The easiest way to make touring cheaper

Posted on 29/04/2018 09:27 by Cornersteady

Sorry Rocky but poverty happens with caravaners too

Posted on 28/04/2018 10:19 by Swifty2018

Some club sites are placed near to local towns and some are not. You choose what is good for you. A strange choice using Borrowdale there mind, if you want a walking holiday with Wainwrights on your caravan door step then there are none better? If you want to while away your trip to the lakes in the pubs and the curry houses in Keswick then why would you choose Borrowdale?

 

  CS,  Many members who do not know the Lake District would assume, looking at the address of the site, Borrowdale CAMC site Keswick that it is ideally placed for the town of Keswick would they not?

 

Posted on 29/04/2018 11:01 by KeefySher

Bit like Ryanair use airports in relation to the cities they quote 

Thats another business whose product we don't buy. 

Posted on 29/04/2018 11:51 by Cornersteady

No offence what a funny thing to say, I've used Ryanair and the othe low cost airlines, and you should use them as I did to your advantage  and would never dismiss them like you so out of hand What is the point of doing that? Cutting your nose off....

I've used them to go to a number of different European cites so many times now and most times the complete return fare has been less than the price of a night's stay on a club site. Coupled with cheaper hotels over there (Ibis Budget) and meals, it often works out as cheap as a few days in the caravan

Like all things use a service to your advantage, whether in money or the feel good factor. But then don't post on here expecting everyone to follow your example and questioning and insulting those that don't?

Posted on 29/04/2018 13:01 by KeefySher

Think you read too much into my post. So I'll put a bit more reasoning for you 

Ryanair are well known for their far removed airports from the city they use in the headline.

We once went on Ryanair where we paid a premium for ski carriage, return. On the return, after waiting over 16 hours for a delayed flight with no one at the overseas airport to let us know the flight was delayed despite being on a transfer to the airport, we were charged £85 each for ski carriage or leave them behind. That sort of business practice is not something we repeat and therefore have never used them since.

No other low cost carriers have attempted that scam on us, so we use others. 

Same as we no longer fly Bloody Awful (BA) when they lost our baggage when our daughter was 3 months old and we arrived in a snowy Chicago. My well travelled samsonite oyster case that had served me well over 20 years and had only been lost twice before, once going to Sydney, Oz, when I was in Sydney, Nova Scotia; the other it went to Toronto, when I went to Jakarta, returned within 48 hours in tact. BA returned it 3 weeks after my return home, banded up where it had the handles missing, wheels missing, locks smashed open and a split in the lid. No recompense forthcoming.

Each time we fly on alternative carriers, always Business Class above 7hrs, especially to OZ, New Zealand and Singapore; BA lose our business.

I was aboard the inaugural BA 747-400 from Perth, WA to LHR. I had no choice than to use BA as all other carriers were full due to big medical conference in Singapore. My Business Class tick was £4800. I boarded expecting to be upstairs as all the other 747-400 operators, Qantas, Thai, Lufthansa, Singapore, Cathay Pacific; all of who I had flown with to/fro Oz. I was surprised to find myself sat just behind the inboard engine. My seat had the questionnaire on it, duly completed. That year I had flown 37 long haul flights, over 200 other flights from pond hoppers to jet services at just under 400000 miles in total. The then BA CEO Colin Marshall was on board, he came back for a chat about my comments re Club World being downstairs and economy upstairs. The objective of flying Business was to get on after the day at work, travel, get off and go to work. Took a long time before I flew BA again and only because the alternative was Air India out of Delhi one night, not something you do by choice!!

Well aware of the Accor hotel group and their value, been using them for over 30 years across their portfolio.

My last cruise on Cunard's QE was less per night than our booking for Baltic Wharf next Easter!!

As a somewhat travelled person, I'm savvy enough to choose where to spend my pound for a service commensurate with my wants and needs at a time and circumstance that spend is made