So what did the Club ever do for Motorcaravanners?

The only way that metered electricity is going to be cost effective is to  include upgrade of the EHU bollards during the rolling programme of si te upgrades and to install as noted on the Norfolk Broads where the EHU is used via a prepaid card ,and speaking to a boat user it works but to carry a spare topped up card as its sods law one card only will run out at the most inconvenient time

The meter should tell you when the balance is getting low so there’s chance to buy another before cut off but topping up online is a good thought, Corners, as long as there’s an internet connection. 

Otherwise, it’s akin to being off grid and having the gas cylinder run out in the middle of cooking tea on the warden’s day off. 😂

at schools people can top up their food card at a machine, (some machines just need you to put your thumb on the reader and don't need the card at all), this top up machine could be anywhere on site and doesn't have to be in the office.

It really wouldn't change what I would use on holiday and I'm still against the idea as it's so much easier with the system as it is with the all inclusive price, but I suppose the option of not having EHU could be looked at.

Of course I wonder what the take up would be?

Of course I wonder what the take up would be?
 

I would lay odds that a greater take up in the Summer than in the Winter. 

I’ve met those machines in ‘cashless’ canteens as well. 

Like you, I don’t want to see metering and, as I said in another thread, it would make no difference to my lekky consumption as comfort and convenience take priority. I can see, though, that it may happen one day but hopefully not for a good while yet. 

Ha ha, that’s another caravanning “rite of passage” It’s either cold curry, or in our case unpack the tiny camp stove, still there for emergencies!🤣

It would be good to have a few more sites that give a choice on hook up or not. Lots of CLs used to do this, although they are scarce nowadays. I know it’s something we would choose in the Summer, either van or MH. But we are frugal electric users, by choice, no TV, microwave etc.... It’s not for everyone. From what we have witnessed on all sorts of sites, there are probably more untrustworthy souls around than you might think as well, double hook ups in use, something like CL owner mentioned on another thread whereby visitors pay for no hook up, but then charge every device known to man in information Hut etc..........not leaving payments in honesty boxes, we have seen it happening. I’ve no idea on EV charging, how much it cost away from home etc......

M, you're looking at the issue from the wrong end of the telescope

how do you think some of the larger continental sites manage it..?

looks like we're back to the constraints of the 'club staffing model'.

until this is looked at in combination with any future changes, the 'full sequential timetable' that the wardens work to limits pretty much anything else inserted into the day....

couple that with the rigid arrival times and you have a system that is anything but flexible, with no allowance for ongoing process change...

the sites we've used this spring have all managed to get us checked in and hooked up (or unhooked) or meter read at start (or end) of stay with out any fuss...

none of this or the scores (hundreds in the case of La Manga) impacts on the running of the site or the service offered....they are just geared up differently and take this sort of thing in their stride...

I'm not sure, I still like to have hot water, microwave, electric kettle and the female camp followers like their hair dryers.  

BB - you know full well that I agree with you about arrival/departure arrangements. But we are where we are and as you yourself pointed out on another thread "you're guaranteed a queue if you arrive at 12 at Broadway".

This constant comparison with sites (which happen to be "elsewhere") is wearing very thin.

It seems that nothing less than a wholesale transformation of club sites and rules to match what you've experienced "elsewhere" will satisfy you. But there are hundreds of thousands of units happily using club sites under the current arrangements.

Now, instead of constantly "harping on" ( ) about the same things over and over again, why not accept a compromise arrangement - decline EHU if that suits. Easy to implement and surely a large part of what you're arguing for?

Don’t disagree in principal BB. This country values staffing of anything, be it hospitals, law and order, supermarkets, cleaning public toilets merely as a budget heading. Hence why we don’t have enough human beings actually carrying out duties. 

Some tasks can be done remotely or by technology, but some quite clearly cannot. So it’s squeeze or lose the human factor, and the cycle gets worse. A single Warden couple, looking after a site have huge responsibilities delegated to them, so much could go wrong. But the wages won’t truly reflect this. Wages and energy costs are usually the two single budget headings that are most expensive, so they are either squeezed or prices raised to make up the required deficit. Or something closes. Like Club Site seasons shortening. And two price rises in a single year.