Excessive site fees

hence the rise of orgs like Britstops and the Pubstopover network...

even with the extensive CL/CS networks of the two clubs, it can be tricky to find the odd 'en route' one night stopover location....when a fiver a night for a parking place with no services would do the job, it makes it makes a bit hard to bear at £26 a night, often for facilities you probably wont use...

I suppose some who have high value leisure vehicle have to economise some where others do not need or want to

We have returned to Wales from France for the summer as my husband is due to have a cataract operation some time in August.   We are so used to using French sites and French aires that booking a Club site in the UK has become quite a rarity.  It was therefore with some shock that I noticed the fee for one night at St Davids' site this week in the middle of the week before school holidays start came to £26 for a unit and two people on a grass pitch.

Sorry Caravan Club, but this is one member who is seriously considering ending my membership.  It is getting too expensive for us as pensioners. We are also members of the other Club and there are always alternatives.   In the case of St Davids, there are several good sites available - one right next door which has just been redeveloped with new facilities at far less cost.

So did you book elsewhere instead? 

OGS, am I right in thinking you're just looking for an overnight stop? If so, there is a whole string of CLs along that stretch of the Welsh coastline.Two in particular I can recommend but they're back in the Ten by/Saunders foot area so maybe to far away. Hope you find something to suit! 

We have returned to Wales from France for the summer as my husband is due to have a cataract operation some time in August.   We are so used to using French sites and French aires that booking a Club site in the UK has become quite a rarity.  It was therefore with some shock that I noticed the fee for one night at St Davids' site this week in the middle of the week before school holidays start came to £26 for a unit and two people on a grass pitch.

Sorry Caravan Club, but this is one member who is seriously considering ending my membership.  It is getting too expensive for us as pensioners. We are also members of the other Club and there are always alternatives.   In the case of St Davids, there are several good sites available - one right next door which has just been redeveloped with new facilities at far less cost.

That site looks a bit on the high side for the area but other sites are better value.

We are on Seacroft in Norfolk and it is £33.80 per night. Mind you that includes a bar, swimming pool and musical entertainment in said bar by various "turns". I thought it was expensive but it is full and is clearly very popular so I assume others think it is not expensive. 

We are on Seacroft in Norfolk and it is £33.80 per night. Mind you that includes a bar, swimming pool and musical entertainment in said bar by various "turns". I thought it was expensive but it is full and is clearly very popular so I assume others think it is not expensive. 

OH and I were there for 5 nights as part of a tour at the end of June. It was £25 for us then I think and given the nightly entertainmant, swimming pool with life-guard, reasonably priced restraunt etc seemed reasonable. We did not want these additioal facilities and I doubt that many using the site did other than at the weekend. 

Would like to visit that area, but as we would not use the "extras", we think having to pay £25 per night in June (or September)  is just way too much.

We will look for a CL instead.

We are on Seacroft in Norfolk and it is £33.80 per night. Mind you that includes a bar, swimming pool and musical entertainment in said bar by various "turns". I thought it was expensive but it is full and is clearly very popular so I assume others think it is not expensive. 

Value for money is dependant on what you want from a site. We would not want the bar and entertainment or the restaurant so it would not attract us. That does not mean others agree with us it is simply we all want different things from a site.

We are on Seacroft in Norfolk and it is £33.80 per night. Mind you that includes a bar, swimming pool and musical entertainment in said bar by various "turns". I thought it was expensive but it is full and is clearly very popular so I assume others think it is not expensive. 

Value for money is dependant on what you want from a site. We would not want the bar and entertainment or the restaurant so it would not attract us. That does not mean others agree with us it is simply we all want different things from a site.

We stayed there (as said earlier) about a fortnight ago for £25 a night for two over 5 nights. The additional facilities were of no interest to us but the location fitted nicely into or touring route.