Silly site prices. Off season and peak season

Not Mike replied on 28/02/2019 02:08

Not Mike

Posted on 28/02/2019 02:08

I have looked at the latest handbook to book a site. Prices are not clear ... There is no guidance, as there was in the past, as to off season / peak season pricing. Is all pricing now charged at peak season rates? Go online .. No mention of differential prices as you book.

So the only way I can find how much a site will cost is to go through the booking process, then I will get a price, then I can decide if I can afford it or not.

for Example

I looked at the Bladon Chains site ... Page 149. A bargain at "from £7.90 a night, for one adult and pitch. It's open from 01 March. I decided to book from 01 March ... Surely this is must be low season, my experience tells me that this is the case. But I wanted too book two adults, so I wonder how much this will cost?? Perhaps, at the very most, my wildest guess, at the most 2 X £7.90. Perhaps £16 a night. No it can't be that much ... The site has only just opened, so it must be off season. Proceed to book it £179.20 for 8 nights. £22.40 a night for 2 people!! There is no breakdown of the pricing on the email confirmation.

In the wildest imagination of consumer rip offs, "I could not believe it"! How can you get from £7.90 to £22.40 by adding one person. How do I find when I can go by myself for £7.90?

This seems to me the most opaque pricing structure you could possibly get. I thought transparency was the new watch-word in consumer relations!

I booked, but will be chasing this up to find out WHY., The silly price declaration. (Would it have been cheaper to book 2 pitches with one person on each?). I don't expect I will get a sensible answer over the phone tomorrow.... But I have given the 'powers that be' a chance to formulate a response, in advance.

Watch this space!

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brue replied on 28/02/2019 08:44

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Posted on 28/02/2019 08:44

Who knows, I think the web site needs a correction. the main issue is the jump between the quoted price "from" and the actual "average" price. Although a lot of companies use this type of quote.

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GTP replied on 28/02/2019 10:02

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Posted on 28/02/2019 04:16 by Justus2

The site prices are fully explained on the web site, but as some have said before far less so in the handbook. On each sites web-page, scroll down below the pictures of the site and the breakdown is there. The total price per night varies throughout the year, and depends on the number of adults, number of children, plus a pitch fee of £7.60 per night (in early March). Add these together and you get your £22.40. If anyone were to choose a non electric pitch, I see that's a massive £6.10 per night less at £1.50 than a standard with EHU at £7.60.... Hmmm.

Posted on 28/02/2019 10:02

...and even more so if you choose to go between 05/04 and 22/04

Standard EHU £11.40

Standard Non EHU £1.50

A saving of nearly a tenner.!!!

3 nights and you have a meal for two at the Wanderer....

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Personally, I would rather see a reduced membership fee for people who don't want the monthly magazine, which in my opinion doesn't justify the effort of producing.

Although I have not opened a mag in years except to look at an article mentioned on forum I suspect that its advertising revenue justifies its cost and circulation rather than being funded from membership fees.

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Posted on 28/02/2019 10:02 by GTP

...and even more so if you choose to go between 05/04 and 22/04

Standard EHU £11.40

Standard Non EHU £1.50

A saving of nearly a tenner.!!!

3 nights and you have a meal for two at the Wanderer....

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Posted on 28/02/2019 11:12 by

I wish more Club sites offered non EHU pitches, as the other Club does.

Posted on 28/02/2019 11:22

Due initially to the different clientele history I suppose. There was a time when tent campers had no 'need' for EHU. It was caravanners that saw them as a must have in general and on CC sites tents are usually small ridge tents.

The non EHU pitches on CC seem, mainly, to be on out of the way pitches that were probably not as economical to supply service to.

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Wildwood replied on 28/02/2019 11:49

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Posted on 28/02/2019 11:49

I never look at the prices from bit because it is irrelevant to me. I would simply put in the details of the booking I want and see what comes up. If it is acceptable I then book although sometimes I might compare it with other sites in the area to see what if anything I can save.

The figures are misleading rather than a rip off and frankly should not be there. They do look like the travel brochure headline prices you often see advertised and are available only for a day or two when nobody would want to go just to attract people in.

Prices should at least be for a couple with a hook up as that is the norm.

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Cornersteady replied on 28/02/2019 11:50

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Posted on 28/02/2019 07:55 by cyberyacht

So that's one adult on a non awning non EHU pitch in low season. Whilst the website is clear enough, the handbook headline price can only be described as devious.

The CAMC appear to have deliberately pursued an obscurantist policy when it comes to pricing. That coupled with the elastic interpretation of high season' is indicative that the whole thing is driven by the bean counters.

I feel sure many more will be voting, as will I, with their wheels.

Posted on 28/02/2019 11:50

I feel sure many more will be voting, as will I, with their wheels.

I wish I had a pound for how many times I've read that on CT down the years, probably have enough for a few nights away, perhaps even a week.

Yet the truth of the matter is that sites are still being booked, people are still complaining about weekends being booked up?

But it is as simple as you suggest, too expensive don't pay (but many do)

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Cornersteady replied on 28/02/2019 11:54

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Posted on 28/02/2019 11:49 by Wildwood

I never look at the prices from bit because it is irrelevant to me. I would simply put in the details of the booking I want and see what comes up. If it is acceptable I then book although sometimes I might compare it with other sites in the area to see what if anything I can save.

The figures are misleading rather than a rip off and frankly should not be there. They do look like the travel brochure headline prices you often see advertised and are available only for a day or two when nobody would want to go just to attract people in.

Prices should at least be for a couple with a hook up as that is the norm.

Posted on 28/02/2019 11:54

Some (non club) sites will be more expensive, some cheaper, then it is down to quality, or rather your (one's) perception of it.

For me club sites are still good value for money offering good quality. Others have to make their own mind up

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