New booking system with deposits
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+1, add to that a humongous squeeze on finances for 2023. To many it will be a really hard time I’m afraid.
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As one gets older the more one needs to have a tour in place with sites booked, including other than both clubs sites without leaving it until a later date ,and in our case in the last two years, that all sites booked have full accessable facilities
.not everyone has the luxury of going and touring without and using on board facilities except in exceptional circumstances 
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Whilst I accept that on a long tour, you will have to accept whatever weather you get, we wouldn't go away on the first leg if the weather was atrocious. Booking later does have its advantages.
Even when we are away for a number of weeks we would only probably book the first two sites, the next site is only booked when we are ready to move on.
When you go to France are you more relaxed in your touring pattern?
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In France we don’t book anything, but then we are out of season and have access to hundreds of Aires. Here we prefer to use CAMC, C&CC and some private sites and book ahead. Just our personal choice. Personally we wouldn’t delay or put off a tour, or even a shorter booking because of the weather. Unless it was unsafe to travel of course.
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I’m amused at people desperately wanting to book for next June . Never mind next June, there are about 180 Club sites with availability for next week.
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There is a particular site we like in Cornwall that is central to the places we like to go, we have a caravan and find it easy to stay in a central location for 2-weeks and use the car to visit any location so I will book this months in advance if left until later its very difficult to get the time span we require there will usually be 1 or 2 days blocked, motorhomes usually dont stay for long periods its a totally different holiday experience so perhaps it's not so important to book well in advance, I would think there's a great number of caravanners do the same, I believe this will happen more when the choice of pitches has to be made.
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😂😂😂
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I'm amused (well that's not quite the correct description of my reaction) when folk try to question or belittle what others choose to do in booking and touring! Booking well in advance suits many folk and good luck to them in making certain they get exactly what they want for, in many cases, hard earned and rare breaks from busy lives.
We don't tour in a van any more, can come down to our static at the drop of a hat (we're here right now, in fact). But we also take other forms of holiday and have just booked 2 cottages for next April/May, one for a charity event which we take part in regularly and the other because it's in a place we want to visit and available to make a two week stay away. (Oh, and we've had to pay a deposit for both and the balance will be due 6 weeks before we go.) Silly us!
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A screenshot of a Facebook post (non official CAMC group). Probably as true as any other rumours.
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I think you posted that before but it’s no more real now than then.
Why 7 nights and why MHs? I cannot see the difference between 2 folk booking 3 and 4 nights sequentially and another booking the whole 7 nights irrespective of their units.
You are quite entitled to book early if that’s what suits you but please don’t try to make the rest of us change to accommodate your needs.
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Ferry Meadows hardstandings were flooded when we were there. Mind, the clue’s in the name really🤣🤣 Six inch deep at the worst, but it all soaked away overnight. That was the HS side only. I think there was a lake where the grass pitches usually are over other side😁
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I don’t think you need worry too much about what those who tour in their MH’s will be doing. Club Sites are well off our radar now, and likely to remain that way. And I suspect we won’t be alone.
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It doesn't say the launch date on CAMC Twitter, just the month, September (they seem more keen to mention National Sponge Cake Day!!) Well of course that's something of great importance and makes running a Twitter account on our behalf vitally important.....
Twitter is available to view as long as you are signed into CT, see "tweets and replies."
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Why’s that then? We can spend 7 or more consecutive nights on CaMC sites just not on the same one. After all, it is a touring club, a network of touring sites we join, not just one site. That is a big plus for us and many others I’d bet, we enjoy touring using many sites in the duration of our planned sojourns. It’s brilliant in our opinion and we plan our tours around the sites and locations we visit.
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Given the number of MH’s we see on sites that only seem to stop 1 / 4 days like ourselves, that would be a bit like turkeys voting for Christmas. There would be little point in us continuing our membership. We don’t use CL’s and could source the Mayday offering from the C&CC, at least they only usually insist on 2 days.😀
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The whole fabric that was once loved is slowly but surely eroding crumbling. I’m thinking that the current attitude will not enable a Phoenix ending🙁
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Most Caravanners stay for 7 or more nights. Motorhomers the majority of them stay for only a couple of days. I have seen this so many times. This is the problem it stops people booking for longer periods. The club must be losing revenue by allowing 2-3 night stopovers on the weekend and lots of space in weekdays.
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No they don’t. Even when using our caravan we often did short breaks, 3-4 nights, and often one night only if travelling a long way. Sorry but this is part of the “you said, we did” myth stuff that the Club have latched onto and are now using to impose deposits on everyone.
The essence of this Club was to provide opportunities for touring, (limited to more expensive outfits they deemed “suitable”, unlike the CCC who have a slightly more laid back view of what folks might enjoy). I agree it’s more likely that caravans like to get pitched up and perhaps stay a bit longer, but there are still many folks who move on with a van after 4-5 days, so your ridiculous suggestion of a 7 day minimum is based upon little more than your own requirements.🤷♀️ We happily filled those mid week slots with our little MH, until this price hike, and what looks like the imminent loss of the MWD. You don’t get as many caravans used in the Winter months, many are laid up and locked away in storage, while MHs like us are still out touring, keeping the income coming in. Everyone who uses Club Sites, no matter how long they stay, contributes to that income.
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