Metered electricity - avoid it!

A couple of weeks ago we visited a site with a metered electicity system. I won't say which club the CL/Cs is linked to and I don't want to identify the site because the owners are striving hard workers doing their best. However:

Before booking I called the owners and asked about the metering system that I had learnt about on the club site. Whilst they didn't lie, they didn't tell me the truth. That was that I had to pay them in advance for electricity. They would then use their computer to put credit on a card that only they could use. One of them then came to the post and put the credit into the meter. I obviously knew how much I had paid but never knew how much electricity I had left. As it happened, the weather changed for the worst so I switched over to gas heating and the next day paid for a lot more electric - well over what I thought we would need.

The weather didn't improve and whereas we would have dealt with that and carried on on a "Normal" site, we decided to leave. The owners gave us a refund of the electricity we had not used but the stress of it all and the amateurish way it all sort-of-worked was just too much stress. Buggered up the holiday really.

My advice: Don't use them. In these times of rediculous power prices I understand why an owner would do it, but the whole pantomime is simply just too much hassle.