Cost of C & MC sites

that it is so difficult as others post to be able to get a pitch on this clubs sites?

Only at some sites and who ever owned these it would, in all probability, be similarly occupied for those who favour location rather than facilities..

peedee

Hi folks.  I'm closing this thread temporarily until we have had chance to do some cleaning..  Please avoid personal 'digs'...

David

Edit: Thread re-opened: I've done my best with this, folks - please try to stay on topic and be kind in your comments.  I'm going to clean the car now and weed the back garden.  I'll come back later to take a look... I really would prefer not to have more cleaning and weeding on here later...  😀😀

Have a good day, folks. 

David

But then it seems facilities  are a "hot topic" for some when it comes to sites ,as said many times  "you can please the majority nearly always, but a few nitpickers  never   and it matters not what or where they are"

The majority of those in LVs want the knowledge of consistently finding a Good standard , rather than chancing it will be alright for them , hence clubs sites are in the majority very busy

Your not chancing anything, other than weather and its consquences, when you have your own self contained facillities with you.

peedee

We were on 3 CAMC sites this school summer holiday period: Gowerton, Chapel Lane and Coed-Y-Llwyn. As oft reported, none of them were full, around 80% at best. CL was like a car park with large swathes of tarmac to pitch on. Gowerton was lovely with grass pitches overlooking the estuary if you pitched nose in, as we did. CYL was lovely with mostly HS pitches separated by large grass areas to enjoy the glorious sunsets.

Lots of growth through the gravel on HS pitches on all three sites. But didn't detract from the holiday experience. No constant buzz of mowers or tractors. Different waste facilities on 2 sites than the third. No hardship to use them. 

Other than for a wee, didn't use CL facilities. Gowerton and CYL both perfectly useable with clean loos and showers. Buildings in keeping with locale,  an area of mining / quarrying doesn't lend itself to glass and chrome 5* hotel type buildings.

Staff at all sites welcoming, friendly and full of advice. Unlike the reviews.

CYL was less than £27 per night for a family, good value for school summer holidays.

We had a fab pair of holidays with majestic scenery, loads of things to do and see involving steam trains, mountain railways, piers, harbours, lighthouses, castles, quarries, rivers, lakes, beaches, ice cream, fish & chips; a right proper summer holiday in school holiday time. 

It would have been nice to have a serviced grass pitch, but what we had was more than sufficient and didn't detract from our holiday experience in fab weather. Only rain was on transit day twixt CL &CYL.

We used Exbridge Lakeside CAMC and Putts Corner CAMC, during the summer.  Both had a handful of spaces, but fairly full - I reckon 90-95%.  I guess there will always be spaces as I would think it is really quite difficult to accommodate everyone for exactly the number of nights they require, therefore the odd pitch becomes vacant for a handful of night until the next occupant arrives.  We also stayed at Devizes C&CC site, which had more spaces (I guess around 80% of hardstanding and much less than that for grass pitches.  I reckon the one private site we stayed at was around 85-90%, but the other was more like 95+%

The other thing is that I think some may not book CAMC sites during the main season because most of the CAMC sites will not allow you to book a 'surface type' - although there appear to be one or two sites where you can do this from what I have spotted, (i.e. hardstanding or grass) - and therefore folk will go for non-CAMC sites where it is possible to book grass or hardstanding.

David

I think of al sites we have Ben on this year there have some pitches vacant for maybe a day or two mostly on week days if it has been a weekend it seemed to be a Saturday,

I weighed it up about 4 years ago and reckoned that some of the C&CC sites that we used were no cheaper than CMC for those not receiving age discount and maybe dearer

And that was before the deposit system was introduced,

It will be interesting how the deposit system this club is going to introduce is going to operate ,

Has any body else also noticed the September 2022pitches are already open ?earlier than in previous months

The CC jury will be out re:deposits but one of the best and worst things about the system (which im sure CC will have evaluated) is the 72hr no penalty cancellation which is great for those cancelling but blooming annoying for those who had to book fairly early but couldnt get their booking (and had to get something else) only to see pitches on their first choice site start to appear...

again, great for those who can change plans at short notice but too late for those who had to plump for 2nd choice following a full site...