Campsites closing at the end of the 2024 season

They have to increase Membership, and/or make sure that existing Members stay more nights, otherwise all the discounts are doing are rewarding existing Members, which won’t increase income. Hence the DG’s plea around asking folks to consider Club Sites first.
It’s the Marks and Spencer marketing conundrum, a company can only trade on its reputation for so long, and while ever it has a growing market share. If the product isn’t appealing to enough buyers, then over time it will lose custom as buyers find alternatives they like more, and find better value elsewhere. Hence stores/sites close, and there’s a retrenchment. 

Nunnykirk was a lovely site we’ve been going there for over 30 years except during Covid. It was so beautiful and peaceful. There are a lot of seasonal pitches there. We made friends with some of the owners who virtually lived there in the summer just going home for a couple of days a month to check the house. So sad but I guess the Club is now more commercially orientated and wants to charge big bucks for loads of facilities. I have no idea where this will end up. Thank god for CLs. RIP these sites.

Will Thetford Forest be next?

Numbers reducing annually, excuse me but this is the general trend me thinks. Not just sites with “no facilities” ( whatever that means), when we started at Nunnykirk they had no hook ups, still no hard standings and toilets etc. only just got a mobile signal but they used to have visits from a mikman and a butcher! I note the clubs continually punching discounts of various types is this because overall bookings are down? I wonder why?

We love Broomfield farm 

It is the sort of site that we use , small friendly.

Do not want club house swimming pools etc 

This year we are a seasonal, the aged  we are we don’t want to tour anymore .

So like a lot of the friends on site have said time to give up 

A very sad day .

Agreed sadly. It was a beautiful peaceful site. Our 2 boys loved the freedom and safety playing there. Not like on the new full facility sites. No ball games etc (I can understand) but soon there’ll be no alternatives. Next sites like Englethwaite hall will be at risk or upgraded to full facilities and full prices. At least we still have CLs. Dockray meadow is another one, in the Lake District but the Western quiet side. With modern vans so well kitted out why do members demand Full Facilties? I know it’s their choice. The club is ploughing loads on money into “upgrading” facilities but what does the likes on Nunnykirk need? Just a warden, bins emptying and grass cutting. Surely that’s not that expensive?

They're not trashing it - they are closing it because YOU the club membership are not using it!

Hardly any sites have 'clubhouse and swimming pool', the club are just closing sites that sadly members are not choosing to use! Members want toilets and showers, in generl, as a minimum!

Not from my experience, I would say it's not a general trend. There are club sites that are difficult to book even now. There are six sites I monitor and I can't get more than a few days on any of them till mid September. 

It has been discussed that these offers are to get more people onto club sites, especially the latest one.

But these sites are just not making enough money to justify keeping them open, why is that? yet other sites keep filling up.

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