Membership Fee Increase

We used Club sites for three nights this year - a lot more than several previous years. Tunnel crossing - saves £10 but we book direct as easier to change. Never book overseas sites, Motorhome insurance totally uncompetitive, ditto other insurances.

Having said that, we still support the Club by maintaining our membership and we did get a free 30 years membership sticker this year!

Not sure if we will bother to renew our membership when its due as we rarely use sites or cl's in the UK.

Been thinking for awhile of joining the other club and looks more likely now. 

If we do join the other club we can book ferries through them and might even change our home insurance to them to get the 180 day cover.

We stopped taking out RP a few years ago for various reasons but we could if so wished take out other clubs version of overseas breakdown.

At the moment we get free of charge both full european and uk breakdown cover and holiday insurance through our Nationwide account.

Ferries can be booked through various other agencies, to be honest we don't often get a better with the club since we changed to a mh, sometimes its just the convenience that I use it but is that worth £51  we would have to spend 5 nights on club sites to recoup the membership.

Are we the only ones who take advantage of all the two for one, 50% off this, that, and the other entrance fees into popular places to visit? We always get our membership fee back by trying somewhere new, or buying a bit of gear at Mountain Warehouse etc.....

Couple of years ago we visited Eden Camp twice (lots to see!) at BOGOF, that was around £24 saved, then another £15 off NYM railway tickets, and that was just a long weekend! I probably saved the rest easily with one shop at MW! It really is easy to get fees back. Unless all you do is sit on site all holiday of course, but no one does that, surely?

As OH is ex forces we get most of these discounts and many others, so being a member for us isn't about the discounts or benefits as these can be got elsewhere..

We don't often go away in the UK as we prefer to go somewhere where the weather is more guaranteed   as we have been thinking about membership to the other club we could try it for a year to see how we get on and drop the C&MC membership, it would give us different areas to visit and the opportunity to try some of the THS that we hear so much about on CT. Not sure that we would need to keep both memberships considering the small amount of time spent in the UK.

Sorry TG, we posted at same time, I wasn't thinking about those who holiday overseas, would think you get your discounts on other products. We used to be members of both clubs, but not at the moment. Found CLs better than CS's on the whole.

Because we prefer CAMC for ease of booking and for not having restrictions such as minimum stays. I think, on the whole, CAMC sites are better, although C&CC are perfectly adequate.

We rarely use C&CC so it would probably not be worth paying full rate membership for the very few nights a year they fill the gaps in our tours.

 no apology needed TTDA. Nice to hear that someone does get their membership fee back in rewards 

Maybe now our youngest son has moved back to Yorkshire we will be 'visiting' more often. We did use the member discount at Crick tram museum a couple of years ago and at the caves in Derbyshire but locally there isn't much for us to take advantage of 

I must admit I do like the C&MC booking system, most of the time 

Interesting replies throughout. Whilst the increase in membership fee is of little consequence to us financially we will be looking at renewal next May, we like CL, and have used day out vouchers in the past but not for last couple of years. House insurance wasn't as good on consecutive days of absence t&c or price as the other club so we rejoined the other club. The price of club sites are now rather high 😉 and our feeling is that of very regimented pitching,  not that the other club and commercial sites aren't. We pick sites for their location in relation to our touring plans. We have never used the club for ferries or channel.  Our Nationwide account gives us breakdown cover here and Europe I think, as well as worldwide travel insurance which we only have to pay for extra days but once paid that' it for the year.

We have that as well Bakers, and have had occasion to use it. Excellent service, only glitch was rescue services won't transport dogs, but few do. We got picked up by a relative.

This is a difficult one, especially the price difference between the two clubs. Tonight I've just booked a holiday in the Lakes in May with the other club, I've paid a £30 deposit, I've got the type of pitch we wanted, all done and dusted, no panic that I might miss out due to a mad booking day rush. I would like to know why this big price differential appears between the two clubs, I can't quite work out why CAMC doesn't offer further incentives and I've been looking at the member benefits on offer with both clubs which are slightly different but quite a good selection. It's a puzzle why one club can offer membership at a better rate. It's very difficult to find actual membership numbers for either club, even on Wiki.