Excessive site fees

i would have thought that 2 showers for 5 vans was an exceptionally favourable ratio.

for a 100 van site youd need 40 showers to acheive the same..

i certainly would look for, nor expect, showers and toilets on a 5 van site, though some do have them.....

I think Ac said a 5 field site, not a 5 van site.......

i would have thought that 2 showers for 5 vans was an exceptionally favourable ratio.

for a 100 van site youd need 40 showers to acheive the same..

i certainly would look for, nor expect, showers and toilets on a 5 van site, though some do have them.....

I think Ac said a 5 field site, not a 5 van site.......

Well spotted, Q

i guess it boils down to how many vans in each field.....but if they were, large, full fields, then 2 showers might be stretching things

however, many are happy just to use their on board one...

What it all boils down to is that if you want cheap look elsewhere but if club sites suit you and you are willing to pay a small premium then use them. Value for money is a completely different thing from cost but is not an exact science. Basically it is
what you feel is right for you so there is no right or wrong price it is your perception of it.

Yes, it really is that simple! 

Write your comments here...Not quite !! Nice facilities and flower pots around the site are only a small part of what makes a good holiday.

It's what you do on holiday which matters. Which introduces the subject of location. While some may think it is cost effective to stay on a site in the middle of a built up area with shops, noise and polution,--- others will think that it is not. 

Whereas some might think that a site in the middle of the countryside surrounded by great natural beauty and the opportunity for  nature watching,, walking and cycling may consider this great value for money. Others might think there is no value for money
there.

It's very much what suits your lifestyle and interest. 

The CC have sites which can cater to a certain extent for both types of caravanner. But so have other organisations.

K  

 

..That is precisely what has been said by most who post on here me included

What it all boils down to is that if you want cheap look elsewhere but if club sites suit you and you are willing to pay a small premium then use them. Value for money is a completely different thing from cost but is not an exact science. Basically it is
what you feel is right for you so there is no right or wrong price it is your perception of it.

Yes, it really is that simple! 

Write your comments here...Not quite !! Nice facilities and flower pots around the site are only a small part of what makes a good holiday.

It's what you do on holiday which matters. Which introduces the subject of location. While some may think it is cost effective to stay on a site in the middle of a built up area with shops, noise and polution,--- others will think that it is not. 

Whereas some might think that a site in the middle of the countryside surrounded by great natural beauty and the opportunity for  nature watching,, walking and cycling may consider this great value for money. Others might think there is no value for money
there.

It's very much what suits your lifestyle and interest. 

The CC have sites which can cater to a certain extent for both types of caravanner. But so have other organisations.

K  

 

I think that's pretty much what was said above wasn't it (only in fewer words! 

Write your comments here...Nope !!!

K 

Just been looking at some sites around the West Midlands for a short stay and have been mildly shocked at some of the Club site prices during peak season.  I have for some time thought that the affiliated sites run by Morris Leisure to be expensive, but now I find that some CC sites (Moreton-in-Marsh for example) are more expensive, albeit not by much.

We have also just booked a commercial site in Cumbria in August, where a serviced pitch comes in at £19 a night.  Not one we have been to before, but from their website gallery facilities look to be of a decent standard.

hence the rise of orgs like Britstops and the Pubstopover network...

even with the extensive CL/CS networks of the two clubs, it can be tricky to find the odd 'en route' one night stopover location....when a fiver a night for a parking place with no services would do the job, it makes it makes a bit hard to bear at £26 a
night, often for facilities you probably wont use...

We have returned to Wales from France for the summer as my husband is due to have a cataract operation some time in August.   We are so used to using French sites and French aires that booking a Club site in the UK has become quite a rarity.  It was therefore
with some shock that I noticed the fee for one night at St Davids' site this week in the middle of the week before school holidays start came to £26 for a unit and two people on a grass pitch.

Sorry Caravan Club, but this is one member who is seriously considering ending my membership.  It is getting too expensive for us as pensioners.
We are also members of the other Club and there are always alternatives.   In the case of St Davids, there are several good sites available - one right next door which has just been redeveloped with new facilities at far less cost.

So did you book elsewhere instead? 

We are on Seacroft in Norfolk and it is £33.80 per night. Mind you that includes a bar, swimming pool and musical entertainment in said bar by various "turns". I thought it was expensive but it is full and is clearly very popular so I assume others think
it is not expensive. 

OH and I were there for 5 nights as part of a tour at the end of June. It was £25 for us then I think and given the nightly entertainmant, swimming pool with life-guard, reasonably priced restraunt etc seemed reasonable. We did not want these additioal facilities
and I doubt that many using the site did other than at the weekend. 

At  this tme of year "peak"stick to Cl's. Just returned from an immaculate CL, Hard grass pitches with EHU.£12 per night. Sole occupiers first night, total 2 units thereafter.

The post a bit earlier by Oldgirl and Staffy worries me quite a bit because she has put her thumb on quite a serious issue.

OGS has not posted much of late, but long serving members will recall that she was one of the originals and was noted for incisive and well thought through comments.

I am totally in agreement with her that the Club is in danger of losing the plot here.  There seems to be the same attitude displayed by CC management, as affected the judgement of Captain RL Smith the Captain of the Titanic, who when being warned of possible Icebergs ahead declined to slow down!

Club site rates have simply got far too expensive!  I cannot remember the last time that I stayed on one.  I always use CL's now or also other commercial sites nearby which are inevitably cheaper than the CC Club site.

I am not going to trot out the old maxime of once being able to recoup your annual membership quite quickly when using CC facilities.  That was when this organisation was a Club in the true sense of the word.  Today the club concept is a  thing of the past, and we must accept that the CC is now a very big business, catering for the needs of a specific target audience,the caravanning fraternity, much as the AA and the RAC are no longer clubs either, but in their case cater for the motorist.

But in order to thrive in a difficult market, all business's must keep an eye  on market pressures.  I would submit that today the CC is in danger of losing membership numbers  and as a result, business levels, if it doesn't watch the competative nature of its priceing structure.

Today it is very often the dearest option, not the good deal it once was!

TF

But as chewed over time and time again on this thread ,people can as us, use mostly cc sites because it suits, also the hundreds of thousands of nights "sold" by both major clubs ,who have similar biusiness models, seem to be gaining more usage,as the leisure vehicle population is it seems not going to stop expanding,but then the niche "holiday camp" style sites that have on their few camps only recently started to upgrade and use off peak cheapies, which attract some, as do the overseas sites,  that most steer clear of in the peak times because of their higher than either clubs prices, it is apreciated that some on "fixed"incomes think prices of sites are getting too high, but so are the services that all buisness are having to employ,

Supermarkets "reduceing" prices but at the expense of others in the food chain (ask Goldie), so its swings and roundabouts every where , in any area it is a matter of "choice" everywhere, and as stated above the hundreds of thousands that use the major clubs seem to have made theirs

 Corners   That is what has been said over and over and seems to go right over the heads of those still living in the past, look at the complaints that some cls are charging a rate that can give some return for their mostly quite large investments,instead of the £5 a night it should be