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As a caravaner I will normally stay 14 nights or more explore the area visiting various attractions using local facilities etc the club site gets 14 nights worth of fees on a single pitch, if as you say you do 1 or 2 nights in your motorhome that same club site needs to attract 14 or 7 of you to collect the same fees so to me it's common se sense to attract the long stayers with a discount.

While you stay 14 nights on one site, Ina may use 7 sites for her 14 nights so CAMC still sells 14 pitch nights.

I did after reading some comments had to check that I had not misread the offer, was it 100% off? Perhaps 50% off might just justify such comments as non-inclusive, or even discriminatory but 10%?That's a saving of somewhere around £2.50-£3.50 per night. Are some really saying they would use club these club sites if only they were reduced by these amounts? Really? Is that all it takes?

I also had to check if the club's T&C had been changed? Were people being banned from staying one night and booking the night before? Of course not-just pay the full price. Harsh for those that cannot for whatever unforeseen reason by the club but there is it. 

When I was working did I see the MWD as discriminatory or non inclusive, the answer is no. Yet these better offers which are available to all (and over half term remember) are commented on.

Isn't it better to have 2 outfits booking 2 nights each than that pitch staying empty for 4 nights

Yes but only if they are empty anyway, otherwise not. I suspect the club has chosen sites with some purpose in mind.  If it was two nights then weekends would be affected and that would mean lost income. From posters it would appear that weekends are pretty well booked so why offer an offer that would mean less income of 10% across 50 sites? I really cannot see the point.  

Perosnally I think it's pretty simple they want to increase the days spent on these sites. If that doesn't suit your touring style don't take advantage of these offers.

I don’t think the free night was DK, you had to book, but even if you only booked and stayed the one night, you got it free. That was something far different to the latest round of offers.

It was booking time limited, date time limited, and applied to a period when far less sites were open, the weather was unpredictable (Jan -March) and I would think there would have been far fewer Members active given that some outfits are laid up during the colder months. Nevertheless, I think it proved popular, as I have never seen so many folks at Bolton Abbey in the Winter, first week of opening, and besides, the on-site staff said yes, folks were there to use their freebie!🤣

You may have missed the point I was talking about a Club Site not the club in general so that particular club site I was staying on would need to attract 14 or 7 MHs and the offer is only for a limited number of club sites who I guess need an income lift and the quickest easy way is to attract long stays.

My average stay is 3 nights and when I’m alone I often wild camp.

I just wish the ‘them and us’ mentality would cease after all we are members of the same club and we have diverse ways of spending our time when out and about

I’ve not missed the point. CAMC is an entity looking at occupancy on all sites and, thus, overall income. 

The club’s own data shows more motorhomes than caravans in membership and that motorhomers spend less time on a site, frequently moving on.

So...why do I keep meeting MOHO users saying they are thinking of returning to a caravan ? 

So you you don't recognise the offer in question relates to named particular sites and not all sites, sites close because their income falls below a threshold set by the club its important for a sites survival to maintain a healthy income long stays help keep that income.

It doesn’t matter one bit about what kind of outfit you tour in. But what does matter is why there seem to be so many offers aimed at filling more empty pitch nights.

Dedicated Club Site users, who have found their happy place (nothing wrong with this) are not the target market for these offers. The Club needs to find out what are the barriers that are actually, not speculatively, stopping non users from  going to Club Sites, or not staying as long. Until it does this, it can send out as many offers as it likes, but is still in danger of only pleasing those that already go. The reasons are likely to be a complex mixture, but need to be known.