Is it a rip off?
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My sailing club has a reduced membership rate for pensioners.
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could you define pensioner as used by your club? I mean actually receiving a state pension or just retired?
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Isn’t it true, though, that every reduced price must mean that regular prices are at a level to offset that? I have no wish to be subsidised by other customers of any organisation.
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Yes.
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I suspect that many do pay £50 David and consider that, for them, it is good value.
We shall shortly be paying £6.60 at Sandringham which I am content with whilst OP considered £26 too be too expensive. The private site that I am on now charges £24 at present but the facilities fall short of CC sites. We are paying £26 for a lakeside pitch.
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I would tend to agree with the No. As using a dynamic pricing model there would be no regular prices. Just a higher price for booking early and guaranteeing your pitch and a lower price for booking later, or last minute and taking the risk that you won't be going.
Or of course you could sell them at a lower price to start with, then increase the price as availability becomes tight. Would probably work with the likes of Baltic Wharf and York Rowntree.
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I would think that the £50 pitch exists in peak period on some all singing and dancing beachside sites in France. And possibly in the very touristy areas of Switzerland in peak period. But otherwise we find that out of peak we pay no more than around £15-£18 per night.
We did have one night at Easter once on a site in Holland that charged £27ish, sometimes you just cannot avoid every peak period when touring.
We would not normally be "over there" in July/August.....much too hot!
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if you and BB actually read my original post (on page 22) David I did not say £50 per night at all, no idea why BB wanted to misquoted me, I am sure it wasn't on purpose of course.
the 'over there poster': Our average per night ( over there) varies between £50 and £65
I think he meant per day, as it was per day earlier in his post, and in another post
...that we are now being priced out of Club sites...
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+1
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CS quoted: the 'over there poster': Our average per night ( over there) varies between £50 and £65
I think he meant per day, as it was per day earlier in his post, and in another post
I think that was a reference to daily living costs rather than the pitch fee, BICBW.
In answer to your earlier enquiry, pensioner rate at the sailing club kicks in at 65. We also get a reduction in the hours required for work parties, with an exemption once one reaches 75.
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That will be me then.
David is quite correct, that is the cost of the whole trip averaged over the number of nights spent away. Nights/days, comes to the same thing for this purpose,
I include all food, wine, eating out, fuel, ferries, insurance, site fees, purchase of LPG, sightseeing.......everything.
Of this total, site fees per night will vary from 11 to 19 euros, though as noted above we did have one night at about 32 euros one year.
These are trips which vary between 2 and 4 months in length and have covered distances up to 7000 miles, but more often around 3000-4000 miles.
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IMO "last minute" price reductions to fill unbooked pitches could benefit both seller and customers, especially senior citizens as they are most likely to be able to take up such offers.
If this is referring to CAMC pitches then I personally feel that it would create inequality in CMC's membership, and therefore unfair to those members who are unable (for various reasons) to make use of the suggested reductions. Also IMHO totally unacceptable if it were available to non members.
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another dodge it answer
