Email regarding price increases

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I cannot believe what the club is doing to members.  We started the year with another huge increase in club fees and then we are hit with this news.

If the club are not into fixed deals with electricity then someone should lose their job.

Also we are coming into the SUMMER and electric usage will be much smaller. to charge an extra £17.50 a week ON top of the existing electric charges built into the pitch prices is taking us for idiots.

On top of all this pleading poverty by the club they will be spending OUR money on buying thousands of trees making our sites more dark and dirty, losing the sunshine which most of us want and if my last two years experience of trees on club site is anything to go by more dangerous.  The first night with my new caravan at Morton ended up with the caravan in a terrible mess due to the winds and lots of small branches all over the roof. I was very lucky no bad damage was done.  Last year at Hunters moon another once nice site but now covered in trees a huge branch smashed someones car and caravan up putting lots of pitches out of action because of the danger.

The club does not appear to know trees need to be inspected and pruned for safety, and that costs a lot of money. Its time to stop this nonsense.

I am so annoyed by these increase in costs that I am cancelling all my bookings on club sites this year.  I am going to think very carefully if I want to continue my membership as well.

   

Dutch members for already  a long time. The last decade we only have seen the campingprices rise and rise. A 5er a 17er as for a good example.  We understand that cost are increasing jearly but a bit too fast  oflate.  We paid our annual contribution during the passend covidyears and bought vouchers but were not able to stay because of covid -enteringrules of the UK. Use of the vat-advantages were also only up to 31-3-2022 so hardly advantages for us as foreignmember.  And now suddenly rising costs again. Our budget is getting lower and lower to stay hare. We use our electricity often via the solarpanels we have. We are only staying a little part of the year. No special member price for foreigners ( some other clubs do) even when we are aged 73 .

Is there not anything you can do for us making it still attractive to be clubmembers? ( we also have very expensive boatcrossings to pay to get here)

We hope to hear or see a reaction. 

I didn’t know the Club were planning to buy lots of trees, but if so, in principle I think that’s a good idea. Properly planted and maintained trees enhance a site and provide obvious environmental benefits. If the trees were there first, I’m not very sympathetic to those who’d have them removed because they made their caravan roof messy - move the caravan!

As for electricity, commercial contracts are quite different to domestic situations. You need to understand what arrangements previously applied before making judgements. What seemed a great idea a few months ago might seem very different now. Not saying you’re wrong, but it’s not straightforward.

We’ve done this debate to death, but it’s fairly obvious to me from observations on site that some members waste huge amounts of energy and ignore the potential of solar. It’s a wake up call for all of us.

 

The CMC email said:-

Below are a few hints and tips to help reduce the cost of electricity usage when you are staying on one of our campsites. 

1. If you have a solar unit on your outfit please use it as much as possible

2. Make sure indoor and outside lights, any heating appliances and electrical equipment are all turned off when you go out for the day and overnight

 

I am not sure how helpful those suggestions are and I am pretty sure they will make a negligible difference to consumption on site? Even with solar panels I am not going to be able to reduce my onsite electrical consumption. All it does is change my leisure and cab batteries which I suppose might save a very small amount of power. Now someone with solar panels and lithium batteries with inverters and a refillable gas system might not need electricity at all but where is the incentive to use those systems rather than the site supplies? There is no offer of a reduced fee if not using electricity. I am pretty sure this is a knee jerk reaction rather than a long term thought out policy?

David

 
 
 

 

Evening

I agree with you Bill. Lots of our sites are having trees planted to celebrate the Queens Jubilee, why not?

Still on the subject of trees, every club site has an extensive (and expensive) tree survey conducted annually by a professional third party company and findings are graded in their severity. Action is taken within days of said survey. Extremes of weather cannot be predicted nor can a survey tell if a tree limb will break in those extremes.

During storm eunuch we lost 3 large trees that were only 2 months previous surveyed as fit and healthy.

Quite a few of our regions the fixed price for electric is coming to an end, common sense says you're not going to get that same deal anymore. We can all debate/ discuss rises but it is what it is. We have indeed done this debate to death. 

I've got 4 departures staying until 4pm tomorrow

JK

JK

The 1600 dep time is allowed without add charge only with the permission of the site manager if conditions allow such deps

 

Storm Eunuch! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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