Running a CL

One of our favourite CLs doesn't take motorhomers for less than three nights as they are on a water meter and the site owner said that they frequently had motorhomes staying one night and filling their tanks prior to going off grid again. Maybe that is Ian's reason for the extra £5 charge.

I’d have thought all businesses would be on water meters.

To arbitrarily impose a minimum stay or extra charge will penalise many users or deter them from staying. Say I fill up and empty at my previous stop, do I still get charged an extra £5 or incur a minimum stay without the chance to put my case? Nah, I’d go somewhere else and wouldn’t touch that CL with a bargepole. 

Wow.  That is super expensive water.  I only pay £2.27 for 1000 litres which would fill most average MH tanks about 10 times.  

As someone else has said that would be extraordinarily expensive water; it can't be that surely - or, at least, maybe a very small part of it. 100 litres costs a few pence I think. 

My guess is that it is because of the hassle and admin meeting and greeting and taking payment from one nighters and the possibility of blocking longer bookings. If they can charge the extra without it materially affecting occupancy, I totally get it. They are bound to aim for longer stays. 

Mind you I agree with the comment that it seems unfair to single out motorhomers. Perhaps what he meant was that caravanners would very rarely want to stop for one night only.  

Ian hasn’t come back to me yet, but I merely wanted to know if he would fill the odd unbooked single nights, but at the usual rate, not the £5 extra rate.

We use a few CLs that have a must book in for minimum nights policy, but if times are lean, they are happy to do one night only to fill a pitch, but don’t charge extra.