11% increase in storage costs

I store at home. How does the CC storage price compare with others in the locality? What are its advantages, if any? 

If it is substantially dearer than others nearby and does not have the facilities you want then I assume that there must be somethings in its favour? 

I notice from the latest leaflet regarding storage prices that my current all year storage location with the Caravan  Club will be increased in price by 11%.
It will now be £500 per year.

There have been no improvements to facilities provided and it isn't fully booked, so how can the Club justify such an increase.

Anybody else noticed an over-inflation increase ?

Write your comments here...I pay £400 for a full year Cassoa gold site  , in East Midlands & we just had our first price increase for 3 years .

Unfortunately you'll have to pay the increase , unless you can find another suitable site , have a search on Google you might find another site . Good luck

The increase is reflected in the price increases for Marmite and Walkers crisps as well as fuel so I guess it's the price of freedom. 

Cripes 11% is a hell of an increase though!  I only pay mates rates to a friend @ £250 a year so I guess that that is very good.

TF

Why are you keeping a motorhome in storage? if I had a motorhome I would just park it down the road. I definetly wouldn't be paying anything like £500 a year for storage. 

I currently pay £3 a week (£156 a year) and I wouldn't want to be paying much more than that. 

Wouldn't that depend on if you had anywhere at home to put it? If we switch to a Motorhome it will certainly be kept in storage. Ours is a similar cost, however if I have just spent £60K on a vehicle, I would not want to "just park it down the road".

Much my thoughts as well. Not convionced that I could get a moyor home into the drive. A 7.3m shipping length caravan would be do-able but not much longer than that. 7m motorhome would be tight due fooway and road widths 

I wish our storage cost were the same as some of you state.

In London prices are very high, we are using a COSSA gold site at the moment.(will move if we find cheaper) which is £550 for 6 months. It has lots of facilites like most storage under cover ,EHU's , chemical waste point, Caravan washing bay with pressure washer, high steps, etc but still a lot of money

The site is full though and has as many MH's as Caravan's stored there and has a waiting list, which we are on to get an under cover bay. 

You may think its a lot of money, but where we live a lockup garage rents for £150-£220 a month

And as well as the high cost we have an 18 mile trip across South London which takes well over an hour just to go to the Caravan, as you say there is not a lot you can do if you don't have the space at home.

The old ways are often the best ways, we too have the caravan on the drive, as was the MH over the 9 years we had it; when away the neighbours use the drive. 

When I first bought this house I was overseas a lot with work and neighbours used the drive.

To facilitate getting the caravan back on the drive in 1 swift action, cut down a tree that had been there for 28 years, needs must and all that. Before removing the tree had to pull up, unhitch, put mover on, put caravan on drive, turn car around and put
on drive. 

I haven’t posted here for many months (I can’t say why), but I very occasionaly visit. I felt I must add a comment here. I read (here and often in other threads) that if in storage you get a discount on insurance
provided you are on a Cassoa gold site (or silver for less discount and so on). I am in storage and I am insured with arguably the most well known caravan insurer and they were not interested in whether it was a Cassoa site. I was not asked the question. Instead
I was asked in detail about the security arrangements in place. The site where I store, in the East Midlands (costing £415 this year for a 27 foot van), used to be Cassoa Gold but they withdrew from Cassoa a year or two ago due to what was rumoured to be some
kind of dispute. Nothing changed on the site and it had no effect on my insurance premium.

The other point is I do get a bit exasperated with those who adopt a rather haughty tone questionning why some of us choose to put our vans in storage. I’d like to shout this, but it is not allowed:

some of us have no option!

For me, it is either don’t have a van or use storage. Also, the notion of parking the van on the street, as posted above, is surely inconsiderate and high risk. In most residential environments this
is both impractical and likely to upset everyone in the neighbourhood – quite a part from the obvious secuirity risk. I would not even dream of doing that.  

Hi Filonian,

Our Seasonal & Storage facilities are priced based on supply & demand taking into consideration the location and competitor pricing in the locality. We believe our pricing is fair and reasonable in the locations they are in.

I hope this explains the increase a bit better for you.

Best Wishes

Tracy

Sounds like corporate speak for 'what the market will bear'

Hi Ian (Milothedog), we have storage facilities at our Alderstead Heath and Abbey Wood sites. More information can be found here......http://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/club-sites/storage-facilities

Best Regards

Tracy

Thanks for that, Alderstead Heath is full, and has a 2 year waiting list which is now closed to new applications.  Gatwick is also full with a waiting list but they will only take up to 22ft vans as longer storage spaces are limited in number. My van is 23ft and it was explained they will measure the van on arrival   Rules is rules as they say 

Abbey wood is to akward to get to for me and in most cases will be in the wrong direction for most of our trips.

Ian.

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