Price drop on over 1.5 million pitches

I'm glad you admit it's your view about high prices BB and not a fact that they are high.

I know you like to compare prices between club and non club but there's more to it than prices as you said value not cheapness and of course higher standards. Hard to know and compare these as the non club sites are not named. 

I'm sure you will admit that these figures were not reflected in your visit to Chatsworth? And it appears that it's full on the vast majority of days/pitch types for November.

My experience on the various sites I've been to those figures are not reflected as others has posted too.

So where does that 15% come from? I don't think it's case of people voting with their wheels as you think  but rather a return, as said in the annual review, to pre-covid levels, no doubt about it the staycation was a boom for the club.

As the review says a solid and successful year 

Also I suspect it's from sites that do not have SP and/or probably more basic sites. In my view SP always sell better than standard.

What it written down anyway what the staycation percentage increase was? If the increase was greater than 17.5% then even with this decrease of 15% the club will come out ahead.

I know it states a YoY decline but we don't know the figures before?

Just a (more positive) thought.  

+1 

I was thinking the very same thing.

Thank you to those who have expressed their views which we value at the Club. In order for this discussion to remain open please can we ask that posts are kept friendly and constructive and that no one dominates a conversation. Many thanks. 

Had a feeling that the great Staycation would dwindle away as overinflated pricing not only for sites but new and secondhand RV's hotels and holiday rentals etc got overtaken by the general cost of living and the alternative of foreign travel. There seems to be healthy discounts on many Holiday and leisure items now but unfortunately not to pre-covid costs. 

I think many have migrated from club sites to CL's.

And it makes no business sense at all to discount sites that are performing very well. What's the point of offering discounts at full sites, that's just losing money.

Glad to see you are agreeing CS. Like I said the reductions were done for business reasons not to help members.

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It was always clear that the high level of staycationism (I’ve invented a word!) we witnessed during the pandemic was an exception and was never going to be maintained. Irrespective of the cost of living, people were inevitably likely to return to their former methods of holidaying.

The difference in the volume of holiday traffic in the SW this year compared to, say, 2021 is markedly less.

I can’t see how it can be described as a sharp business practice. The club doesn’t hide the fact that prices go up as you get closer to the date. In fact they encourage booking early to secure the best price. At not so popular sites they have introduced offers, but at popular sites like Chatsworth there is no need, they can sell the pitches easily. By booking a year ahead we have saved 15% on the prices quoted today. Although we would be hard pressed to get enough days together at this late stage. The same applies to Baltic Wharf, very popular so the club can ask and get top dollar. We paid the same per night in early October as we did for Morn Hill at the end of August peak, which was less than half full.

I personally appreciate the club has recognised the problems the earlier changes have brought to the clubs finances and are actively working to encourage members to use the club again, the 10% deposit was the first positive and followed by various offers/price reductions are all going in the right direction, a comment in YTs post ref the Black Knowl site praise as contributing to their better performance was presenting the site in pristine condition at all times I would suggest that all club sites that observe the No Mow May take note of this comment and make sure their site still meets these standards, I suspect this will be one of the causes in the once very popular Putts corner is on the price reduction list.

Actually I didn't say that just that at all PD, I just said there is no point in losing money by offering discounts on full sites. 

The profit from them would be reduced and that certainly won't help other sites by perhaps subsidising and reducing their prices which in turn will help members in my view. 

But to reciprocate the gladness I'm glad to see you now know why certain sites have been reduced and not others as you posted on page 1? 

I find it bizarre they haven't applied a flat rate across all the sites.