Email regarding price increases
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We not use sites that much these days preferring CLs but that really started in 2020 due to Covid.
Now it's more to do with a) the price of CAMC sites and b) we rather like CLs
As to what would be more effective, IMO the club needs and wants to reduce usage, as do we all. The only way to do that is to pay for what you use, it really does focus the mind once you've experienced a metered electricity pitch.
By reducing the amps to 10 amp I personally don't think it would make a lot of difference to all but the highest wasters of electricity. I know I can manage quite happily even in winter on 10amp. The idea of 6amp I think is unworkable in this country given our weather, that and most folk don't seem to understand how low that is. Wardens would be sent demented by bollards constantly being overloaded.
Metered is expensive agreed but it has to be a longterm decision, it ain't going to get cheaper anytime soon.
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Prices increasing are going to be with for the foreseeable future ,the chip van owner who comes to Great Yarmouth( he comes from Lowestoft) was saying his cooking oil had gone up by £15 a drum? and Cod prices were high as it was now coming from the Fairos?
And our chippy. has increased his prices from £7 for a large cod and chips to £10.50 all down to costs that he can longer absorb or subsidise. from his restaurant
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Evening
"Wardens would be sent demented by bolllards constantly being overloaded" That happens now with increasing regularity Tammygirl and that's with 16 amps
JK
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Well maybe up the amps to say 30 - would that help?
Actually if and when metering happens I hope there might be an increase for a higher price of course?
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I do not think many actually check the per night fees when booking ?,so it would come as a bit of a suprise if they now check against last years prices
I was having such a conversation in the mens washing up area at FM and the other two men had not looked at the prices per night, they just paid
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Yes, got the email. Wasn't happy that prices on already booked sites would be increased so started to look for alternative sites as the increase per night was more than my total spend on electricity on a private metered site recently. Obviously on club sites I am subsidising other users who have much higher usage than me. Having used meters on several occasions it is my preferred method, even in mid winter the most I have paid is less then £2 per night.
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The amount of electric used on pitch is not, I think, the major factor, some use very little. The majority of gas/electric is used in the facilities blocks, office and warden compounds. These costs would still need to be covered if they reduced bollards to 10 amps or installed meters.
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I'm sat at a fantastic site in Garlieston (Galloway) looking over the bay with a lovely cup of Tea. I was just working out the cost of this trip -
5 nights in Coniston in the lakes, 5 nights here and then back down to North Yorkshirefor 4 nights. The car has already drunk £110 worth of Diesel and I've to get back.
So ... I'm sat here working out the cost of the trip and realised that so far Coniston and this one have charged me around 5% more than my agreed price. Obviously we know that prices are going up, but I was never informed of this. The email at the beginning of this thread was never sent to me.. and I would have thought my booked price was the price I should pay.
I probably couldnt be more annoyed but unfortunately I've recently renewed my membership and cant make any kind of stand. I know these are little things but with fuel and the cost of living it would be good to know about these changes. These little things do start to grind on me ...
Then again the view from here sort of makes it worth it.
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Hi FV, like you, we recently did a tour of D&G, ten nights. We averaged a price of £12.30 per night, home is SYorks, so fuel usage similar. We didn’t book anything, hopped while rolling.
Dont splutter too much into your Tea😁 I think you will have had slightly better weather than us though, but enjoy the rest of your stay, D&G is very nice👍
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Aye, we are two and a dog as well. Have a great time, it’s a lovely area. We have stayed at Garlieston, many years ago. We toured around this time in our small MH, luckily finding some very good Aire type stopovers, which made it really cheap for us. We did have four lovely nights on a £20 per night CL as well, so you can tell how cheap some of our nights were £0-£20. All legal, no wild camping👍
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As it happens, over a year ago now, I landed up one day (by some querk) in a telephone conversation with a senior Club member of staff, with me suggesting it was time the Club woke up and recognised that we are facing an environmental climate crisis of epic proportions.
Should the Club therefore move into the 21st century and introduce pitch electric meters, I suggested? It has long irked me that with my small caravan, I am subsidising what I call the 'bungalows on wheels', the size of articulated trucks some of them, which use electricity for a whole range of luxurious uses. I have my own views of these but aside from that, the environmental impact of such rigs makes me shiver.
I've stayed on European sites that have such electric metering and with modern computer technology they work very well. They make caravanners think whether those outside/awning lights on all night are really necessary. And yes those horrendous Xmas illuminations that some absolutely plaster their vans with at certain times of year. And don't call me a miserable so and so. Cause we are on the road to wiping out human life on this planet!
That member of staff totally dodged my suggestion and diverted the discussion to talking about installing electric car chargers on sites. But didn't mention that meters would be necessary for these!
So I despair of the Club on these issues. Wake up and do something re this crisis. Limp wristed e-mail responses about increasing energy prices are 100% inadequate for the crisis we face. Face up to the fact that the days of 'to hell with it' energy consumption have to end and the Club needs to ensure those who use their sites who won't face that should pay more for their selfishness.
Apart from anything else, the alternative will be a Caravan Club pricing itself into extinction and helping to take the rest of us with it!
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How things change, we joined the club because for the price,and quality of facilities, compared to private sites ,the club was far cheaper, now private sites are less expensive, just as good , and in some cases far better
Excluding the site mangers; from my recent contact experience of the club ,the club has become top heavy with staff, many that have no real world experience of touring
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Hi we booked in June for August bank holiday in Great Yarmouth to see the family on holiday
just added a extra day and the price has risen we joined caravan and camping much cheaper especially if you are a senior also we are looking at privately owned sites now or 5 van sites for next year
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