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layton1837 replied on 21/01/2022 09:20

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Posted on 21/01/2022 09:20

Why is it necessary for the club sites to seek excessive profits on  school holidays. My son has booked a pitch at Brecon beacon site for the Easter holidays. Cost per night for 2 adults and 1 child  £37.80 per night. The following week it would have been £ 27.95. What extra costs does the running of the site between the 2 weeks. .Nothing just exploiting the members because of the school holidays. Yet another excuse to make more money from the members when we already pay a membership fee.

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eurortraveller replied on 21/01/2022 10:35

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Posted on 21/01/2022 09:35 by DEBSC

Farmhouse, right or wrong, try to find any holiday business that doesn’t charge more in the school holidays. 

Posted on 21/01/2022 10:35

A family owned campsite near me. 30 + pitches. Flat rate all season.

Cornersteady replied on 21/01/2022 10:53

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Posted on 21/01/2022 09:20 by layton1837

Why is it necessary for the club sites to seek excessive profits on  school holidays. My son has booked a pitch at Brecon beacon site for the Easter holidays. Cost per night for 2 adults and 1 child  £37.80 per night. The following week it would have been £ 27.95. What extra costs does the running of the site between the 2 weeks. .Nothing just exploiting the members because of the school holidays. Yet another excuse to make more money from the members when we already pay a membership fee.

Posted on 21/01/2022 10:53

Yet another excuse to make more money from the members when we already pay a membership fee.

You're posting as if anyone has to be a member and pay the membership and/or use club sites. You're also making it sound as if the club is the only one doing this, the other club does as well in addition to most holiday companies. Also the kids for a £1 offer is aon all year at certain sites.

I would think that most club sites are not in profit every single week they are open so the extra they make in peak will compensate for that? 

Club sites are what they are, either pay them or find the cheaper posters often say are out there.

Cornersteady replied on 21/01/2022 10:55

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Posted on 21/01/2022 10:35 by eurortraveller

A family owned campsite near me. 30 + pitches. Flat rate all season.

Posted on 21/01/2022 10:55

Why not name it so that others and the OP can use it?

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Posted on 21/01/2022 10:35 by eurortraveller

A family owned campsite near me. 30 + pitches. Flat rate all season.

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Cornersteady replied on 21/01/2022 11:08

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Posted on 21/01/2022 10:33 by young thomas

As Steve says, one of the annoyances about Club pricing is the ever expanding creep of 'higher band' pricing, encompassing more and more days within any given 'premium' period.

'school holidays' seem to include holiday periods from any country in the UK, irrespective of the location of the site, trapping anyone who holidays across a border....well, it's a school holiday somewhere☹️

bank holidays are no longer confined to one or two days and perhaps the contained weekend, but a week or so either side.

Easter, this year covers three 'holidays' over four days in mid April (15th-18th) yet in Clubland 'Easter' lasts for 16 days from 8th-24th...

back in the dim and distant, many working folk took 'Easter Week' off work, I didn't know this holiday was now over a fortnight long💁

Posted on 21/01/2022 11:08

back in the dim and distant, many working folk took 'Easter Week' off work, I didn't know this holiday was now over a fortnight long

well it was always two weeks off for me wink

yes perhaps many people did take just one week off, but which week? The one before Easter or the one after after? From what I recall some took the first, some the second, so the 'holiday' isn't two week long just the time available to have a holiday.

Also many, even neighboring authorities and schools, have a different two week slot. Quite common to span over three weeks. 

 

eurortraveller replied on 21/01/2022 11:15

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Posted on 21/01/2022 10:55 by Cornersteady

Why not name it so that others and the OP can use it?

Posted on 21/01/2022 11:15

Gwel an Nans, Cardinham, Cornwall. 

Rufs replied on 21/01/2022 11:52

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Posted on 21/01/2022 10:35 by eurortraveller

A family owned campsite near me. 30 + pitches. Flat rate all season.

Posted on 21/01/2022 11:52

These can be found, but few and far between i feel, even over there most Spanish sites have high/low season, in the low season I have paid €14, 7kw of lece per day included, for vlarge pitch, pool, normally dont open until 1st May and even then a tad chilly, and on a splendid beach, high season, which is normally mid June - end of August, and 2 weeks over the Easter period, prices can double, that is why most snowbirds have long gone by this time, 90 day rule might change all this.

It used to be £1 per day to park on some seaside car parks out of season and £10 during holiday seasons, dont know if this is still the case ?

 

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