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.

....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....

BB as you are usually keen in pointing out the market will decide if they are acceptable, not us few on CT. If enough people continue to pay the prices then I guess they are. As I said, in the instance of the May BH we considered they were unacceptable. It remains to be seen in 2016 if the CC have over estimated what folk will pay.

Steve, you're right.....we (you, I and the members) are the CC market.....if youve baulked at CC prices, theres hope for the rest of us

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".

I'm not particularly well off as I'm 70 and on fixed pensions too. My point, that I should've made clearer, was that it all depends where you put your lifestyle priorities and your choice of activities. I don't drink alcohol, or smoke, or play golf, or go to the gym etc........all of which are expensive relative to the CC fees.

Value for money as far as my (mostly CL and foreign) motorhoming is concerned  is all about flexibility, the freedom to explore, have my home comforts with me (especially my Gromit slippers!) and eat local market food, not whether the showers are weak or somebody was allowed onto a pitch at a quarter to twelve or an above inflation rise in CC membership of a couple of quid a year.

Even if you forget about the magazine and the other advantages such as access to CC Green Flag recovery, or the CL network, it depends on how many nights you spend on CC sites. In our case it works out at just 44p extra per night.

So it's increased by £2? That is an extra 1.6p per site night for me. Can't say that I am concerned in any way. Increases in site fees are far more relevant.

I find it hard to understand how people who are willing to pay upwards of £15 per night to site their £30,000 outfits worry and moan about a £2 per year increase. You could easily save more than £2 by spending one night on a CL or attending one rally instead of staying on a site. Personally I save more than the membership fee through attending rallies and the excellent Mayday recovery service.

Even if you forget about the magazine and the other advantages such as access to CC Green Flag recovery, or the CL network, it depends on how many nights you spend on CC sites. In our case it works out at just 44p extra per night.

So it's increased by £2? That is an extra 1.6p per site night for me. Can't say that I am concerned in any way. Increases in site fees are far more relevant.

the real point is, Alan, that all aspects of CC camping are just increasing above inflation each year....as you point out....sites and subs.

it makes not a jot of difference what one pays for ones van (that might have been a stonking bargain) sites can still be 'blooming dear'. the two are values differently and separately.

one is not compelled to by dear items in a supermarket just because you drove there in a expensive car....

we all have our own odeas about what makes something 'good value'.

IMHO, pitch prices and subs are moving away from this into the 'dear' region...

Now that the annual fee is close to £50, perhaps it will stay there for a while. It may take more courage to break through that barrier.

Even if you forget about the magazine and the other advantages such as access to CC Green Flag recovery, or the CL network, it depends on how many nights you spend on CC sites. In our case it works out at just 44p extra per night.

So it's increased by £2? That is an extra 1.6p per site night for me. Can't say that I am concerned in any way. Increases in site fees are far more relevant.

Totally agree some of the site increases are on the high side of extreme. Because the start of the summer season has been moved back a week, that particular week now costs 19% more than last year. £28.70 on the site we stayed on. The increase in membership fee however costs us about the same per day as EasyT.

of course £2 on its own isnt a large sum of money, its the continual trend that is annoying (and getting expensive)....and a trend which is also being driven through site prices....

steve's point about moving season boundaries is also valid....and a bit naughty in my book....

Everyone thinks they know what high season is, yet in the cc we have high season for far longer (and on more occasions) than most members would have first thought...

The Club's policy is to increase subs little and often which as someone has already pointed out is far more palitable to the majority. However, the Clubs idea of little is considerably in excess of inflation and has been for some years now. With the hike in site fees this year it might have been more palitable if they had not made any increase at all?

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