Perennial Membership Fee Increase

For these reasons, we will pay the extra £2 and stay members, but this does not mean that we are happy with the significant increase in  site prices.

I think this will apply to most. We are fortunate in that we don't have to consider site prices too much. However, we decided not to pay £30 a night charge and are starting our May tour after the bank holiday on the 2nd May, when the prices come down. Other years we would have probably have included it.

 

For these reasons, we will pay the extra £2 and stay members, but this does not mean that we are happy with the significant increase in  site prices.

I think this will apply to most. We are fortunate in that we don't have to consider site prices too much. However, we decided not to pay £30 a night charge and are starting our May tour after the bank holiday on the 2nd May, when the prices come down. Other years we would have probably have included it.

+1.  We only stay on CC sites out of the main season when fees are more reasonable, and when we're not abroad.    Usually we set the limit at £20 per night (that's for 2 adults), and a few sites are coming very close to that!  But there are still plenty of sites at less than that, for example with midweek discount £14-£15 on some sites.

The fee increase is high in percentage terms but at £2 is unlikely to put people off. The site fees look to be getting a bit steep compared with thye commercial market for similar rather than large commercial sites. We will still use mostly club sites but will be checking out C&CC sites and some commercial ones before booking this year. The problem is the club is short on pitches in many areas so they will probably always have takers unless the prices rocket even more.

Not sure how many people are affected, but I have a company pension which is linked to inflation but needs a rise of over 1% and last year was 0.7% in September which is the month they use. So we get nothing which might mean a bit of economising this year.

What concerns me is the Club doing enough to control costs or has its strength in the market place and its strong balance sheet gone to its head?

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The fee increase is high in percentage terms but at £2 is unlikely to put people off. The site fees look to be getting a bit steep compared with thye commercial market for similar rather than large commercial sites. We will still use mostly club sites but will be checking out C&CC sites and some commercial ones before booking this year. The problem is the club is short on pitches in many areas so they will probably always have takers unless the prices rocket even more.

Not sure how many people are affected, but I have a company pension which is linked to inflation but needs a rise of over 1% and last year was 0.7% in September which is the month they use. So we get nothing which might mean a bit of economising this year.

Only about half of my pension is index linked, so I got less than a 1% increase overall last year, so we are looking more at the  prices of things these days.

I think quite a few of us get pension increases that are fairly paltry, notwithstanding the apparent generosity of the state "triple lock"

M   I think you have said is what the majority of  present members feel, and it seems the ones who on here  look elswhere are "off peak" users anyway, be it in the UK or Mainland Europe,as when going on line and checking prices in the peak there is very little to choose price wise or space anywhere, without the add cost of getting there

I really can't see what all the fuss is about.

I don't even think about the membership fee. Surely it's pretty insignificant in the scheme of most peoples' annual living expenses. My phone/broadband costs about £18 a WEEK. At a pound a week (or whatever it is) CC membership is less than my various annual charitable donations. I could easily save much more by not giving to charity, shopping around for better rates on my 4 vehicles' insurance premiums or by changing my utility providers but hey! life's too short to faff about trying to save the cost of a modest birthday dinner for two.

 

For these reasons, we will pay the extra £2 and stay members, but this does not mean that we are happy with the significant increase in  site prices.

I think this will apply to most. We are fortunate in that we don't have to consider site prices too much. However, we decided not to pay £30 a night charge and are starting our May tour after the bank holiday on the 2nd May, when the prices come down. Other years we would have probably have included it.

....and neither do most of the CT brigade, including myself.....but this (as Kjell says) doesnt mean continual rises are acceptable....theyre not.

this thread only opened yesterday and already 100 posts...

member costs is a serious issue and one that is being debated ever more regularly on CT....

I really can't see what all the fuss is about.

I don't even think about the membership fee. Surely it's pretty insignificant in the scheme of most peoples' annual living expenses. My phone/broadband costs about £18 a WEEK. At a pound a week (or whatever it is) CC membership is less than my various annual charitable donations. I could easily save much more by not giving to charity, shopping around for better rates on my 4 vehicles' insurance premiums or by changing my utility providers but hey! life's too short to faff about trying to save the cost of a modest birthday dinner for two.

If you can afford to run 4 vehicles and pay Whatever per week for your phone etc it's pretty obvious that you can easily afford a £2 increase. However a lot of us, who are on a fixed pension, are not so fortunate as yourself, and the fee increase along with the jump in site prices could well put a reduction in the amout of time we can afford to be out in the van, and to question if it is worth "Carrying on Camping".