Club prices getting silly

And as I posted , I very much doubt. that many companies who employ staff on the national min wage had calculated in their 2022 pricing  that size increase,

Also as I posted,  to now keep costs down it will mean those staff  possibly having their hours reduced , or less staff employed, what ever way employers go, it will be the end user ,who will notice even poorer services 

+1, they’ll be using the old Covid chestnut for years & years😊

The worst I have found is-‘administration fee’ when back in the day admin-yes👍🏻. Now we’re all e-commerce, press a key, what admin we fill in the boxes ourselves🤷🏻‍♂️. 

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A classic example is experience freedom. I bought online, a gift voucher from them recently as a present. Although e voucher was mentioned, when it charged me £2.50 postage and packing, labelled as such on the invoice, I assumed they were sending physical vouchers. Nothing arrived after a few days so I phoned. No physical vouchers, the £2.50 was for administration and wrongly labelled. I found the vouchers in my Spam folder. Even worse, after explaining it was a present and I would have to use my printer ink, I asked if they could send a brochure that I could include with it. No go on that, we don’t do brochures it’s all on line. Thought it a bit rich given how much CC related junk mail I get. Excellent customer service.😂

It happens all over, why should my daughter's insurance charge an admin fee for changing her address over the phone on their files? 

A change of caravan at my Storage will incur an admin fee but putting new reg plates won't, even though both will take the same amount of time. 

It is just for the money!

My take on admin charges ,is a result of most organisations /companies, Outsourcing much of the work originally carried out by directly employed staff,, which saves? their own payroll costs and then shifts the costs on to the customer with "admin fees"

This club is a Good? example  with much of the maintainance that in the past was carried out by site staff , is now outsourced as only their staff are "qualified?"to do the work in case of litigation if carried out by others , hence as some reviews about lights out/weeds/trees ,as a callout fee is usually envolved,so they are called for several problems?

In the past, on site Equipment Mini tractors/ mowers etc, 1st year assistants were shown how it worked at their induction or/and, by usually the Warden 

I understand there are "qualified" club staff who do what is called Lantra? training for all site staff to ensure they can operate equipment safely , and much equipment that was on sites to make grounds maintenance quicker and much better has been withdrawn

 

Going back OT, I've noticed that a SP there is an extra £4.90 (and there are about 20 of them) and during June to September a full week on them is not possible, only two consecutive days are available in June and five/six days during the rest. 

Funnily enough this is one site where you can book grass pitches but it's really futile as there are only five of them.

We have recently got back into caravanning and the fees can seem expensive when compared to C&CC, however it's been over 10 years since we last stayed at a C&CC and I remember them being terrible compared to C&MC sites, they usually had very small pitches quite close to the next and poor facilities. I think C&MC fees reflect the high quality of sites and I'm happy to that bit extra

I think that’s a bit harsh on C&CC. In my experience sites are sometimes better, sometimes worse, but always very acceptable. Chertsey next week works out at less than £20 for EHU and hard standing with ACR.