The same Club, just better...

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  • JoolsDevon
    JoolsDevon Forum Participant Posts: 4
    edited February 2017 #1262

    I've got a new game we can play

    "Spotted, The Caravan Club Logo"

    I'll go first.......

    Recieved my new style magazine today, most of it with the new brand.......  but they had forgotten to update the franking mark!

     

    BTW, contrary to the note to the left, I am not a "Motorhomer", I'm a "Campervaner"

  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Posts: 23,142 ✭✭✭
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    edited February 2017 #1264

    You are thinking of an RV, H1.

    A motorhome is exactly the same thing as a motorcaravan but it's a slightly shorter word to say. Go on, try it out loud and you might even get to like it.

    I, too, used to be a caravanner but tempus fugit, needs must and all that. Underneath I am still the same person and only my wheels have changed. I still belong to both clubs and I still will no matter what they call themselves. I still holiday in my van and I still couldn't care less what units other people have or what logos are dotted about the place.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2017 #1265

    + 1

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1266

    Dream on this will be over turned I will put money on it watch out the minority should not rule 👌

  • G Cherokee
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    edited February 2017 #1267

    Really??????

    As an individual what can you do?

    What are you going to do? Apart from posting your feelings on here, are you going to refuse to use sites that have motor caravans/ homes pitched on them?

    That's your perogative. Like I said what's done is done. How can welcoming other leisure vehicles with open arms lead to the demise of the club, when additional members from other walks of life generate more cash into the club????

     

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited February 2017 #1268

    I doubt that Buraburas. I dislike intensely the failure of CC management to communicate with its members on this and on many items. I do not believe all that we are told either with regard to such things as being able to select hard standing when booking. I think that if that was permitted that there would be a loss in revenue with unsold grass pitches and hence no chance. The management will not change its mind having gone so far. 


    Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    "Forward, the Light Brigade!
    "Charge for the guns!" he said:
    Into the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred

  • G Cherokee
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    edited February 2017 #1269

    So all the expenditure of rebranding will now be doubled to change it back???

    I'm sure that will go down even better 

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2017 #1270

    are you going to refuse to use sites that have motor caravans/ homes pitched on them?

    I doubt that H1UBS has any problem with motorhomes

  • H1UBS
    H1UBS Forum Participant Posts: 37
    edited February 2017 #1271

    As a caravaner I feel let down by my club. There is now no difference between it and the other club so my loyalty has been lost to it.

     

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1272

    Your having a laugh 😂 yes mabe we can't do anything but it still sticks in our mouth in the cc we never discriminated Motorhome/Cavan Tent etc but to change a club on a whim is shocking is is what is is so if you had a tent and looking at sales bet tents top it so are you going to call it th tacamc. 😂

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited February 2017 #1273

    You're not in the "Embrace it" camp then? wink 

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited February 2017 #1274

     Tents don't really figure ............. yet, not many pods ................ yet

  • G Cherokee
    G Cherokee Forum Participant Posts: 402
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    edited February 2017 #1275

    It has been said before that a motor caravan/home is just a caravan with an engine.

    I, for the life of me can't see where this predudice comes from 🤔

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited February 2017 #1276

    I am not convinced that there is much real prejudice at all. I do not think that the name change itself is what upsets people.

  • G Cherokee
    G Cherokee Forum Participant Posts: 402
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    edited February 2017 #1277

    And that my friend is all we've had to go on.

    No one had said "well let's just wait and see what happens" you never know, it may turn out fabulous for everybody!! laughing

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1278

    why is that now illegal 👨‍✈️

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited February 2017 #1279

    There's no place for optimism whilst there is still space available on the moaning bandwagon

  • DavidKlyne
    DavidKlyne Club Member Posts: 13,860 ✭✭✭
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    edited February 2017 #1280

    Quite so. It is one thing for people to voice their views, which they are perfectly entitled to do, but the change has been made. It's not up for negotiation. Many posts in this thread have actually pointed to the reasons behind why the Club made the change. The problem with threads like this is that people don't (and who could blame them) go back and read 1200 odd posts. We are now called The Caravan and Motorhome Club and it ain't going change in the foreseeable future I imagine. 

    David

  • G Cherokee
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    edited February 2017 #1281

    Sweet post Nige laughing

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1282

    It is not up for negotiations David since when if it can swing one way surely it can swing the other way if we all stopped paying to the club do you think it might make a change or are we all sheep 🐑 like the club think we are 

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited February 2017 #1283

    The issue is not the name change for me; it is communication and that shows no chance of improvement

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited February 2017 #1284

    It can be called Caravan Swingers International for all I care. All I'm interested in is sites located close to where I want to be.

    A more diverse membership would be nice though, I hope the Club achieves its goals. 

  • GodivaNige
    GodivaNige Forum Participant Posts: 606
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    edited February 2017 #1285

    800,000 members in this club, a few hundred activists are not going to make the difference you are hoping for. 

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1286

    David it's a institution of life not a whim if all mh owners think that they are a problem well now they defo do by this daft name change  go back to mad Mitch of the AASH and the government of the time wanted to disband them the public had other ideas they did us proud and overturnd them when in a club you all stick together and the club means tents trailer tents Motorhomes etc let it be that was Paul m but John said you can't talk to me bull dog 🐶 

  • buraburas
    buraburas Forum Participant Posts: 77
    edited February 2017 #1287

    Number cruncher Nigel what if ? It is more for do you have a problem 👌

  • peedee
    peedee Club Member Posts: 9,387 ✭✭✭
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    edited February 2017 #1288

    Me too. I am happy to wait and see what the effect is rather than immediately condemning the rebranding. Rome wasn't built in a day.

    peedee

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218
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    edited February 2017 #1289

    One of my major concerns, apart from the profligate waste of money on this 'ego project' is the cavalier way that the CL owners have been treated, involving them in considerable disruption and expense. Add in the totally crass implementation of the website that has also impacted on their businesses and I am beginning to wonder if the CAMC wish to the see the CL network wither on the vine in favour of more profitable income streams. They've got to generate the income to fund this exercise somehow.

  • huskydog
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    edited February 2017 #1290

    "Dog and bone" springs to mind , why not just bury the old one and enjoy the new one ??? 

  • peedee
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    edited February 2017 #1291

    Are you sure about that ET? I'm not.

    peedee