Caravan and Motorhome Club price hikes.

[DT]

Still think that the club could vastly improve pitches and sites to justify the sometimes very high cost. I do not agree with them purchasing of cabins or pods and think that space could be better utilised for adult only areas. Plenty of simple inexpensive ways they could improve like filling potholes and refreshing toilet blocks.

 

[bexleyjohn]

That’s the point - I’m not using it, I’m off to France to spend my money………

 

[EuroTrotters]

Camping Javea was only €32.50 at Easter

Free (if cold) swimming pool

 

[Bailey58]

Reading this prompted me to look at a couple of bookings I made a while back. Rowntree Park (CMC) 5 nights mid September @£205.50 followed by 4 nights at Keswick (C&CC) which only shows deposit paid £48 which I think is 1/3rd?.

 

[Johnyork]

We've just stayed for two nights at Pinewoods, Wells next the Sea, £45 per night for two adults. Their price in August is £54 per night!!! Then moved on to Seacroft C&MC site at Cromer for 5 nights, just pence short of £50 per night. That made a total of £340 for 7 nights. Both are very good sites and we did have fully serviced pitches but it ain't a cheap holiday anymore. I remember taking a caravan to Trencreek in Cornwall and paying £4.20, for two full weeks, (£4-4s-0d in old money) but that was many years ago!

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[EMS]

The price rises are in line with the popularity of campsites glamping to a new generation of campers, so the more experienced campers are aghast at the new prices, myself included.
There is a similar huge increase in the cost of motorhomes etc as the pandemic has shown to the general public a better way to travel and visit without the constraints of availability of hotels/restaurants.
The solution is to travel in Europe Brexit permitting (campsites or aires) or CL and CS or Temporary Holliday Sites.

 

[bexleyjohn]

You are right EMS but even CL prices are rocketing. I can’t help but wonder just how much money that could be spent in the UK will go over to Europe???? Mind you we await with bated breadth the future costs of crossing over or under the channel!!! Hey Ho! We’ll keep going until finances run out.

 

[Chaos]

We are off to Bristol at the weekend. I was already thinking it was a rip off at £45 per night for 2 people. Only going because its where I grew up and the site is shutting soon.

Just received an email to say they are increasing prices due to electricity costs. not only that - they are asking us not to use the electricity as much as possible!!! (please use your solar instead!)

Back to CL sites in future.

Just spent two nights at a C&C Club site. £17.49 p/night, incl EHU. (Think that may have included an old codger member discount, but they were discrete enough not to mention it!)

 

[bexleyjohn]

Ha ha - we are increasing costs due to rise in electricity costs BUT we don’t want you to use it………… what bl***y planet are they on?

 

[gus-lopez]

We've had 2 years of pandemic which must have been horrible for many businesses,

So? Why should they be trying to recoup the loss of income? It has gone .

we've had Brexit which has meant labour shortages and unbelievable difficulties in importing/exporting

No,sorry we are told none of that exists all a figment of imagination.

Much more preferable to commercial sites pricing for two adults,

Why? You are parking a van nothing else?

A large modern motorhome or caravan uses around 40 units per day during the winter months,

Amazing ,I'd throw them out. Excessive consumption even at home. We average 5 units per day at home.

In the summer the same large modern motorhome or caravan will use around 15 units.

As above what are they doing?

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[NoName]

I pay my CAMC membership too so I feel I have as much right to an opinion as any other member. Site fees appear to have increased considerably in the last couple of years and it’s not beyond the bounds of possibilities that financial reserves are being restocked. The millions the CAMC keeps in its kitty came in useful during the pandemic I’m sure. However, today’s financial pressures squeeze many families who, relatively, are asset rich (their outfits) and income poor. If it comes to the point where ‘The Smiths’ can’t afford caravan holidays because of pricey pitches and fuel then we need to ask some questions.

Difficult to understand why prices are so high in the UK, I am in Portugal having spent a month travelling through France and Spain. On average the price per night has been 8 euros without emu. The site I’m on now, in Tavira, in the Algarve, is 8.5 euros or 11.5 with emu. Until July they have a promotion ay for 3 nights and the fourth night is free. This is a site just a short distance from a large shopping mall complete with supermarket and a further short walk to the town centre.
The site has toilets for which you use tokens at .50cents to use and hot showers for which you use 1 euro. There are washing and drying machines and you can order bread and cakes the night before collection.

 

[nomadic]

We too are just back from Bristol, and we stayed at:

Parsonage Farm, Long Ashton, Bristol, BS41 9LU, at a rate of £15.00 per night.
Mr D Bloyce, 07970 797712, advance booking .

C&MC C/L but no request for sight of m/s card.

