CL Price Rises
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My next stop is a non EHU basic site with a handbook price of £7. I was a bit taken aback to be advised that it was now £12. Whilst I feel that £10 is reasonable for a basic non EHU CL, the jump from the book price (last year) was a bit of a surprise. It may be that it's a bit of a catch-up from a pre-covid time a few years back.
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Handbook price???? The next handbook will be the last printed one thankfully
JK
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That may be your opinion, but there are lots of us who tour a lot that much prefer the handbook. There are still plenty of locations where the phone/Wi-Fi signal is poor or non-existent and having a printed book to refer to to find ones next destination or directions to a site is essential.
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Having spent the past ten days or so meandering around rural Suffolk, the absence of a phone signal has made the Handbook absolutely essential. Its withdrawal will be a further incentive for many to terminate their membership. No point in having the biggest CL network if you've no idea where they are located. Given the reliability of the CAMC website, I could end up with a pitch on a CL twenty miles south of Portland Bill.
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I've just found another cl whose prices are so odd it's difficult to comprehend.
Over and above the daily pitch price it says a shower is £2.50 per day EACH and you must book it, why, because priority is given to people with small vans and motorhomes. What is the definition of a small van and why motorhomes?
Will cross that off my Go To list
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Paying and booking for a shower does seem odd but the small could apply to motorhomes, in the same way as in small boys and girls could mean (and usually does) both boys and girls being small?
As you say I wonder how they decide what is small? Length, berths?
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I wasn’t aware of this JK. (Mind, given how the Club deals with communication, it comes as no surprise) It might seem very old fashioned, but because we really like to tour around an area, we have always found the HB very useful. I made the mistake of recycling ours earlier this year, and waiting for the website to load, every time you want to check out an individual CL is an absolute PITA. If the website was fast and reliable, we would use it less, but all the buffering eats into your dongle data when tethered as well.
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Actually I think it will similar to the membership card where you can opt for a hard copy. Who knows it might change by then
JK
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So unless there is a replacement hard copy of all the other information that is in the HB it will be another excuse for those who have not been informed of the rules and club site etiquette .as the excuse that it is all on line is getting more feeble as time goes by
we were in a Halifax branch and were told more people are now using the branch network as the websites are now getting too unreliable ,
But it seems not as bad as this clubs already is (he is a wavering member as it seems many are now)
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Ha ha….😁My bloody mindedness struck on that one. I want two plastic cards. Some of the older type CLs we use like to see a plastic card.
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And to get discounts many establishments like to see a members card as proof
Using smart?cards as I noticed when I was using the buses and to visit OH caused more delay when people were using them for their fares than just tapping a debit card🤔
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Have you tried the App, mind you an an update to that was promised and I don't think that has yet arrived. Thinking about it, it might be tied to the introduction of deposits. I find it more useful for touring than an outdated handbook. However in the past I have found sites missing from it. One of these days the Club might have a common site database for all applications and also produce a handbook from it for those who cannot do without hard copy.
peedee
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Tried it, occasionally use it. Not that bothered, it is flawed. We like to get out OS maps, lay alongside CL map, and study areas, routes, alternative routes, etc…… the “big” picture approach suits us in the planning stage. We utilise other Apps and site websites alongside. Those who stick primarily to Club Sites probably will find Handbook superfluous to their needs, but we mix and match our stays. It’s the endless buffering and clicking on this website to get anywhere that totally ****** us off.
But, we would survive. With or without.
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It sounds like an East Grinstead London centric decision. Anyone who has left the safe confines of Greater London knows there are unforseen snags along the way. The odd missing sign post, the deep rocky single track lane where phone signals are absent but satnavs seem to encourage users ever onwards. Paper instructions suddenly become essential! Oh well hone up your map reading skills and write down the directions....mind you I think CL users already have a good sense of adventure so maybe they will survive.
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Oh Brue…..that’s the post of the week as far as I am concerned. London centric indeed. So many institutions, businesses, media outlets, individual’s, you name it, totally out of their comfort zone away from inside M25.
Club has always been a tad sketchy on Geography, certainly in terms of where CLs are located, and the Magazine. They aren’t too hot on plants either I recall from a not too distant Handbook cover…..🤣🤣
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I do hope we can ‘opt in’ for a book. We always use the handbook to check out CLs and site directions. We are always told to follow the club site directions so we use the book as we have often found it easier than trying to log in to find them on line.
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I am sure that the abolition of the Handbook, if true, will cost the club members.
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So do we, but I lost my card so requested a replacement, that was a month or so ago and am still waiting for it to arrive. I do have the membership app so not stuck, unless of course there's no Wi-Fi signal such as at Clumber! Says a !it about the efficiency of the club's HO!!
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That's a bit different from your original post on the matter. Perhaps that's because you only use club sites in this country, them being free to site managers.
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Already happening! Got an email today, membership due September, encouraging me to move to electronic version. As I tend to pay by card which is next to my membership card in my wallet I will carry on with the original cards for as long as I can.
David
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I think I would want a few staff perks if all I got was a tad above minimum wage for dealing with a few of the Club’s Membership. I wonder if the “no pass” applies only to new recruits, allowing longer serving staff to retain this part of their contract?
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New staff members still get a site pass but it is now only valid while employed by the club where as in the past as with JK it is also valid for the years of employment subject to time worked each year for the years worked after leaving the clubs employment ,I understand even that has been eroded and restrictions applied
may be another reason winter cover of sites is more difficult it seems as after a summer season of members why have more of the same when managers could be the other side of the site office counter enjoying your staff pass while employed only🤔
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So, to paraphrase in English….
New staff do get a pass, to use elsewhere, but only while in Club employment.
Existing staff still have a pass, but not on the same terms and conditions as previously.
I think I have got that now🤔
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Just had a look at some of the new CLs that Maddie has put up in that thread.
I took a look at 1 that has opened not that far from ourselves and was surprised at a couple of things.
Firstly the price sticks out like a sore thumb. £22 p.n. no toilet or shower and a grass pitch. Secondly there is no information provided by the owner apart from copy and paste members offers out of the club website. No input whatsoever to entice the customer. There are 3 CLs within a 5 mile radius of this CL, all of which provide a shower and toilet, 2 of them also provide Hardstanding, one of them has Enhanced pitches and all seem to charge less than £20 p.n. In addition all have good reviews going back a number of years.
So, did the club advise the new owner to check local prices and competition and if so why did they not take any notice of them? Rhetorical question.
It seems to me that some owners just don't help themselves at all. Oh well, good luck to them. I think they'll need it.
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We have just been on a new, this year, CL, all grass with EHU, and the owner had set his price at £15 pn. Talking to him last evening and he was way it that after having received his latest electric bill he is reluctantly having to up his price to £18 from September. However even at that price it is a site we will be returning to.
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