Is it a rip off?

So if I decide that I am prepared to spend no more than £15 a night am I being priced out or am I simply pricing myself out because I am not prepared to spend more than £15? I consider that it would be my deciscion to deliberately price myself out. It would be outside my 'budget' not because I could not afford it but, perhaps, because I felt that for me, £15+ would not be value for money

I think you mean the way they choose to budget for holidays,  brue. And absolutely nothing wrong with that of course. But choice is the important factor surely? Choosing not to use club sites is one thing, being "priced out" implies lack of choice and that is not the case in the situation we're discussing. 

(Sorry to Kj, it's got personal, in the literal sense, which was not the intention,)

No, you'd be making a sensible decision based on your own values.

Oops, you're all too quick, that was a reply for EasyT. 

but not if reality is proves the reverse of that claim.

K has between £3000 and £6000 (based on his own figures) to spend on his trips, and chooses to spend that money in a certain way and after all that is his choice.

But he cannot then claim that club sites are pricing him out. All he can say is that he wants to spend that money somewhere else that give him him which he considers vfm. Nothing to do with being 'priced out' at all

No, not in this case.

Yes it is to do with priced out or whatever you call it, that's what price levels mean and how they affect usage.

Here's an example, we used to stay in an expensive hotel in Cornwall it's now super expensive for exactly the same rooms so we don't go there now. 

being "priced out" implies lack of choice and that is not the case in the situation we're discussing.

'priced out of club sites' implies I do not have the money to go to club sites. What K has shown he wants to spend a lot of money somewhere else.

Ah yes, you'd be making a decision - in other words exercising your choice - but that's not the same thing as claiming to be priced out though, is it.

I'm sure KJ and many of us could go on paying x amount for a pitch but some of us make the decision that the value for money isn't there. I'm thinking of ageing facilities, choice of pitches etc etc. All sorts of things make people re-assess where they spend their money.

you cannot change the meaning of words. Ask a hundred people what they think being priced out of something means, and see. I cant afford it and probably stronger than that meaning too, is the usual answer I've found.

But again if someone like K (sorry about this being personal) is on a fixed income and only went to CLs for a then maybe he could use the priced out speech, but not when he is spending so much (far more than I do on club sites) in going on his trips