Footpath from site to bus stop about 100 metres away, bus service into the city every 20 minutes, or there abouts.

Would use this site again, fresh water, ehu 16 amps, chemical disposal only.

Excellent VFM.

 

[bexleyjohn]

They could install pay-as-you-use meters as some CLs do - as long as it’s not hiked up prices per KWh. Some use a lot (air-con units, induction jobs, fan heaters etc) and some very little so might be a fairer way forward.

 

[Sue and Rick]

We had 5 weeks in France during the two lockdowns in 2021.
We spent around €100 euros on sites. Some were totally free with EHU water and waste.
We spent more on wine and food in the local towns to give a bit back.

The most we paid was €13.50 for a night at the camping car sites.

The uk isn’t a patch on the EU for accommodating motorhome / camping cars.

 

[Barryh]

Difficult to understand why prices are so high in the UK, I am in Portugal having spent a month travelling through France and Spain. On average the price per night has been 8 euros without emu. The site I’m on now, in Tavira, in the Algarve, is 8.5 euros or 11.5 with emu. Until July they have a promotion ay for 3 nights and the fourth night is free. This is a site just a short distance from a large shopping mall complete with supermarket and a further short walk to the town centre.
The site has toilets for which you use tokens at .50cents to use and hot showers for which you use 1 euro. There are washing and drying machines and you can order bread and cakes the night before collection.

It’s always difficult to understand any industry you only see from one side and then further comparing it with other countries. On another thread I did a high level breakdown about how much it cost my wife and I to run our UK campsite in our last year of ownership, which was 2012. So ten years ago we needed to make around £13.33 per occupied pitch per night just to break even.

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[Langtoftlad]

Why? You are parking a van nothing else?

Precisely... so why am I being charged for two, and extra for Kerry?

Much prefer the pitch + occupant pricing model.

Hate being charged for an occupant that doesn't exist, then extra for Kerry.

The CAMC price structure works for me... I can book a full facility site for about the same price as a CL, and half the price of a commercial site.

 

[Spriddler]

Difficult to understand why prices are so high in the UK, I am in Portugal having spent a month travelling through France and Spain. On average the price per night has been 8 euros without emu.

Admittedly it was many years ago when I lived and worked in France and Germany that I had an extensive discussion with colleagues concerning many of the basics which were significantly less expensive than those in the U.K. It seemed partly due to their level of direct taxation (income tax) being higher than that in the U.K.
Possibly when it comes to camp sites there are so many more (considerably more) 'over there' so competition is greater and arguably the land mass is greater and land prices lower to rent or buy. Certainly property in France usually seems better value for money than here.

 

[bexleyjohn]

Those 9 nights in the Lake District are costing you ALMOST AS MUCH AS my 35 nights in France!!!!!!! I use d to live in the Lake District in a town called Cockermouth and would love to re-visit but in June, July and August…..no way.

 

[Langtoftlad]

Those 9 nights in the Lake District are costing you ALMOST AS MUCH AS my 35 nights in France!!!!!!! I use d to live in the Lake District in a town called Cockermouth and would love to re-visit but in June, July and August…..no way.

Apples & Pears
I doubt you're including travel costs & time.
In any case one has to recognise that Britain is a tiny island & property prices are reflected in pitch prices.

I really don't understand why this is competitive.

If you love touring France, or love the glamour of Benidorm, that's great...
...but why denigrate those of us that love exploring our home country?

I can park overnight as cheaply as you EU travellers. I can find sites as cheap as you...

 

[Spriddler]

Apples & Pears
I doubt you're including travel costs & time.
In any case one has to recognise that Britain is a tiny island & property prices are reflected in pitch prices.

I first choose where I want to stay. The cost isn't a deciding factor.
A friend has a similar house to mine that cost half the price but I don't want to live near Huddersfield.

If you............. love the glamour of Benidorm,

Benidorm? Glamour? Isn't that an oxymoron?
(I confess I've never been there, just seen pics on Fun which were sufficient. )

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[Langtoftlad]

Benidorm? Glamour? Isn't that an oxymoron?

I've been to Benidorm before it became popular... I don't think it's improved.

 

[Spriddler]

I've been to Benidorm before it became popular... I don't think it's improved.

Lenny has just summed our thoughts in his customary eloquent style in post # 576 here:

Lenny's Looking for Some Sunshine

Was looking good started up no errors gearbox working fine. And then it all went downhill, there is a very steep slope out of the car park about 150 to 200 yds back comes the Traction control problem we have had before. Standing on the spot engine fighting the traction control burning rubber...

www.motorhomefun.co.uk

 

[Emmit]

Difficult to understand why prices are so high in the UK, I am in Portugal having spent a month travelling through France and Spain. On average the price per night has been 8 euros without emu. The site I’m on now, in Tavira, in the Algarve, is 8.5 euros or 11.5 with emu. Until July they have a promotion ay for 3 nights and the fourth night is free. This is a site just a short distance from a large shopping mall complete with supermarket and a further short walk to the town centre.
The site has toilets for which you use tokens at .50cents to use and hot showers for which you use 1 euro. There are washing and drying machines and you can order bread and cakes the night before collection.

