Loyalty not rewarded

I too seriously considered not renewing my membership last year and this year. All I have received a few years ago is a sticker for 35 years m/s  and I am considering just paying the non member fee and using my C&CC m/s , at least there I get a age concession   My nights on sites are limited nowadays.  Sad but I miss the old days ie ( GET UP AND GO)  not poss with the arrival of the motorhomes,  (noting against M/H no its hard to get a lengthly stay on site, M/H stay one or two nights and move on  My caravanning is mostly in North of Scotland.    end of rant!!!

 Sad but I miss the old days ie ( GET UP AND GO) not poss with the arrival of the motorhomes, (noting against M/H no its hard to get a lengthly stay on site, M/H stay one or two nights and move on 

A couple of years ago, circumstances meant we were looking for a long stay in peak period at short notice. We managed to find a few sites that still had availability. Not our first choice admittedly, but they were available. This year of course it's been different, indeed several sites in the north of Scotland didn't even open.

Personally I don't think your problem has  anything to do with the increasing prevalence of MH's, more a function of site popularity and lack of planning on your part. As folk are free to come and go on any day, you are bound to end up with odd isolated days as they approach capacity. Perhaps why some commercial sites only allow calendar week bookings at peak times.

One of the big pluses of this club is the ability to book 12 months in advance (currently longer) with no deposit required. That to me is far superior to any loyalty bonus and preferable to an age related discount in my opinion.

Surely they should be rewarding their current members ?

When the pandemic first started the club offered current members the opportunity to buy £2400 worth of club vouchers for £2000. Surely that was an incentive for current members. The only problem now is getting the opportunity to spend them, but still better to have £2000 invested in club vouchers than in the bank, especially if they are not date limited.

20% interest?, it beats the banks .5%👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Only if you're able to use/spend them .... otherwise you've just lost £2400 🤔

ED, if they are open ended without a sell by date then it is just a case of when & not if. . .jobs a gud un👍🏻.

PS-I can’t imagine them having a short shelf life or the C&MC would be classed as opportunists at the least🤔

You might recall the Club issued two sets of vouchers Rocky, one undated, one with use by dates......... Those with undated will be fine. Those with dated ones, might need to get their thinking caps on.....this virus is set to run for a good while yet I fear. Although I think they were dated to next December, 2021. So at least if Sites get back up and running full throttle Mid March 2021, it might just give 6-7 months of options. 🤞

  Actually I have considered switching to M/H,   price puts me off,  if you can't fight them join them,  joke!!  The days of GET UP AND GO meant you didn't need to book in advance ie if on east coast weather turns bad move to west coast.  In those days you could do that.   Caravaning in north of Scotland has become rather difficult with the popularity of North Coast 500 as one example.  Another was the freedom to roam without  commitment to a set holiday booked 12 months previous.  Sad I suspect those days are gone.

The days of not needing to book vanished years ago, TF, long before MHs became so popular. 

I'm afraid Scottish tourism opened a whole can of worms by promoting the NC500 with the result that a lot of what folk go there for has been spoilt. We transited en route to the Northern Isles last year and I was shocked at the numbers 'doing' the NC500. I’m glad we toured that area quite extensively before it became popular.

But as TTDA says they are not all open ended  ....