Caravan and Motorhome club charges

[Mike the oldnut]

Lets all open a site then, this time next year Rodney...

Land purchase, mortgage
Business rates
Public Liability Insurance
Staff, 2 on call, means at least 4 staff
Employers Insurance
Wages
Employers NI Contributions
Business waste collection,
Capital expenditure. mowers
Business Electricity
Electrity testing
Water Rates
Skips for Grass
Fuel for machinery. (I pay £30 a fortnight Just to keep ¾ acre mowed! using a machine that cost £5k!).

My 7' hydrostatic mower cost about £3,500 2nd hand 10 years ago, it takes me about 45 mins to cut an acre and a half, and a gallon or less of red diesel, not sure how yours cost £30.

 

[Apacheman]

I too think they’ve got a bit pricey. Even with member discount of £15pn most CMC sites are charging more than what you would pay on a privately run site with equivalent facilities. I did get a discounted ferry crossing one way but then found out booking direct with DFDS got me even more saving being over 60 on the return. I do enjoy reading the monthly magazine though!

 

[Jim]

My 7' hydrostatic mower cost about £3,500 2nd hand 10 years ago, it takes me about 45 mins to cut an acre and a half, and a gallon or less of red diesel, not sure how yours cost £30.

Strimmer, Honda Mower, hedge clipper, and in the summer its around a fortnight between filling the Jerry can, which costs around £30

 

[hja]

Currently at Culzean Castle CCC site in SW Scotland. Two night hs and ehu, £52. Mid week. Yes with the age discount. Point is comparisons are about what we pay, not what other people may pay. Pitch has wonderful views across the sea to Isle of Arran. This will be our most expensive site on this tour, made up of CS, Campra aire, CL, Brit Stop and two CCC sites. Site is about 80% full, probably just over half are motorhomes/campervans. Facilities very clean and well kept. Our internet, which is usually pretty good, is a bit iffy here, so logged onto the free club internet. We retain our CAMC membership for CLs. We have joined the CCC for the first time this year, and this is the first club site used. We are favourably impressed. We tend not to use site facilities beyond water, waste, and electricity if included, so CAMC sites do work out very expensive. Yes, location is important, but cost has to come into it as well.

 

[Pausim]

The CL we are now on has put in electricity meters this year. They said they had a choice between a hefty increase in site fees or meters. I said they had made the right decision, we are happy to pay for what we use but not for what other people waste. They had stories of people running air con flat out with all the windows wide open whilst sat outside and awning heaters left on whilst out for the day. I am very happy not to be subsidising the wasters, let them pay for their own stupidity.

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[Tony50]

People think campsite Motorhome & caravan club sites are expensive,try their Motorhome insurance for a new Motorhome mine £1550, got it with Broker using Aviva for half the price!! Like for like

 

[busby]

Yes and you have to walk down the corridor to the toilet.

Not in Premier Class , B and B..think you must have used Formula One, Cheapskate,, BUSBY.

 

[Nirvanauk]

Not in Premier Class , B and B..think you must have used Formula One, Cheapskate,, BUSBY.

Ha ha ! Very funny. We had gone to Le Mans 24 heures and my missus had got fed up of sleeping in a tent surrounded by British drunks throwing up everywhere so took herself of to a hotel for the night. Yes, you are right, it was a Formula one. Never again she said.

 

[DaMoe]

The main reason that I'm in CAMC is to get Red Flag breakdown cover. It worked out cheaper then getting it for the van and car separately plus second person cover. Otherwise I've been choosey about their sites and prices. But I've been surprised (annoyed) at how much some independents have gone up as well.

 

[InvictaMoto]

Ha ha ! Very funny. We had gone to Le Mans 24 heures and my missus had got fed up of sleeping in a tent surrounded by British drunks throwing up everywhere so took herself of to a hotel for the night. Yes, you are right, it was a Formula one. Never again she said.

Lucky she got booked in any hotel within 40 miles of Le Mans. This weekend for MotoGP the nearest hotel to the Bugatti Circuit for less than £100 a night was in Alencon..... unless you booked last year before coming home....

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[VXman]

We left our motorhome at a independent site just outside Inverness for a week while we walked the Great Glen Way.

Lovely site with beautiful view across the sea and the mountains.

They charged us £12 for leaving the motorhome in their locked compound for 6 nights. They allowed us to empty our toilet and grey waste on arrival and fill with fresh water as we left. Can't see CCC or CAMC being so helpful.

Now on our 12th night in Scotland. Stayed in some beautiful spots and cost us £20 (for 2 nights) £8 to empty toilet (one campsite allowed us to use it for free plus empty grey and fill fresh). Not paid a penny for fresh water.

Who needs campsites! (Well, in Scotland and Ireland anyway)

 

[eddie]

Strimmer, Honda Mower, hedge clipper, and in the summer its around a fortnight between filling the Jerry can, which costs around £30

You forgot frequently changed blades, ruined by a tent peg left by someone too feeble to pull it out and too inconsiderate to hammer it flat

Then there is the ‘stone’ that flies up and ‘damages’ someone’s van, ‘damage’ you can hardly see or know wasn’t there on arrival, a stone laying ‘hidden’ in the grass, thrown there by ‘Tommy’ who’s Dad tried to argue ‘He’s only playing’ as the little shit continued to pebble dash everyone else’s caravan and Motorhome

Another £500 down the drain!

