Airstream Caravans
Would you like to bring your family or friends with you next time you're away in your 'van?
Now you can...
Introducing Airstream Colorado Caravans on 3 of our Club Sites, they can enjoy a stay inside one of these iconic 1940s-style caravans. With plush leather upholstery throughout, a fully-equipped kitchen, central heating and an entertainment system complete with television and Bluetooth speakers, this is a luxury glamping stay they are sure to enjoy
As a Club member, you and your friends and family can save 10% when you book a yurt, pod or Airstream caravan with Experience Freedom.
Simply add your membership number at the checkout and the discount will automatically be applied.
Where to find our Airstreams:
Abbey Wood Club Site
Brighton Club Site
Coniston Park Coppice Club Site
For 2018 bookings, you can now book online by visiting Experience Freedom.
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Excellent idea, love the Airstream trailers. Nice to see Club doing something different and tapping into the glamping market.
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They are expensive M, I agree. We would be comparing prices with cottages, and they wouldn't win at that price. Nice if you have the money to spare, and fancy " roughing" it! But if it is a money maker for Club, then anything that keeps standard pitch prices down gets my vote!
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What a great idea. Well done the CMC.. Also great to see the CMC chose caravans with excellent build quality. -- American Airstreams.
Not British ones with the built in swimming pool inside when it rains.
Further up thread someone said "Why not just go to statics!!" another good idea to increase income from the sites. Go one better and include tents, that way families would be attracted to CMC sites. The CMC would then be seen to be all inclusive and not stuffy in the least.
K
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And if they don't attract punters at those prices, it's not just a wasted investment but a wasted pitch as well. Sorry to sound so negative but I'm wondering about the direction the club is heading in.
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+1 for the last paragraph K👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
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Statics, tents, glamping tents all seem to work for C&CC so why not? Diversification is the name of the game👍🏻
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Surely a few lodges as well would be a good idea as well, they are always popular.......
And is timeshare still going? Could we have a few apartments on timeshare............
And why not a few starter homes on shared ownership basis.....
That would be brilliant, and inclusive as well............
Get rid of the touring pitches completely why not.....
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I expect at those prices the Airstreams will be pitched on prime pitches on those sites. So I wonder if an adjacent pitch will be included for the touring caravan, or will the booking member have to take pot luck in the high noon frenzy?
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The times they are a-changing, Boff.
Smaller petrol engines, no diesels, electric vehicles - it’s not rocket science to see the need to evolve or die.
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What is the problem with the club trying to survive?
Happy for it to die rather than moving in a slightly new direction seems a strange and narrow way of looking at things to my mind. I would rather see it diversify and survive for the benefit of future generations even if they don’t use LVs in the way we do.
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But it could be a slow death! The Club introducing other types of accommodation might slow the eventual demise or at least give it a better idea of where the future is leading us.
David
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Gone, it seems, are the days when we could tour, turning up at a CC site, pretty well anywhere, and stop for a night or more. It’s not so much that the club is being prevented from dying by mimicking commercial sites with their glamping facilities, it’s those very facilities which are killing it. Whatever happened to choice? Entertainment free, simple but civilised CC sites, with enough space to allow touring, vs canned sameness on commercial sites. These days, if I feel like being regimented into rigidly defined pitches, with minimum space between units, I can add to my discomfort by sharing with glamping tourists on a C&MC site, like so many others. If it weren’t for CLs there will soon be no point in remaining a member. Maybe it’s died of sameness already, it’s USP is already a distant memory.
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Having recently switched to a MH from a caravan, I now have a greater degree of flexibility on where I stop for the night and thus feel somewhat "future-proofed" against developments, at least for my remaining projected lifespan.
Touring as we know/knew it perhaps has had its heyday over the past fifty years or so and we may indeed see it evolve into something currently unrecognisable. Even package holiday concepts have been subject to a degree of evolution and diversification with the advent of timeshare, airbnb, homes in the sun etc.
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Touring as we know/knew it perhaps has had its heyday over the past fifty years or so
Not sure how to take that statement CY. I have never seen more caravans and motorhomes on the road over the last 35 years than in the current decade. So if we are talking heyday in terms of popularity it has increased markedly over the last 30 years.
According to the NCC, production of touring caravans was up 13.7% in the first six months of 2017 compared to the same period last year, while motorhome registrations rose by 11.3%. I think that sounding the death knell is a tad premature.
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If the Club’s purpose is to make a profit. Then fine, it should do everything it can to carry on. Why not give up the leisure market all together, and do something more profitable?
No touring there is no need for the club it would in those circumstances be obsolete.
All of the posts including mine assume that the club’s current marketing wheezes actually turn a profit. In reality I wonder? But let’s face it Airstreams and Glamping pods are far more fashionable and sexy to the marketing bods who run the club, Than providing sites and services for its largely middle aged middle class members.
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I thought the Luddites were only active during the early 1800’s, apparently not so😢😢
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I suspect the vast majority of those caravans you see on the road are not "touring" in the true sense but aiming at or returning from a specific booked pitch, and probably many of the motorhomes are to?
The inability to book at reasonably short notice for a stay that covers a week end is why over our many decades of caravanning we have come to now being very rare users of the main sites.
Simply too many week end users chasing too limited numbers of pitches.
I don't see taking further pitch availability away to cater for non caravan/motorhome owning membership will improve that?
I also see reducing the week end pitch availability further reducing the non school holiday midweek occupancy levels, addressing that I would suggest would be a more fruitful target. There is not enough space at week ends & school holidays now so what is the purpose for the membership of going into "rentals"?
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Reading this I’m getting the sense that many think it’s the end of life as we know it.
It’s a few letting vans on 3 sites. It’s different but not something worthy of a doom monger. Why not give it a chance and see what happens?
What a depressing place this is at times!
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Good luck to the club if they can get £851 for 2 in Sept as quoted,but I think you could stay in hotels and be waited on cheaper than that, including food.
Same problem will apply to some site charges in the future,it will be cheaper to self cater at a Premier Inn soon.
I for one will search out Cl's or competivly priced sites.
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I do sometimes wonder if I belong to the same CAM Club as a lot of other members. The Club has always, at least in my 30+ years of membership, allowed tents on some sites, without taking up precious pitch space. It's always had a few cottages to rent. The space allocated to some of these new developments isn't and never has been touring pitch space. So all the hoohah about reducing pitch choice is just that, a load of Luddite codswallop.
If it now means that other members of my family, who cannot use a small spaced tourer, can holiday on the same site as me then I say hurrah, at last. We already use CLs that have alternative accommodation, such as bed and breakfast, cottages, camping close by, so I just see this as a progression towards the future. My nearly 90 year old Mum has never stayed on a Club Site, she can't manage a caravan or a MH, but all being well, a glamping pod at Coniston will be just fine.
As for the Airstreams.......yes expensive. But there are folks out there willing to shell out serious money to "live the dream" and do something different. That's why Shepherds Huts, converted helicopters, safari style tents, old boats, even an old dockyard crane are being used as more unusual holiday accommodation. The Club's main problem will be convincing new visitors that the grumpy gits in the white boxes are actually quite friendly!
https://hostunusual.com/categories/planes-helicopters/lynx-helicopter-at-ream-hills/
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Oh, joy!
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