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  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2019 #92

    and you are being forced to book a club site?

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2019 #93

    In english please?undecided

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2019 #94

    one of your stock phrases, surely?wink

  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2019 #95

    oh yes, you have spotted it. Of course it is only possible to stay on a over there camp site if you bring your own LV with you. Drat well spotted. Btw have you spotted those hire a MH tours in the club magazine?

    Sorry what up to date reviews did I do BB? Well I suppose if noticing arrival/departure times on sites where you stay is an up to date review then guilty as charged.

    I have posted a few times before that I have stayed on campsites around Firenze,  I have family who have motorhome and I go away with them when over there. 

    happy to help

    PS my application for Italian citizenship is almost over, no problem in the EU for mesmile

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  • KjellNN
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    edited July 2019 #97

    It is  worse than that....

    On those sites that have economy pitches, the price quoted is for those pitches.  These are all grass pitches.

    Looking at the first one that came up, Alderstead Heath, the from price of £7.80 is for an economy grass pitch from 28/10/19.  However, if you go to the availability calendar, the grass pitches are marked as unavailable from the end of September until the beginning of May, so it does not seem it is possible to stay at Alderstead Heath for the advertised £7.80.

    This seems to be the case on all the sites where the from price is for a so called economy pitch

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #98

    Kj - can I just ask why you are poring so carefully over that site? Are you thinking of going there in October? Have you checked Rob Bryden's claims for P&O cruises with the same diligence? Do you really think the club is doing anything that the rest of the travel industry is not doing?

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  • KjellNN
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    edited July 2019 #100

    No, not planning to go there, already been there twice in the past.  However, while looking at some other site that we were considering earlier this year, cannot remember now which site,  I thought the from price seemed very low and was curious as to when it was, and I discovered that it was for the economy pitches only, and only at a time when the grass pitches were not actually in use.

    Only using Alderstead as an example as it comes near the top of the sites list, but it is not the only site where a price has been given for a pitch which cannot actually be booked according to the availability calendars. This means that the claimed from price is incorrect, not just misleading.

    As we do not take cruises, or watch much TV, especially the adverts, I have no idea about anything Rob Bryden may be saying.

    From prices which have very limited availability are nothing new, but at least they should actually be available!

     

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #101

    Surely, out of respect, they'd have learnt some of the local language? wink

     

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  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #103

    Are you sure it wasn't available at the start of the season? Those dates wouldn't show now would they?

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to defend or condemn the club's pricing strategy, but I just think it's become normal practice in the travel industry, like it or not. Look at any holiday advert and the "from" price will apply for a very limited number of dates.

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #104

    Ah yes, I know that's the attitude some travel with. I prefer to make a little more effort when we travel abroad! Currently practising a little bit of Portuguese - which is very difficult! wink

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2019 #105

    Only if used in the correct instance wink

  • KjellNN
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    edited July 2019 #106

    Pretty sure, if you look forward to 2020 you can see the price regime then, which is about 50p more, but that is before May, when the grass pitches are still apparently out of use.

    The site I first noticed it on was way back last January, so all the prices were visible then.  Having  time on my hands back then, I looked at a few more sites, with the same results.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2019 #107

    Well I am, it was Firenze to me before it was Florence.

    I think you are showing your British bias there David, I do believe it is not just British folk who tow to Italy and most languages call Firenze by slightly different namessmile 

    There is a Latin 'logic' as I'm sure you will appreciate in it, but how someone thought up Leghorn for Livorno is beyond me

    PS you forgot Spain for some reason.

     

     

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  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #109

    I'll take your word for it! I only bother looking at prices for dates I actually want to book and at that time of year it normally means a couple of days before for me. smile

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  • KjellNN
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    edited July 2019 #111

    I actually commented on it at the time I first discovered it, that and the fact that on sites with HS, it was pretty much only available on the night before the site closed  in November, as highlighted by TG. 

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #112

    "Surely, after one or two posters have highlighted how 'difficult' it is to actually obtain said 'from price', there nothing wrong with Kjell (or anyone else, apart from you and Corners perhaps) doing a bit of checking and taking the club to task on its own forum where it's clearly 'impossible' to acheive..."

     

    Not quite sure why you continue to link posters together,  BB, but surely one is entitled to point out that the club is doing exactly what you (and perhaps DD wink) have so often suggested and adopted standard practice by commercial leisure companies? smile

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2019 #113

    Does this latest insult emoji or not require the report buttonyellundecided

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2019 #114

    my urging of the club to match other 'commercial leisure companies' (including some pretty decent commercial sites) has never had anything to do with sleight of hand pricing....

    rather, the decent staffing levels, non closing of toilet blocks, and far more relaxed arrival/departure times....

    i think you have the wrong guy(s), M....undecided  

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited July 2019 #115

    Your choice, JV. 

    Clearly, DD cares not for the feelings of others. 😕

  • KjellNN
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    edited July 2019 #116

    Matching other leisure operators in pricing tactics is one thing, but the Club seems to have gone beyond that in some cases!

  • JollyKernow
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    edited July 2019 #117

    Cheers BB, I think you've just about cured my insomniawinksurprised

    JK

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2019 #118

    Whatever you say, guys, whatever you say! laughing

    PS - aren't "black books" the preserve of those who note folk's spelling of certain words matched against their place of abode?!! wink

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2019 #119

    I wonder why you would have trouble sleeping....wink

    never a criticism of wardens, per se, all lovely folk, but working to the constraints of a different model to some other establishments....

    always room to improve processsmile

    keep taking the tabletswink

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2019 #120

    Also i noticed that a number of sites are dropping mid week discount next year. Whilst some are gaining it, there is a drop in the overall number of sites offering it.

    Now why isn't that a surprise!!

  • cyberyacht
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    edited July 2019 #121

    The difference is that when I look at a cruise price "from", I know it will be for the lowest grade cabin on that cruise. It doesn't quote a "from" price for a four night trip across to the channel islands on the page for a world cruise.

    As I posted earlier - deliberate obscurantism not merely indicative pricing. Whilst I am not "compelled" to book, the frequency of finding an unacceptable price means I now rarely even bother looking.