Cost of sites has gone mad

I’m stumped by the whole ‘more Pensioners with Dogs thing’🤷🏻‍♂️, a lot of the CAMC Dog walks are sans woods & real walks, not many folk want a small grassy area to walk around with Dogs. My past experience was-quite a few Dogs but not more than without Dogs.

Seems to me there are few other travel options for dog owners - they can’t go on cruises, can’t fly anywhere, find it hard to find holiday houses or hotels which will accept them, and even travelling by train is difficult - so they get a motorhome or a caravan. I feel sorry for the limitations they have chosen to  face. 

Are pensioners who stay on club sites with dogs doing anything wrong? , the answer is NO ! , on the site we are on at the moment one caravan has 6 , yes 6 , good luck to them 

back to the price of club sites , if you don’t like the price then jog on , have you seen the price of fish !!

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The Club sets its own target of business.  Six children of school age would be about £20 a night. . Six dogs are free of charge. 

Yes, I saw the price of fish in West Bay this morning! 

I've also seen the price of caravan sites and they vary more than fish....I'm opting for lower prices and value for money.

Although I like some of the vfm CAMC sites some like Gwern y Bwlch are a bit out of the way and can rack up fuel bills.

I suppose we are an "older couple with a dog" but we won't be the ones using the sites as suggested by the OP. 

Yes, the club is missing out by not making a nominal charge for dogs , I would have happily paid when we had one 

Value for money for us is more about location than cost, particularly since getting a MH. A CL at £20 up a lane 2 miles from a bus stop might not be particularly good value for money, where as a CAMC site at £35 to £40 with one outside the gate might be. It would all depend on what we were intending to do with our stay.

Actually, that's quite wrong. We have found little difficulty in finding cottages and hotels which welcome dogs, many free of charge. I think hospitality providers have long been aware of what a lucrative market it is. In the next two weeks we will be in 2 cottages both booked direct with the owners (in one the dogs go free  on the second they are charging £15 but only because it is a bank holiday week). Later this year we have 2 hotel bookings, in both dogs are free of charge. 🐕‍🦺🐕‍🦺

Actually you are wrong EuroT about cottages, hotels, Airbnb, B&Bs, it’s very very easy to take dogs, has been for last 15 years we have been doing it, and that’s with three dogs sometimes, not just one. Dogs can travel by train as well. One of our Airedales did Eurostar for free, and not in a crate I might add.

I don’t disagree about flights and cruises being not canine friendly, but I wouldn’t expect them to be to be honest.

The fact that dogs can stay for free on Club Sites has no influence over our choices. The overall costs are higher than we want to pay, hence a CL with a lower price, but that might charge a small fee for our pooch is preferable to a Club Site.

The Club is like any other holiday provider in this country, top loading prices during school holiday periods, so folks do pay more if they have children. But both having children, and having pets are lifestyle choices, and there will be an appropriate price tag on certain things to cover the costs.