The same Club, just better...

I can see why the club has changed its name because the number of motorhomes has risen as a proportion of members and it does make the position clearer.

To be honest the old logo was perfectly good and the new one looks meaningless. I would have changed the name but just put the club name under the pennant which is far more interesting than the new logo.

Agree that would have been preferable and entirely sensible - WW you could earn a vast amount by offering to be a consultant for the next re-branding!

True, they haven't actually promised anything,  but it a great opportunity now to actually be pro active and improve the club.

Having watched the video though now, I'am not very impressed. Have to agree not everyone uses their van to make use of the great outdoors!  

I hope they now put more effort into getting the website sorted and supporting the CL 's that have had and still have problems with the website and search.

In my ten years of membership I had a caravan for nine years, and now a motor home for one. I have not felt discriminated against at all in either category. On my first ever trip at Bladon Chains due to a wet summer hard standings were being saved for heavy motor homes, and so I had to go on grass, but that was a logical requirement at that time to prevent bogging down of heavy vehicles.

I try whenever possible to have a hard standing pitch. It would be interesting to know what proportion of members would only choose a grass pitch. I would be happy if all pitches were made hard standings.

What would I like for the future?

Wifi on all club sites without exception

All wifi to be full speed (unlike what I am suffering here at Ferry Meadows!)

All pitches hard standings on all sites (and no grass strips to cross like at Cherry Hinton!)

All sites with toilet/shower blocks (members who prefer to use their own wouldn't have to use them!)

Negotiations with mobile phone networks to sort out the problems of sites with no signal reception (eg Ferry Meadows with zero signal for Three and Virgin (unless you take a walk into Nene Park!)

Making associate sites meet the standard CMC requirements (no allocation of pitches, no making cars park away from their caravans, no open washbasin areas instead of cubicles, etc)

If only they would listen!

Thanks for the kind words MichaelT,

We're very much excited to see what the next generation of campers will bring to the table

Hi Moulsey,

Members are not able to pre-book a specific pitch, but Site Staff will allocate a specific for an outfit if necessary.

Hope this clears things up

At the end of the day it doesn't really matter what it is called but it does matter that there has been a justification made to do it that I don't believe exists in any meaningful way.

As for the mission statement or whatever you want to call it. It is no more than empty marketing drivel.

You want a mission statement here is my suggestion.

We exist in order to support and facilitate our members pursuit and enjoyment of touring caravanning.

End of. If someone wants to include the words motor caravan or whatever then fine.

But all this talk of adventure and pioneering absolute rubbish. It is nothing to do with anyone if I use my caravan as a base for other activities or I simply want to sit inside it and twitch my curtains and tut disapprovingly makes no difference.

I refer to the old "ditty" - "It's not what you do but the way that you do it, that gets results"!

This has been a complete PR disaster on behalf of the Caravan & Motorhome Club. I was always under the impression that the founding principles of the club were based on egalitarianism - perhaps I've been wrong all these years? This has been presented to it's members "fait accompli". I have no problems personally with the name change nor indeed the logo, but seriously, you have treated your members with utter contempt and in a condescending manor. With all the forms of modern communications -  not one word, either in the Magazine or indeed at the AGM. What were you frightened of?  The diversity aspect pure PR gobbledegook political rhetoric. How many of the people you wish to attract could even afford a motorhome in the present financial climate. I suspect that J. Harris Stone would turn in his grave at way this has been handled.

Lots of amusing and cutting comments from members here.  Sadly, many of them have more than a ring of truth.  But that's the club for you; on this occasion, window dressing appears to have taken precedence over improving service to members ( a user-friendly website would help keep my blood pressure in check). That said, rebranding was long overdue and on balance I prefer the new logo, such as it is.