Exploiting the members

Posted on 23/01/2022 08:21 by SteveL

As to CCC sites, too variable in standards in my experience

We have only stayed on 8 to date. Those 8 we found very consistent in standard and a good one at that. Admittedly the HS are narrower, so caravaners had to park cars on the grass, but that was the only significant difference. Apart from the price of course, which was £6 to £8 cheaper per night and if it coincided with a period where the CAMC site was still at peak, double that.

Posted on 23/01/2022 08:21 by

Great time to be alive .  My working life started at 15 and have had 26 years in retirement to spend pottering around Europe in the van while still fit enough to do it.

Posted on 23/01/2022 09:35 by SteveL

Not yet, but I will put it on the list for when we are next that way.😀

Posted on 23/01/2022 09:42 by Cornersteady

Everyone measures their own standards and I'm completely fine with that and I was just asked what I didn't like about them. The ones I stayed at one was on par with the club, the rest were not as tidy as club sites and standards of facilities cleanliness was not. Parking on grass would be a definite no no for me. Again each to his own.

I also didn't like having my pitch chosen for me, nor did I like the annoyance shown by the warden/SM when I said I wanted another and actually pointed to it, although he could have been having a bad day.

Posted on 23/01/2022 09:45 by Rocky 2 buckets

+1, it is & was a golden age that won’t be seen again as it’s proving to be unaffordable to the Country. I know it will come the ‘means tested’ state pension but it’ll not be popular. It also puts us in the least ‘exploited members’ bracket👍🏻

Posted on 23/01/2022 10:10 by JVB66

With the way it seems later generations than ours  ,spend and get themselves in financial troubles even if the state pension is means tested? Only those who as it seems these days are not worth the money they are getting ?will be so affected?

OHs son cannot understand how we can manage on our pensions ,when his monthly mortgage payments is higher than we get with our pensions,

Where as we, as our parents  were frugal during our working lives  ,so have some money as a buffer if needed ,it seems todays generation just spend,

 

Posted on 23/01/2022 10:10 by JVB66

With the way it seems later generations than ours  ,spend and get themselves in financial troubles even if the state pension is means tested? Only those who as it seems these days are not worth the money they are getting ?will be so affected?

OHs son cannot understand how we can manage on our pensions ,when his monthly mortgage payments is higher than we get with our pensions,

Where as we, as our parents  were frugal during our working lives  ,so have some money as a buffer if needed ,it seems todays generation just spend,

 

Posted on 23/01/2022 10:37 by Rocky 2 buckets

We all did the same JV we all struggled at the beginning but it’s worth it in the end-paying rent is dead money🤷🏻‍♂️. My house has gone up 4x the price I paid. I know of some folk who bought cheaper than I did & totally rebuilt theirs. The clever ones do  these things as an investment. Each generation have their own struggles & successes👍🏻

Posted on 23/01/2022 10:07 by SteveL

Several CAMC sites we used when we had a caravan, because you have to pitch to the peg, were often impossible to park totally on the hardstanding. At least with the C&CC you can put your caravan + awning (or in our case MH) anywhere on the HS. So far we have been given a choice of pitch at 7, allocated at 1, but it was the only HS available so would have been the same on a CAMC site.

Having said all that,  the bulk of our bookings this year are CAMC, despite there higher price, because of the ease of booking. 2023 will almost certainly be different.