CAMC sites now getting too pricey
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Err, no.I meant some people think that they must pay top price to get the best, when in fact they can get just as good for less money.
But then one persons best site is another ones nightmare, the main thing is that we all enjoy our chosen type of site.
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The thing is I don't think that people who go though a certain 'barrier' based on savings, outfits, salary... suddenly think to themselves right I must now stop using Aldi/CL's and must now start using Waitrose, Club sites....'
I think they go to Waitrose once or a club site and decide that they like it, that for the price they get value and they get what they want want and they use them more and more.
My daughter got a Christmas job at Waitrose in Leeds last year, so when visiting and doing her food shopping for her (ie paying) we would go there. I found I quite liked it. It was brighter and cleaner. The stuff was good, fresher and longer in date than Sainburys and the staff actually looked happy and eager to help, unlike our local Sainburys. A little bit more expensive but worth it and made shopping less of a chore. If I had a one closer to home I would certainly use them.
So it's not (for me anyway) about having to pay for the best but to pay for what I think is worth the extra.
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I can get a week's pitch for not a lot more on H/S with EHU in mid-summer for that price, why would I bother using a club site then?.
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Neither have we and we've been out in the van for 69 nights so far this year.
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As I said Corners, one persons best is not the best for another.
It could be that I am on a tighter budget and cannot justify paying CMC prices. I would rather put the money I save towards buying a mid-day meal out each day for me and the OH.We tend to spend most of the day off site anyway.
Many people are happy paying CMC prices and that's fine by me. I tend to agree with TFs post above.
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I admit it. We're just back from Bridlington and it was the price quoted by the OP. We decided last minute-Tuesday-to do a couple of nights away and wanted to see the Gannets nest building at Bempton. (By the way you can't park in the RSPB car park at all anymore unless you let them know you're coming and you certainly can't stay overnight as they used to allow.) Rang around and some sites around there weren't taking anybody due to being waterlogged so we sighed heavily and paid up as we knew the site wasn't sinking.
Yes, it was a ridiculous price to pay but as we sat there admiring the endless empty pitches we did wonder why C&MC didn't have the flexibility to suddenly throw out mailshots via social media/personal marketing or whatever to announce that site x from this date to that date is only price y.
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Its simple really. Use Cc sites when they have the offers, say MWD and off peak. Use Cls and commercials and get the best of all worlds. Nobody forces members to use club sites, but many are not willing to try the alternatives. That's OK by me as it leaves plenty of pitches to chose from.
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Hi Masville, when you say you can't park in the RSPB car park, I take it you are only referring to motorhomes?
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all fair points
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We did have to get towed off a riverside CL near Tavistock a long, long while ago when leaving, and off a CL near Rughley which we'd been told by the owner was fine to get onto only to discover that it wasn't!!
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As a Caravan Club member since 1981 the one thing I notice more than anything else, is the pricing structure they now operate. Back in 1981 you had low, mid and high season prices. And now, as an example, if you look up say, Ayr Craigie Gardens, the present number of listed changes of price depending on which period of stay you chose, is 36...Sometimes the price can be for say a fortnight if it’s the Easter period, but sometimes the price changes for as little as 3 or 4 days then it changes back to the previous price, but nevertheless it is a change.....Club sites do offer excellent facilities which are carefully looked after but they are squeezing every penny they can out of us, the members.
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but they are squeezing every penny they can out of us, the members.
Not this one they ain't!!
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"...sometimes the price changes for as little as 3 or 4 days..."
That’s because they show the mid week discount prices, Scottie, which only apply..... mid week. Thus the price changes at weekends.
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Well,
When I bought my camper 5 years ago I couldn't wait to go back to CC sites. In my days with caravans and then motorhome they were the dog's wotsits and I returned to the fold with a shed load of loyalty for the caravan club.
Then my camper van took me to places where there were no sites, just wild camping and living with what facilities I had. Most of my time was spent in Europe and a lot of that being a dusted off old military historian pressed into service for giving lots of talks on WW1, these last 4 years being the centenary ones. When I did stop at full facility sites they were normally superb and costing on average around 15 euro's.
Now, returned to the fold with Sister's caravan in tow it is.... was.... back to CC sites.
Without my axe to grind of having to pay double each time for staying on a CC site I am astonished at how now my membership counts for almost nothing.
I left Newport this morning, having paid £20.40 each for two pitches, for what were fairly basic facilities. I am now in the Cotswolds, a beautiful site, two sanitary blocks serving half the pitches as Newport which only had one, lots of stuff for children to play in and on without expending their energy riding scooters and bicycles on the service roads, a 36 acre fenced, signposted and landscaped dog walk,nature trail and children's nature learning park: free (and working) Wi Fi... and £21 for a serviced pitch.... oh, and as it's a commercial site only one pitch needed not two.
CC sites are superb. They should be the gold standard and for those paying membership then at least offer something that suggests that membership is rewarded. Somehow, this time round, I do not feel comfortable this is the case.
I should also state, two issues raised with Grimstead towers in two weeks have left me grinding my teeth in frustration. It is though they are all trained to sit there and repeat "well that is the rules" 250 times over until the member loses the will to live. It seems as though it is beyond the wit of man, and certainly beyond the wit of the IT department, to spell my Sister's name the same on the website profile as it is on the membership card,something that in two weeks has thrown three site wardens into an attack of the vapours.
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As my dear departed Dad used to say of the much maligned British Rail sandwich (he used to work for British Transport Police), it's not expensive if you want it, and you're willing to pay for it. The same can be said of many things, including a pitch on a club site.
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You don't need to be towed off the hard standings at Malvern but in any rain you will get everything in your awning soaking wet on most of the lower pitches due to poor drainage. So the choice here in low season is a hard standing in the shade or a similar one in the sun and a lake. No discounts for an in awning swimming pool
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That's always been the case DD, although we can only move outfits with the rear tow hitch now as the front ones weren't plated. We can't attempt a motorhome move as they can't be physically attached.
JK
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What, no towing strop?
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