The increasing cost of site fees.

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  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,431 ✭✭✭
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    edited October 2018 #212

    I don't think you are really and has misread or misunderstood TT's post, it's what you do from that site that counts, a site is just a different form of hotel room.

  • young thomas
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    edited October 2018 #213

    I don't know what type of hotels you stay in......undecided

    reception staff popping out to clean the toilets?frown

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2018 #214

    What is different in what people "expect" with either of the two major players in the  UK sites, that are both trying to expand their networks to cater for the increasing market of LVs 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited October 2018 #215

    and I agree with all of it.

    I think you perhaps only start to holiday a certain way, in this case a caravan or MH, when you have to in one sense. Maybe want to is a better word?

    Before the children came along we would not have considered holidaying on any site, we went away a lot, usually B&Bs on 'tour' in the UK or holidays abroad either in hotels or with our friends at their homes. When the children came along our holiday options changed, things got pricier, we could either have one big two week holiday abroad or get a caravan and have therefore  lots of holidays in the UK for the same price. We enjoyed it and it stuck. Now the kids have jobs we do a mixture of both home and away again.

    So I never worry about this 'fact' of the younger generation coming through to fill sites, either club or not. I've heard it for as long as I've used club sites and yet parents are still coming through.

    They will when they are ready. We don't have to try and get them before that, IMHO of course 

  • Randomcamper
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    edited October 2018 #216

    They will when they are ready. We don't have to try and get them before that, IMHO of course

    100% correct!

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2018 #217

    Band B then BBwink

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited October 2018 #218

    Is it good to use a CC site as a base for outdoor activities, definitely, will a few more facilities make it an exciting adventure, not at all, should young families be going there and malingering around in a CC play area, No - in my opinion, go and show the kids something they won't see at home.......!

    Makes sense to me TT. 

    This talk about 'sitting' around site seems odd to me. Never thought of any holiday site or resort hotel as a destination. I know a couple whose idea of a holiday is to fly abroad and sit around a hotel pool. Which is fine if that is what they want. 

    Now that I am older and arthritic I do spend longer on sites than when I had kids or even when I was in my fifties. This year we have found that after 5 days on a site going out and walking around various places that at some time during the next 5 days on another site we may both decide to chill on a hot day and sit in the shade with iced coffee and relax. Never did that with young kids as they never got tired and nor did my wife and I. Some want park holiday type places some of the time or all of the time. Some don't. Simple as that really. 

    AS for on site pools, games rooms etc. My kids had all that when home with their mates. When on holiday, whether home or abroad, they swapped the pool for the sea, searched rock pools, netted large prawns for tea on the lowest tide. Treading flounders for tea, walking, running and seeing what is around the next bend. Games rooms were swapped for bats and ball etc.  

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