New Club Site Offer

Yes, I too had the email yesterday.  Out of curiosity I had a look at 3 sites fairly near to us, Meathop, Hawes and Southport.  None of them came close to your £25 a night at White House Beach, discounted prices for early July ranged from just short of £32 to over £36.  Of course, it follows that if a site is over £40 to begin with, then £5 off will still be well into the £30 price bracket.

Not willing to pay that, even in July, so sticking to CLs, CSs and independents, as well as C&CC sites.  Have a trip booked for May, including BH, which we are spending on a CS, EHU and toilet facilities, for £26.  Other sites also no more than £26.  Personally, I'd prefer to be on a CL or CS at busier times anyway, rather than a main club site, but I agree that the £25 a night you're paying in July is good value.

The minimum stay is a negative to us. We usually stay no more than three nights before moving on. Just been in Worcestershire for five nights, but on two sites. I believe this offer disproportionately advantages caravanners. The Club’s own research shows that motorhomers tend to visit more sites but for shorter periods of time.

It’s a good caravan offer, but not if you tour in your MH. Club are marketing to long stayers who are finding some site fees very expensive. Another  unattractive offer from our point of view. 

Wouldn't have minded a few nights at Broadway but not 5. One hundred percent agree with hja.

peedee

It might well be to do with the time of year in which the offer is valid. it does cover most of the summer school holidays where , I imagine, longer stays are more common? The free night offer only required a three night stay. If there is going to be a series of promotions throughout the year there could well be different combinations of length of stay? Easy enough to take advantage of the ones that suit?

David

Motorhomers are  in the majority now.

 Many of them want to park their vehicle on a site and leave it there.

So they choose sites with a bus at the gate.

Here in Cornwall  Merrose Farm and Treamble valley don’t have that. 

So down here they are sites where summer reductions are offered .

Motorhomers are now calling the shots.

What if we do book 5 or 7 consecutive nights, just on different sites, we tourers will be penalised even if all those site we book are within the club’s scheme. The club is a network of sites, not just one site! That’s why we joined all those years ago. It’s a negative and backward step for me.

Agree mickysf, having re-branded some years ago to include "Motorhome" in it's title, it's not acknowledging the way a lot of motorhomers tour.

There aren't all that many sites to choose from in any case:

Save at least £25 when you stay 5 nights or more at a choice of 19 campsites!
Save at least £35 when you stay 7 nights or more at a choice of 6 campsites!

According to CAMC website there are 157 Club sites, so the £5 offer is only available at a very small proportion of sites, less than 1/6th.

My growing concern is that this, the minimum nights, could be the thin end of the wedge and we may see an increase of such across more sites. Totally against my notion of touring and the notion of a club, a network of sites for us members to enjoy our pastime.

It seems to me the Club is behaving in a very sensible way. They have the booking figures at their fingertips and can see certain sites where the occupancy figures are lower than expected - so they reduce the price a tiny bit at those sites.  That’s not rocket fuelled economics. It’s just business sense. 

And of course they will try to nudge people into staying a few days longer - just as Tesco today is trying with a price offer to nudge  me to buy six bottles of wine instead of two or three.

Neither CAMC nor Tesco is a charity. Some members need to get real.