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Just read in the club magazine that the club managed to do what the SNP could not, and seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK. I read that the clubs northen-most site is Berwick Seaview

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. 

You are right perhaps empty was the wrong word, I replace it with emptier, far emptier. Families will certainly go elsewhere if children have pay full price on club sites, and as it is mainly families who want to go to club sites during the main school holildays, who will fill the void they will leave? People complain on here that club prices are too high off peak so will the sites then then fill up with adults? Even if that were true you would then be losing the income from the child's prices so again income is down.

If you can read my post carefully the teacher in question outlined the idea, used widely in the tourism/leisure industry, that children are used to get spending parents into their business, hence the kids go free ideas and nothing to do with club sites. Sorry if I didn't make that clear that it was about the first paragraph she was talking, but if it makes you happy attacking people outside the club now then carry on

Anyway are you really in favour of the club charging full price for children? You did say in a privous post that the club should do more to attract families?

Just read in the club magazine that the club managed to do what the SNP could not, and seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK. I read that the clubs northen-most site is Berwick Seaview

Write your comments here...Which proves what the Scottish caravanners have been saying for years that the CC should have an E in front of the title.  The ECC.

Just read in the club magazine that the club managed to do what the SNP could not, and seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK. I read that the clubs northen-most site is Berwick Seaview

Good one, I always laugh at the line in the Culloden site that says:

where Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated and Scottish history was rewritten. 

Rewritten? really? written certainly but who then re-wrote it? Are the club Timelords as well?

caravanners have been saying for years that the CC should have an E in front of the title.  The ECC.

Oh dear, Kennie, no!  

It should be HCCC.  Home Counties Caravan Club.

I think a lot of what people complain about would never have happened with a Head Office in Rochdale.

Just read in the club magazine that the club managed to do what the SNP could not, and seperate Scotland from the rest of the UK. I read that the clubs northen-most site is Berwick Seaview

Good one, I always laugh at the line in the Culloden site that says:

where Bonnie Prince Charlie was defeated and Scottish history was rewritten. 

Rewritten? really? written certainly but who then re-wrote it? Are the club Timelords as well?

Write your comments here...Yes Corners, the CC certainly got that right. .     

I agree that the so called "Bonnie Prince Charlie"  did change Scotland's history, but not for the better. Scotland would have been much better off if he had stayed in Italy.  A totally despicable character whose only claim to fame was to dress up in women's clothing to evade capture. 

K 

despicable character whose only claim to fame was to dress up in women's clothing to evade capture.

Just a few hundred years ahead of his time, that's all.

despicable character whose only claim to fame was to dress up in women's clothing to evade capture.

Just a few hundred years ahead of his time, that's all.

yes, he could have won the eurovision song contest

Probably aren't that many families that can afford the towcar and the caravan hence the reason the C&CC have a broadly younger rmembership and outlook due to tent members.  Sadly I think the CC has a focus on more "mature" people and gives the impression of being fuddy duddy.

Write your comments here...hope our Chairman is reading and taking note and not pulling the back end off his caravan or attending set up awning parties. 

Probably aren't that many families that can afford the towcar and the caravan hence the reason the C&CC have a broadly younger rmembership and outlook due to tent members.  Sadly I think the CC has a focus on more "mature" people and gives the impression of being fuddy duddy.

Write your comments here...hope our Chairman is reading and taking note and not pulling the back end off his caravan or attending set up awning parties. 

The make up of younger familes in the C&CC sites with tents is probably inevitable given tbe financial constraints mentioned. We started out with a tent but were able to move up to a caravan fairly early because I had a company car which meant did not have the expense of buying a car so used the money on a caravan.