Club pitch prices

I would be surprised if the occupancy figures are not down at all sites, both club and commercial. Apart from the current financial pressures, unlike the last few years folk are free to take different sorts of holidays in many different places.

Well you often say you see more MHs on the road than caravans so maybe that's why it appeared less full ? Also of course a snapshot just like my examples although mine were taken over a week or so being on site.

But if course no one ever said club sites were full all the time. Additionally it what the occupancy levels are like from last year and the surrounding sites (club and non club) as well as Steve alluded to.

I don’t know whether it is true but whilst we were away, a fellow caravanner told me that the Chatsworth site is closing. Apparently the Chatsworth estate want to create a bigger farm shop on the site. 

There’s a thread HERE, John.

The commercial site I was on for 5 nights was full on the Saturday night although some pitches were seasonal and had no one in residence. On other nights there was a very good turn over of motorhomes staying one or two nights and perhaps no more than 4 pitches unoccupied.

peedee

As CS mentioned, snap shots of individual sites don’t really mean a lot. Some of the CAMC sites we stopped on were well occupied, others less so. Sites being full on a Saturday  is not unusual. In general  I think the club sites we used on our tour were less busy than the last few years. However, as I put above I don’t find that particularly surprising. 
I suppose we will find out at the end of the year. Although ultimately it will come down to profitability. Perhaps some of the sites that have not raise prices as much, might find they should have.

With ref to occupancy of sites. I can only comment on the three Club sites and one Club affiliated I used in June. Skegness Sands was about 75% full? That was during the week so perhaps weekends are different. Our next site was Cayton Village. The main site was pretty full but there was plenty of space in the upper site. Lower Wensleydale again was probably 70% occupied during our stay. Our final site was Clumber Park and at the weekend it was almost full. One of the site staff told me that on the Saturday 165 of the 169 pitches were occupied. Some sites will always be busy as weekends but less so during the week. Some sites will be full during the school holidays, less so at other times. Some site will be busy all the time.

David

Lots of varying opinions. I think one of the elements about the pricing is that it comes across as greed. But hey ho as with most big organisations they have to keep the shareholders happy. Well the ain't doing it out of my pocket.

There are no shareholders, Sthame. CAMC is not a plc quoted on the stock exchange. It is a private limited company only for reasons of financial protection which means members are only liable to fund any shortfall to the sum of £1 each in the event of an insolvency issue. Any operating surplus is ploughed back in towards refurbishments or purchase of new sites. There is nobody collecting big payouts/bonuses/dividends from CAMC.

Membership figures and rejoining rates won't be much good if site occupancy is down...

a bit of a mixed bag on CT, with some reporting full(ish) sites while others are suggesting something much lower.

TTDA has looked across a range of 'popular' sites and reported things might be nearer the latter on her sample.

...and, for what it's worth, I also reckon £36.50 at Chatsworth is a pretty hefty price for a club site in November....I'd be as unlikely to pay that as to cough up £55 in August, let alone over £61 for a 'Super Pitch'...💷💷💷