Excessive site fees

Being a members of both Clubs I use whichever sites suits my particular holiday   Invercoe is in a stunning location. On the outskirts of the Village of Glencoe.  Right on the water's edge.  Cheaper per night than Bunree or North Ledaig. Although Bunree is one of our favourite sites we have also stayed at Invercoe. 

Glen Nevis site is an excellent site and we have stayed there many times. It is within walking distance of Fort William  a bit nearer to 3 miles.walk. It's right across from the Tourist Path up Ben Nevis. Adjacent to a lovely river with the "bouncy bridge"  at the visitors centre.

We never Slavishly follow "the CC sites only" mantra, We go to the most interesting places and use the nearest decent.campsite or CL to that location.

 It's what you do on holiday which matters, not how nice a view you get of the other caravans. 

K 

Just returned from Chester Fair Oaks site, one night, £31.30 !!, I nearly choked on my dentures, It was our first trip out this year, only able to book something last minute.Ok, apparently, our over night stay was classed as still in  the 'High' season,
but £31.30 per night (two adults) to stay in my own caravan is ridiculous. The club is in danger of  killing the goose that layed the golden egg. it's easy sometimes to forget that we have also paid a membership fee for the privilege of being charged so much.

Write your comments here...Why go to a Caravan Club site?  We never do as they look like supermarket car parks to us.  We often find a CL either with no other caravans or only one or two.  It reminds me of camping as a child in the 1950's.

Being a members of both Clubs I use whichever sites suits my particular holiday   Invercoe is in a stunning location. On the outskirts of the Village of Glencoe.  Right on the water's edge.  Cheaper per night than Bunree or North Ledaig. Although Bunree
is one of our favourite sites we have also stayed at Invercoe. 

Glen Nevis site is an excellent site and we have stayed there many times. It is within walking distance of Fort William  a bit nearer to 3 miles.walk. It's right across from the Tourist Path up Ben Nevis. Adjacent to a lovely river with the "bouncy bridge"
 at the visitors centre.

We never Slavishly follow "the CC sites only"
mantra, We go to the most interesting places and use the nearest decent.campsite or CL to that location.

 It's what you do on holiday which matters, not how nice a view you get of the other caravans. 

K 

Write your comments here... We are also members of both clubs and check out sites from both when touring. Just back from Camping in the Forrest site at Aberfoyle which is run by the C&CC and thoroughly enjoyed it although no CC site there.

At Oban would go for North Ledaig for the view though and same at Bunree.

Write your comments here...Glad you enjoyed Cobbleland Wildwood. We go there often. Great walking straight from the site, great cycle track into Aberfoyle and one of the best warden couples we have ever come across. 

K 

We live in the South East and like to go away for lots of long weekends, not too far away, all year round, in addition to our longer summer trips. We are having difficullty finding sites at times in places that are convenient for motorhomers, i.e. leave
motorhome in situ and explore on foot/buses, and certainly are finding the Caravan Club Sites very expensive just for three nights. Guess they do not really want us, only the people who stay longer.

We live in the South East and like to go away for lots of long weekends, not too far away, all year round, in addition to our longer summer trips. We are having difficullty finding sites at times in places that are convenient for motorhomers, i.e. leave motorhome in situ and explore on foot/buses, and certainly are finding the Caravan Club Sites very expensive just for three nights. Guess they do not really want us, only the people who stay longer.

Not really.......they are now just attracting the "I will pay whatever the CC decide to charge"  brigade. 

That, of course, can only last so long and then even tbe CC will have to see reality.......

yet another brigade!  Trouble is one man's brigade is well err, another man's brigade! Which 'brigade' are you in? The let's all be exactly like all the commercials  brigade??

We are in the "not daft enough to pay Club Site Summer price brigade!" Lots of members, growing annually!

 And that's exactly what many of the let's all be lke the commercial brigade do, as well as charge for my awning and dog and charge for a minimum of 3 nights!!

Some of us critisise the club but hopefully in a constructive manner.In my cases when I have referred to excessive charges I have used actual other sites to compare. I have always used the same time period in my comparisons.As I don t use club sites during
school holidays I kept off that period. My concern is that those of us who use sites in the slack period, when they are very sparsley occupied now go elsewhere, where there are better offers and excellent commercial sites.This results is loss of income to
the club.As an example we used Lady Margaret once this winter/spring whereas normally we would have been there 5/6 times. We used alternatives and have been away more recently than previous years. The club has moved away from its base, neglecting its core
business for more "sexy" issues, building up a huge HO organisation which seems to be more interested in providing well paid jobs for themselves to the detriment of the members. I dont expect anyone else to totally agree with me but hopefully through CT some
of these observations will be heard at HO and maybe make things better.

