Sandy Balls (Discount)
25%discount at sandy Balls between 2nd and 26th May. Makes a Sunday to Thursday booking £11.25 a night. Use promo code TOURINGMAY on the booking form.
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Haven Tenby will do you a grass pitch at £6-80 with EHU or a super hard standing at £8 with CC discount. Same period. The offer applies accross their sites but prices and standard of pitches vary slightly.CC alternative at St Davids £17-50 per night for
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I've just posted the Sandy Balls offer in the "Tips for making caravanning cheaper" section. It undercuts even the CC "no facs" sites.
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These are rates that are clearly loss making. They are sites with lots of places for you to spend lots of money and that might be the idea. Frankly there is no way the club could operate at those prices and stay in business given they have no way of raising
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These are rates that are clearly loss making. They are sites with lots of places for you to spend lots of money and that might be the idea. Frankly there is no way the club could operate at those prices and stay in business given they have no way of raising
the additional revenue these sites have.Agreed, and, even more important to consider, there are many really good CLs within a 5 mile radius of SB who would welcome member's support for little more than these special rates. It's little point having a thread bemoaning the closure of CLs if members
are rushing to give the likes of SB their custom. The inevitable result will be more CL closures; they simply can't compete!
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I disagree that this is a 'loss leader'.......it is a sensible approach to filling pitches. Something that the CC will fail to understand at their (and our) ultimate cost.
I doubt these sites rely on gaining income from bars etc. Most of the ex-CC site users staying there will not give up their independance and self-sufficiency. Anyway, as BB has said, the camping, bars and other facilities will each be treated as cost centres
that will each be required to show a profit.The simple truth is that these independant sites are commercially aware......the CC is not.
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But there are always caravanners who will choose CLs & CS's over club or commercial sites whatever the cost. If there weren't some of those CLs that charge more than a club site would certainly be closed by now. Some people just prefer the relative solitude
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At least we agree on something, BB.
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Whilst I would take advantage of these mid-week deals, there is no way I would use the place for a week-end or high season. Equally, it would have to be a pretty special CL for me to part with £18 as well. For the most part I prefer CLs for the reasons stated
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People are using such as sandy balls/haven/Park resorts because they are offering what such as myself and others want at a price they want. We don't use the bars or restaurants, so they only get what we've paid for the pitch.
We are also booked for a week at Easewell farm Woolacombe Bay in September super large hard standing serviced pitch £45 including dog half mile down Lane from damage Barton.
It's all about choice, whether people want A CL/CC or commercial site.
Same as cy there's no way I would pay£18 for a grass patch in a field.
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In all the times we have used Haven and the like we have only used the tourist ammenities. Its the CC thats out of tune. The advertise a discount of 7.5% to CC members here and in the Mag. Surely a direct competitor to their own sites and the CL network.Where
will you get a CL or CC from 9/5 for £8 per night, Hard Standing,EHU and full shower block.Just look at late Availability and see how many empty pitches on CC sites in the same period.Any chance of offers from C to fill them? No hope, just more loss of income.0 -
With haven, if you make two bookings for 2 nts or more you get to be a member of the freedom trail club, and as such you get a further 10% discount on all future bookings . Search HAVEN FREEDOM TRAIL.
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I can understand the Haven multibuy discount- They promote it themselves.What I cant get my head round is the CC promoting the 7.5% discount to use Haven Sites. At the same time the CC sites are half empty. Also once You get a good experience elsewhere you
use them again and again. I recon myself I have lost some £500 to the club this winter by using the alternatives. Would Tesco promote a discount for me to shop at Sainsburys? What is the marketing department up to?0 -
I think that there's another point to add to the mix.
One of the reasons why we booked Sandy Balls, rather than one of the CC sites in the area (we've been to the New Forest Centenary Site and found it to be very pleasant) is that we could book a specific pitch on the SB site and be sure of a hardstanding. On
the CC site we couldn't even book and be sure of a hardstanding.At the Centenary site, there are a high proportion of grass pitches and we didn't want to run the risk of being on a water-logged pitch (as some people were when we last went there) or worse, having our holiday cancelled if it rained before we went.
Also, of course, SB was much cheaper.
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