Email regarding price increases

Excessive and unnecessary use of electricity inflates the overall bill and we all get to pay a share of that in site fees, especially when the system prevents opt out for those who couldn’t care less about mains electricity. Might be a minority, who knows, but largely ignored. 

Ah, now I see the flaw in metered lecky. The payment on leaving site having had that meter read. Staff will need to be available to read meter on pitches and take payments.  Time consuming and time specific. We would have to book our leaving slot, oh I feel for those poor staff. 

 but as said upthread, it's possible to charge accordingly without the need to leave the office .... maybe send you the invoice after you've left site

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Thanks for the clarifications AD & ED. If payment for pitch, electricity is in retrospect I get it but allowing free use overnight for one night of your stay defeats the object completely. How about this, how about a one charge fits all regardless of how much you draw!

It depends what system is employed. I take your point about site staff needing to be involved as often receptions are closed as most of us leave in the morning! 

There are probably four methods that could be employed:-

1) A manual reading when you arrive and another when you leave. Very labour intensive and can cause delays in leaving whilst you wait for a member of staff to be available.

2) Electronic monitoring from reception. They make a note of which pitch you are on the day you arrive. On morning of departure you make your way to reception, they tell you how much you have used and you pay. Still requires reception staff to be available, probably all morning.

3) Coin operated electric connections. You plug your lead in  and hope the person before has left you some credit but otherwise you top up with coins. Perhaps a possibility that you could select an amount of Kw's and pay by card. Coins could be inconvenient to both members and staff.

4) A system where you buy preloaded cards in different denominations which you slot into the bollard and remove at the end of your stay with use deducted from the card memory. There would be a need for availability of such cards onsite, perhaps a vending machine? 

5) A more advance system could be that when you plug into the bollard it is locked in place, to be released by payment either by smart phone or credit card.

Any other ideas?

David 

 

That’s another 2 hours in bed waiting for the Alde heating with cold water to reheat.

Thanks DK, a couple of possibilities there, 4&5 being the most sensible in my view but the more techy the more costly I reckon. Not an absolute no but not an immediate answer across the network to the problems we face this ‘minute’. As with most issues the more we discuss, the better our understanding of the associated challenges which of course modifies our perceptions, well, for some of us!

Rufs said….

ok i will admit they are probably in the minority, but this post is all about increased site fees to cover the additional costs of electricity, but correct me if I am wrong, but there is at least one Motorhome owner on this post who it would appear is not willing to give up having his central heating on overnight, even when we lived and caravaned in Scotland we have never had the heating on overnight, and for the record we dont watch tv or have dvds in the van, and we could surely manage on a 10amp or maybe less supply which we should perhaps all be considering, if we are to reduce pitch fees.

What you choose to do re overnight heating is your affair. However, I make no apology for using a service for which I am paying, as I do at home. We also manage on 10 amps or less, where this is all that’s available. As we use gas for cooking and don’t have any electric appliances such as a kettle, toaster etc, even if we put everything on full, our load would only total 10 amps. Last year we did about 90 nights on CAMC sites and accept the pricing. Although given the change in T&C’s, the C&CC is likely to get more of our business in future.

Rubbish, it will heat the water up within 30 mins from not having the heating on after going to bed.