Some of us critisise the club but hopefully in a constructive manner.In my cases when I have referred to excessive charges I have used actual other sites to compare. I have always used the same time period in my comparisons.As I don t use club sites during
school holidays I kept off that period. My concern is that those of us who use sites in the slack period, when they are very sparsley occupied now go elsewhere, where there are better offers and excellent commercial sites.This results is loss of income to
the club.As an example we used Lady Margaret once this winter/spring whereas normally we would have been there 5/6 times. We used alternatives and have been away more recently than previous years. The club has moved away from its base, neglecting its core
business for more "sexy" issues, building up a huge HO organisation which seems to be more interested in providing well paid jobs for themselves to the detriment of the members. I dont expect anyone else to totally agree with me but hopefully through CT some
of these observations will be heard at HO and maybe make things better.

Write your comments here...What proof do you have of HO over paying themselves or inflating the number of job positions they have or should everyoine who workls for the CC get paid the bare minimum wage, work in a crap office just so you can enjoy a holiday
a bit cheaper!!!

There is a simple issue of supply and demand, the sites make a profit at a price people are willing and able to pay simples, they do not have any alternative income stream once you are on site unlike haven etal with bars, restaurants, sports facilities etc.

If everyone is htat fed up why continue to be a member?

As I've posted elsewhere - "you pays your money and you makes your choice".

The club, along with the C&CC offers an alternative to commercial organisations and many stand alone private sites - both in what they provide and in their pricing structure. Club sites are undoubtedly more expensive than many commercial/private sites out of peak season (although to term the difference excessive is somewhat misleading I feel), but that is mainly down to the special offers those sites offer at that time of year (if you comare them night for night they're often not so very different). To compensate, they whack up the prices mightily in peak season, precisely the time when families are more likely to want to use them and precisely the time when club sites become more affordable. That's good isn't it? It encourages families who don't want all singing/all dancing sites to use them.

Surely it's good to have that alternative? Surely it's good to have a network of sites, many of which are away from holiday hotspots?

Folk who want to and can take advantage of special offers at others sites would be crazy not to do so - good luck to them. But personally I just don't get this argument that the club, its sites and its prices should become some sort of "Haven" clone. (Other leisure organisations are available!)

Choose whatever is right for you, but don't knock folk who think and choose differently. It's their money, their choice!

As I've posted elsewhere - "you pays your money and you makes your choice".

The club, along with the C&CC offers an alternative to commercial organisations and many stand alone private sites - both in what they provide and in their pricing structure. Club sites are undoubtedly more expensive than many commercial/private sites out
of peak season (although to term the difference excessive is somewhat misleading I feel), but that is mainly down to the special offers those sites offer at that time of year (if you comare them night for night they're often not so very different). To compensate,
they whack up the prices mightily in peak season, precisely the time when families are more likely to want to use them and precisely the time when club sites become more affordable. That's good isn't it? It encourages families who don't want all singing/all
dancing sites to use them.

Surely it's good to have that alternative? Surely it's good to have a network of sites, many of which are away from holiday hotspots?

Folk who want to and can take advantage of special offers at others sites would be crazy not to do so - good luck to them. But personally I just don't get this argument that the club, its sites and its prices should become some sort of "Haven" clone. (Other
leisure organisations are available!)

Choose whatever is right for you, but don't knock folk who think and choose differently. It's their money, their choice!

I can't highlight your contention about bumping fees at peak times on commercial sites, but in our experience, being a family that is tied to school holidays, as I posted in the other Site Fees thread; the CC is higher priced, for less facilities. My other
thread illustrates our first years caravanning site fees, facilities and locations for a more informed debate and not just statements. I did the analysis to see what was what after 'hearing' lots of views about the CC prior to actually joining. We did the
same exercise 10 years ago with the C&CC when the CC did not welcome MH. We didn't renew the C&CC those yeas ago after the first year. We did a lot of rallying with a MH owners club thereafter including a convoy to Poland.

As I say there, we have chosen to use CC, CL and Commercial sites going forward, our choice. 

As has been said by a lot more people than the "knockers"when chosing cc or ccc sites in the majority of circumstances,it is a known good quality product  that can stand up to the majority of competion, as is noted in the majority of sites at peak periods,both
clubs seem to be investing, where possible ,in their sites some of which have been on the networks far longer than probably any posters on here,and i am sure its very difficult for either club to juggle the available money into which site gets this years investment
with over 300 sites between them,but as we know the few who actually post on here saying that the clubs are getting to expensive, has not reached the real world members