The easiest way to make touring cheaper
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I wasn't trying to start yet another argument, BB. My point was that if one wants to visit Moreton in Marsh in a van there isn't any convenient alternative now that Fosseway Farm has closed. You must have been very unlucky to visit at such a wet time. When we were there in February it was a glorious, frosty clear weekend and the site and it's facilities were in very good condition. I think most reviews reflect this, apart possibly from the size of some of the pitches in the older area.
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After seeing the thread-‘C&MC sites getting too pricy’ & this one-‘the easiest way to make touring cheaper’ I realise the suffering the ‘Moho poor’ are experiencing. So, in my own small way I’d like to kick start a campaign. Come on everyone let’s try to help the Moho poor👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
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Re OP quote “So why pay double that and more for a CC Club site?” Personally to support the club thereby ensuring it continues to provide for its membership all shown in the drop down menus at the top of the page, THS’s, Rallies, CLs etc etc as well as mainstream sites. Including this forum with its excellent help & advice. Using a mix of sites when visiting an area suits.
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LOL
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Sorry Rocky but poverty happens with caravaners too
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Fair point Mr C, but you C/vanners are used to scrabbling around for change😂🤣🤣
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If folk never check anything, even Borrowdale might catch them out, as there are several in the area. The Keswick just defines which one.
However, places like Altnaharra must really puzzle them them.
Altnaharra, Lairg, Highlands, IV27 4UE, Scotland
4 miles from Altnaharra, 20 miles from Lairg and with an Inverness post code to boot.
I give folk a bit more credit, I think most will will check where they are going. After all Google maps is hardly a novelty these days.
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No offence what a funny thing to say, I've used Ryanair and the othe low cost airlines, and you should use them as I did to your advantage and would never dismiss them like you so out of hand What is the point of doing that? Cutting your nose off....
I've used them to go to a number of different European cites so many times now and most times the complete return fare has been less than the price of a night's stay on a club site. Coupled with cheaper hotels over there (Ibis Budget) and meals, it often works out as cheap as a few days in the caravan
Like all things use a service to your advantage, whether in money or the feel good factor. But then don't post on here expecting everyone to follow your example and questioning and insulting those that don't?
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Post edit : Wasn't saying you did btw KS, sorry
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Think you read too much into my post. So I'll put a bit more reasoning for you
Ryanair are well known for their far removed airports from the city they use in the headline.
We once went on Ryanair where we paid a premium for ski carriage, return. On the return, after waiting over 16 hours for a delayed flight with no one at the overseas airport to let us know the flight was delayed despite being on a transfer to the airport, we were charged £85 each for ski carriage or leave them behind. That sort of business practice is not something we repeat and therefore have never used them since.
No other low cost carriers have attempted that scam on us, so we use others.
Same as we no longer fly Bloody Awful (BA) when they lost our baggage when our daughter was 3 months old and we arrived in a snowy Chicago. My well travelled samsonite oyster case that had served me well over 20 years and had only been lost twice before, once going to Sydney, Oz, when I was in Sydney, Nova Scotia; the other it went to Toronto, when I went to Jakarta, returned within 48 hours in tact. BA returned it 3 weeks after my return home, banded up where it had the handles missing, wheels missing, locks smashed open and a split in the lid. No recompense forthcoming.
Each time we fly on alternative carriers, always Business Class above 7hrs, especially to OZ, New Zealand and Singapore; BA lose our business.
I was aboard the inaugural BA 747-400 from Perth, WA to LHR. I had no choice than to use BA as all other carriers were full due to big medical conference in Singapore. My Business Class tick was £4800. I boarded expecting to be upstairs as all the other 747-400 operators, Qantas, Thai, Lufthansa, Singapore, Cathay Pacific; all of who I had flown with to/fro Oz. I was surprised to find myself sat just behind the inboard engine. My seat had the questionnaire on it, duly completed. That year I had flown 37 long haul flights, over 200 other flights from pond hoppers to jet services at just under 400000 miles in total. The then BA CEO Colin Marshall was on board, he came back for a chat about my comments re Club World being downstairs and economy upstairs. The objective of flying Business was to get on after the day at work, travel, get off and go to work. Took a long time before I flew BA again and only because the alternative was Air India out of Delhi one night, not something you do by choice!!
Well aware of the Accor hotel group and their value, been using them for over 30 years across their portfolio.
My last cruise on Cunard's QE was less per night than our booking for Baltic Wharf next Easter!!
As a somewhat travelled person, I'm savvy enough to choose where to spend my pound for a service commensurate with my wants and needs at a time and circumstance that spend is made
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Well KS as always your tall tales are very educational. They have certainly taught me a lesson.
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And just what has all that to so with the OP I wonder?
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And just what has all that to so with the OP I wonder?
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Oh dear, here we go again!
Why is this forum so full of argumentative people? It seems that very few contributors on here are able to acknowledge that a view contrary to their own might have some value, and instead become centred on destroying the points made. Sorry guys but you devalue your own argument by doing that. Please try to learn the art of reasoned debate.
Mods, - The point of my OP was merely to highlight the danger of uncontrolled price rises, and I believe to an extent that that has been sufficiently aired. May I suggest that before the subject descends further from the point, that we end it there?
TF
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very few contributors on here are able to acknowledge that a view contrary to their own might have some value
Indeed TF, I think that may include yourself though? And really your OP bears very little if any resemblance to The point of my OP was merely to highlight the danger of uncontrolled price rises. The thread and your subsequent posts may have 'evolved' into it but your OP was nothing to do with the 'dangers of uncontrolled price rises', if of course these uncontrolled rises actually exist.
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Not only is Corners right, TF, but I disagree with your view that the issue should not be debated further.
Why do you want to deprive others of having their say? Once you put a subject in the public domain of the forum, it is no longer yours to control. Stop reading/posting by all means but please don’t suggest others shouldn’t have that choice.
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Unusually I shall say '+1' as I nearly posted the same comment regarding yet another thread closure due to reasonable (for the most part) disagreements which are minimal. I suspect that we all agree that CLs save money and that, at peak times, some smaller sites can be cheaper.
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Of course if one really wanted to make vanning cheaper one could always sell their van and then hire a touring van when one wants to take a holiday. No capital cost outlay, no maintenance, no depreciation, no storage fees, little or no insurance costs and hey bingo just rental fee and site fees.
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Good point Oneputt, but that might result in less people wanting to join the CC.
I am happy to withdraw my request if people want to go on arguing. The reason for my request TW and you will understand this, is that I was becoming concerned that it was a cause of friction between members.
I suppose the reaction to that request does in itself illustrate my thoughts. To have an opinion it would seem, is still not welcome on this forum.
TF
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actually it's more like if your opinion does not conform to mine it is not welcome TF, which I have to say you have done a little of that yourself?
words like meek for those that hold a different opinion to yourself? telling people what to do when booking?
Can you not accept that perhaps people are happy to use club sites and pay the prices?
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Not suggesting that its the answer for all, just one option.
We rented for a number of years and usually for a couple of weeks a year. The only thing we lugged in our car was our personal clothing and food, everything else was provided.
Just Google (other search engines available) 'touring caravan hire companies@ and you may be surprised how many companies you will find
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