Non-members on CLs

I have no memory of the CL prices in 1980 when I was first using them but of course back then there were, generally no toilets or showers or hook ups. Anybody remember the costs?

CLs were generally less busy then

Four out of six CLs that I have visited this year have requested payment by bank transfer if possible. All have requested my membership number at the time of booking and one of these even came back to me asking if my number was correct. It is a very old membership number which, apparently, is in a slightly different format to more recent ones. Somebody is checking information given. 

There must be records kept by the CL owner for all the bookings made in advance. I'm sure, if he were so inclined, the tax man could quite easily check the bookings register if tax avoidance / evasion was suspected.

On one occasion last year I had to book a CL 'on-line' (the only option) and there was no request for my membership number. Nothing was checked when I arrived on-site, not even my name when I went to pay. This CL is now no longer in the network.

I suspected as much regarding CL usage. 

I may have paid a deposit by card but rarely been asked for a deposit (last time on a CL was 2019). As said earlier, I normally proffer membership number when booking.

There must be records kept by the CL owner for all the bookings made in advance. I'm sure, if he were so inclined, the tax man could quite easily check the bookings register if tax avoidance / evasion was suspected.

The tax man could indeed check the proffered bookings register which would of course tally with any tax returns. 

I installed mains electrics around 1995

I always provide number when booking, whether by phone or e-mail. Never been asked for a card but you probably use more CLs than most

Staggering in this day and age, but back when we first toured, the Club was so hoity toity about what might try and spend a night on one of its sites, it wasn’t uncommon for us to have to let a Warden peer into our camper van, and demonstrate how the pop up roof and bed worked! I was much more easy going in those days, but woe betide the nosy so and so that might try the same nowadays.

As the OP is so fascinated by the toileting arrangements of others, I can confirm that this last 18 months or so has seen far more toilet tents erected next door to small campers than we have ever seen before. On both CLs and Club Sites. There were three on Marazion when we stayed. I didn’t inspect them though. 

I started caravanning in 1980 and have always used a porta potti of some kind up until a cassette loo in 2005. 

They can be handy. 28 years ago, after an orchidectomy following testicular cancer I made th error of sitting on a hospital toilet whilst having a row of clips across my lower abdomen. Getting up was pure agony and from then on until release it was water only for me.

I had an old very tall porta potti in the garage which was tall. I gave my neighbour a drawing of how to build a dais to raise a further 4''. Later gave it away to the husband of a friend of my wife after he had a hip operation. Very useful.

The thread was "bogged down" from the get go.