Booking Club Sites for May 2019
Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to let you know that right now you can book up to and including 30 April 2019, and on 2 May 2018 you will be able to book for stays up to the end of May 2019 – including the May Bank Holidays 6 & 27 May 2019.
Happy holidays! 
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Good idea BB.
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To me this demonstrates the inadequacy of the system. Whilst you can book the end of May BH, you can't book the full week to Saturday 2nd June. The end of May school holiday week, at least here, runs from the 28th May to the 1st June. Meaning any families wanting a week away booking to the 31st May and then hopefully extending this when June bookings are released. Surely it would have made more sense for the release to include the school holidays.
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Don't think there will be any issues, given the costs of CAMC pitches in school holidays, wonder how many families will be booking full weeks
We won't be 
As this year we will only be booking the Whitsun BH weekend due to the up to 67% premium applied to school holidays.
Next Easter we are at over £40 per night for a family of 2 adults, 1 child
an increase of 5% on this year. Our first Easter on a CAMC site, Cheddar, was only £30 per night in 2016. We used a CL in 2017 at £14, and this year £38.4 on a CAMC site. Our household income has been frozen over that period, like so many families. So we will be doing less nights overall, and fewer on CAMC sites in family holiday periods.0 -
Unfortunately peak times have always attracted a premium. Although it will always be possible to quote exceptions, I don't think the CAMC is any worse than a lot of other providers. Unlike the Easter holiday, in our experience of the end of May BH week, sites are full, or almost so. Presumably prices are accceptable to enough. Unless that changes they are unlikely to come down.
Whilst extending the booking will in most cases be possibe, it just seems an unnecessary complication.
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Just seems to me we have gone from an annual bun fight where a few disgruntled punters moaned cos they thought everyone was block booking 52 weekends then not turning up to a monthly one where you have to remember to book the 4 or 5 weekends in the month for the next year at a random day each month.
Progress???
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Whatever cut-off date is selected there will doubtless be someone who will complain that they are unable to book a pitch to attend next years 'haywain and ploughing match' meeting that occurs nearby.
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A memeber for over thirty years, I have seen several booking systems, from the form in the handbook which you filled and posted with deposits to the scramble on the second Wednesday in December. They at least let you get one season over before booking and planning the next. A quick scan of local sites I would use at Easter next year shows I cannot go to half of them as they are booked up for at least one night, i'ts a year away! and the bookings could be cancelled, without penalty three days before. The Camping & Caravanning Club operate a similar system, taking a significant deposit and operating a strict 30 day cancellation policy ensuring more commitment. I believe there should only be two pitch prices, winter and summer, no peak, shoulder and low, we should not penalise families in favour of those less restricted (I am 78). A transferable deposit should be taken with reasonable cancelletion arrangements.
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What is the point of a transferable deposit, please? What purpose would it serve?
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Again if some likes the process by the CCC then go there? Why should the club change to match the CCC?
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well I would say that to be able to book a HS is the only thing better than CMC system, I don't think having a deposit or minimum stay, or harsher cancellation are better thing?
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Well, it seems a good idea until you want to book Whit week - which straddles May and June, speaking as someone that works in a school it is no good booking half a week, what if you don’t get a pitch on the same site for the last 2 days. We also have the same problem in July/August, oh well we’ll book as much as we can and keep our fingers crossed! It should’ve tgat if you want to book a continual holiday you should have that access.
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Booking a whole year ahead does suggest an exceptionally well-ordered life. I keep getting cruise catalogues inviting me to book for 2020. I can't imagine what I'll want to do that far ahead. Some of us must wonder if we'll still be around.
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Well I had no problem booking in December for the year. We were able to think which three areas we wished to tour during thecouple of weeks leading up to bookind day and then book all sites including commercial and, this year, C&CC sites.
Not yet sat down to concider 2019
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Yes agree with you and have raised this point before, some months should be linked. I hope the club responds to this soon, they said they were looking into it and can't understand why it's taking them so long?
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Brain and Gear comes to mind. Perhaps shows staff don't do bank Holidays or whoever designed the new system does not have a wall planner to look at.
Worse the once a year scramble
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yes I'm sue there is a chance
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They haven't even informed me yet that the week I booked at the end of March 2019 at Chatworth is now no longer available as the site is closed for refurbishment. I booked it when the new rolling system started over a month ago and it was originally shown as available.
Personally I don't think the system has been thought through properly. So holidays are missed, dates released before refurbishment dates are confirmed. I am afraid it smacks of a lack of proper planning. ☹️
I wonder if I don't cancel the booking I will get a black mark and an email for not turning up.😂 It would be interesting to see. However, I will probably have to cancel it to book something else. I just want to give them chance to change there minds again and decide it is not closing.
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