Unbelieveable price increase

I understand now Nivag. The numbers that do regularly wildcamp are relativel small from what I see but its prevalence does vary over different parts of the UK. 

As I have said before in other discussions - for the times that I do most of my caravaning I do not consider that CC sites are significantly different in cost from many medium sized commercial sites. The CC sites are not in direct competition with CLs etc and certainly not wildcamping

What is your personal view Nivag?

I personally use CLs where I can, but also use the clubs facilities, as though they are getting to a point where the cost is to be considered, you do know what you get.

Saying that I also spend sometime in France, where my preferred sites are Municipals, but also use the commercial sites when the need arises.

Naturally in this day and age, money is another considered factor, but there are plenty of options, and the world wide web, is a very useful tool, one that I use to formulate my plans and decisions.

Having recently fully retired, the world is my oyster, within reason.

Hi Geneuk, thank you for your recent post. We really appreciate you taking the time to come back to the community.

Whilst prices certainly haven’t increased by 34%, there has been slight increases to site fees for 2019. Coming off the back of a Goldilocks year of weather… the beast from the East, then the hottest summer in the past 40 years, our utility costs on sites increased in 2018. To enable the Club to continue to improve existing sites and also invest in new sites, small site fee increases have been implemented for 2019.

All prices have now been updated and all of 2019 is available to book. There is also a UK Sites Price Guide available to download from the Club website here. 

For more information on Club Site prices please visit our FAQs. 

Is the MWD being subsidised by high weekend prices? 

Let me explain. I have just looked at a 6 night stay at Bunree 1/4 to 7/4/19.

Total cost for 2 adults is £133.40, or an average of £22.23 per night which I consider quite reasonable. Then I looked at the breakdown of the costs.

4 nights 1-4 Apr with MWD came in at site fees £4.15 per night and 2 adults at 14.40 per night = £18.55 per night. If we disregard the MWD the nightly fees would have been £22.70, still reasonable in my book.

The Fri/Sat night fees present a different story. Pitch fees shoot up to £11.40 a £3.10 increase over the normal midweek pitch fee, or £7.25 more than the MWD. Then the per person fee increases by £1.90 per night to £9.10, or £18.20 per couple.

This means that the Fri/Sat stay on site is costing £59.20 whilst the four night M-Th stay comes in at a mere £15 more.

I'm long retired and can hitch up and go whenever I want but I wonder if these high weekend prices might be frightening those members who still have to work for a living, away from club sites.

Might it be better to have a long, hard look at MWDs and perhaps do away with them and reduce weekend rates accordingly, which may be the first step in simplifying what is becoming a pricing structure that appears to be getting more complex as each year passes? 

Well TW, I've just booked the above 7 days at Bunree so the w/e's aren't booked up there, plus weekenders being frightened away by high prices wasn't a theory, just a suggestion, and perhaps my comments will get a bit of constructive debate going which might, or might not influence the shakers & movers of the CC pricing structure!

You’re talking only of one particular site at one particular time, BVM. Have you not seen the numerous complaints on here about weekenders blocking sites and preventing others booking 7 nights? Believe me, there are more than I could possibly count.

Theory/suggestion is much the same thing in this case so I won’t split hairs about it.

As for constructive debate and influencing the club……😄

I like to think that the club know what they’re doing with MWD - something that’s run successfully for many years - and in your shoes I would take the glass half full approach and be glad the mid-week price was reduced.

I hope you enjoy Bunree. Personally, I prefer North Ledaig. 🙂

Well done on saving 14 quid! It’s a good job Corners spotted that and I think he’ll settle for a tenner as a reward  😁

I think most of us have been weekenders at some stage of our lives and been mighty glad of a break from work. I wouldn’t like to see those people treated differently from the rest of us by having to pay a deposit but I’m very sure that reducing weekend fees wouldn’t reduce the number of bookings.

NL charges £10 up front, £9 of which is treated as a deposit and £1 as a booking fee. West Yorks - that’s practically on the doorstep of NL 😋

Midges can be any time from May onwards. The beasties cannot be predicted with accuracy but they are rarer at NL.

Why not ask if you can have a look around NL when you visit Bunree?

We do cover more ground in the MH than we did tugging a cvan and being able to do 70 in the outside lane of a m/way helps as does passing lorries going downhill. We now reach the Scottish Borders in 2 days rather than 3. If you’re ever serious about changing, a pre-registered or previous year’s model could make sense. Still new in all but price. 

Will do TW.

We usually do that anyway with any club sites that are within the area we are staying, and have even done it on the odd CL. Funnily enough, we've never asked to look around an affiliated site.

We keep popping into our local caravan and motorhome dealer to see what's on offer and there are some huge discounts to be had on new/old stock unsold M/Hs but to land on the right van, at the right price, at the right time is easier said than done!

We are with TW on the North Ledaig/Bunree debate, we actually joined the Club at NL. Don’t be put off by fact it’s an AS, it’s a fabulous site, close to some very interesting places to visit. Not least Oban and ferries to a lot of islands. We popped up to Bunree for a look and decided we had made best choice. We are South York’s based, so only a tad further away than you.

That looks nice Brue. Lovely location as well, we used to canoe out of Croabh Haven, before it was as big as it is now. One to remember for us.

Peak season in 2020 is £22.60. If visiting Anglesey it would still probably be my goto site.