You on the Camperstop by the railway line?

 

[violet]

Bristol CAMC is expensive due to its location.
Most CAMC sites are a bit more than half that. Whilst CAMC are far from perfect, I would be sad not to have them which is why I pay my membership. If you feel otherwise, just leave.
I think it's pitiful that people with outifts costing more than an average years wage complain about site costs and fuel costs. As for electricity, yes we should take responsibility, be frugal and we should use our solar first, at home and on the road to minimise how much Putin's gas the world continues to have to buy. Why wouldn't you?

Those of us who are CAMC members and who have vans which use very little, if any, electricity, should not be forced to pay the high electricity prices which Club sites charge. Members should not be penalised financially for having small vans with few appliances, nor be forced, if they want a pitch, to subsidise those with big vans and more appliances. Would a couple living in a small house with only lights and a fridge ever be charged the same as a family living in a very big house with multiple appliances? CAMC pricing policy for electricity is unfair. There should be an option on every pitch to choose not to have electricity while the Club expedites the introduction of individual metering on all pitches. There are small town pitches in Europe which do this so why not the CAMC,

 

[popotla]

Decided to make a weekend of it and looked at the nearest club site £30 a night can't arrive until after 1pm on Friday must depart by 12 etc.
Found a nice little CL site 6 miles away arrive on Friday when you want stay as long as you require on the Sunday £15 per night inc electric.

Come to Germany! We're about to spend our sixth night at this very pleasant and in all ways excellent free site, ten minutes walk from the centre of this 15,000-person town. Electricity - we plugged in for the first time tonight - costs 2 Euro for 24 hours; water (coin in the slot) is 10 cents for 10 liters, 20 cents for 20, up to 2 Euro for 200. There is NO litter nor the smallest hint of anything antisocial.

This sort of arrangement is far from untypical, which is to say that there are, here, hundreds of free sites and hundreds more where one must pay a modest amount. Sometimes, as at the site at which we stayed over Easter, a donation (to be put in a nearby letterbox, in that case) is requested.

This system works, I guess, to everybody's advantage. One spends money at the local shops, for example, so they benefit. The town authorities are, ones supposes, happy with the arrangement.

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[Langtoftlad]

Decided to make a weekend of it and looked at the nearest club site £30 a night can't arrive until after 1pm on Friday must depart by 12 etc.
Found a nice little CL site 6 miles away arrive on Friday when you want stay as long as you require on the Sunday £15 per night inc electric.

Come to Germany! We're about to spend our sixth night at this very pleasant and in all ways excellent free site, ten minutes walk from the centre of this 15,000-person town. Electricity - we plugged in for the first time tonight - costs 2 Euro for 24 hours; water (coin in the slot) is 10 cents for 10 liters, 20 cents for 20, up to 2 Euro for 200. There is NO litter nor the smallest hint of anything antisocial.

This sort of arrangement is far from untypical, which is to say that there are, here, hundreds of free sites and hundreds more where one must pay a modest amount. Sometimes, as at the site at which we stayed over Easter, a donation (to be put in a nearby letterbox, in that case) is requested.

This system works, I guess, to everybody's advantage. One spends money at the local shops, for example, so they benefit. The town authorities are, ones supposes, happy with the arrangement.

The comparison doesn't take into account the cost of travel, nor the time taken to get there.
It shows no understanding of property prices in the UK vs the more spacious countries in the EU.

Enjoy your German sojourn

 

[bexleyjohn]

I wasn’t aware anyone was denegrating those who like to stay in the UK - many of us like both the UK and Europe but that doesn’t mean we don’t have the right to comment on pricing in the C&MC. I have been a member of that club for well over 30 years and have ALWAYS encouraged others to join.
I have costed out my holiday plans for years (was always so necessary when my three children came with us) and to suggest I haven’t costed in travel, Ferry/train and time is totally wrong. It used to be better value to holiday in the UK and use the club sites but now it’s not - fact!

 

[popotla]

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Hi Ivory55. Maybe it's that you appear to have trouble accepting others' points of view. Or maybe it's something about your writing style.

Cheers

 

[CazPaul]

We have a 650watt toaster had it many years.

 

[Spriddler]

We have a 650watt toaster had it many years.

My father had an ivory-handled penknife.

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