Expensive CL's

Not very honest at all. Sadly there are folks out there like this.

agree, and yet in another post there are people advocating allowing MH's/caravans onto EHU pitches, but paying a reduced pitch fee if they do not use the EHU, my question was who is going to police this?, some thought we did not have dishonest/chancer folk in the club.

There are currently 1824 with EHU out of a total of 2231 CLs, so the closure rate is definitely greater for non-EHU sites, although the statement concerned "most" closures. 

some thought we did not have dishonest/chancer folk in the club

We didn't use to!!

Going back to the original post in this topic, I have to agree with Steve874, for us a CL is a simple 5 van site tap and better still leccy. 

Spend 10 fantastic days in Devon last summer with fully fitted twin axle on a site for £6.00 per night with just a tap, bin and sewer hole. Solar panel kept the battery and mobiles topped up so we had 'intewebnet', Cooker, fridge, heating and shower on gas, Happy days. No TV ( even happier days) but could have used catch up on the Ipad.

Currently on a stunning site with 3 other vans at £12 with electric, a tap, a fantastic far reaching view with sheep gazing in the field in front. Could even walk to the pub if it hadn't closed down last week!

I wouldn't be here if the charge was over £15, might as well go to club site and spend the weekend getting to grips with the rules and regs.

Long live simple and reasonable 5 van CL's.

Hi Bobbie

Great to here use “simple and reasonable”CL's and enjoy your freedom. 
I run Newton Grove an Off-Grid CL (non-ehu) of which there are currently 407 on the Clubs CL website search.

You maybe interested in a spreadsheet and interactive map that feature all of these.

Johnny, you have a fantastic looking site at newton Grove !!. By coincidence during the week we discussed the possibility of taking the caravan to the Oxford area so I may well visit you sometime as this looks fab.

Congrats on the site and on sun blessed 'Hinkley C' charging point !!

Thanks for your kind words.

Will be great to see you sometime.

"Long live simple and reasonable 5 van CL's " 

I suppose £19 a night is relatively expensive for a CL. I use both Club sites and CL’s during the ‘season’ and it’s always the CL’s that please me the most. The peace, the quiet, the locations....

So I guess it comes down to ‘value’ for me. I probably pay at least £30 a night for a Club site, and around £12-15 for a CL with the facilities I want. For a ‘special’ CL? Yes, I’d pay £19. As to whether or not the cited CL is ‘special’, I don’t have a clue, horses for courses.

On the whole I think I agree with you Freddy; I've never stayed on a club site but for our planned trip to Snowdonia later in the year I've just booked a commercial site and the price made my eyes water but it had everything we need and was in the best location  so hopefully we'll think it was money well spent...

There are some cls I've stayed on that I feel didn't charge enough, in comparison to others but I guess it's all down to supply and demand.

There's a new cl opened in Northumberland virtually on one of the best beaches in England,  which for us is about an hour away so perfect for last minute breaks and winter getaways. However, it seems a bit pricey at £20 per night (it has hardstanding but not serviced pitches) initially this put me off; but actually the location is amazing so we'll probably book it.....unless they charge extra for dogs and awnings😂!!

We have a budget and won't pay more than £15 pn on a CL. If we started to pay more we would have to reduce the number of nights we're away, and we don't intend doing that. However we will occasionally pay a little more on a commercial site if there is no CL in the area we want to visit, as we will be doing on our next trip, at Beescraigs near Linlithgow.