The same Club, just better...

They may suggest that it would be nice to be able to choose pitch surface at point of booking.  

I'm not one of the older members and statistics would suggest you could get another 20-25 years from me. Pitch type booking, stop promoting sites for redevelopment, replace lost sites, sort out the website and take pity on the poor CL owners who are losing bookings and their own money and you may get another year

I am off  down to Dover this afternoon to watch all the caravaners jump of the cliffs in dispare 

I'm 46, no longer a spring chicken, but still feel much younger than most of my fellow campers when on a CMC site. If the club doesn't change, modernize, change it's way, yep, even re-brand, it's going to die. 

I don't even think of myself as a member of a club, I'm paying a business for the services it provides; the occasional stay on a CS, van insurance and Red Pennant. Similar to a Go Outdoors membership card for example.

Without the van insurance and my yearly trip to France, for which Red Pennant provides me with some comfort, I probably wouldn't join. Why not? Well, there are plenty, more than plenty, of independent sites that offer my family much, much more, for a very similar cost. Fully serviced pitches, decent play areas, a field to play ball games in, maybe a table tennis table, a boules sandpit, free wi-fi, other families rather than majority retired couples, no strict pitching rules - just common sense, maybe the odd indoor swimming pool, booking a certain pitch that we've enjoyed before, there's probably a lot more.

So many moaners on here, people don't like change. But without change, there's no future in the club (business) as it currently runs.

As for the additional services the club offers me, superb. Cheaper and better insurance for my individual circumstances, and a travel insurance package that gives us great comfort when we go abroad.

Hopefully the re-brand will just be the start of things to come. Modernization has to come, and with some luck, this re-brand will be just the start.

Well done CMC, you have to entice the future membership, and hopefully this will just be the start of many things to come.

In a couple of years there will be a further re-brand to reflect us baby boomers love of the sixties. The Caravan Motorhome and Campervan Club has a certain ring about it and the new logo can them incorporate the famous (infamous?) VW logo. At present the new logo looks like the cheeks of a rather large bottom !!! 

It's a bit ironic that the envelope that came to day with my new logo stickers inside  had the old logo on the envelope 

I received a later just now from the Club announcing a change in club name and branding 

cant recall reading anything about this in the last members mag 

I do not use the forum on a regular basis but I was under the impression that this was a " members only club " and that all changes must be the subject of discussion / vote at AGM level and therefore against the clubs constitution ??

The new logo is poor , it resembles the Walls ice  cream branding !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall's_(ice_cream)

The "old " logo was good enough to last 110 years and was easily identifiable as The Caravan Club and surely that could have been adapted to encompass the motor home section ?

The cost of re branding everything on the club will be no doubt astronomical and will ultimately be borne by members.

sorry Chairman / presidents but I think you have got it wrong ......

I'm 46, no longer a spring chicken, but still feel much younger than most of my fellow campers when on a CMC site. 

I am a similar age Alphonso. Just reverse the digits, 64, Do I feel older than you? Not really. Just remember that the eyes looking in are often no younger in outlook than the eyes looking out.

As for:  Fully serviced pitches, decent play areas, a field to play ball games in, maybe a table tennis table, a boules sandpit, free wi-fi, other families rather than majority retired couples, no strict pitching rules - just common sense, maybe the odd indoor swimming pool, booking a certain pitch that we've enjoyed before, there's probably a lot more.

That has been available for many years but some prefer to generally select a no frills site.

As an aside those that you appear to see as Old Farts and DInosaurs (my words - not yours) bring a lot to this club by often using the sites and putting cash into the coffers at times when sites might otherwise be very quiet. Do not discount our value to the club too readily, there's a good chap!

I tend to agree. Perhaps part of the rebranding should have been to remove the word "Club" ?

How very, very sad that the club I joined over thirty years ago has now become a club with another name.

It was bad enough having to be parked next to a glorified camper van as large as my bungalow, blocking out the light. Now I am told I am a member of the, Caravan and Motorhome Club. I don't think so. 

My membership will not be renewed this year.

Great Idea.. and MUCH cheaper!