10% off offer

I think the Club seem to have members over a bit of a barrel. Those that are willing to book a year ahead may well get the better prices but have to commit to a deposit months and months ahead. If they decide to to leave it to nearer the time it is possible that prices have gone up. Both sets of bookers could also be impacted by offers that come along at the last minute and find themselves not able to take advantage of the offers because of the rigmarole they have to go through to change anything. I am not sure members are being best served and as I have said before the Club should aim for complete transparency even if that means making major changes to the booking system. By all means keep the deposit system but they should sort out the pricing. In the past the Club have always promoted the fact that all members should be treated equally, is this the case with the new booking system?

David

To me over a barrel implies being at the club's mercy or doing something one doesn't want to do but somehow has to, and of course it assumes people have to choose a club site with no other choice available?  Isn't there better and cheaper out there? we're often told there is?

Is this the case? Not to me anyway, I will book a club site for whenever based on where I want to be at that time and not on whether I can get the site cheaper by booking now or later, and the deposit do not even come into the decision, I'm not going to start calculating lost interest over those week or months, but of course it's a nice little earner for the club but isn't that the same for paying any deposit paying holiday. And of course you will get that deposit back fully within the T&Cs.

Are people going elsewhere? Everyday there are about 8 very positive reviews from people who actually go to club sites  (counted 7 so far and all more or less saying the same thing, words like excellent, great,fabulous, well maintained, and high standards... many of whom are first timers and say they will return) with one or two less positive but usually about tired facilities or others things like road noise. Very few over a week (counted) actually mention VFM or costs being too high. Appears to be a lot of very happy people out there based on the reviews? A small sample but far more than those who post the club doesn't offer VFM.

Are these offers a symptom of poor pitch occupancy? I don't think so based on the high occupancy I've seen by actually visiting sites, some on the offers list as well. Don't forget these are for autumn and traditionally off peak (as it says on the tin) so a good time to drum up even more business.

Also I get offers from a number of different originations all the time, it's just good business sense. But while offers are there it doesn't mean they have to be taken up? If it suits (like K) then go for it.

Sorry just seen this, yes we're quite happy, when we booked last February (the day after we came back actually) they prices were more or less all the same price. 

I tend to agree Corners, We're setting off tomorrow on a 30 day trip that we booked in March. The average pitch price (including a commercial site where full payment before arrival has been demanded) is £34 a night, so total deposit paid is £204, and I could have got it all back if I had cancelled by the 7th August.

I've worked out that the interest I would have earned on that would be less than £4.

I'm happy to pay that.

Yes so am I, as do most I would think who go to club sites. I think you posted after your last trip club sites were full? Likewise here, always good to get first hand experience though.

I get offers from various banks, I find them funny as looking at their profits they still want more business.

And of course why not? what company says to itself that's enough profit for this year? I would think any company in your street that did that may have to close?

I'm setting off shortly and have not booked a single site.

You would hardly expect those that are avoiding Club sites/don't like them to write a  critical reveiw. Don't you have to go to a site to be able to review it! No wonder it is aleged it is all a bed of roses. The AGM is not far away now, so no need to speculate much longer, not that we will get much detail as it will largly cover 2022.

peedee

The Club will charge us £34.60 per night for a grass pitch at Cayton Village next week. That’s the cheapest possible option, on grass. Yet book a Glamping Cabin for two at the same location, the same dates, and you can stay for a mere £29 per night.🤷‍♀️ 

Perhaps the pitches are subsidising the glamping cabin offers?

Traditionally for all the years on club sites, the autumn isn't as full, still a few pitches to sell, and on some sites even more so.

So I really can't see what is so wrong with an autumn offer? More income. It might tempt a few or many, or none, just for the cost of an email.

It got K to book after all. 

At times yes and maybe the other way round?

If so another good thing about those glamping cabins.