CLOSED - Prices of pitches

145791013

Comments

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218 ✭✭✭
    2,500 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #182

    If anyone has perused the July copy of the magazine, there is a page of 'grab a bargain' sites where, with one exception which I think is a no facility site, they are all getting rather close to the £30 per night mark. Bargain? I don't think so.

  • Unknown
    Unknown Forum Participant
    edited July 2016 #183
    The user and all related content has been Deleted User
  • Wildwood
    Wildwood Club Member Posts: 3,585
    1000 Comments 250 Likes Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #184

    If anyone has perused the July copy of the magazine, there is a page of 'grab a bargain' sites where, with one exception which I think is a no facility site, they are all getting rather close to the £30 per night mark. Bargain? I don't think so.

    Value for money is a matter of persoanl judgement bearing in mind what you want from a site. I have to agree that club sites are rarely bargains but they satisft a lot of peoples requirements and to me are certainly not silly high but I suppose that is just
    an opinion as well.

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #185

    Let's just cut to the chase.......Moulesy, what is the price per night of the CC site you are currently on?

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #186

    Let's just cut to the chase.......Moulesy, what is the price per night of the CC site you are currently on?

    For us Ian? Did you not see my earlier post? Just under £16 a night. If you don't use vouchers it's just gone into peak season, so £25.30 a night, 2 adults, 2 dogs, EHU and HS. Hardly excessive. How about Brighton? Undecided

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #187

    Let's just cut to the chase.......Moulesy, what is the price per night of the CC site you are currently on?

    To save you the trouble......it's £25.30 per night for 2 adults......slightly more than what you say is unacceptably expensive.

    Moulesy, I think you have embarrassed yourself enough on this thread......I'd quit while you are just this far behind, if I were you......

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #188

    No Ian, I didn't say "unacceptably expensive" - please don't misquote me - it's poor forum etiquette! I said it was 30p more than the cap we set ourselves for July/August. ( And we'll pay that because we're relaxed about the fact that CC sites suit us fine if they're in the area we're visiting. If we thought they were overpricedvand substandard we wouldn't use them - who would if thought that?)

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #189

    Let's just cut to the chase.......Moulesy, what is the price per night of the CC site you are currently on?

    To save you the trouble......it's £25.30 per night for 2 adults......slightly more than what you say is unacceptably expensive.

    Moulesy, I think you have embarrassed yourself enough on this thread......I'd quit while you are just this far behind, if I were you......

    Point scoring again Ian? How sad. But I would be embarased if I constantly went on about how expensive and substandard CC sites were - and then used them anyway. Still each to their own, I suppose some will pay whatever the cost whether they like the site or not! Sad

  • moulesy
    moulesy Forum Participant Posts: 9,404 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #190

    Ouch! Brighton was £23.70 last week before peak and is now over £30 in peak. Why would you pay that sort of money for a substandard site? Laughing

  • Unknown
    Unknown Forum Participant
    edited July 2016 #191
    The user and all related content has been Deleted User
  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #192

    If anyone has perused the July copy of the magazine, there is a page of 'grab a bargain' sites where, with one exception which I think is a no facility site, they are all getting rather close to the £30 per night mark. Bargain? I don't think so.

    Value for money is a matter of persoanl judgement bearing in mind what you want from a site. I have to agree that club sites are rarely bargains but they satisft a lot of peoples requirements and to me are certainly not silly high but I suppose that is just
    an opinion as well.

    I would agree with your post and opinion. Club sites for me represent exactly what I want, if people want more expensive
    and cheaper sites they are there as well

  • Unknown
    Unknown Forum Participant
    edited July 2016 #193
    The user and all related content has been Deleted User
  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper
    edited July 2016 #194

    So using SteveL's argument, AD did have an amazingly cheap holiday in France for only 1 Euro per day Laughing

    FYI Steve,  a camping cheque pays for 1 night no matter how expensive the site is ( as long as they participate in the scheme)

    It seems he did. As with the CC vouchers they can be used for nothing else. So it is a case of use it or loose it. In our case in August we will use 3 and obtain a £93.30 reduction on the week. Although as the site is what we want, where we want, we would
    have paid the full price if we did not have them.

  • Surfer
    Surfer Club Member Posts: 1,303
    500 Comments 100 Likes
    edited July 2016 #195

    No matter how much members object to the high prices the CC is charging, because we are members the CC management will continue to ignore its members and keep increasing prices every year above the rate of inflation!  They don't appear to give a rat's rear
    end about the wishes of members!

  • Rocky 2 buckets
    Rocky 2 buckets Forum Participant Posts: 7,101
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #196

    Surfer, the bottom line is-they're a business, their 1st priority is survival followed by expansion & further profit to fund ongoing plans/models. Whilst the business is well supported & successful they will continue with that business model. For every disgruntled
    member they have countless thousands of happy customers. When that trend reverses they will listen. They are mining a rich seam-why move away from it. The Billy Butlin/smiley face/hand shaking model died many years ago with the failing of the business model.
    Evolve or die-CC are evolving.

