The "other" club
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Member of both clubs.
The site search on C&CC is far more user friendly, just click on the map, set your criteria and all filtered sites within the set radius are displayed and colour coded by type. This club only displays club sites on a map, frustrating when trying to search for a CL.
Also, all C&CC Club Sites with a Motorhome Service Point (MHS) allow members free black & grey water disposal and water fill up between 1300 - 2000, which is useful when Brit Stopping or Wild Camping.
This club has more adult only sites and the member offers and discounts are better suited to our needs.
Each club have some unique facilities and products so we are members of both. If both clubs offered the same then I guess there would be far fewer members willing to belong to both clubs!
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This club only displays club sites on a map, frustrating when trying to search for a CL.
I suggest that you look again at the map search. You can certainly search for CLs. When searching for CLs the map system works best if you use a post code from your search area rather than a town name.
Also, all C&CC Club Sites with a Motorhome Service Point (MHS) allow members free black & grey water disposal and water fill up between 1300 - 2000
Not Free:
A number of Club Sites now offer a stop-off facility to use Motorhome Service Points.
For just £7.30 all Club Members can....
Fill up with fresh water
Drain waste etc
Use all site facilities for up to three hoursNot a facility that I wish to see on sites.
This club has more adult only sites and the member offers and discounts are better suited to our needs.
There are no Adult only CC sites although some affiliated sites do have adult only areas and a couple of affiliated are adult only.
If both clubs offered the same then I guess there would be far fewer members willing to belong to both clubs!
I suspect that most members that use both clubs do so simply to increase the availability of such sites overall.
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where did you get that from? ET was quoting the CCC
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Some of us enjoyed our time with the C&MC & continue with fond memories OP👍🏻😊
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depends on your definition of constructive I suppose. Is wild camping seen as a good or constructive thing? Is it good for the club to lose income on people staying elsewhere? Or does it need to have extra work for its staff and when it is doing so well?
Just questions.
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What else can you do for less than £2.50 per hour and think of all the site fees you’d save by pitching in a lay-by rather than a site. 😛
Well worth the membership fee.👍🏻
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Members only on the C&CC forum. The forum itself is really a very basic message board with even less functionality than this forum! You do get people expressing their concerns but it doesn't lead to the sort of vitriol you can get on this forum. That could be something to do with the C&CC insisting that people use their real names rather than anonymous user names?
David
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I think this club gave reasons very similar to your points when they last rebuffed the idea, Corners.
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Good point David.
Personally I have never been a fan of non members posting. The club says they can use non members posting as a recruiting tool, however, I haven't seen any non members post and then suddenly their avatar shows the membership sign.
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wasn't there a new poster who posted recently that after reading stuff on here he was a little apprehensive about using club sites? So maybe it's not the recruiting tool the club wishes?
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I remember one. Was it Fatbelly? I could be mistaken.
The input from most non-members is welcome. The others would post in exactly the same way whether members or not and have proved it.
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I suppose only the Club could tell us if Club Together is still a useful recruiting place for new members. When the forum was originally set the Club did not have a Facebook page and I wonder if that might be now used more by people considering joining the Club? As an observation most of the non members contributing to the forum are previous members who for various reasons have decided not to continue their membership. I am thinking of people like ValD who is no longer a member but continues to provided useful information, especially in the Overseas Section.
David
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mmm, actually you have posted about seven today?
Actually eight!
Dread to think how many I do, so you could have a point
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I told you in the above post? Didn't you see - just add one to it now
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This club only displays club sites on a map, frustrating when trying to search for a CL.
Not true Kramster. When you select "search by map" you can the choose either club sites (the default position) or CLs, or both by ticking in the appropriate place.
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As a member of both clubs we use mainly this one because the sites we need most are theirs. The C&CC has far cheaper insurance and the breakdown cover looks better, I prefer this clubs sites and the booking system with no deposits but the C&CC have a few sites we want to have access to.
The C&CC are very hard on keeping deposits if things go wrong and you cannot take up a booking even refusing to transfer bookings.
Frankly this club is the friendly one generally and the C&CC is far more dictatorial and commercial in its approach.
As for the treatment on arrival I am open minded as to who has the best system, both have their good and bad points so you have to live with them.
The C&CC wardens though do seem to have become less officious than they used to be.
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I've just been reading the C&CC magazine and noticed that some member get reduced membership fees - i.e. - "over 65 and 25 years continuous membership".
So, I must remember to check if it's applied automatically at renewal time.
We were thinking of dropping out this year, but may continue now.
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You have to apply for veteran membership when the time comes and it’s half the price of full membership.
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We no longer have to pay membership fees with the cc, and to get "age" discount with ccc you have to take proof of age i.e. driving licence to a ccc site where the site "manager"will check and place a special sticker on your membership card,so I understand have yet to do it as we only joined this year when we got "free?"membership with RAC Arrival
Ps ccc 2019 men, is £40 or £46 IF mag req
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Age related discount on C&CC site fees is a different issue from veteran membership, JV.
I think now there could be a minimum number of qualifying years to get you the old age site fee discount but I could be wrong.
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Not quite true - the first time you qualify for the age discount the site manager will mark it on your card and record it. Thereafter it will appear printed on your membership card. It is certainly a great incentive outside of high season (and on some sites even applies then.)
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