Over 60s
As my husband has just reached the grand age of 60 we were wondering if the club offer any discounts? There has to be an upside to getting older!
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I too would welcome this (but really don't expect it bth) if it could be done before January that would be great
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Only if you're retired and can make use of the Mid Week Discounts on certain club site and then only at certain times!!
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The upside is The Queen (eventually) paying us not to work.
Otherwise, join C&CC for their old folks discount and take advantage of free eye tests and free prescriptions because you’ll likely need more of them now.😄
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But not as often as retirees can I bet.
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Age discount would be costly for this Club, think of the top demographic! 😁 That’s a joke by the way......
If you are members of NT, contact them and ask if you can have Senior Membership. There are qualifying criteria, but even if you hit these, they don’t give it automatically, you have to ask.
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and only 4 of them qualify for MWD.... some of the time!!
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National Trust for Scotland offers reduced membership fees for those aged 60 or above. There are no qualifying criteria other than age! NTS membership fees are cheaper than NT and there is free parking and free access to NT car parks and properties.
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I'm always amused by this 'over 60s' discount thingy. It's as if being older we deserve to pay less than those younger. When I have my hair cut I get offered the pensioners' rate but always pay full adult rate as my hair takes just as much cutting as a younger person and, yes, I can afford it. Maybe I would have a different view if I was less well off (although don't get me wrong I am not loaded!). My barber is a lovely fellow who has two small children and deserves a decent wage. Why should I expect him to subsidise my hair cut? I get free (?) prescriptions and a state pension as well as an occupation pension and don't expect any other concessions and wouldn't expect younger people to have to pay more for things so I can pay less.
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I expect the OAP discount thing dates back to the era when most retired folk only had a meagre income to survive on. Thankfully, these days many of us do better than that.
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I am not sure you should think of discounts as generosity but more as sound business principle. They are usually offered to either improve footfall or to maximise business in quieter times. Even the hairdresser will want to fill spare time between the lunchtime and end of school rushes, ideal for pensioners!! I feel perfectly happy accepting the discount as I know what hair I have left takes a quarter of the time to cut than it takes to "style" a teenagers hair! The C&CC make a big thing of their over sixties discount and I am happy to accept that as well as I am to accept all the lower prices offered to seniors for visiting various attractions. But should the CMC go down the same route? Given the general age profile of the Club you could imagine it might bankrupt the CMC to do so! They already have a discount in place called the midweek discount. Unlike the C&CC offer it is not universal, only on a limited number of sites. Even with those limitations it is at least on offer to all members which perhaps is fairer?
David
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I think the discounting the C&CC offers has gone a lot further now, not just an age concession, they are offering a range of discounts to encourage bookings on sites with unfilled capacity. They also have a new booking system, slightly convoluted but they seem to be keen on upgrading their web site!
Both clubs offer limited concessions but I think CAMC could test the water with a few more offers?
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It's my personal opinion that C&CC's convoluted booking system, deposits and minimum night bookings are responsible for their less than full sites. If I'm correct and that is the reason they’re finding it necessary to offer the various reductions to encourage site use, then the remedy is obvious.
CAMC seem to fill pitches with very few discounts offered. Due, perhaps, to their easier and deposit free booking system.
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Try getting into some of the C&CC Cumbrian sites, they're nearly always full! They're only discounting where needed.
I've certainly tried to do some mid-week bookings this year with CAMC but have had to cancel, when faced with the full price I feel miffed and start looking around at other possibilities.
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"They're only discounting where needed."
That's my point, Brue. Overall, C&CC seem to have a greater need to discount and the question has to be "why?".
I’ve given my opinion as to that reason.
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But then It is the same with some commercial sites that do "loss leaders" pitches out of season when us oldies can take advantage ,but then it's the youngsters who have no option but to use them in peak and pay very high prices which are to off set what we paid
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I am afraid you joined the wrong club if you were expecting discount for the over 6o s, the c &cc yearly subscription is a lot less and you get a discount on c&cc sites. If you find it difficult to meet the very high cost of staying on a camc site may I suggest you try the cl network their are some excellent sites some with toilets and showers
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We are now well into our sixties, would I like age related discounts? Of course I would! But thinking back through our lives we really needed those discounts when the family was young and disposable income was a pipe dream. To be honest the need then was much greater than it is for us now. Just having the ability to book midweek during 'non holiday periods' when most young families are tied up with work and school is a bonus to us. Maybe discounts should reflect all age groups but please don't offer those family discounts like some package holiday firms do linked only with school term times, that's just plain antisocial, immoral and wrong.
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Hi....and if you wish to use a MWD in the NE or Yorkshire....good luck !
We feel the CMC is not playing fair when there are smaller regions of the UK with many more MWD options, whereas here we have a choice of two....the nearest being Stockton-on-Tees and it's an awfull site !
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Why do you say that about White Water Park? When we went last year I thought it one of the better Club sites in terms of quality and I have been to quite a lot of Club sites.
David
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I would agree with you DK, we like White Water.
Its well situated for lots of sight seeing, there are good shops close by and miles of cycle/walking paths.
The site has not long had a lot of the grass pitches made into hard standing, I think its getting used more because of that.
The MWD does seem at times to revitalise sites, Seaview at Berwick used to have a MWD a few years ago, the site wasn't that busy then but nowadays its much busier. The club however have in the past few years closed the site in November rather than 3rd January.
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I think that’s happened to a few TG. We used to like visiting Bolton Abbey, but it closed in November last year. Must check out opening for this year.
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Completely agree, David. We've used the MWD there a couple of time and think that it's real bargain.
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Can you please explain what M W D is
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Mid Week Discount
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