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Should be a fee per person....whatever their age. Get rid of the pitch fee.

See Corners......that's how to take a positive stance.......

Should be a fee per person....whatever their age. Get rid of the pitch fee.

See Corners......that's how to take a positive stance.......

but asking to pay full price for children would lead to higher fees and really lead to sites closing.

Should be a fee per person....whatever their age. Get rid of the pitch fee.

See Corners......that's how to take a positive stance.......

but asking to pay full price for children would lead to higher fees and really lead to sites closing.

No it wouldn't lead to site closures......because you say that Club sites are really busy and over-subscribed during school holidays.....

I think the best idea is status quo at present.

David

fully agree, can't see any disadvantages at all

So, in your previous post you thought that paying per person was the way to go, and two posts later you think that retaining pitch fees is the way to go?

Glad to see you are so positive in your views......

I think you are mistaken, or haven't read my posts at all. I said the pr person was fair, I did not mention getting rid of the pitch fee, or if it did the per person fee would rise.

Should be a fee per person....whatever their age. Get rid of the pitch fee.

See Corners......that's how to take a positive stance.......

but asking to pay full price for children would lead to higher fees and really lead to sites closing.

No it wouldn't lead to site closures......because you say that Club sites are really busy and over-subscribed during school holidays.....

OK business studies class 101.

There is not one area of tourism or travel or leisure that charges full price for children. Kids eat free, kids for a pound, free child places on holidays. You could say that children eat less so are charged less. Yet even when children take up a full adult quota or seat they pay less. Children pay reduced prices at the cimema, football matches, trains, airplanes... (no planes are fueled for a trip by number of seats taken not adults or children)

Why is this Ian? is it because these companies think that children are expensive to bring up and they feel sorry for parents? No - they do it for money. Children do not usually go to these places/travel by themselves, they go with their parents. Parents spend the money at these places/companies and parents go there because the children pay less. You are quite correct in saying 

that Club sites are really busy and over-subscribed during school holidays...

of course they are, anyone who goes on club sites or any site/holiday can see that. In some places the whole site/place is full of families during school holidays. You have said so yourself at NT places

Now just think if the club charged full price for these children, what would happen? the parents would go to other sites that charge half price or less, all of a sudden the club sites that are full during the holidays (12 weeks) would be empty, the club would lose all that income, what would they club have to do? raise it's prices to make up the shortfall, or close some sites down for real.

(thanks to Mrs H, a business studies teacher whose class I observed on this very subject)

I disagree......

Children are the future. Everything that could be done to encourage them should be. The idea of charging children full price would discourage families and put the whole future of the club at risk.

Children are the future. Everything that could be done to encourage them should be. The idea of charging children full price would discourage families and put the whole future of the club at risk.

Should be a fee per person....whatever their age. Get rid of the pitch fee.

See Corners......that's how to take a positive stance.......

but asking to pay full price for children would lead to higher fees and really lead to sites closing.

No it wouldn't lead to site closures......because you say that Club sites are really busy and over-subscribed during school holidays.....

OK business studies class 101.

There is not one area of tourism or travel or leisure that charges full price for children. Kids eat free, kids for a pound, free child places on holidays. You could say that children eat less so are charged less. Yet even when children take up a full adult quota or seat they pay less. Children pay reduced prices at the cimema, football matches, trains, airplanes... (no planes are fueled for a trip by number of seats taken not adults or children)

Why is this Ian? is it because these companies think that children are expensive to bring up and they feel sorry for parents? No - they do it for money. Children do not usually go to these places/travel by themselves, they go with their parents. Parents spend the money at these places/companies and parents go there because the children pay less. You are quite correct in saying 

that Club sites are really busy and over-subscribed during school holidays...

of course they are, anyone who goes on club sites or any site/holiday can see that. In some places the whole site/place is full of families during school holidays. You have said so yourself at NT places

Now just think if the club charged full price for these children, what would happen? the parents would go to other sites that charge half price or less, all of a sudden the club sites that are full during the holidays (12 weeks) would be empty, the club would lose all that income, what would they club have to do? raise it's prices to make up the shortfall, or close some sites down for real.

(thanks to Mrs H, a business studies teacher whose class I observed on this very subject)

 

So these oversubscribed sites would suddenly become empty during holiday periods.....what a bizarre statement. 

Mrs.H should maybe consider a career change if this is the information she provided. 

Quite how we got onto pitch fees I'm not sure, although it's obviously given an opportunity for "the usual suspects" (hang on, I bet they'll object to being called that, so I withdraw it!) to slag off the club. Personally, as we use club sites, when we do, as a couple, I'm quite happy with the current system. I can see an argument for, say, having a basic pitch plus one adult price and then adding on for extra adults/children but if it's not going to change the final price anyway, why bother?