Caravan Club prices question
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Hmm, just checked you can visit CC Cadeside all year round for £14!
That site does not of course have a toilet block. Also noticed that on the web site a pitch is £9.50 and an adult £4.50, whilst on the new price list it is a £14 overall charge, however many adults there are. It would be interesting to know which is right.
...Its one of the £14 pound a night sites for 2016 which includes pitch and 2adults and up to 4 children
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Cadeside is a superb stopover, or even for a longer stay. It's immaculately kept and all HS - not a bare earth pitch anywhere! It has no facility block but is worth every penny of the fee. It's one of the fixed price sites and, like its companions, has steadily
increased year on year. If you're heading to/from the SW, there is no better place to break the journey in my opinion. £14 for a convenient night halt in a good setting - why drive miles to save a couple of quid?0 -
i know Cadeside, spent many a day in/around wellington but there are now scores of pubs who are happy to have you stay overnight with them....spend your £14 (or less) on a nice steak and a pint
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Could be a useful alternative but pubs don't usually welcome caravans or have service points.
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Could be a useful alternative but pubs don't usually welcome caravans or have service points.
yes, true about caravans.....though we dont need a service point for a one nighter......
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...back OT....despite lower staffing levels here (pair of wardens v dedicated staff for cleaning, maintenance, reception etc) peak prices here are (almost) as eye watering as peak over there.....
however, peak 'over there' is a single short concentrated period, outside of which, prices tumble and discount schemes are prevalent...
peak (or other word to persuade the customer to part with more cash.....) over here seems to be a regular occurrence with prices remaining high for more seperate periods in a year....
some commercial sites are getting a bit more savvy and offering £10 a night off peak, along with 7 nights for 6, or 5 for 4 offers....some have even joined ACSI which is promising....
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Cadeside is a superb stopover, or even for a longer stay. It's immaculately kept and all HS - not a bare earth pitch anywhere! It has no facility block but is worth every penny of the fee.
No toilets to clean and no grass to cut but two wardens employed. That must be a plum staff posting.
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Cadeside is a superb stopover, or even for a longer stay. It's immaculately kept and all HS - not a bare earth pitch anywhere! It has no facility block but is worth every penny of the fee.
No toilets to clean and no grass to cut but two wardens employed. That must be a plum staff posting.
I suppose we could adopt the French model of unkempt sites with a warden that turns up for an hour or so to collect the money. Nothing wrong in that, we use such sites when on the other side of the water. However, personally I prefer our neat and tidy sites with the increased level of security that having permanent wardens bring. OK it may cost a bit more, but it is a cost we are willing to pay.
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I suppose we could adopt the French model of unkempt sites with a warden that turns up for an hour or so to collect the money. Nothing wrong in that, we use such sites when on the other side of the water. However, personally I prefer our neat and tidy sites
with the increased level of security that having permanent wardens bring. OK it may cost a bit more, but it is a cost we are willing to pay.Or we adopt the other French model of well kept sites great facilaties and swimming pools for €16 per knight
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I suppose we could adopt the French model of unkempt sites with a warden that turns up for an hour or so to collect the money. Nothing wrong in that, we use such sites when on the other side of the water. However, personally I prefer our neat and tidy sites
with the increased level of security that having permanent wardens bring. OK it may cost a bit more, but it is a cost we are willing to pay.Or we adopt the other French model of well kept sites great facilaties and swimming pools for €16 per knight
That of course is out of season, as was my comment about unmanned, unkempt municipals. CC sites are manned and pristine whenever they are open.
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I love the club sites here, the friendliness of everyone, English being spoken correctly and with a British accent that we can all understand. So I'm willing to pay the price for it, even though it has meant having to go back to work. Isn't this what feeling at home is all about? Money is not everything. It may be cheaper abroad but it's better here! Good old Blighty! I will work till the day I die if that's what it takes to be here in UK!
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Hmm, there are a few British accents around that I have difficulty understanding!
Write your comments here...Well yes, there are regional dialects but they are easier to understand than foreign accents because as a caravanner in UK, you meet people from all parts of UK so all UK dialects feel homely.
