A Night Free!🤩

The Club has always prided itself on being inclusive. For example, they don't make concessions to pensioners, as the view is that promtional pricing should be available to all.

Its the same with dogs. The Clubs view is that sites are open to members with lots of dogs, or no dogs. I agree with both of these positions

Yes, this promotion is also available to all, but I don't see it as being as inclusive as others. Its biased towards the retired and, other than one week in February, precludes working members with young families

The problem there Steve is that one does not know what the weather will be like that far ahead, and this year we have had enough of sitting in the van watching the rain fall.........both at Easter and September/October.

Cold weather is not a problem, but I can watch the rain fall in more comfort staying at home, plus save the fuel for the car, save the cost of the non-free  nights, and indulge in my hobbies.

If it was not necessary to book by the end of the year, that would be much better.  

If there was no need to book so far ahead, the Club might actually end up with more wheels on pitches in total, especially if the forecast was good.

I don’t believe CAMC should be looking at groups of people and their personal circumstances. If they did, that would surely lead to discrimination. A blanket offer available to all is as fair as it gets in my book but they’ll never please all of the people all of the time.

They're damned if they do and damned if they don’t. 😯

Maybe with a tent?

Surely everyone understands that in any offer from any business, that offer while it may benefit you it is not made for your benefit but for the benefit of that business?

This is what the club is doing here, it is designed to get more people using club sites when either they wouldn't use them either due to cost or touring habits and at a time when traditional club sites are not as full. Who knows after when people use sites in 'winter' they might find it's quite a good thing to do. There is no business sense is offering a free night when sites are full(er).

Most people I suspect will attach the free night to another. It is open to to all, those working can use it at weekends, those retired can use it whenever, families will benefit most as it's a free night for all the family members. 

If one doesn't want to use the offer then that is not the club's fault. Sainburys often have offers on things I don't want but I don't feel let out.

The problem there Steve is that one does not know what the weather will be like that far ahead

If there was no need to book so far ahead, the Club might actually end up with more wheels on pitches in total, especially if the forecast was good.

There is of course the option of just booking the one night and adding to it just before or after arrival if the weather is fair. Probably not an issue if popular sites and weekends are avoided. You would have the option of canceling and just loosing the deposit if the weather was not favourable.

Given the cost of a night’s stay on most sites, it’s worth using the free voucher just to get payback on Membership fees. I am sure a family of four,five, six would cover Member fees nearly 100% using free night. It will bring our two nights stay down to a very nice £17 per night, rather than nearly £34 a night. We wouldn’t go at £34 a night😉

It's a good offer and one I expect a lot will take up. It's a better offer than others, like say a mid week discount because you would probably have to stay the best part of week to reap the same benefit. With this offer you get a free night, simples!  As JK said further back who is to know whether its an offer the Club might repeat again. If it successfully achieves the goals the Club have set it may well use it again. It might not be in quite the same form but I could see perhaps that it might be site specific as a way to encourage greater occupancy on quieter sites? We will have to wait and see?

David

Repeat again😁 That made me chuckle DK, it’s only our second freebie in 40 years. Still….if England win the World Cup again (men’s) you never know🤣

Maybe this could become an annual thing. It would make it a club for the members. It could be an incentive included within the cost of your membership especially as they are reducing costs by encouraging us to use the digital magazine/digital membership cards. Potentially they could offer 1 night free every year as part of the membership package. They could also offer at particular milestones as additional nights as a one off benefit for long standing members every 10, 20 ,30 years