Email regarding price increases

Kj

I appreciate the Cruising is not for everyone but the point of me mentioning it was an example of the cost comparison for an alternative holiday which are nearly always more expensive than camping holidays even if more expensive sites are used. If at some stage in the future I feel that our hobby is getting beyond my means, taking into account site fees, servicing, depreciation, fuel and insurance I will quit and pursue other alternatives.

David 

Kj, you might be interested to hear that we've just paid nearly the same price per night at Camc Hillhead as we did at a CL in Feb. Both around the £20 mark ( mid week discounts and lower VAT rate at Hillhead.) I don't think it takes much jiggling around to find value for money sites in all sectors. Prices are going up everywhere but there's still a reasonable choice to be had across the network of available sites.

I don't use club sites a great deal, in fact last year we didn't stay on a  single one despite limiting our 100+ nights to the UK.

Obviously you haven't heard of the C.L. network otherwise you would have known of the thousands of members who predominantly use these establishments and many of these members have on previous threads stated that should the C.L. network no longer be under the CAMC remit then they would cancel their membership or not renew.

In addition to this I have already this year received more back through discounts at outdoor clothing shops than the cost of the membership fee.

So I hope this has answered your query.

Haven't received an email but it doesn't surprise me that the prices are going up. 

The CL we will be staying on shortly has increased their price by £3 a night to help cover the cost of electricity. I think given the recent rise in household electricity it was only to be expected that commercial rates would rise to.

Like most on here I'm not happy about it but it is what it is. There will be many that will carry on and pay whatever is asked and just as many that will shop around and look for a better deal.

We are fortunate that we are able to carry on touring just as we have for the last 11 years since retiring. We would rather cut back on other things if it became an issue. As DK says if you take just 1 holiday a year through a travel company you will pay many times more than you would for a year of touring.

While we enjoy all kinds of holidays it would be the fly to ones that would go before our van touring. There might come a time when we will no longer feel up to touring, if and when that happens we have years of holidays to look back on.

I feel that in the coming 18 mths we may see lots of units up for sale. 

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Like Ad & TG economising does not, currently, include any thoughts about not having the van!

We took the opportunity to give the van an airing last week and had 4 glorious days in Torbay at Beverley Park.

We both keep saying how great it was just to be in the van, yes we did things, and maybe its the old 'change as good as a rest', but its a feeling that non campers probably wont appreciate.

Beverley Park is  not a cheap site but its where we wanted to be and we can all find ways to justify our choices, and another site may have saved a few pounds but would we still be smiling today??

I can see the 'holiday v lifestyle' argument but, looking at all the posts think I will start referring to 'holidaystyle'!

We have had some great non camping holidays, and hope that continues, and there are are endless choices for your 'holidaystyle', but what realistic alternative is there to a 33 day trip visiting 5 countries, in places we want to be and at a time that suits us?

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Yes, I agree to a certain extent  brue, though I think you do have more sites to choose from down your way at this time of year than we do up here.

By choice, and having volunteered for GP duties in school term, we only use the van between late March and end of October, so by the time we are ready for our first outing of the year, we are almost into peak Easter prices.

We had booked our usual CAMC site at Banchory for a few nights at the end of  this month, with mid week discount it was within our budget.   However, DD asked if they could use the van for a week in St Andrews, and they are limited to school holidays, so by the time we would have got to Banchory the prices there would have been over £30 per night, which, for what is on offer, we do not consider to be VFM.  A serviced pitch at a very nice commercial site a good bit nearer to Aberdeen would have been a pound or two less.  So instead we are booked on a CL at £18 per night.

From there we head eventually to the Moray  coast, where many  of the sites are large holiday parks, and then south down the A9, the going rate in those areas also seems to be £30+.  There are not many CLs, that we have not used already, that would suit us as at that time of year we would want a hard standing, and  the CCC site at Nairn is grass only, so choice up that way is pretty limited.  

Even if we wanted to go away earlier in March, we have found that a lot of sites are not open till the startof the school Easter break.

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Is there anywhere that shows how much extra they will be charging per night please.

It says some sites will be more than others.

A list of prices per night, could help us whether to even bother with a site if it is 2.50 a night

Thank you