Is it a rip off?

The 6 weeks is in one go though ET and repeated at least once in the year, plus other odd breaks. When I was working we did indeed use the van for 6 weeks, however on a week here two weeks there basis, not 6 in a row.

I dislike the business principle of telling people to go elsewhere if they think a price is too high. Undoubtedly there are high prices out there for some goods, some collect high end cars, some might buy the odd one and many won't because the don't aspire to owning one even if they have the finances. But I think when we're talking about club sites it's what the club is offering to their customers for the price they pay and the affordability and rising costs for many who use them. We're taking about encouraging more take up and a pleasant value for money experience when using a site.

Once you start talking about incomes and who can afford what you've lost the plot. People go vanning because they like it and they want to find somewhere nice to stay in a place they like and they expect value for money. The whole industry depends on this principle, buy a van, find somewhere to take it and enjoy it at a price that encourages you to continue this type of holiday. 

 

I dislike the business principle of telling people to go elsewhere if they think a price is too high. 

I hardly think that a 'business principle' Brue. A simple fact of life is if that if you feel a price is too much then you are free to consider alternatives. For my youngest daughter, a single mum with a 6 and 7 year old who augments her income by on linee surveys etc enabling her to claim working tax credit and who also currently recieves child tax credit it would be too expensive. 

Value for money and being too expensive are two totally different things. I was watching a program the other day about this fairly exclusive cruise to the Antarctic. It looked really good value for money, however we couldn't afford it.☹️

As much as we love our hobby if we got to the point where we were counting the pennies to such an extent we had to be constantly searching for cheaper and cheaper sites, rather than going to the places we really wanted to, we would just sell up and do something else. The same would be true if we found that we could that we were only using the motorhome for a week or two during the year. I think the days of doing things on a shoestring have long gone when you take everything into consideration.

David

I dislike the business principle of telling people to go elsewhere if they think a price is too high.

What? really? Just sounds common sense to me, what business principle would you advise? barter? 

So are you saying in something you buy, no matter if you can buy it cheaper somewhere else you wouldn't as you dislike that principle? 

I think the idea of competition in the market place is a pretty good and well established business principle?

 

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So ,should the Club offer a sliding scale of pitch price according to your income !!...……………………………...NO

The prices in my shop are the prices ,if people cant afford them ,then they need to shop else where 

It's my view that they offer a well maintained but basic product and much too crowded to justify what are close on premium prices

They also offer a product that many find matches there requirements David. What you describe as a 'basic product' is ggennerally the level of provision that I, and, it would appear,  many others require