Update on 2020 Prices
Just noticed this elsewhere. Glad we booked our Club Site stay early.
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/useful-information/price-guide/price-increase-faqs/
Club have emailed Members, so doing their best to keep Membership informed.
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Déjà vu?
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I fear it will only get worse what with uncontrolled use of electricity and the increases in the living wage. Never mind, the state pension will increase by 3.9 percent next April.
I've not had an email about this so thanks for bringing to our atention.
peedee
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Absolutely. Finance forecasting is a fine art. OH suggested they should put them up higher first time round, then give everyone the good news of a price drop once negotiations have been finalised.
I am still chuckling at that one.....😂😂😂
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Yes, but only from the original increase. I believe Nunnykirk has risen £3 per night this time?
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Ro has posted about it in the Booking Release Dates thread as well.
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But that's PD's bag. We expect it. 😀
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but it is controlled, there is a max limit - 16Amps?
We have had some hard frosts here and the caravan was more than warm enough on the 0.9 Kw setting once heated up.
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He must have pinched the idea from those Ministers who announce dreadful cuts to budgets or potential increases in tax only to moderate them and hope to get away with it and turn around and say "Look how kind we are to you".
Anyway I've found the flaw in his suggestion Ttda. It's the word "Negotiations".
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Is it a marketing ploy to get us to advance book sites to ensure they don't see a decline in pitch take-up.
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Had mine @ 15:25, anyone any earlier
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That’s where I originally found it Tinny. It’s not a thread I often read, as I just assume booking dates now just roll over, with the occasional exception.
It will hardly affect us either, but for anyone booking three weeks away, it might be a few pounds saved if they can book it before 12th November.
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Nor me, JV, but I got that one.
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I think because it affects all Members, and is crucial information, they have overridden the preferences that people choose in terms of opting in or out.
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Yes, that's what it said in my email.
The information is is, IMHO, however, rather vague, as it states (copied and pasted):
If a booking is completely within peak season, there will not be any price increase.
If a booking starts in off-peak and continues into peak season, we will honour the original price paid for all dates during the members stay.
However, due to system restrictions, the limited number of bookings which start in peak season and continue into other off-peak seasons will be charged at the new 2020 prices for all dates of the stay.
What is the situation regarding bookings made totally in off-peak season? I haven't seen any mention of that. I have only made a couple of bookings for 2020, as we don't use Club sites exclusively, but would be interested what the situation is with those. I can't be alone in that, but can't see anything in FAQs in relation to that.
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To be honest, other than the one example above (third paragraph highlighted), I think the Club will just honour all bookings made before 12th November at price originally booked. It’s certainly what they did for us this year. We had an event to attend late September, so I jumped in and booked the dates we needed very very early. The original price was honoured without question, and the Wardens had it flagged up on computer when we arrived. It was only a few nights, so didn’t amount to much difference to be honest.
Given what’s about to happen next month, financial planning could be all up in the air anyway to a certain extent. There are an awful lot of promises around an awful lot of things that might happen one way or another that could affect some criteria used to predict expenditure.🤷♀️🤷♂️
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For some time now I have been asking myself if membership of C&MC is really value for money and the proposed 'small' price rises might tip the balance. As keen motorhomers we usually tour for up to 4 months of the year with 1/2 of this in UK. Our touring usually means staying often in places with no locally available club site so we stay on commercial sites which I must say we have found to be of perfectly acceptable standard and much cheaper. We use CLs and the Camping and Caravan Club CSs but here we find on average the CSs offer better facilities than the CLs. Personally I would prefer the club to keep its costs down rather than 'gold plating' its club sites. I eagerly await to see what 'small' means to the C&MC in this context.
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It's the first "sticky" (and locked) thread in this section TG.
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Again !!!!
