Email regarding price increases

Lots of folks saying they "rarely use club sites anyway", interested to know what other benefits are reaped from being a paid up member if not "perceived" savings on the non-member price of pitches.

To the email/letter... What irks me is the total lack of consultation and a familiar move to increasing prices as a "first" resort. What about doing away with the very expensive (monetary, energy, environmental) costs of producing the magazine? Go to PDF and CAMC would save many thousands, maybe enough to ride the storm...

Increase are as sure as death and taxes but come on CAMC, think a bit more about your fee paying "Club" members first rather than your profits...

Well you get access to the CL network, which a lot of members use more than the sites. As to the mag. It has been mentioned in the past it is more or less paid for by advertising revenue. Would they get the same level of advertising to a purely PDF copy? I’ve no idea just raising the question. The production costs in staff time would be similar, they just wouldn’t have the printing and distribution. If these are indeed covered by advertising, there would be no net gain, if that was lost as a result of the change.

CLs noted.

Good point about advertising revenue making production and distribution, cost neutral. Can't see for sure in the accounts I've access to but can always ask...

This is appalling, I have booked in good faith at the confirmed price as per their T&C's  

3. Booking and Paying for your Arrangements

A booking is made with us when you complete our booking process and we issue you with a booking confirmation.

A binding contract will come into existence between you and us as soon as we have issued you with a booking confirmation that will confirm the details of your booking.  Upon receipt, if you believe that any details on the booking confirmation or any other document are wrong you must advise us immediately.

If they are concerned with the amount of energy consumed by caravaners then each pitch should be metered with any above average usage charged to that pitch. We don't all turn up bringing half the house with us, fridges, additional lights, sofas etc.

How much more increases can we sustain along with fuel & taxes before we decide its not worth leaving your front door. I am seriously considering cancelling my membership and going over to the C&CC whose membership is cheaper.

As mentioned above its getting to the point where it would be cheaper to stay at a Travel Lodge.. Caravan Club & M  needs to listen to its membership or risk losing them.

This is appalling, I have booked in good faith at the confirmed price as per their T&C's

The T&C’s, as shown earlier in this thread, do allow for price increases. I feel it is unrealistic to expect any company to absorb the unprecedented energy rises. At the end of the day, currently you have paid nothing and are free to cancel.

With the increases in gas and electricity prices, increase in petrol/diesel prices, and inflation in general, there will come a point where "something has to give" for many of us, and holidays in the caravan or MH would certainly be high on our list, along with being more careful with our gas and electricity at home, and planning things like shopping better, to minimise car use.

The increase in prices on Club sites will not affect us much, as we have pretty much given up using them already as we feel they are not value for money.  Our use of Club sites has been declining in the last few years, we find no point in paying for facilities we do not need, so are now using a mix of CLs, CCC sites, and small commercials, with CLs  being our first choice.

No doubt prices there will also increase, but at least starting from a lower level.

Have you never heard of Force Majeure?  I am sure that the people in Ukraine are not exactly happy with matters either, but they are a damn site worse off than we are!

We have booked a lot of sites this year, more on the level of 3/4 years ago and I reckon site fees will be in the region of £2000. This includes quite a few commercial sites.  The previous most expensive year, pre COVID, was about £1700 so I can't say that it is hurting yet. The energy surcharge has yet to be added to that £2000 figure. In the scheme of things there are few holidays we could have that would provide us with so long away (about 70/80 days) for that figure. Even a week long cruise, which we enjoy, would cost more than we are paying for campsites for the entire year! 

David

We are not away as much now as we used to be, previously it was at least 120 days between UK and Europe, as we have volunteered to look after our 2 youngest grandchildren  2 afternoons per week in school  terms, plus DD has been keeping me busy with various projects in her house!

And we have been doing stuff at home....work in 1 new bathroom is now back on track, next thing is a new boiler, then a second new bathroom later in the year.   The bank balance will have taken quite a hit once all that is done, but after 34 years it does need to be done.

We have 60 nights away booked over 2 trips so far, and probably will have another 30 night trip in September/October.   The sites we have booked are averaging around £21 per night, and range from a £15 CL to a £27 commercial at York.   Sites  near York are never inexpensive, but our previous usual stop at Beechwood Grange is now well over what we feel comfortable paying!

Cruises are not for me, that would be a bit of a busman's holiday as I worked in shipping for over 30 years.   Even while working I did get to see quite a bit of the World.......Australia, south tip of South America, South Africa, the Caribbean , the Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and also spent a lot of time around Norway, Shetland, the Western Isles and the North Sea.

These days I prefer to stay on dry land!

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