May day BH changed in 2020 - affect bookings?

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  • peedee
    peedee Club Member Posts: 9,389 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2019 #32

    I don't think it is very ethical either. What it means is anyone can make a booking expecting to pay the listed price only to find out when they turn up the price is different

    I shall be reviewing my booking but not in a hurry.

    peedee

  • cyberyacht
    cyberyacht Forum Participant Posts: 10,218
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    edited June 2019 #33

    The word "opportunistic" springs to mind.

  • moulesy
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    edited June 2019 #34

    I haven't thought that far ahead yet! I think that folk who have made bookings in good faith can feel a little aggrieved but I doubt that the club will be alone in adjusting their pricing strategy.

    The real blame, I feel, lies with whichever government department made the decision at such a late stage. The last time the BH was switched was, I believe for the 50th anniversary so they've only known about it for 25 years! surprised

  • Cornersteady
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    edited June 2019 #35

    Not to me of course CY, but coming from a ex-banker that could be seen as irony?

    The club (sadly) is not a charity, now I assume everyone thinks it is fair to drop the prices for those who had booked the 'old BH' ?

    If it hadn't put 'adjusted' the prices accordingly for the new BH it would have lost (being a high demand weekend) a significant amount of income.

    Income which probably helps, or subsidises, to keep prices lower (when less in demand) at other times?

  • SteveL
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    edited June 2019 #36

    We wanted to make you aware that you may notice a small increase in the price you were quoted when you made your original booking.

     

    I suppose at least we now know the CC's definition of small. Just checked prices for Chatsworth and the difference for two is £8 a night, a 27% increase.surprised

  • Cornersteady
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    edited June 2019 #37

    Yes that is an naughty understatement but I suppose that is why it had to adjust the prices, Ok Chatsworth is expensive anyway but multiply around that £8 per night across the network on a peak heavy use weekend and you can see what a lot of money they would be losing. 

    Chatsworth alone has 120 pitches and maybe all taken on that weekend, so a loss of £960 per night or £2880 for a three night BH stay. Now not all sites will be full but it gives you an idea of what could be lost to the club even if 10 sites are?

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited June 2019 #38

    Surely the "club" would not actually be losing that income, they would just not be gaining as much, a totally different thing IMO. It's just another con to to take more cash of some members, who are not savey enough., or not read the post in this and other forums, to have realised what the change of date will mean .

  • Cornersteady
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    edited June 2019 #39

    well if the price for a peak was £8 over as Steve says and they left it then that is £2880 odd lost or not gained on that site, Either way the club is down by that amount, or it has not made as much.

    That shortfall has to be made good somehow as it will be used to subsidise the rest of the year.

    I don't agree it's a con, those who made booking were happy to pay the published price as it was a BH, they understood that. If so they will be just as happy to pay that price for the new BH.

    I suppose that those that booked the new BH before it was may feel upset, if so they can always cancel and find a cheaper site near by. Of course I assume other sites will be doing the same and increasing it prices?. Harsh but there it is.

    But on the other shoe, or pitch rather, those that booked the old BH now have a cheaper stay, so luck of the draw I suppose.

    I do think and agree with others that the powers that be who changed the BH dates got it completely wrong, and it didn't need changing 

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