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  • TanyaandMick
    TanyaandMick Forum Participant Posts: 139
    edited March 2016 #32

    CL for us - Keal Lodge....

  • Scottie2
    Scottie2 Forum Participant Posts: 226
    edited March 2016 #33

    CL for us - Keal Lodge....

    Write your comments here...have stayed at Keal Lodge couple of years ago and can confirm it's a lovely CL and you only pay for the electricity you use.

  • lesbunny
    lesbunny Forum Participant Posts: 133
    edited March 2016 #34

    Bridlington CC site 21st - 24th March then onto Haven Reighton Sands for easter weekend to meet up with our sons family. Bridlington CC site - £31.20 per night. Haven - £19.54 per night - hard standing, 16 amp EHU, indoor/outdoor pool & nightly entertainment
    all for the princely sum of £78.16 - SHAME ON THE CARAVAN CLUB for increasing prices during school holidays - That is not what a true "club" does.

    Write your comments here...Just looked on haven site Reighton Sands on had 25th March available price was £51.50 for the night you have got a great deal.

    Yes we were initially stunned at the price as well. But we booked it early January & from the initial £169 cost, we got £6.34 off for CC membership & £84.50 touring discount, leaving just £78.16 to pay. The "full" cost would have been £42.25 per night &
    therefore higher than CC price, but I still do not see why a "club" that pretends to be family friendly should inflate prices during school holidays. The supply & demand argument is rubbish where member only sites are concerned as these would still fill up
    on a first come first served basis.

  • moulesy
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    edited March 2016 #35

    I've some sympathy with what you say, lesbunny, and maybe the club could learn some lessons from other providers in offering special deals. But as you say, on a per night basis the club still works out cheaper and I suspect if you look ahead to July and August that difference in pricing will be even greater. Sites like Haven can afford to offer deals like this out of peak season because they charge sky high prices to families who go in peak season (and, in effect, subsidise these deals.) Fortunately the club doesn't do this to anything like the same degree.

    Getting back to the OP, we tend to avoid sites in busy holiday periods, but we'll spend Easter down in Perranporth ( lucky enough to have the static down there as an alternative to the tourer! {#emotions_dlg.tcchappy})

  • lesbunny
    lesbunny Forum Participant Posts: 133
    edited March 2016 #36

    Hi Moulesy, Enjoy Perranporth, been there a few times myself ( has a very challenging golf course ). The offer from Haven is for easter - ie peak season & I think if you check CC prices, every site on the network charges peak prices for easter, all half
    term periods & school summer breaks. I remain a member purely for the convenience of using local sites for 1-3 day breaks, but the pricing policy of member only "club" sites really does irritate.

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #37

    I do not think there are many "member only" sites on the cc network ,as the lease agreements on most will have to allow non members

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited March 2016 #38

    Hi Moulesy, Enjoy Perranporth, been there a few times myself ( has a very challenging golf course ). The offer from Haven is for easter - ie peak season &
    I think if you check CC prices, every site on the network charges peak prices for easter, all half term periods & school summer breaks. I remain a member purely for the convenience of using local sites for 1-3 day breaks, but the pricing policy
    of member only "club" sites really does irritate.

    Not true, all the £14 sites are that price throughout the period that they are open, regardless of the holiday periods.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2016 #39

    I know this isn't the done thing but....

    we're not going to take up space on any CC site this Easter so that the workers and those with children can have a chance.

    (Please, enough with the applauseHappy).

  • damo1969
    damo1969 Forum Participant Posts: 26
    edited March 2016 #40

    Bridlington CC site 21st - 24th March then onto Haven Reighton Sands for easter weekend to meet up with our sons family. Bridlington CC site - £31.20 per night. Haven - £19.54 per night - hard standing, 16 amp EHU, indoor/outdoor pool & nightly entertainment
    all for the princely sum of £78.16 - SHAME ON THE CARAVAN CLUB for increasing prices during school holidays - That is not what a true "club" does.

    Write your comments here...Just looked on haven site Reighton Sands on had 25th March available price was £51.50 for the night you have got a great deal.

    Yes we were initially stunned at the price as well. But we booked it early January & from the initial £169 cost, we got £6.34 off for CC membership & £84.50 touring discount, leaving just £78.16 to pay. The "full" cost would have been £42.25 per night &
    therefore higher than CC price, but I still do not see why a "club" that pretends to be family friendly should inflate prices during school holidays. The supply & demand argument is rubbish where member only sites are concerned as these would still fill up
    on a first come first served basis.

    Write your comments here...Heading to the Haven site at Lakeland, arriving Sat 9th April for 4 nights on an super pitch, £10 per night inclusive of all passes to swimming poosl and entertainment etc and thats for a family of 4.....

  • Trini
    Trini Forum Participant Posts: 429
    edited March 2016 #41

    frontdoorlocker. Donnewell Farm is a great CL even has sat hookup and if you need a sat box they can lend one.

