Cost of EHU at CLs

Jenny

We arrived on 1st December, originally we were going to be there slightly earlier but a birthday dinner back in MK got in the way. I saw your blog. We didn't go as far afield as we stayed in and around the Woodstock area. We quite like the C&CC site in Oxford for its handy location, downside is all grass pitches! I discovered a handy bus service from almost outside the Bladon Chains site. This is the first year ( at least in recent years) that Bladon Chains has been open at this time of year. In its current condition probably a better summer site. On the subject of electricity the motorhome next door to us managed to trip the circuit breakers so goodness knows what he was using in addition to his heating? 

David

David

As a fellow Buckinghamshire inhabitant I wondered whether you had visited Waddesdon Manor's Christmas Display. The house is beautifully decorated but best of all are the garden light displays which are stunning. Sorry I've gone off piste so to speak.

Funnily enough it was advertise in a brochure in the Bladon Chains Information Room!!! Not sure they have a campsite there|?

David

We tend to use CLs with hookups most of the year and last Christmas we stayed on a CL who in winter charge a lower rate with the hookup having a meter which for the 2 of us with Alde heating for heating & showers and for the hotplate etc we paid £6 per night which was very reasonable.

£6 a night is £180 a month and that seems mightily expensive to me for electric...

i wouldn't pay a fraction of that at home per month.

having said that, i know of one site that charges £7 a night for leccy...we dont go there..

£6 Seems reasonable enough to me BB. If you are running everything on electric and it is reasonably cold. It all depends on what the owner has to pay for the electricity. CholseyGrange mentioned earlier they had to pay 22p a kW hour inc VAT and standing charge. That only works out at  27.3 kW hours. It wouldn't be that difficult to consume that in 24 hours.

Steve, those figures might well be 'correct' but i wouldnt want to add £90 to a fortnight's stay for electric.

anyone facing those sort of costs on a regular basis would surely use some cheap gas? it wouldnt take long to recoup the cost of a single refillable and then use gas for heating, cooking, fridge and do away with 90% of the charges if you used electric for the charger and (say) hairdrier..

we were metered once on a site in spain and didnt realise (until the regulars told us) how much electric would cost us long term....

so we switched to a cheap Spanish gas bottle which seemed to last forever..

We are relatively new to refillable gas, at I think 64p per litre last time we filled. So I have no experience of what the costs would be running heating fridge etc. I suppose we would have to experiment and see. We didn't seem to use that much running the fridge and water heating when off grid for a few days in September. However, I assume the central heating would use significantly more, especially if particularly cold. 

I was browsing a few CL's today and came across one that charge £2 a night more in the winter which I suppose makes sense given the cost of electricity.

David

Perfect sense