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Recently there was an offer over high season if you stayed a week, which we tend to. However it had to be booked by 30 June and you had to be more than 21 days ahead of arriving.

Most holiday firms limit the time of their offers. Although you might not be tempted to book early, many will. Even without any offers our stay at York was some £7 a night less because we booked early. No you can’t guarantee the weather and we are just back from 6 weeks around Scotland where it was far from ideal. However, we still enjoyed our time away and the scenery more than made up for it.

Agree with previous posters citing the 21 day rule.  The size of the deposit is not the real issue.  With work commitments, family caring responsibilities and our own health appointments etc, the 21 day rule is a lucrative trap set by the club that discourages us from making bookings.....

Booking ahead no matter the cost of the deposit or time limits just does not suit our type of touring.  At present we are staying with or moving towards the good weather.  There is no plan no booking and no preset location.  A quick check that there is space where we are aiming for and we are off.    

My destination and departure is rarely swayed, if ever by offers. There is usually a reason to go away rather than just the sun shining and that determines what I pay and where and when I go.

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I don’t think the Club decision makers have yet grasped the way that motorhomers tour and travel in the way LLM has described. There may be a few others who are still living out caravan routines - booking a site well ahead and staying for at least a week - but that’s not how many of them operate. They come, they go. They don’t live within a 21 day cancellation frame..

Down here in Cornwall they pull in by a beach if it’s fine, or they go to the Eden project if isn’t- and from Eden its  just a few minutes to the Britannia Inn to park up overnight. - free of charge, no booking required, no deposits, no cancellation if they don’t go - then buy breakfast in the pub - and then decide where to go next.

The latest proposal from the Club requiring booking  21 days in advance won’t draw them in.

Exactly what we do. We’ed consider more CAMC sites if they were cheaper, and it’s actually not hard just to roll into most now on the day, as there’s usually some sort of pitch.
What we won’t do is pay upwards of £20 per night to roll in around 8pm, and then be up and off next morning at 9pm. Not value for money. Not attractive to those who tour around an area rather than staying put on site. 

I don’t think the Club decision makers have yet grasped the way that motorhomers tour and travel in the way LLM has described.

I think you mean some motorhomers tour and travel. From looking at MH on club sites and club data on MH ownership I think the club decision makers have got it exactly right. 

The latest proposal from the Club requiring booking 21 days in advance won’t draw them in

Latest proposal? What latest proposal?  The 21 day rule is now a few years old, all that has changed is the deposit.

Not attractive to those who tour around an area rather than staying put on site.

We stay on a lot of CAMC sites TTDA and you couldn’t be further from the truth. They are very popular with both members like us who leave the van on site for two or three days and walk or use public transport before moving on and those who take them out for the day. On our recent tour we used 10 CAMC sites booked well in advance, as well as others. Motorhomes were a minimum of 60% of the population and very few had set up to stay long.

"the Britannia Inn to park up overnight"

That's very true and they'll get traffic noise, people coming and going to the retail park and lack of peace and quiet all free of charge 👍🏻

I don’t think it was me who said they aren’t popular places with MH owners Steve😁 I know they are, and as you say made up of those who stay a few days, and those who move on. It’s the price per night for an 11 hour stopover we won’t pay. A personal value for money thing. We tend to use them for events, and yes YRP, which is still the cheapest way of seeing York for most folks with an outfit. But we are only 45 minutes from York. It would be cheaper to commute daily, but not as nice in A1/A64 traffic.

We linear tour in the main, hopping from site to site in an area, maybe having three nights to get in some cycling or walking at a site. But we used to linear tour with caravan as well, much like Nellie does. Our mindset is that set up, pack up should never be more than 30 mins, even with a caravan. It’s 10 mins with MH. 

I still feel Club Sites are in the main, more suited to caravans that stay a long time, going out each day in the car, able to afford the prices. Many like your good selves are fit enough, organised enough to make good use of your legs, cycle wheels, public transport, and have happily made perhaps an acceptable compromise. It is more difficult I think for those who have changed to an MH because they are an easier set up/drive than towing a caravan and who like Club Sites. As an earlier poster says, only a handful are based not far away from amenities, so if you don’t take your MH out, don’t/can’t walk or cycle far, then it’s got to have a good public transport link very close by. I ‘m not keen on public transport, loathe buses, and train services can be very hit and miss. We do fine with our bikes, but we don’t rely on them.