seasonal activity.

It is probably just not viable to keep them going over the winter for the few - especially when it is likely that costs - eg electricity use - will be more not less at this time.  Unless of course those few are happy to pay a lot more each to allow the site to at least break even.

Not sure which area of country you looking at fisherman, or which CL, but at that price, this time of year,  some Club Sites are much better value, especially if you can take advantage of midweek discount. If it is a popular CL, then perhaps they can justify
the price and have no pitches spare. If it isn't popular, try haggling on price. Few years ago, we were astonished at how much a CL would cost us in the area we wanted to visit, all very very expensive, and no Club Sites or private sites open at that time,
so we gave up and had 10 glorious days in a cottage closer to home. Cost us a fraction of what CLs plus towing travel would have, and of course cottage, space, all mod cons ensuite, dogs welcome, up on NY moors, a bargain! Hope you find something.