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Yes, correct about the footpath to the toilet block. I didn't use it, preferring to walk the longer way round as part of my 10000+ steps a day!😆

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.

You obviously haven't read the post on the club's  members review page on FB concerning Cheshire Fairoaks then CS with all the adverse comments about the state of sites and the relatively  huge increase of pitch prices.

 We have just arrived at Cheshire Fairoaks for a couple of nights heading back home from Anglesey. Oh dear. This site used to be immaculate but the grass is very long and all the hardstanding are full of weeds. I have paid £45 a night for an awning pitch with EHU so don’t think it is unreasonable to expect cut grass. Arriving on a Saturday I expected to struggle to find a pitch but there are quite a few empty. What is happening to the Club that used to lead the way? I’m afraid I won’t be using their sites any more as compared to others we use they are definitely not worth the money. Shame as been a been a member for 30 years 🥲.

I thought I had made it clear I was talking about reviews posted on here? I don't do FB and only post about what I can see and verify for myself, and at least I believe the reviews posted on here are by club members actually staying on club sites, I wouldn't be sure about anything on FB.

And of course, with respect, your single quoted review doesn't prove anything? I put far greater trust on the club's reviews as they come from members as far as these things can be proved, but that's just me.

Why should reviews posted by members  in the members section of FB be any different from those posted on here? I think that you are reading them through rose coloured specs. How can you be certain that the reviews on ST are actually from members who have visited the sites that they have allegedly visited?

BTW that is not the only critical review of sites, but just an example that I came across today.

Again I have no idea how FB checks that only 'real' members can post? I did look once and it was by answering three questions, one of which was are you a member? And that was it, trust alone. There was no actual checking of membership numbers, is it different now? 

At least on CT one has to input your membership number to become a member of CT, I do recall when joining that I got one digit wrong and it noticed, there's also an email to put in as well.

Yes non club members can join CT but I would doubt very few non members go to club sites and then go on to leave review? 

So I can't be totally certain that they have actually visited the site reviewed but it seems an awful lot of effort to leave a review like that? Would people just leave random positive reviews and in so many numbers, just by that I'm quite sure they have stayed there.

I never said that wasn't the only one and I'm sure you are correct in saying there are more, it's just a) I don't do FB so cannot post on them and b) I can't justify to myself they are from actual members with the same trust I place on those here. That's my view.

Equally though I could say I think you are looking through muddy coloured spectacles?

Now this is getting off topic, I'm sure there will be a thread about club reviews v FB, but till then I'll leave it there and hold to my views. 

How can non club members join CT when you have the input your membership number to join.

There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with bookings at Morn Hill in autumn, plenty of lows and several dates missing on hardstanding / service pitches. However, you do have to wonder about the thinking of the club planners in the last week of summer. From my observations in previous years, once the August bank holiday is over families tend to head for home.

No change this year Saturday and Sunday sold out, Monday, when we arrived, hardstanding side about 50%, grass almost empty. It was the same story Tuesday and Wednesday and availability didn’t show any lows until the price reduced by £6 from summer peak on the 4th September. At least it meant we didn’t have any problems securing a late departure on the Wednesday when we went for our ferry.😀

I just don’t see the logic in keeping the prices high for the week after BH and having half empty sites.  If we had been holidaying in the UK we would have done as most seem to, delayed our tour start to the 4th.

As you say, we've had many, many threads complaining about prices but members still continued to use Club sites as they like 'the consistency of sites', presumably clean facs and pitch areas....

However, possibly starting with 'no mow May', we are now seeing more posts about falling standards on sites themselves, scruffy pitches, unkempt areas etc...huge areas of scruffy, long grass aren't everyone's cup of tea and at £45 a night don't folk have some sort of expectation that the site will be clean and neat and tidy?

..and as Steve suggests, why would the club hold onto the BH pricing 'coat tails' to try and squeeze another few days at a peak rate when folk are way too savvy and will just delay until the price drops on the Monday?...

we've a few days spare and a spell in the Forest at BK in non term time might be ok but at still over £48 a night....perhaps not...🤷🏻‍♂️

That review was on a Facebook Group page (Facebook Group )- while it may refer to CAMC members it is not affiliated nor endorsed (I think!) by CAMC. This is CAMC's page - CAMC Facebook

Anyone, Member or non Member can post on the CT forum. But to leave a review on the Club’s own website, yes I think you do have to be a Member. But reviews can be left on other review platforms of course.🙂

There’s no doubt, regardless of where you read reviews, that a great many comment on the prices and the new terms and conditions.