Exploiting the members

Posted on 23/01/2022 12:47 by allanandjean

Last year we, like many others, had a touring holiday in the UK as an alternative to our usual trip abroad.

Initially we looked only at suitable club sites and then tweaked this due to price, location or a recommendation.

One site was in the lakes at Pooley Bridge as our nephew and family were staying there. Our pitch was OK but that's all and the price, in mid July was £30 a night, which was at the lower end of what we paid.

Looked at the prices yesterday, I had been asked for a recommendation, and this year its £42.

I have not looked at club prices for this year, so cant comment fully on the OP, but a 40% increase seems to be rather a lot!

Posted on 23/01/2022 11:15 by Cornersteady

Agree with all that, it has always been thus with prices, and agree that standard school holidays would be welcome by parents and teachers but it's a little more complicated than one would think. Schools are under the control of LEAs but Academies are not and are very much independent (they don't have to follow the national curriculum for example), past and present governments wanted school to be independent of LEAs and pushed hard with large money incentives for schools to be become academies. A lot of new legislation would be needed and as you say it won't be happening anytime soon.

 

Posted on 23/01/2022 12:47 by allanandjean

Last year we, like many others, had a touring holiday in the UK as an alternative to our usual trip abroad.

Initially we looked only at suitable club sites and then tweaked this due to price, location or a recommendation.

One site was in the lakes at Pooley Bridge as our nephew and family were staying there. Our pitch was OK but that's all and the price, in mid July was £30 a night, which was at the lower end of what we paid.

Looked at the prices yesterday, I had been asked for a recommendation, and this year its £42.

I have not looked at club prices for this year, so cant comment fully on the OP, but a 40% increase seems to be rather a lot!

Posted on 23/01/2022 13:21 by trellis

Corners , Thanks for the concise explanation.😁.

Posted on 23/01/2022 13:14 by DavidKlyne

Fortunately they are both intelligent enough to understand they must make provision for their old age. I am happy to advise should they wish.

I wouldn't hold out much hope for a more liberal approach to deposits within the 21 day period as it would be widely open to abuse I imagine. Perhaps one concession they might be willing to make is to move the deposit to another booking. I fully appreciate that as we get older our health tends to produce more uncertainties but I am not sure this is the responsibility of the Club? A few years ago we were at the Brecon site and Margaret was taken by ambulance to Abergavenny A&E. In the middle of the night it cost me £40 for a taxi back to the site which is just a cost I had to bear and in a sense in similar circumstances it is the person with the issue that will have to bear the price, not the Club. We will have to wait and see. 

David

Posted on 23/01/2022 14:06 by JVB66

It is certainly a wait and see, situation,,May be more enlightened when at FM this next two weeks as those that will be attending are coming for my birthday ,but then will they know?

Posted on 23/01/2022 14:38 by JollyKernow

Afternoon

JVB, I've mentioned this before somewhere on here I think. There will be a dedicated line of communication for members to discuss with a member of head office staff who think they should get their deposit back. Honestly though, peoples health and well being are surely their own responsibility and not that of the club? Just my opinion.

JK

Posted on 23/01/2022 14:48 by JVB66

It is our own responsibility ,and good there will be a dedicated line of communication? But as said before, the 21 day cancellation is ok by us, but the present system without deposits is at this time what attracts many older members as the recent post and us  ,,,was the USP that this club had over and above most other pitch providors,in the UK, 

Posted on 23/01/2022 14:48 by JVB66

It is our own responsibility ,and good there will be a dedicated line of communication? But as said before, the 21 day cancellation is ok by us, but the present system without deposits is at this time what attracts many older members as the recent post and us  ,,,was the USP that this club had over and above most other pitch providors,in the UK, 

Posted on 23/01/2022 15:09 by Cornersteady

but that is history now, or will be for anyone making a booking form April.

Time to move on.