    If you javent been before the walk into Sedgefield is away from roads and there is a great cafe at the far end of the town whose afternoon teas are great.

    Weve used Donnewell farm a few times and look forward  to visiting again.

  • Grumblewagon
    Grumblewagon Forum Participant Posts: 246
    edited March 2016 #42

    We never go away at Easter or other bank holidays.  Too busy and too expensive, but we are going away after the Easter break .

  • PATMAU
    PATMAU Forum Participant Posts: 250
    edited March 2016 #43

    We are at a rally for Easter on the edge of the Cotswolds.  Think the thermals will have to be packed as the weather is promising to be arctic. 

  • steve874
    steve874 Forum Participant Posts: 34
    edited March 2016 #44

    Dont usually go away bank holidays, roads and sites too busy. As we're both retired were fortunate enough to be able to go when everyone has gone back to work/school. Touring Devon and Cornwall in April

  • Cherokee2015
    Cherokee2015 Forum Participant Posts: 392
    edited March 2016 #45

    Chesterfield Country Park near Dunbar for us - meeting up with friends who have a static there.   Can't wait as not been away much so far this year and due to other commitments, not much prospect of getting away much in the coming months Don't cry

  • bassett1
    bassett1 Forum Participant Posts: 40
    edited March 2016 #46

    i think we should pay the same all year as this is a members club i dont think its fair that people with children should have to pay rip of prices when its half term or ther summer holidays i am semi retired it makes no  odds to me but i think its very unfair
    bassett.

  • moulesy
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    edited March 2016 #47

    i think we should pay the same all year as this is a members club i dont think its fair that people with children should have to pay rip of prices when its half term or ther summer holidays i am semi retired it makes no  odds to me but i think its very unfair
    bassett.

    Well there's the problem bassett - there are a few on here who complain that the club is too member friendly or, at least, not commercialised enough. They want the club to go down the Haven/Sandy Balls route of offering great deals out of season, subsidised
    by sky high prices during school holidays. Yes, the club does increase its prices, but not by anything like as much as those sites! Happy

    (BTW, which of Wiltshire's many "Bassett's" are you from?)

  • artyboo
    artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
    edited March 2016 #48

    We have managed to secure an entire CL IN Canterbury with B&B attached for friends without caravans. 

    We will endeavour to have a lovely time

  • Trini
    Trini Forum Participant Posts: 429
    edited March 2016 #49

    It is disappointing how various governments have spoken about  foreign holiday companies charging higher prices over the school holidays and yet nothing is said about UK prices.

    We dont have children however I have to take school holidays (not a teacher).

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #50

    I think the Easter school holiday is from 4th April this year which is "outside" peak prices?Wink

  • HelenandTrevor
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    edited March 2016 #51

    I think the Easter school holiday is from 4th April this year which is "outside" peak prices?Wink

    Not all areas ours start on 24th March.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2016 #52

    I think the Easter school holiday is from 4th April this year which is "outside" peak prices?Wink

    Not all areas ours start on 24th March.

    the 4th is our second week and I'm taking full advantage of the reduced pricesSmile

  • cody
    cody Forum Participant Posts: 123
    edited March 2016 #53

    It sounds like there are some good plans in place. 

    Just to let you know we still have availability on many Club Sites. To quickly check what's available use our
    UK Sites Booking search.  Don't forget The Club's fantastic CL network too. My colleague Sandie, started a discussion regarding

    Easter Availability     for CL Sites that might be helpful. Smile

    I'm not surprised charging high season rate at that time of the year, you'll be lucky if the sites down Cornwall are half full with those rates.

    We'll be away for two weeks but not on a caravan club site.

     

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2016 #54

    West Country sites have always been under used except for about six weeks of summer,

    some friends of ours use a couple of sites in France that are only open for July and August each year 

  • frontdoorlocked
    frontdoorlocked Forum Participant Posts: 12
    edited March 2016 #55

    frontdoorlocker. Donnewell Farm is a great CL even has sat hookup and if you need a sat box they can lend one.

    If you javent been before the walk into Sedgefield is away from roads and there is a great cafe at the far end of the town whose afternoon teas are great.

    Weve used Donnewell farm a few times and look forward  to visiting again.

    Thanks Trini Happy

  • cody
    cody Forum Participant Posts: 123
    edited March 2016 #56

    West Country sites have always been under used except for about six weeks of summer,

    some friends of ours use a couple of sites in France that are only open for July and August each year 

    Exactly, so why not charge low season and get more members using them.

  • Freelander359
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    edited March 2016 #57

    Easter will be our first trip out this year, so looking forward to it. A week at Bunree - via Strathclyde on the way up and via Old Hartley on the way down.  Can't wait ! Travelling  mid week to avoid the wost of the traffic.

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