Is it a rip off?

even though sites are mainly full and membership levels are probably strong, I wonder what the churn rate is?

there may well be more new members coming into the club but we do hear regularly (as in Peedees post) that current members are being pinched hard by the way club prices are heading.

ok, the club might be happy with occupancy rates and member levels but at what expense to long standing members, many of those on pretty tight incomes?

Do they care about long standing members? I doubt it. Send em a plastic sticker every 5 years and that's it. As long as membership figures stay high, that’ll be all that matters to the club.

No idea TW but I happily use CC sites amongst others.

Well, we will certainly not be using these expensive sites!

We do feel, as members for over 20 years, that we are now being priced out of Club sites in the period April-September,

Being on a fairly fixed income, we prefer use value for money considerations to decide on our priorities, and Club sites are not a priority these days.

It is not that we cannot afford to use them, we do have plenty of money in the bank we could use, but rather that we do not feel they offer us value for money when pitch plus 2 gets much over £20 in what we consider low season.

We realise that high season prices, such as Easter, will be higher, but we find that prices in May/June and September are beyond what we consider reasonable.

We remain members so that we can use CLs, but we have joined the other Club and find their sites perfectly adequate and much less expensive due to shorter peak periods and the over 60s discount.  We also like that we can book a hard standing.

Folks will stay members as long as they are achieving what they want from membership. For most folks it tends to be not all about Club Sites. We use them at off peak times, take advantage of MWD if available, use the quieter, no facility sites, but in the main the CL Sites underpin our membership. We have no loyalty to Club, it’s just a means to an end for us, and we are canny enough to get the membership fee back in offers and discounts. 

Me, too, Easy. Whatever the club thinks about it’s membership doesn’t affect the standard of the sites.

With C&CC's age discount we can generally save £6 a night I reckon for the type of pitch that we want. However I consider that their sites fall short of CC's sites for us on several points and are therefore not our first choice. The use of C&CC sites is usually dictated by their position. 

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We also sometimes prefer Camping Club sites, we like the variety of outfits, the variety in their sites and they are often cheaper than this club by around a fiver per night. The quality is adequate, and steadily improving. We also use CLs, CSs and private sites. We are just not prepared to pay approaching £30 or more for a bit of gravel, use of a posh toilet block and all the other facilities which club's sites have, most of which we neither need nor use, it also adds to the variety as we move around which is very much part of the pleasure.

We all like different aspects of sites and choose our general preferences accordingly. Many of us do use a mix of site providers and for some the cost holds a higher sway than for others.

Presently on North Yorkshire Moors CC site. Next stop Wagtail Park, then Sandringham CC followed by St Neotts C&CC