CL Price increases

We stayed at Wortley Hall in 2019 and the price then was £18 a night. I happened to look at their website yesterday and noticed the price has risen to £24 a night. Still well worth it given the general surroundings and facilities available. Given that CL's tend to offer one price all through their season they can appear expensive in the low season but excellent value in the peak where even at £24 a night they are only two thirds of the price of a full fat Club site. There seem to be an increasing number of new CL's that provide all the facilities of a Club site and are starting to charge accordingly. They know that there is a sizeable element of customers out there where price is not the main decision point and those customers want a more intimate site but will all the facilities and are happy to pay. I wonder if the judgement on price, by the owners,  is more to do with comparisons on similar CL's on Social Media rather than the farm down the road with a basic CL?

David

I agree.  Some sites OH was looking at just yesterday have prices from 2016!

We tend to initially rule out sites with no pictures, no e mail contact and very out of date prices, if others do similar then they could be losing a lot of business.

One of our recently used CLs stated £5 per night on the web site so I wasn't surprised to find it had gone up to £7...and £1 for the dog. There were no photos either but at least a couple of the reviews gave me a good clue about what to expect. So £8 for two of us per night and a family of six near us also at £8 per night. (What a bargain some of these places are!) There's such a range of prices out there and a high price doesn't always mean the site of your dreams. Best to find a site you like rather than let a price inform your decision. 

If looking initially for a CL near a destination area I usually use Google Maps and search for a CL. If the site has no webpage then it won't be used

I was pleasantly surprised earlier to find that a lovely CL we use regularly, which had crept from £14 to £18 in the past two years or more is now showing £15.

I wonder if their customer numbers had declined after the increase?

But the club's web site is live all the time, so why don't CL owners press the club to update them when they tell them of their price increases, that is if they bother to do so! I know you can't answer for the site owners but even some of their own web sites carry the wrong information. 

Thanks for the CL's name, one that we will avoid, regardless of nice it looks.

Have seen that happen with a site owned by a fairly regular poster on here. However I do wonder if the price shown on BB's site is another "misprint" by the SD publishers?

Thanks for the CL's name, one that we will avoid, regardless of nice it looks.

I'd use Penrallt Bach, about 2 miles away, every time if in the area. Might be expensive at £20 pn but we enjoyed it when we stayed last year. For that price you get Hardstanding, shower and toilet (covid dependent), good views and smashing owners who pride themselves on running a first class CL.

Although it probably doesn't apply to the OP's site, I think that a lot of farm sites are having to look at their 'camping enterprises' differently since Brexit. Goldie may comment, but the impression I am getting from those we go to is that with subsidies starting to disappear, farmers are now having to diversify even more - and what was previously a 'pin money' exercise is now becoming a necessary source of income and consequently they are starting to test the market to maximise that income. I don't blame them in the slightest and indeed, I have managed to persuade one site owner (farmer) we stay with (who is now a good friend) that he was charging far too little compared with other sites we stay on. Add to that the increase in electricity costs and I don't blame them in the slightest.  I would hate to lose such sites since these are the main reason we remain members of either Club