Adding partner hikes up price?

The mebership fee added £2.80 per night to my nightly cost of using Club sites last year. The calculation included both CLs and main sites. (membership fee divided by number of nights)

peedee

I can understand, as a new member, the OP's confusion. The £15 is not a discount but an additional charge for non-members. As YT pointed out all the prices quoted on the Club's website are member prices. If you added £15 a night to the member prices Club sites in those circumstances would be grossly overpriced compared to the competition!

David

 Hi RobGodd

You will find using forums like this and other social media the phrase "I only stay a member for the cl's" quite a bit and lots of other comments like that. Some people thrive on negativity. The cl network is great and diverse. Club sites are great (I'm a club site manager!).

You mention saving money, it's already been mentioned above some ways of saving money and yes you can easily recoup your annual sub with discounts on offer. Also what a lot of people forget is as a member you have access to free legal advice not just regarding your outfit. That alone is worth more than your £63.

We have a number of sites dotted about called non facilities sites. They are sites with access to your basics like water, black and grey waste, rubbish etc but no toilet or shower facilities, you bring them with you in your van. They represent good value as well, this year my site in North Devon is around £21 per night for 2 adults, no charge for pets or awnings etc.

Hope this is of help

JK

I don’t find the fee for additional adults / kids particularly surprising for full facility sites. However, do find it odd they have adopted it for sites like Altnaharra, which when we visited in 2022 was a fixed fee. Now there is a charge for every person. The charge £7.10 in June is the same wether you have EHU or non EHU. 4 adults non EHU would now cost £32.50.

The charge £7.10 in June is the same wether you have EHU or non EHU. 

Steve, the cost for a non EHU pitch at Altnaharra is about £3 pn cheaper than an EHU one. For example, £18:30 compared to £21:30 for a pitch and 2 adults on the 10th June. With 4 adults on EHU it would cost £35:80 compared to £32:50.

JollyKernow,

"You will find using forums like this and other social media the phrase "I only stay a member for the cl's" quite a bit and lots of other comments like that. Some people thrive on negativity"

I think that is a little unfair. You will find many members have such views for good reason. Whilst they are an opinion, something which we are all allowed to have, they are also  unfortunately based upon fact.

At the end of the day we are members of the club for our own reasons. These differ between members and I see nothing wrong with that. 

Colin

I would suggest the 'facts' those opinions are based on are personal preferences rather than concrete facts.

There is nothing at all wrong in staying a member (or not) of the club for particular reasons but I think JK has a point about negativity when you read some posts. A few people only ever post negatively and never acknowledge the positive. 

I perhaps didn’t put it very well. The point I was trying to make is the lack of logic in the pricing. Why is an extra adult £7.10 what ever the type of pitch. Surely as you are likely to use more water heating with more people, the cost should be higher on an EHU pitch.(Or less on a non EHU one)  Although there is a charge for electric, this is fixed however many are in the van, therefore that does not cover any extra use.

JK wrote:

You will find using forums like this and other social media the phrase "I only stay a member for the cl's" quite a bit and lots of other comments like that. Some people thrive on negativity. The cl network is great and diverse.

As someone who has expressed that opinion on CT before now, I don't agree that that opinion is borne out of negativity at all.  What is negative about being a member for using CLs?

I also don't quite understand the next sentence in relation to the previous one: The cl network is great and diverse.  So then why define those of us who are members for using them as "thriving on negativity"?

You're right, it doesn't read very well. The reason being is the bit when I said "lots of other comments like that" which I didn't give examples of because that would break the community guidelines. 

I think TinWheeler explains in his post above what I was trying to conve

JK