ACSI price increase

I too received an email re my ACSI subscription cost informing me;

The new price for your subscription will be €21.94 (excluding delivery costs).

My price this year for guide and app was €15.95 including, the free app and postage, so it looks like a large increase however, had the app not been free the price would have been €20.81 and, whilst times are hard for us all, I think I can see my way to funding a €11.13 increase!

As you did we more than covered the costs in the savings we made, but we did also stay at non ACSI sites, and at one ACSI site, Badiaccia Camping Village on Lago Trasimeno, we booked as their offer was for a higher grade pitch for same price as ACSI, €20 night.

I bought the App separately as I couldn’t seem to get it to included the one with the Aires, which I think was another €9. If that goes up by a similar % that will make my subscription €27.95. However the Aires data set was useful in it own right.

What is likely to decide wether I bother in future is time of year of travel. This year we went late May, June, early July and all the sites we tried were open when we arrived. Next year we are going in September, early October. When we traveled at that time in 2019, several of the sites we turned up at, supposedly open,  had closed and we had to look for alternatives. This year however we were surprised by the number of French MH’s on both the sites and Aires we used. Many more than in 2019. Hopefully sites will find it worthwhile to stay open and not close early.

We got the same email. We went to the Netherlands this year and used it on 4 of the 7 sites saving us well over the subscription. 

We couldn't use it at the other 3 because the dates fell in an excluded period, mainly for Ascension and Pentecost as they are public holidays over there.

Will most likely renew for next year as I can see us going abroad, fingers crossed.

I do remember one year stopping for 3 nights at a site not far from Hoek of Holland to catch the ferry back. It was near the sand dunes and popular with the Dutch. We bagged 3 nights for something like €14 p.n. whilst the true price was over €50 for a night.

We also got the email advising of the increase.

We definitely got our membership back on the 6 weeks we were in France during May/June.

We are going again end of September, this time adding Spain and Portugal so will use more acsi sites.

Its strange how some sites come off the acsi rate for some of the public holidays. We encountered it the first time in Belgium where most of the sites we were looking at on the coast came off the acsi rate however we found one that didn't and it was very nice.

We have come across this in Spain as well but so far not come across it in France despite being there for 3 holiday weekends. 

We will be renewing our membership.

I remember finding ACSI sites in Provence in June packed full with Dutch people. -  but they seemed to get a radio warning from home when the cheap rates were ending- and having got the signal they fled en masse.  Luckily there were other sites which the nice Dutch people didn’t know about because they weren’t listed in the only book they had.

Whoops! Just noticed my error-it’s a €1.13 increase NOT €11.13!!