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Hmm, there are a few British accents around that I have difficulty understanding!
Agreed K! And I don't think it's down to both us originating from a country outside of the UK either.
I personally have extreme difficulty with the Northumberland area accent. I used to have problems with the Lankie accent but am now told I sound like one
Edited to say: way off topic, apologies.
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Malcolm, they do say the best English is spoken in Inverness, but I am sure there a few Scottish accents that southerners struggle with.
I would say they are accents not dialect, dialect to me means using different worrds for things.
The standard of spoken, and written, English in UK is deteriorating rapidly these days.
At least when you hear someone for example in Germany speak English, they speak it with an English-German accent (IYSWIM) , so much more correctly.
I don't think you would have any problem with my foreign accent!
Yes, OT, sorry!
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Cadeside is a superb stopover, or even for a longer stay. It's immaculately kept and all HS - not a bare earth pitch anywhere! It has no facility block but is worth every penny of the fee.
No toilets to clean and no grass to cut but two wardens employed. That must be a plum staff posting.
I suppose we could adopt the French model of unkempt sites with a warden that turns up for an hour or so to collect the money. Nothing wrong in that, we use such sites when on the other side of the water. However, personally I prefer our neat and tidy sites
with the increased level of security that having permanent wardens bring. OK it may cost a bit more, but it is a cost we are willing to pay.Write your comments here...Well said, Steve, my sentiments precisely!
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Malcolm, they do say the best English is spoken in Inverness, but I am sure there a few Scottish accents that southerners struggle with.
I would say they are accents not dialect, dialect to me means using different worrds for things.
The standard of spoken, and written, English in UK is deteriorating rapidly these days.
At least when you hear someone for example in Germany speak English, they speak it with an English-German accent (IYSWIM) , so much more correctly.
I don't think you would have any problem with my foreign accent!
Yes, OT, sorry!
Write your comments here...I've never heard your accent, KjellNN, because I've never met you in person but you certainly write perfect English.
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I agree with KjellN that a dialect is when different words are used to describe the same thing in different parts of the country.
Interestingly, when I'm in France and speak French, my (inborn) Dutch comes through because invariably French people will then ask: are you Dutch.
But Malcolm, you won't have any problem understanding me in English either, even though I do have a Lancashire accent
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Or we adopt the other French model of well kept sites great facilities and swimming pools for €16 per knight
Are squires, retainers and stableboys included for free?
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Cadeside is a superb stopover, or even for a longer stay. It's immaculately kept and all HS - not a bare earth pitch anywhere! It has no facility block but is worth every penny of the fee.
No toilets to clean and no grass to cut but two wardens employed. That must be a plum staff posting.
Not quite. It's one pair of wardens to run a small non facility site which has grass to cut whilst they also manage a huge storage compound, maintain security and check owners and their vans in and out.
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Hi everyone, Just a quick polite reminder to request that we keep this discusison on topic otherwise we may need to remove posts as we don't want to stray too far from the OP. Many thanks.
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Content Deleted User in line with Rowena's wishes.
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other than a six (or so) week period from mid July to end August (approx), french sites are off-peak....with ACSI you can get a pitch on a wonderfully equipped site (pools, bar, restaurant, kids play area, sports area, fully staffed
etc, etc) for €11 upwards.....in the uk, peak periods have been continually extended to 'catch' (exploit) folk so that finding a period that isnt (distantly) related to some holiday somewhere (and therefore commensutately more expensive) is increasingly difficult.
witness the introduction of 'shoulder' seasons (peak in disguise) and upto six (yes, six) price bands at a number of CC sites, some varying by a few pence but there just to squeeze the last drop from an unsuspecting wallet.....
the culture is different....the french just wont stand for being ripped off, we make a career out of it....
Write your comments here...I've heard that this may be the case in the leisure industry but if you buy a home in France and live there, it is much more costly.
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Well that was what we were told by Mike and Sue, the couple we met at Littlehampton Club site who sold their home in France to buy and live in their motorhome here in UK. We saw them again at Gatwick.
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