 

[busby]

Ha ha ! Very funny. We had gone to Le Mans 24 heures and my missus had got fed up of sleeping in a tent surrounded by British drunks throwing up everywhere so took herself of to a hotel for the night. Yes, you are right, it was a Formula one. Never again she said.

They are OK but as you say toilets and showers are in the corridor..For a few euros more there are chains like B and B and Premier Class that are en suite and with breakfast cost around 50 euros a night for two people.BUSBY.

 

[cyberyacht]

If you go up one notch there's Ibis which is OK, or up one more to Mercure. Did a F1 one-nighter en route to Alicante when we were buying our apartment. Functional but adequate. Bit like a no-facs aire compared with a CCP or ACSI site.

 

[InvictaMoto]

If you go up one notch there's Ibis which is OK, or up one more to Mercure. Did a F1 one-nighter en route to Alicante when we were buying our apartment. Functional but adequate. Bit like a no-facs aire compared with a CCP or ACSI site.

It also seems the building bubble has burst in France as the F1-style hotels were cheap and full of contruction workers from nearby as it was cheaper to stay there than rent anywhere else. The F1 at Alencon was always brimmed full of them. Best part was the Campanile restaurant nearby!

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[Nirvanauk]

They are OK but as you say toilets and showers are in the corridor..For a few euros more there are chains like B and B and Premier Class that are en suite and with breakfast cost around 50 euros a night for two people.BUSBY.

Money doesn’t enter into it. Only place available.

 

[Jim]

I can never get availability for York Rowntree on a weekend.

Weeknds in July are tight at Rowntree in July, but they have space every weekend in August & September. We rang them last Saturday morning and easily got a slot for that day and Sunday. Cost us over £98 though, no wonder they have space.

 

[Lavender1]

Weeknds in July are tight at Rowntree in July, but they have space every weekend in August & September. We rang them last Saturday morning and easily got a slot for that day and Sunday. Cost us over £98 though, no wonder they have space.

My friend has booked in there for Friday and Saturday this coming weekend. She said she has paid £146. I queried it but she confirmed. I didn’t ask if she was a member, probably not as she spends most of her time in Spain. Whatever, horrendous price.

 

[RV72 SAM 🏴]

£56.50 per night as a member but no availability at the moment ! Saving is £15 as a member . . .

 

[Apacheman]

Just been looking through the CAMC June magazine. Big push for ‘pop up’ campsites at a number of venues, prices from £39 per night. My idea of a pop up campsite would not be £39+ per night unless it was somewhere like Glastonbury and included entry.

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[Harrogate motorhomer]

Weeknds in July are tight at Rowntree in July, but they have space every weekend in August & September. We rang them last Saturday morning and easily got a slot for that day and Sunday. Cost us over £98 though, no wonder they have space.

You are quite right Jim. We used to be experts on Rowntree park availability particularly in the winter & have noticed that there is a lot more availability now than ever. Given that this is one of their honey pot sites you might think that they’d get the message but I wouldn’t bank on it.

 

[Pausim]

You are quite right Jim. We used to be experts on Rowntree park availability particularly in the winter & have noticed that there is a lot more availability now than ever. Given that this is one of their honey pot sites you might think that they’d get the message but I wouldn’t bank on it.

They may well attribute the greater availability to their new advance deposit scheme, which they introduced to stop the advance block booking of sites like Rowntree Park. Not saying they would be right to jump to that conclusion rather than cost being the reason but it doesn’t make it as clear cut as it might otherwise be. The proof probably only comes at the end of the season when they look at total bookings and income.

 

[hja]

They are now making pitches available up to June next year at 2023 prices! But limited availability, apparently and inevitably for the CAMC some deadlines for booking. No one seems totally clear on the process. Typical CAMC!

 

[seasideBill]

They are now making pitches available up to June next year at 2023 prices!

So, inflated and poor value then?

 

[RV72 SAM 🏴]

Yes so we know prices staying the same now, even though members droppin off, so they hitting on the non member's paying full price

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[Tony50]

Just filled in a questionnaire for Caravan &and Motorhome Club, I suggested they should join ( I don't know if they can ) but from my comments and yours they might and I say might learn something.
When asked what picture I would pick as how I saw the Club , I ticked a Ostrich ,but said it should have it's head in the sand !!

 

[RV72 SAM 🏴]

Maybe they think it's Butlins Rowntree Park ! As least £15 a night over the top £41.50 Member's and £56.50 non member's sound's fair to me, wouldn't pay more anyway . . .

 

[Pausim]

Maybe they think it's Butlins Rowntree Park ! As least £15 a night over the top £41.50 Member's and £56.50 non member's sound's fair to me, wouldn't pay more anyway . . .

I would pay to go to Rowntree Park but you would have to pay me to go to Butlins.

 

[L' Hobo]

I would pay to go to Rowntree Park but you would have to pay me to go to Butlins.

I have never been to Butlins so, is that from experience or hearsay?

 

[Pausim]

I have never been to Butlins so, is that from experience or hearsay?

Only a day visit to rescue someone who hated it. It was enough to know it was not for me but each to their own.

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