Caravan Club prices question

I am fortunate in that I live fifteen minutes from Portsmouth ferry terminal.  When working I was mostly constrained to two weeks which was sufficent time to travel down to Aquitaine for a fortnights bucket and spade therapy. The driven distance would only get me as far as the southern lakes in the UK. If I want to visit Scotland, it's further than the Med. I know there is the ferry cost but the only way to compare like with like is to calculate the door to door cost, of which pitch prices are but a part. Some things such as warmth and sunshine are difficult to quantify in cash terms. 

Write your comments here...As long as it's not too hot!

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We're sun lovers, and having had lots of 'wash out' holidays in our teens and twenties, even in Cornwall, we first camped in France in 1981 when our son was just a baby. (Not counting a four week tour in a hired motorhome in 1976 when we went to Czechoslovakia via France, Belgium, Germany, [with side trips to Leichtenstein and Switzerland], then back via Austria and the Muncich Beer Festival before returning the way we'd come).

Prior to our first French holiday, for our last camping trip we'd had two weeks in Cornwall where it rained every single day - on a booked site, paid for before we arrived, so we couldn't move elsewhere. Then the following year we borrowed a friend's caravan near Newquay in West Wales - and guess what, it rained every day.

Our first French holiday was a revelation - sun, sun, sun, sun, and sun - every day for a fortnight.  No parking fees to park right be the beach, beautiful towns and villages with free parking, cafes to sit at outside in the sun, which welcomed babies and children, and that was it, we were converted.  Once we started taking our own equipment, rather than using Eurocamp or Canvas holidays, we realised that not having to book was a major advantage, and if the weather or the site didn't suit us we could move on somewhere else.  This is what we still do.  Overnight sites have turned into a fortnight's stay, and a planned destination has turned out to be one night, when we had noisy neighbours......... We moved next morning at 9.30 - just half an hour down the road and found perfect peace!

So it's not really just about comparing prices, but about comparing different ways of doing the same holiday in your caravan, in whatever way (or country) suits you.

Oh so true Valda, give me 2 weeks in the sun any day of the week.

Whilst I would agree that the sun is nice, you can get too much of a good thing. Two years ago in the Provence temperatures were regularly 36 degrees during our stay. Not much good if you like walking, as we do, we couldn't carry the weight of water required. Went for the Tour, never again in July, September is much better. Sorry off thread.

I remember some years ago spending a summer holiday on the Costa Brava in Spain. It was so hot, you couldn't sleep at night and very uncomfortable in the day as well. They used salt water in the showers which were also uncomfortable. I cut short the stay and headed up into the Pyrenees where I found a site in Andorra where it was raining but with a much cooler and more comfortable temperature.

Sun and high temperature are not necessarily linked!

Think winter sunshine... we have far too much of the grey stuff here in the UK.  A dose of sun is just what the doctor ordered in my case very true as I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency earlier this year. 

 

Sun and high temperature are not necessarily linked!

Think winter sunshine... we have far too much of the grey stuff here in the UK.  A dose of sun is just what the doctor ordered in my case very true as I was diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency earlier this year. 

 

Write your comments here...You need some sun but in moderation. Too much exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer.

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The problem is the extreme heat that goes with it!