New Site Booking System

I think the difference will probably be in the difficulty. I think it unlikely there will be anymore just picking up the pad and amending dates, either taking them off as in compasses case, or adding them on, as we occasionally do. I suspect it will be a phone call with multiple recorded announcements and button presses before you get put in a 10 minute or more queue.☹️

Steve, you may be right...but the club has invested in a pretty good app that allows us to simply make our bookings, I doubt we will all be directed to a new website or a new app.

it's likely the app will be tweaked to choke any naughtiness but will surely be there to make bookings as we do now..

whenever anyone in CT mentions some change where additional folk are involved the cry is extra cost...dearer pitches..

surely the club won't be ramping up the call centre to take calls from folk who have been able to do the same thing on their iPad..?

the industry is moving away from folk ' ringing up' where possible...as long as the rules are understood vis a vis cancellations, why not let us do it ourselves.. 

If not paying a deposit and making it easy for people to cancel has caused so many issues resulting in unused pitches I have not seen any evidence of this, everywhere we've been these last few years it seems as soon as a pitch comes free it is taken the same day, I really don't believe the deposit will result in more pitches being available, the club has investigated this in the past and concluded the cost of administration outweighs the benifit, the clubs flexibility is what makes it so attractive to the majority, why haven't we had a vote it is supposed to be a members club.

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Spot on, Arch!

My opinion is that this is commerce driven as it makes good business sense to have money rolling in by way of deposits. It's what the rest of the industry does.

TW, It also has to be a factor, no business is going to undertake a task which is going to be detreimental to them. If the C&CC bottom line is anything to go by the C&MC is heading towards increased profitability.

FYI in trying to find where I read about thousands of cancellations (not so far sucessful) at least three of the past four monthly magazines have mentioned cancellations as a  factor under consideration.

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why haven't we had a vote it is supposed to be a members club.

Would that not be like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas?

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The club state:

 The Club regularly evaluate payment terms and conditions to ensure they remain beneficial to both the Club and it's members. In recent months, we've seen bookings for our campsites increase significantly and that has resulted in some frustrations from members when searching for an available pitch. Introducing a deposit system will reduce speculative bookings, freeing up availability for all members as a whole, as well as giving you all more choice.

From that the primary driver would seem to be to make the booking system fairer for all, rather than reducing the number of unused pitches. I would agree, except perhaps on a very bad weather weekend, it won’t be an issue as they get rebooked. 

Or it could be that as the club says bookings have increased significantly that is causing the frustration of pitches not available, from our experience the last 2 years sites have been extremely busy resulting in any spare space seemingly turned into a pitch.

I think the club needs to put more effort into providing more spacious fit for purpose sites and pitches at a reasonable cost, it's becoming more and more like a commercial business, its supposed to be a not for profit for the members club.

In other word you are saying  vast majority would vote no for what the minority have been vocal about