Vloggers Experience of Metering

If as you are suggesting members should have the option of electricity or not how do you police that effectively?

This is what it says about  the trial of non electric saver pitches:

We're trialling Non-electric Saver pitches at three Club Campsites; Clumber Park, Chatsworth Park and Burrs Country Park. It's part of our sustainability focus, giving members a choice of whether to use electricity when staying with us. By choosing to not use electricity, you can save up to £6.50 on any pitch type. 

Simply book and pay for any pitch as normal. When you arrive, let the site team know you'd like to be part of the trial. They will lock off the electricity socket on your pitch and arrange for a refund to be made.

Please note: this is a trial with limited availability and is based on zero usage of electricity during your stay. You must be able to remain off-grid for the full duration of your booking.

Has anyone used these yet ?

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Has anyone used these yet ?

Isn’t it restricted to the winter months? We could manage fine in summer, however not so much in winter with limited solar. Particularly as lights and fans on the boiler would be in use more. Plus more likely to be using the TV. Might be OK for an odd night but not much more. We usually stop 2 / 3 or 4.

Just because you have a smart phone doesn’t mean that you have the internet on it, or can use it. Just look at the number of people struggling with parking apps, of all age groups.

Those people that have smart phones and don't have internet will be a very small minority. Even that minority will reduce every year as the Luddites will literally die off.

Anyone who wishes to spend £25 plus per night on a Club site can certainly afford a £6 per month phone contract.

The Club needs to plan long term and not be held back by short term difficulties to a few members.

You can also use a smart phone on the internet by connecting to the sites free WiFi. Personally I would rather use my much more secure 4/5G data, but that option is available and would have to be used at a few locations where there is no mobile signal. As to difficulty, I would certainly be happy to help someone having a problem with it on site and I am sure many other members would be also. 

There’s an interesting tale of someone’s experience of the App and metering at Wyatt’s Covert HERE.

Generator next time. Woo-hoo!

I think the number of times you would find yourself in that situation would be pretty rare, especially in built up areas and near major roads. Usually the problem I find is inside buildings like our local Waitrose but they do have WiFi so it switches automatically to that. I must say I have become quite a convert to the Smart Phone over the last few years. Almost to the point that when we are away in the van it is now my preferred communication tool. I rarely use my van laptop for banking any longer would be one example.  My wife did not naturally convert to the idea of a Smart Phone but  she has gradually come over to them and now appreciates the convenience. For the best part of the last year she has been using Libre blood sugar sensors and with her Smart Phone she can take blood sugar levels with ease and it keeps track of trends and is a guide to how much insulin she needs to use. If we are to have ever more electronic ways of doing things on campsites a Smart Phone comes into its own. All Apps do is to break down what might be complicated computer tasks into easy bites. 

David

OH has just bought a new phone, a Nokia. £25. Just does calls and texts, not even a camera. That is all he uses. Why pay for something you don’t use. He too does Libra sugar testing, with a device supplied, doesn’t need a smart phone. We rarely use our mobile phones at all, our mobile bill is a couple of pounds a month, for both. Why pay out £6 a month for the possible use of a metered CAMC site?

It’s a lifestyle choice is embracing smartphone technology, but it’s one we are just so happy we did. I wouldn’t be without mine now, we use so many useful Apps and features. We only have one family member now who doesn’t participate in any way with her mobile, other than we can call her in an emergency. She misses out on a lot, but we try and keep her in the loop other ways. 

Edit….. I might be sitting on some very useful items, four old Nokia phones, and three BlackBerrys🤔 I loved the Blackberry phones, such a shame they got left behind with the rise of better technology. Nokias free to a good home…….if I can find the chargers😁

Isn’t it restricted to the winter months?

There is no indication that the non electric saver offer is for only the winter but there is no discount shown for the summer months. It does not make sense to only have it in the winter months so I think that is more of an omission rather than and indication that it will not be available in the summer.

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