The ACSI Books have arrived
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My 2020 copy still in the sealed envelope it arrived in. Normally purchase via the club but will not bother with 2021 copy, sites we normally use give an OAP discount or elongated stay discount and you cant use ASCI discount as well, also some sites in Spain have special pitches for ACSI discounts which are sometimes not the best. If we need to find a site, normally use Archie or Alan Rogers, have both on satnav so not a problem.
Slightly off track, the new BF ferry Galicia looks very nice, she was in Portsmouth last week, there was a fire works display to welcome her on her first visit to the port.
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Big fan of ASCI, but like you don’t take the guides out of the envelope - with such a good App and database for planning and location purposes it’s not necessary.
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Mine came yesterday as well to replace the pristine ones on my bookshelf.
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I bought the ACSI books in 2018 - they cost me about £15.50 which saved me about £14.50 at overnight stops across France, but the ACSI card was not much use in Provence in late June / early July as the sites listed there were rammed with card carrying pensioners from ACSI 's home country. We moved on.
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A few years we did a 10 week trip France/Italy/Slovenia/Croatia/Austria/Luxembourg/Belgium in April/May/June, about 30 sites in all, everyone of them bar a couple were ACSI. Total site fees were something like £1000. Back of a fag packet calculation I reckon we saved £150 overall. ACSI may not be a huge saver for short trips, but if you hit the roads for months at a time, the savings add up to be worthwhile. Generally we don’t stay on fancy sites, €16 or €18 is more than enough.
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I have just come on here to give information on ACSI books and have seen this post.
I have just tried to buy the 2021 edition from the club and they are still advertising the 2020 book. Went to ask Live Chat about when new book will be on sale.
Answer. We are not selling the ACSI book next year.
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We could have saved money on that trip to Provence too - but some ACSI sites were full or nearly full.
At Camping Le Ventoux at Mazan people were being turned away and were parking overnight on the grass verge of the approach road. At Camping Le Barralet at Collias we squeezed into a gully between trees even though the owner warned us it was a runway for water after storms.
It's not a problem we ever found elsewhere, but in that area at that time of year we started choosing sites outside the ACSI list.
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Hi David, I have been looking at the ACSI website but some sites of interest are not yet showing 2021 dates. Once confirmed I will be buying the new guide.
If you have the guide can you confirm that Bella Italia at Peschiera is in there?
We are hoping to go to Lago Trasimeno for a couple of weeks but want to do a week at BI on the return journey.
We would be saving app €4 day at Trasimeno, so saving €56 but at BI it would be €22 less a day in June so saving €154.
I think €210 will cover the guide and postage!
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Camping Bella Italia is listed on the current App database - €20. Campsite no 3188 and in the new guide campsite no 2682 (page 602) Confusing or what?
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One site owner in southern France said to us that if his ACSI discounts ended on 5th July all his Dutch OAP customers would upsticks and leave on the 4th. He wondered whether they got a text message from their government ordering them to return home.
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I can believe it. The Dutch are campers par excellence, but they won’t go home, just as far as the nearest ADAC site!
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Have just opened my package. I'm sure that the membership card was included with the books last year but not this time. Perhaps it will come separately.
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Should be in part 2, inside front cover.
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