Affiliate sites

We use North Ledaig,  near Oban and Grantown on Spey. Both are affiliated sites and easily meet the Clubs usual standard for us. In fact in some ways they are better, albeit they can be a bit more expensive too.

• We've been to The Ranch and found it ok, although we've not been back. Toilets and showers were excellent and spotless, but I think they were brand new at the time.

Affiliated sites are simply commercial sites which pay a substantial sum for this Club to advertise them. Those sites must think it money well spent if it increases the number of Club members visiting them. But the fact is they are simply commercial sites run in their own way - and they have reviews on Trip Advisor and UKCampsite.co.uk as well as on this  one. On all those fronts The Ranch at Maypole comes out pretty well.

We have used a few Affiliated sites over the years including a couple of Morris Leisure sites and Luckshall  and they have been of a pretty good standard. They are a little bit different to Club sites but you would expect that. They often have static caravans as well as touring pitches. My understanding is that the Club add Affiliated sites to the the list as a means of filling gaps in the network. Those sites do pay for the privilege but then they have access to 350000 possible customers. Perhaps you meant to leave a review?

David

My experience, although I’ve never used The Ranch, is that having stayed at North Ledaig, Grantown and Huntly Castle, as well as Carnon Downs when it was an AS, is that each site was fine, although different from club sites, and we had no complaints with any of them. In fact we managed a few days at North Ledaig almost every year since the early 90s so they must do something right.

Agree. North Ledaig is a lovely Site. We actually joined the CC there, back in 1985. And we have been back a few times. We love the Racecourse AF Sites as well, use Exeter regularly, have also used a few more no longer on the network such as Wincanton, Fakenham, Market Rasen, Hexham. Some have gone for good, others have gone it alone. For us, we actually like the bit of difference away from the usual Club set up. All have had decent, clean facilities where provided, but it’s the locations that attracted us.

 Sites that wish to be Affiliated have to pay a considerable sum of money for the privelage 

Read all about it -

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/uk-sites/affiliated-sites/becoming-an-affiliated-site/

I missed Wood Farm off my list of AS's we've used. They had the best MHSP I've ever seen.

We stayed at The Ranch for one night and did not like the site at all. That was however in 2008 and it may well have improved. It was a popular site then

I have found many affiliated sites to be much better than club sites, with bigger pitches, fewer pitches for a given area, more open spaces on the site and better facilities.

There is a whole world of very good sites with much better facilities than club sites out there. Just sticking with club sites certainly limits one experiences!

The site at Rutland  is an AS - lots of poor reviews this year.