Is it a club or are we just paying members?

as you said to a poster the other day BB, you have forgotten to write IMHO (or are your opinions facts and you're not humble - just a joke there BB)

Clubs sites seem to attract many motor homes and it's probably now approaching two fifths to half the units on site but I suppose as you: dont use CC sites much then you may not have noticed this?

also together with the fact that the significant number of new members since the rebrand being 50% motor homes I would say, IMHO, of course that the club does indeed have a very good idea of how motor homes tour and how to attract them? Unless of course these new people aren't 'savvy' (I remember you used that once to describe those using club sites?) enough to know otherwise.

have a nice trip over there

PS I realise this is probably a rhetorical post and I did promise myself to stop asking rhetorical questions, as what's the point?

I just wonder how many of us would feel we had been let down by the Club in the same circumstances? Personally it wouldn't occur to me to expect to use the showers on a site I was not staying on. The OP has been a member of the Club for several years so he can't claim not to know what is and what is not allowed on Club sites. It is also unfair to expect the wardens to use a discretion they don't have to allow what they are requesting.  Now if the OP is proposing that the Club should offer this service I see nothing wrong with that but he has to make a case directly to Club Management to get that changed. 

David

+1😇  If & it's a big if , the service did ever become available to club members , it wouldn't be free as someone as just indicated in a previous post.

Cloud cuckoo land .....me thinks  😜

I think your second sentence might more accurately say ".... how our MH tours and why our needs are different.." BB since the huge number of MHers we've seen on our two visits to club site this year appear to be more than content with what the club offers them! 

I wonder if it is time to start a new club. 

This would be a real "Club" that was open to those "members" of The Caravan and Whateverelse Club who wanted to join.  No fees, no committees - just a willingness to be friendly to and help others in the same new Club. Perhaps a member might volunteer to make and sell window stickers - just so we could see who was NOT in the new Club.

It could be called "The Caravan Club Members' Club"!

'one' really has to be careful what gets put in writing, these days...

however, its refreshing (in this 35 deg lovely day nr Rennes as we break for a late luncheon) to note that CT's level of pedantry is right up there with the best

IMHO, of course

Bonjour, toutes les mondes

Thank you for the comments and I see some of you get my point.

In reply yes we can boil a kettle which is what we have done for the last three nights. No we are not new campers we have been members for nearly 17 years and were camping for many years before that.

I am not afraid of a little hardship and have bathed in mountain lakes and rivers.

This post was not about can we regularly use site facilities when not booked onto a site, it was about the what we as users, understand being a member of a "club" stood for.

I will continue to pay my membership to access the facilities and expect nothing more.

Thanks again for your thoughts.

Not a club. Its an organisation that now seems to be run for the benefit of the employees with us the customers as a nuisance. High salaried employees looking after their own interest and with a penchant for non essential issues, ignoring the  basics.

enjoy your time away BB, heard you had a few problems boarding? sorry about that, hope Ian wasn't behind you in the queue

You're a real trooper, BB!

First day on holiday, not 12 hours into the journey,   stopping for a late lunch in glorious sunshine and you still have time to check in on CT. Mrs BB must be such a patient woman! 

Enjoy your "vacances en France" - keep in touch.