Club prices
I just checked out how much it would cost for a couple to stay at Old Hartley club site Monday until Friday in June. I was shocked to discover that it works out cheaper for us to stay at the Premier Inn. The club really has now lost touch with reality considering the amount of time they were closed in 2020 I would have thought they could have lowered prices for members.
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I actually get the Premier Inn (at Whitley bay) to be 50 pence more expensive per night
But why the should should lower it prices for members because of the two closure period? I don't see why personally and either pay it or not.
It would appear from others posters that club pitches are being taken across the country in larger numbers so perhaps the prices aren't that bad and it looks like it's going to a bumper year
The good news is no one has to take a club site or it's prices. I'm sure there are cheaper sites around and CL's of course too.
It looks like a no brainer to use the hotel? Although personally I would prefer the freedom of my pitch and caravan rather than a small room at the Inn? But each to their own.
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Perhaps the OP's username gives a clue to his financial astuteness?👍🏻😂
No offence intended.
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Not true actually. Whitley Bay Premier In mid June for double room is £38.50 parking offsite (very little on site) £3 a day. Continental Breakfast for two £14. So £41.50with offsite parking without breakfast. You can add at least £30 to grab an evening meal and a drink. for two.
Caravan Club about £30.20 for two and my own porridge and evening meal for around £ 5 or £10 for fillet steak.
The last time we used a Premier in was about 3 years ago and we used one for a night to weather out a storm. It was a weekday which was significantly dearer than weekend due to business users in the week. No change out of £100 for two.
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I think what the OP has posted is for Pay now no refund prices at premier inn
at the Newcastle inns and all above the Old Harley prices for the same periodPs we are booked into Old Hartley in August ,and do not pay untill we arrive and nothing to pay if we cannot go
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their stuff is good, I use their little kiosk just near the beach for coffee. It is usually where I would turn round for home. Even when I was there last December it was always well used.
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An interesting report on radio 4's Today programme this morning suggests that prices for "staycation" accommodation are showing double digit percentage increases for this year. We are still hoping to use our cottage booking for May, carried forward from last year and originally booked in September 2019. I just checked the current price and it's gone up by almost 20% since then for the same week. So I don't think the club can really be accused of profiteering or doing anything that the rest of the UK holiday industry isn't also doing.
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Not sure that it's a case of profiteering, Kj. The industry has undoubtedly been hit very hard and I'm not sure how much support they have got through government schemes. Certainly individual owners will have suffered badly. I think it's just the new reality as far as travel and leisure is concerned unfortunately.
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or perhaps trying to recover lost income and stay in business?
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It is what it is, Kj. Businesses have to keep their heads above water or go to the wall.
One man's profiteering is another's making ends meet and if we walk away, plenty of others will pay up and take our place. It's life.
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Not the case. We've booked a number of CLs and there ha s has been none of minimal price increases. Perhaps they want to attract as many visitors and think that they will put many off with large increases in pitch fees.
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Well perhaps the club needs more funds to sustain its announcement that in 2021 it is investing £5.1 million on site refurbishment. They gave the impression during lockdown that they were struggling, by repeatedly reminding members to renew membership, insurances and use sites with or without services, paying full price for those without may I add. The club is simply a business and has to be run that way. It is not now in my view, the members club for all that it was when we joined 45 years ago. Some say it’s progress.
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I have been a member for 40 years and I can't really see any difference. OK in the days of postal bookings when none of us expected an instant answer things have changed in that way as has the world around us. I would really like you to illustrate half a dozen changes that have happened to make it less like a club? As to the investment in sites, who benefits from that? Surely only members? Everything and everyone has changed over the last 40 years but to me the positive far outweighs any negatives.
David
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I notice one of the sites being refurbished is Moreton in Marsh where members have been complaining about the condition of the pitches. This site was upgraded with the addition of alternative accommodation recently and now the rest of the site will be upgraded. This is a site which receives heavy continuous usage and the alternative to taking action on upgrades is cheaper pitches, water logging on the ground, potholes, mud and worn out facilities. CAMC is non profit making and excess revenue is ploughed back into upgrades and new sites.
It still is a members club and the money raised from fees goes back into continuous improvements. But other factors like rising utility costs and heavy use of utilities by members contributes to ever rising prices.
Keeping CAMC running during a pandemic must have been the most challenging event the club has had to manage and costs will undoubtedly have to rise to "keep the show on the road."
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club sites are expensive, all the c.l. charge a pitch fee, private charge either a pitch fee or charge per person but NOT both
but the club charge a pitch and per person so it becomes expensive, the club will say their is all the facilities on a club site,
we have toilets and showers in our vans so why walk to the toilet block especially if it is raining, and who wants to walk with all their pots their to wash them, we all have a sink in our vans
The club wouldn't consider giving us extension of membership because all the sites where closed last year, the other club did
come on club think of your members Not the directors salary
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For me, although cost is important. There are many more benefits in staying in your Van as opposed to a Premier Inn. Sleeping in your own bed which no one else has slept in, using your own cutlery & plates etc. Having meals when you want.
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it's the final cost that matters perhaps, not how it is arrived at?
But really it has been shown many times that club sites are middle of the road in terms of prices.
Also many non club sites have an 'all inclusive' price for a couple but then they start charging extra for additional things like people, awnings, dogs, cars, pup tents...
Bit as always it is up to one to choose the best value site they can for themselves rather than asking for cheaper prices?
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In your opinion.
As it is, the pods can be generating more income in order to fund the upgrade. Everyone pays whether on a pitch or in a pod so it’s a chicken and egg situation and, given the current situation, matters very little.
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we have toilets and showers in our vans so why walk to the toilet block especiality if it is raining, and who wants to walk with all their pots their to wash them, we all have a sink in our vans.
Many choose to use site facilities over there own. We are happy to use no facility sites but accept that whether a CMC site or private site we will be ayng for facilities that we don't need.
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