Posted on 03/03/2019 19:21
Just come off a Rally on an all singing and dancing commercial site. They did a deal where the ehu was optional @£3 p/n. 28 vans 25 paid for ehu. We didn’t refilled the gas bottle after we got back and it cost me £4.51, the bottle had been used for 4 nights on a clubsite so ehu and 3 nights non-ehu so 7 nights in total.
No moral to this story just numbers.
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Posted on 05/03/2019 09:23
Interestingly the non ehu Steamer Quay club site in Totnes is popular although the costs are quite high. The non ehu part of Altnaharra attracts users too.
I still think choice limits most people when visiting club sites, the few non ehu pitches are often just a fill in.
Mind you, last year on a rally someone discovered an outside socket and a hair dryer queue swiftly formed...at Steamer Quay there is a hair dryer in the facilities block. (Note to all like me who feel lost without the dryer! 
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Posted on 05/03/2019 09:27
It matters not to me if the price of electricity is included in the site fee or charged as a separate item. Surely the difficulty here in the UK are the rules governing the resale of electricity? The Club only started to include the cost of electricity within the pitch price when those regulations came in. The obvious way round that, as Peedee has often championed, is to have a metered supply to each pitch. That might well be a fairer way of doing things but the cost of installation across the network would be prohibitive and if JK's comment about the poor take up of non electric pitches is the case right across the network then it would be difficult to justify?
David
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Posted on 05/03/2019 09:44
My next booking is for 4 nights off grid and if I am only staying one or two nights on a site I definitely prefer to be off grid. The lack of EHU free pitches drives me to use low facility sites for short stays. Of the 38 nights I have booked so far this year in the UK only 6 of them are on Club sites. A loss to the Club simply because of the lack of choice. Last year I only used CAMC sites for 15 percent of our nights away.
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Posted on 05/03/2019 08:16 by peedeeThe "demand" for non ehu on our sites is so minimal, the non ehu offered have next to no take up. Even if standard pitches were offered with a choice it wouldn't be worth the admin. Just my experience of course
But isn't that because we are encouraged to use electricity in this country, especially on Club sites. If it was metered and had to be paid for you may end up with the situation as in Spain and other countries although the price per unit here is not quite so high but is nudging up.
You forgot to mention how low your pitch fees were JK
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