New booking system with deposits

Posted on 03/08/2022 14:37 by Arch

I've just looked at all the popular sites for Devon and Cornwall and there seems to be more or less full availability for August and September I've never seen this before and its been the same all season, would the club really launch the new booking system now when it needs bookings desperately.

Posted on 09/08/2022 09:56 by JVB66

My daughter and her partner with his son have just returned from a camping holiday in Cornwall and as a special offer the site staff would bring a cooked breakfast to your tent 😀👍

Posted on 09/08/2022 11:43 by sparky100

I do think the timeing of the deposit not great as a lot of families are struggling and to pay a deposit now for next year will be hard .I do all so understand people block bookings and at the last minute pull out is very frustrating 

 

Posted on 09/08/2022 11:43 by sparky100

I do think the timeing of the deposit not great as a lot of families are struggling and to pay a deposit now for next year will be hard .I do all so understand people block bookings and at the last minute pull out is very frustrating 

 

Posted on 10/08/2022 12:05 by DavidKlyne

I suppose if things had gone to plan  we probably wouldn't be talking about this now as it would have been up and running for some months? Obviously when the club started to plan for this they couldn't have predicted the current crisis in both inflation and energy prices although i don't think they would have changed course? Unfortunately there will be those in the membership, as in all walks of life,who will struggle financially as a result of the crisis we now find ourselves in. If the future figures for energy prices become a fact those feeling the pinch could be even more widespread when it all becomes a reality. Having said that the Club has been an  outlier in not asking for deposits  and for many sites outside of Club networks it's fairly usual to pay a deposit and full payment weeks before arrival. Obviously we need to wait and see how the system pans out  but in the future if may mean that there is not so much need to book so far ahead which will allow people to judge their financial situation much near to when they want to go on holiday?

David

Posted on 10/08/2022 12:05 by DavidKlyne

I suppose if things had gone to plan  we probably wouldn't be talking about this now as it would have been up and running for some months? Obviously when the club started to plan for this they couldn't have predicted the current crisis in both inflation and energy prices although i don't think they would have changed course? Unfortunately there will be those in the membership, as in all walks of life,who will struggle financially as a result of the crisis we now find ourselves in. If the future figures for energy prices become a fact those feeling the pinch could be even more widespread when it all becomes a reality. Having said that the Club has been an  outlier in not asking for deposits  and for many sites outside of Club networks it's fairly usual to pay a deposit and full payment weeks before arrival. Obviously we need to wait and see how the system pans out  but in the future if may mean that there is not so much need to book so far ahead which will allow people to judge their financial situation much near to when they want to go on holiday?

David