Expensive CL's

It is a relatively inexpensive hobby.. Not everybody has the latest twin axle caravan or tag axle motorhome. Some vanners have deep pockets and others have a huge credit limit. What people have and how they pay for it is their business alone. 

The thread is about CL prices. --The bottom line is, you pay for what you consider good value for money.  Some will want a CL with all the bells and whistles and some will want a basic CL-.if the price is right go for it , if not go elsewhere.  Simples !

K 

Thats not what seems to be with the "kit"that on site here at present,there is nothing inexpensive here and the site is about full with those who want full facility 

Caravanning can be inexpensive - I once bought a caravan for £700 and towed it with a Rover 214, holidaying with my two young children. However, these days you can spend an arm and a leg and it clearly isn't cheap.

We prefer CLs and am happy to pay the £17 to £19 for the correct CL. All we want is elec, water and peace and quiet. The latter being missing on most Club sites bar North York Moors which is quiet I presume because it doesn't have a toilet block in site!

Yes, if your reason for using a CL is price, but mine is the exclusivity of just five vans on a site so I am not looking out at a load of tin boxes. I am happy to pay more for that five vans only, which is why I get so wound up when people say what does it matter if there are more.

I've been involved with running a Scout camp for 20 years but the cost of third party liability insurance has more than trebled in the past 3 years (no claims made) and the H&S , Supervision (Duty of Care) and Risk Assessment requirements are very onerous, to the point where this year's event is in doubt. No doubt this is a cost/responsibility increase that has affected CL owners too.

Just about sums up my thoughts too Moulesy.

Contrary to what some have posted re basic sites, my searches for CLs in a chosen area throw up more sites without facilities than those with. If I want a site with a shower and a toilet then I expect to pay more, it will still be much less than the nearest club site.

We haven't used that many CL's but the ones we have were around £12 - £14 no toilet/showers but they did have EHU and pleasant outlooks. 

I would think that the prices on some CL's will have had to go up in price due to the modern need for everything electric being used in the vans, you only have to read other threads to see how 'greedy' some folk are with electric. There must be times when the owners make very little from what they charge. 

We would use more but with a MH its not always easy unless you are prepared to drive it off site most days to explore, some of them are way off the beaten track. Which is off course is  why others love them.

tg, youre right about the location of some CLs but one of the advantages of not having to have planning permission for them is that they can be put in places where a full blown site can't be placed....sometimes (often)  this can be quite close to towns....easy walking or cycling distance.

we have a few like this we us regularly...and with the C&CC also having a selection of CSs there the chance that there will be something 'handy'

In fairness, TG, I don't think there are an awful lot of comments indicating that folk are "greedy" with electric (I can probably count them on the fingers of less than two hands!) and I certainly doubt that those of us who regularly use CLs fall into that category.

We have a meter for our CL and the DD is £315, we have a separate meter for our shower block and that is £60, in winter a single caravan may use £6 of electric per day or more, unfortunately this is why CL's are beginning to charge what they do, as  you know this is only one of many charges that CL's now face, our home insurance has doubled as it is now classed as a business, if CL's do not get the foot fall to cover all of these fixed costs they will close.  Before you say that you only need basic CL's with no amenities we were and we were empty, the more facilities we offer the fuller we are, but this all comes at an additional cost to ourselves.