Posted on 09/04/2022 22:05
I have just cancelled my two week stay at Looe caravan site after checking the updated prices I have since booked the same two weeks at nearby privately owned sites which are both of equal standards if not better and saved £200 how is that possible.
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Posted on 14/04/2022 17:35
We passed Castleton Site yesterday. Lots of empty pitches, and a glance at the bookings page shows only the Easter weekend busy, pitches there midweek. Laneside, a couple of miles away looked very busy in comparison. For us, £38.60 a night for Club Site. £33 per night at Laneside, which is a very nice location a couple of minutes walk from Hope village. More open, and on Riverside.
Posted on 11/04/2022 16:12 by moulesyWell, Bill, I'm not a member, don't even own a van any more (as has been pointed out more than once)! And I agree that the C&CC age discount is a good selling point to older folk who benefit from it, but it is a "limited offer" (limited to over 65's now I believe) and if a comparison is to be made, particularly for younger families who don't get that benefit, it should be on a like for like basis for what it would cost them.
Club prices expensive? It's over 2 years since I stayed on one, but I read what folk write on here. Try looking at Trevornick's prices for the school summer holidays (and add on all the "extras" for activities).
Posted on 14/04/2022 18:22
The age discount is a good one but it's not the only discount the C&CC offer. They have weekend offers, midweek offers, grass pitch offers which happens to be 30% these are available to all age groups not forgetting the family group offer.
The age discount is available in the low and mid seasons and as Kj stated in Scotland they do not charge the premium holiday rate over Easter, unlike the CAMC.
Their price bands do not extend for days up to a week either side of holidays either. Their school holidays reflect the part of the UK that is on holiday so again go up to premium in late June but down again in mid August in Scotland. While the CAMC go up in June and stay in the high band until the beginning of September.
There are differences between the clubs but when folk are trying to save money ANY information from others is surely welcome. Not everyone who reads these posts have been doing this hobby for as long as many of us on here have.
Kj's posts are correct and informative and I'm sure they will be welcomed by many who are new to this hobby.
Speaking today to a fellow camper who has been one for over 40 years, he said he does still us a few CAMC sites but not as many as before and he doesn't stay as long. Being a pensioner he has to make savings somewhere so he uses more CLs and private sites.
The club I think will lose site nights, maybe not members as they stay for other reasons.
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Posted on 14/04/2022 10:12 by JollyKernowMorning
As your alternative sites is adults only I don't really see the comparison. The Easter break will see sites like Looe full of families. There certainly many sites outside of the club's network and it's good for people to highlight those.
Interesting that you only keep your membership going for the cl's (many do) but you were still booked at Looe site.
JK
Posted on 14/04/2022 10:12 by JollyKernowMorning
As your alternative sites is adults only I don't really see the comparison. The Easter break will see sites like Looe full of families. There certainly many sites outside of the club's network and it's good for people to highlight those.
Interesting that you only keep your membership going for the cl's (many do) but you were still booked at Looe site.
JK
Posted on 15/04/2022 00:28
The fact it's adult only makes no difference at all. That's all anyone is doing is renting a piece of land on a site to park their caravan/motorhome on for a set period and to make use of the facilities on that site if they so wish. It's just there better and cheaper sites out there than the CAMC, that's what the discussion is about, prices. Add in to the fact that the CAMC charge peak rate for the whole of April, whereas the private sites that we've used including the one we're on now, only charge peak rate for four days over the Easter weekend, which is why we 'were' booked at Looe.
Posted on 15/04/2022 07:48
Just checked the availability of pitches across Devon and Cornwall, the only site full for the whole three days is Steamer Quay a site without any EHU and one of the cheapest sites in the west country. Exeter Racecourse comes a close second with only two of the three days fully booked. With the exception of the Sunday at three other sites (Hillhead, Putts Corner and Willingcote) there are vacancies everywhere else for the Easter Period.
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Posted on 15/04/2022 09:40
I wonder if the "Price" debate has been sparked by a gradual and subtle change of policy on pricing by the CMC? Interesting that Pontyboy points out that the Club extend increased prices around school holiday periods like Easter for the whole month of April rather than the week either side of the Easter weekend. We now have increased prices for weekends on a lot of sites. In the past September was always in a lower price band but now seems not much less that the summer school holiday rates. Could it be that some of these commercial sites that people mention as being cheaper have not yet caught up with the reality of ever rising prices? Some of the longer serving members will recall that some time back it wasn't uncommon for the site revenue account to be in deficit for the odd year here and there.
David
Posted on 15/04/2022 09:40 by DavidKlyneI wonder if the "Price" debate has been sparked by a gradual and subtle change of policy on pricing by the CMC? Interesting that Pontyboy points out that the Club extend increased prices around school holiday periods like Easter for the whole month of April rather than the week either side of the Easter weekend. We now have increased prices for weekends on a lot of sites. In the past September was always in a lower price band but now seems not much less that the summer school holiday rates. Could it be that some of these commercial sites that people mention as being cheaper have not yet caught up with the reality of ever rising prices? Some of the longer serving members will recall that some time back it wasn't uncommon for the site revenue account to be in deficit for the odd year here and there.
David
Posted on 15/04/2022 10:08
In the past the sites network. (,according to a regional manager.) was not what kept the club on a viable footing it ,was Travel and insurance and with the now very competible markets in both the products and also the extra regulations that have been introduced over years sites are now to be self financing with what the later member are expecting ,and cannot be subsidised by the departments
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