What is the obsession with attracting the yoof

Posted on 17/05/2017 16:42 by

Not quite. My favourite sites have been without facilities. If the site has facilities then I will make some use having paid for them. If folk do not want to pay for facilities then they should indeed go elsewhere. As for those wanting a cheap night halt then as far as I am concerned if they use a facility site they should pay sameas me. If I go off site before 9am and return at 6 or 7pm I get no discount either

Posted on 17/05/2017 17:02 by Takethedogalong

A good few of the Club's no facility sites are heavily discounted, hence the stay for £14.50 a night range, as opposed to paying £25-30 per night for a full facility site.

When you go off site, then surely you leave behind your caravan, on a pitch? This is a bit different to a one night park up space for a MH? I would have no issues with just parking up and using own facilities if it was at a cheaper rate. 

Posted on 17/05/2017 16:42 by Takethedogalong

I don't think most new MH owners would ask for the world on Club Sites. A park up pitch between 8pm and 10am, with or without being able to have a shower would be a good start. Away from main site area, leave the landscaped pitches for long stays and caravans. Max of five on a Club Site, wouldn't want to be greedy. Metered electric to give a choice. Call them Onsies, one night only stays! 

Posted on 17/05/2017 17:02 by Takethedogalong

A good few of the Club's no facility sites are heavily discounted, hence the stay for £14.50 a night range, as opposed to paying £25-30 per night for a full facility site.

When you go off site, then surely you leave behind your caravan, on a pitch? This is a bit different to a one night park up space for a MH? I would have no issues with just parking up and using own facilities if it was at a cheaper rate. 

Posted on 17/05/2017 17:29 by JVB66

And maybe the "heavily discounted sites?"what ever that means, do also not have the costs of some of the ,more popular sites  that charge over £20, both clubs of course

Posted on 17/05/2017 17:39 by Takethedogalong

No they don't. No toilets, showers, hairdryers, sanitary bin collections, soap dispensers to fill, laundries to have PAT Tested, buildings to maintain, heat and clean.

Hence the operating costs are a lot lower, usually staffed by one couple with reliefs. Some are little more than large CLs, leased by the Club. Nunnykirk for example. The Club has kept these sites at a low cost compared with other sites with more facilities. Sadly these are the ones that are being lost.

Posted on 17/05/2017 17:31 by Takethedogalong

Sorry but I don't quite get your reply ET. If you get up and leave your van in the morning, and then come back at night, then that will be a two night stay? (Unless you move on late at night).  If I leave in the morning in the MH and don't return, then that is a one night stay? That's the point I was trying to make. It's a very short take up of a facility, discounted for a one night take up. As oppose to leaving behind something on a pitch. If we were intending staying for more than one night, then would book an undiscounted pitch.

Condition of the discounted pitch would be to arrive after a certain time, say after 7pm, then leave prior to 10am.