What is the advantage of being a member

I would ask the many thousands of members why they keep renewing rather than the odd few "naysayers" who some it seems would complain about anything to try to make them selves heard?

I would appear the club is not for you, we like other members cherry pick things we like about the club and use them, yes we booked a site last year for next month but sadly needed to cancel it for personal reasons but noted it was soon booked again and we managed book another pitch on a popular site when a pitch became available and  even manged to amend the booking for a longer stay all done on the web site. (very slowly of course) 

Which part of the country are you in? We could advise you of some excellent CLs in your area. We are going to one in Derbyshire next month, serviced pitches, hard standings, peace and quite and all within site of a large lake. All for £18 a night

I struggled to find a site with vacancies as it appears people block book and then cancel at the last minute,

For a break, as long as your not fixed on one particular popular site, I don’t think it’s as difficult as folk make out. Clearly if your looking for a week, unless you can plan ahead, that is going to be more difficult. Particularly at the moment with less RV’s going over there. I don’t know where you are based, but as an example the photos show availability in our go to area of the Peak District, for the next 3 weeks. Except for the bank holiday, which is to be expected, it would be easy enough to get a short break away, even over some weekends.

For us the benefits are clear. We like the sites, ease of booking and T&C’s. Generally I think the prices are OK, however they do milk peak to excess.

We had a big tour arranged and did all the bookings to be sure it could work in January of this year ,

Since then because of mostly venue cancellations in Scotland  and health reasons ,we have had to rearrange a big part of it, and with it being school holiday time it was much more difficult , but here we are , after starting at the last week in June .we are now at Clumber Park after a trip via Cambridgeshire , Lincolnshire, and three sites in Yorkshire on the way home Via Ferry Meadows including the August bank holiday, so as spoken about on here and as the club have said what block booking? And the sites we have  used have all been in popular areas

Too popular as far as Scarborough and Whitby were concerned, with very few of those visiting taking any covid precautions,