Pay extra for towing a car

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Good diversion, David! 

But my point was that if those were the only 2 alternatives in the area (I'm thinking of the example I gave earlier ) would you be prepared to pay the £20 then?

For me M, I would pay the £20 BUT if I did you could be damn sure there wasn’t a non EHU site anywhere near there! 🤣🤣🤣 I normally can get a non EHU site virtually anywhere so a £20 site would have to be the only one for miles around! But yes, without being silly about it, if the extra miles to say a port  were going to cost me as much as staying on the CL I would do the sensible thing..... and if non EHU sites keep closing at the present rate I might find myself in that position! 🤣🤣

Of course there would have to be a bit of negotiation ! What discount do you offer for me not using your electricity? 🤣🤣🤣

https://youtu.be/lNB5pCIving

May be of interest M .....or maybe not! 🤣🤣

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Try overnight parking in York City centre with a car! It makes Rowntree Park look very cheap and very reasonable! And you get space for a caravan, awning, car and all the usual site facilities 'thrown in'. Yet some still complain about that!

RP does represent good value if you are interested in seeing York, if you have invested in the touring outfit of course. We had an interesting chat with a couple of Northern Irish chaps while we were there, they wanted to see more of Yorkshire, and were querying whether or not to do it from RP. We passed on lots of nice cheaper CLs and private sites for NY Moors and Dales area, they were in a small VW, so very mobile. 

We use CLs at a wide range of prices, some as low as £3, but we won't go higher than £20 if we can help it. In Winter, Club Sites that stay open are often much better value than CLs, especially mid week. There are some very nice looking CLs with lots of extras, but we just don't get the value as we mainly use our own facilities, and aren't always bothered about having wifi. 

AD for Portsmouth afternoon crossings, we use CAMC site at Morn Hill, Winchester. Between Easter and Mayday w/e, cost was about £15, and bus stop nearby for Winchester if staying more than 1 night.

Taking an existing CL "upmarket", or establishing one from scratch, could be part of a business model to try out the market for a much bigger site without the proportionally larger outlay. Also gets the local community gently used to caravans coming and going, established a precedent, etc without investing in toilet blocks, big power cable, etc.

It would be interesting to know what percentage of the CLs that have closed as such in recent years have actually become small commercial sites. Many of the Club sites that have closed still exist as caravan sites, though a lot of them now house statics.