Is it a rip off?

Posted on 25/04/2019 15:59 by huskydog

No, as the box is part of the price, then I will end up with lots of box's I cant sell

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:05 by Tinwheeler

Hmm. Then you’d have to generally increase prices to fund your discounts and to cover disposal of the boxes. 🤔

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:05 by Tinwheeler

Hmm. Then you’d have to generally increase prices to fund your discounts and to cover disposal of the boxes. 🤔

Posted on 25/04/2019 15:41 by Cornersteady

Indeed, I looked Bridlington as it was mentioned and while there are spaces on standard pitches, (but fully booked on BH - pesky rich working folk no doubt) the more expensive SP are well taken up, and fully booked more than a quarter of the time in peak and 'less than five pitches' shown many times.

(a couple in peak will pay £39.40 and there are 18 SP pitches out of 149)

The increase in peak to next year is 70p for adult and 30p for the pitch, excessive?

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:08 by

He could buy cheaper dog biscuits and repackage 

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:12 by SteveL

As the increase is 5% for 2020 and was slightly over that this year, I would say it is starting to move towards the excessive, at least to folk that are getting nowhere near that sort of increase to there income.

However that aside, fully booked BH's mean nothing, it's the rest of the year that I question. I have never noticed before because we have never booked at the last minute during the summer holidays. When we did so last summer, there were only 2 sites where we could get a booking of more than a week within 200 miles or so of home. They were Bridlington and Malvern. The latter is perhaps not so surprising, the former being a coastal site during a summer heat wave, suggestive of overpricing.

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:12 by Tinwheeler

That would not only be unethical and dishonest as it would be purporting to be something it wasn’t but would also be a real rip off! 😆

Posted on 25/04/2019 16:29 by Cornersteady

which looks worse? 5% or 70p? Always a problem with percentages.

Maybe BH do mean a lot, they show they can fill sites and maybe subsidise the leaner times? It also shows the club that SP are more popular than standard even though the price is higher? It is all HS so it cannot be for that reason that people are going for SP here?

Why would a heatwave matter?  Do people suddenly think they'll go away? You did because you could, but a lot of people still work and could not. You could because you were in range as well.

Perhaps also likely is that people have already booked somewhere else in advance? And Bridlington, with all the best will in the world and I personally like it, is hardly a tourist spot for advance bookings? For me though it is more of a goto site for smaller holidays and not my 'two weeks' main holiday away. A coastal site, yes but usually colder and damp, even in summer.

Anyway is the competition doing any better around it?