Have CAMC over priced some sites

So anybody going across for a month would pay an additional £150 (minimum guess) for ferries and so £5 a night. Plus insurances.

In truth you cannot judge the relative costs of sites in UK by comparison with sites in other countries if you want to tour within UK

we never use a site in order to "take advantage of a discount ".

I wonder how many do Justus. We don't and will pay an average of about £25 

Easy T... The thread is about club sites becoming too expensive, and as far as I can see there are those on here who are willing to pay far more than you or I would ever currently pay, or at least pay on average... yet we both go away for a significant number of nights each year. This is achieved, certainly in our case by careful choosing of sites / dates. Several have said they have an upper price limit on what they will pay per night.

I am left wondering, that of those club sites with vacancies in peak periods, are members ( as I do ), avoiding those sites on price  and finding something cheaper ?  Or are they not going away at all to avoid busier periods completely ? Or perhaps they go away for fewer nights to control the amount spent per year ? 

It is not that we strive to avoid more expensive sites Justus and do pay the odd bank holiday price whether on a non club site or one of the two clubs. We do get age discount with C&CC and use some of their clubs but as we tour we take it as it comes. I think that the dearest was around £27 and The prices that we paid this year are all bookings made in November last year and prices have increased since. I expect to pay more next year on average across a range of sites. Two Non facility CC sites have kept the price down at under £16 average as has a CL at £18. We just scraped at £25. 

We will however exceed that in our 15 night December break as we will be at Southport I think as per last 7 years. for 10 of the 15 nights the price will be £31 which I consider steep although we shall no doubt use a fair bit of leccy! There are other sites but none a well placed for us or as desirable. 

If we wanted to keep prices down we would perhaps use more C&CC sites and grass pitches too as well as more CLs although the CLs that I might use would probably come in at £18 to £20.

Financially, as a couple we are fortunate. OH was a teacher but retired early through ill health. after a couple of years she took up some low paying jobs. When we first became an Item 20 years ago she was out of work for 12 months. It means however that we are independent financially in one sense. She had capital when she sold her house  15 years ago and she, with my prompting, has increased that so that she could move out if she wished - she doesn't 

Our joint household/holiday/meals budget is significantly less than our retirement incomes, small investment returns (I play safe these days) and State pensions. Our annual household budget is only around £17K and so not a lot in the scheme of things with 120 nights away and all household bills, grass cutting food, insurances, dental and vehicle costs etc. 

Our caravans and car purchases however have not come from this budget as we have both chipped in half when buying. If I lived alone I suspect that I would have to have only a slightly smaller budget but paid for just by me!