A Night Free!🤩

Ina

The email seems to assume you will pay in advance of arrival or pay in full on booking, if I have read it correctly? Now if you are only staying one night there might not be an option to do anything else. However if staying more than one night surely you could untick the box which agrees to paying in advance? That way the voucher could be used as part payment which might be less work for site staff? Although I am sure the Free Night scheme will be very popular I imagine a fair slice of the membership don't normally  start their touring season until later than the end of March? So it will be interesting to see what the take up is like. Once I have sorted my service and MOT, which is usually the beginning of March I might be tempted at a few days at Morton in Marsh or Ferry Meadows.

David

I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, and any offer that saves money is welcome, but I see this as an offer with limited appeal and one that is aimed to fill sites at a time of year when they would normally be less busy.

Great if you tour all year around but, as David says, a good portion of the membership probably don't.

I think a better offer would have been to go back to the one we had a couple of seasons ago when a discount was applied to the purchase of vouchers that were used when paying. Something like that would have broader appeal as it could be used all year.

I think it's a very clever approach by the club.

Some may just use it for one night, some may add on a day to an existing/new booking , or some may book a weekend and get one night free and have a feel good factor. It might get people starting their touring earlier and/or get them to use one of the open all year sites. It might be a factor for someone joining the club soon and it's at a time when sites aren't particularly full. I'm sure there will be those (and I'm one of them) who will look for the most expensive site available and/or use a SP.

I think it's going to be popular as well. It is going to get more people on club sites for any mixture of the above and especially  as I suspect most will do is use it for a weeknd booking and earlier than their normal, or rather established, touring dates.  

Just looking at the reality of the offer.

What happens if...

...you don't book and pay for your one night before 31st Dec 23?

...you do book and and pay for your one night by the 31st Dec for a date in 03/24, and for some reason you can't make it, refund, total loss, etc, etc?

The wording is “You will need to pay the deposit or pay in full as usual” so the usual option when booking is in place. I don’t see that cancellation terms would be any different to the normal arrangements.

However, it won’t affect you and I as the offer is only for members.🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s a selective offer, as are most that the Club throw at Members, just happens to be one that our personal circumstances fit, or almost.

It’s time limited to two months, 1st Jan to 27th February, so that eliminates those that either don’t tour in Winter, or might not have a Club Site open without travelling a long way. (There aren’t as many sites open after Xmas in some geographical areas)

We normally only book a Club Site a maximum of a couple of days in advance, but will take a punt on this, as even if I cannot go, my OH can have a couple of nights out cycling, so we won’t lose anything by having to book.

It does seem a convoluted way of getting a discount, but there’s nothing user friendly I find with the Club’s new booking system anyway.

In 40 years of using Club Sites, this will be only the second free night offer we have ever had, the first was a voucher for recommending a friend. What we are missing more than anything else is that mid week discount at certain Sites, at certain times of the year. We made great use of this, as it was often comparable with some CLs. 

Grateful for the gesture from the Club, we will use it.

Quite simple I think. You have to book before midnight 31/12/23 to get the discount.  If you cancel, you get everything back if outside 21 days, but not of course extra money back for the freebie. If inside, tough luck you don’t get the discount, and you lose your deposit. 

The Club likes to trumpet it’s “you said, we listened” spiel for how it makes changes, so here’s one they might like to consider…….. just simply like if you agree…….

Bring back mid week discounts (without restrictive booking T&C’s) at certain sites, and certain times of the year please……

And it might just be taken up by members who were going to book anyway.

This has been sold as a gesture, available to all members, in recognition of the fact that wallets and purses are under pressure. I hope it is popular, but I think it would be more so if extended into the Spring

We used to  start our year in late  March/ early April, but now DD and family are using the caravan we try to fit in with what they want, they can only do school holidays, and we like to do a 3 week trip.

Easter is early next year, and March is often cold here, so not really attracted by going away in early/mid  March!   I also notice that March prices start increasing well before the 27th.

Still, it is not a bad offer, if one wants to go away that early in the year.   A  trip somewhere new might appeal, but there are no Club sites near to us that we have not used before, and the offer (understandably) does not include affiliated sites, so looks like we will not be taking up the offer.