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #197

    Surfer, the bottom line is-they're a business, their 1st priority is survival followed by expansion & further profit to fund ongoing plans/models. Whilst the business is well supported & successful they will continue with that business model. For every disgruntled member they have countless thousands of happy customers. When that trend reverses they will listen. They are mining a rich seam-why move away from it. The Billy Butlin/smiley face/hand shaking model died many years ago with the failing of the business model. Evolve or die-CC are evolving.

    +1

    why some poeple believe that the club is some form of charity that should lower its prices is beyond me. You like club site you pay the price and go, if you don't like the sites or price then don't. 

     

  • Unknown
    edited July 2016 #198
    This content has been removed.
  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #199

    If you read recent reports in the June mag you'd know that the CC is looking ahead and thinking of changes. Apparently quite a few people want more Hillhead type sites. Hillhead is an example of a site with a leisure complex that doesn't spill out all over the site and if younger families want more of this I expect the CC will already be thinking about it. I'm a fan of small non fac sites and I hope the balance of choice will stay. The Hillhead sites come at a price for those that want it.

  • Rocky 2 buckets
    Rocky 2 buckets Forum Participant Posts: 7,101
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #200

    BB, 'Jurassic' is way off the mark. CC is still alive/kicking & growing, regardless of our opinions they are doing something that a lot of folk both like & support. I am not cheerleading just stating facts. I have neither a positive nor a negative attitude
    to the CC brand-it is what it is, successful.

  • Unknown
    edited July 2016 #201
    This content has been removed.
  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #202

    CC.....evolving.....?

    i thought it was 'same old, same old'.....no real change in the offering, just raise prices......

    'Jurassic', comes to mindUndecided

    Look how quickly CT computing issues are dealt with....

    ...and how's the 'book a HS' system change going..?

    'Glacial'.....might also be appositeWink

    and yet, and yet, for all its failings you, and others who knock the club at every possible opportunity, still come on CT and use club sites?

  • Unknown
    edited July 2016 #203
    This content has been removed.
  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #204

    I don't know who owns the "big park" companies (probably a few consortiums involved there) but the CC has a very large selection of sites. Probably more than most and to my mind manages them well. Unfortunately costs and contingency funds rise year on year.

     

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #205

    BB the report and discussions spoke about a survey. There were two pages of information and it made interesting reading. Club Together was also mentioned.

  • Rocky 2 buckets
    Rocky 2 buckets Forum Participant Posts: 7,101
    1000 Comments
    edited July 2016 #206

    BB, take your ex employer, who'd have thought an overpriced shoe company would be still around almost 200yrs later?. It's a successful business & has evolved to give its customers what they want, not only engendering loyalty but picking up new customers
    for nearly 2 centuries, CC have done the same. They are both still around, I'd hardly call Clarks 'glacial'.

  • Unknown
    edited July 2016 #207
    This content has been removed.
  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper
    edited July 2016 #208

    CC.....evolving.....?

    i thought it was 'same old, same old'.....no real change in the offering, just raise prices......

    'Jurassic', comes to mindUndecided

    Look how quickly CT computing issues are dealt with....

    ...and how's the 'book a HS' system change going..?

    'Glacial'.....might also be appositeWink

    Happy to be a dinosaur, and if we are in the Jurassic mass extinction isn't for another 80 million years. Time for a few more holidays yet.

  • Unknown
    edited July 2016 #209
    This content has been removed.
  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #210

    CC.....evolving.....?

    i thought it was 'same old, same old'.....no real change in the offering, just raise prices......

    'Jurassic', comes to mindUndecided

    Look how quickly CT computing issues are dealt with....

    ...and how's the 'book a HS' system change going..?

    'Glacial'.....might also be appositeWink

    and yet, and yet, for all its failings you, and others who knock the club at every possible opportunity, still come on CT and use club sites?

    Corners, i use all sorts of sites....

    both clubs (i am a member of both)

    their CL/CS sites

    THS temp hol sites

    Commercials 

    continental sites and aires

    supermarket car parks (i like Intermarche and E Leclerc the bestWink)

    IMHO, this gives me a real perspective of how the club and its sites fit into the total offering...im not commenting from a one view perspective as some are...Undecided

    mmm, a good evasive answer as expected from you, but it doesn't really answer my point why you keep on using a club and Ct that you consider so poor? (as evidenced by your constant stream of possible improvements)

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,436 ✭✭✭
    5,000 Likes 1000 Comments Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited July 2016 #211

    BB, take your ex employer, who'd have thought an overpriced shoe company would be still around almost 200yrs later?. It's a successful business & has evolved to give its customers what they want, not only engendering loyalty but picking up new customers for nearly 2 centuries, CC have done the same. They are both still around, I'd hardly call Clarks 'glacial'.

    I wonder if BB tried shopping (or wearing) other cheaper shoe shops and shoes? so as to quote:

     not commenting from a one view perspective as some are

    Or even ask Clarkes to reduce their prices are there were other cheaper shoes on the market that did the job just as well?