Discounts on club touring sites

It comes under the term 'marketing' aka smoke and mirrors, billy BS etc

Stay 5 nights and you might as well join up to the commercial enterprise that used to be a 'club' eons ago.

As with modern life you have to look beyond the waffle of the sales blurb. Wait till you look into new caravans and motorhomes and you'll be enlightened 

The CL network, insurance, ferry deals, car offers (we bought a Qashqai on a CAMC offer), fences (colourfence, a superb product with a 25 year guarantee) , strimmers (GTech)  [products advertised in the CAMC Magazine] outweigh the 'discount' on a nights pitch fee and make joining worthwhile in our opinion.

Pitch fees are the highest we've paid over decades of camping. Not been on a bad site in all those years. They rise every year, and peak seasons get longer, so we do less peak season on CAMC sites purely due to the prices being too high. As people are often told by stalwarts of CT, go elsewhere, so we do. 

An odd way of promoting a business to be told to go elsewhere.

Our spend on CAMC sites is reduced each year. Other sites we use give discounts the more you use them. We did the last few days of the school holidays with a 20% loyalty discount with just a pitch fee (massive pitch, put the caravan wherever you like on the pitch, no peg to align to), no per person per night fee. Our favourite CL gives the 8th night free.

The CL network really is the jewel in the crown and worth the membership fee alone.

Enjoy your camping wherever you pitch. There is massive choice out there.

 

Ive has discussions with the club admin about why club sites are so expensive. The answer I received is that the club don’t think that they are. I honestly think that the whole £12 a night club discount offer is not what it appears at all

whether the club think they are or are not expensive is really immaterial Al, the point is whether you think they are. Or rather if one thinks they are. If you or one thinks that then indeed find a better price? You did so it's win win isn't it? 

You don’t have to take out a membership, you don’t have to believe as gospel how the Club describes it’s Product promotion. It’s like any other commodity one might choose to purchase. It either represents good value for money, or it doesn’t.

Being fully informed of just how beneficial it can be is down to the individual doing the right research. I don’t wish to sound rude, but ignorance is an individual choice given how easy information can be obtained nowadays. A little bit of self help goes a long way, and not all Club Sites are hugely expensive, certainly not all of the time.

We are like KS, we shop around and use the CL network, and aren’t concerned about using other than Club Sites, as we get the membership fee back in other ways. The more limits you impose on yourself (we only go there, we only go at such and such a time, we will only use Sites with full facilities, etc....) the more of a captive user you become. But it suits many to holiday this way, and they are happy doing it. Slightly irking of course if you have no choice, but that’s a different discussion.😊

Pitch fees are the highest we've paid over decades of camping

Is that true of most things you've bought in decades Keith? Petrol? gas, electricity? Any product?

Whenever I buy a new car it will certainly be more expensive (model for model) than the previous one. The new Canon I'm after will certainly be. In fact in most things I buy it will be the highest price in decades. Do you expect sites to go down or stay the same? 

Oh and isn't your pay packet the biggest it's ever been in decades? 

 

But in fact I do agree with you when you imply one has to decide if club sites are worth the money.Then it's a simple decision isn't it? Why complain?  (not saying you are)

If the number of people saying they use club sites less and less on CT were translated into the real world then the number of I can't get a pitch posts should decrease? Site should be quieter? 

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then you suppose wrongly, im afraid

folk always have the choice to go elsewhere, Lord knows, they're reminded often enough on CT....in this thread already.

no, my post merely suggested that, for whatever numbers involved, its just not worth their while compaining to someone who can do nothing about it after the event.....

as you seem to have all the numbers, i wonder if you could post the details of the different rankings for each of the complaint types the CC helpdesk has received?

 await with baited breath...not.

So - at the end of the day it all comes down to either price or the need to be in a particular location. Something  we all consider.

With that in mind I use Club sites, other club's sites, Cls , Cs's and  Commercial sites to satisfy my needs regarding the balance of choice between price and location.

 

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We found ourselves in an area without a Club Site, or even a CL we fancied. Only option was a CCC Site, right where we needed/chose to be. As we were staying for a full week, it made sense to join that particular Club, as we saved around £9 per night I recall, and we used a few CS sites whilst we remained members that year. So that was a sound economic decision. We didn’t renew our membership the next year, as we weren’t using CS sites as much as CLs.

Just in case anyone is wondering, it was in the immediate area of Hadrian’s Wall, Site was Haltwhistle. We have since found some decent CLs/Sites right on the Wall.