Discounts on club touring sites

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I think Jk told you before BB

I am off to The Lake District in a couple of days, and since no CL (or CS) was availabe in the area we wanted that had the essential of a mains drainage toilet, I booked Coniston Coppice.  Huge site and we are paying £120 for five nights, so only £24 a night.

We were tempted a bit to go back to The Quiet Site since it has bathrooms ( i.e. a room containing a BATH, plus other facilities ) and a pub on site, so we could have been paying a little bit more for these facilities than at Coniston. 

East coast is always cold, wet, or both.

but you are implying that this penalty has to be paid? If indeed it is a penalty.

It is no more a penalty than paying to join any club is and therefore gaining access to their facilities. Is that a penalty? Is the membership fee for a golf club/gym a penalty?

No one has to pay it at all. Simply walk away. 

Of course you wanted to be on a club site didn't you? No one forced to go there? You wanted to and it made economic sense to pay it. But as for being a penalty that does not make sense.

Troutbeck head (a few from the quiet site ) has a room with a bath, and better views

It also has a wet weather drying room.

Thanks DD, we found HH last year, very nice site. Bit dearer than we usually pay, but would definitely consider at low season. The extras are a tad wasted on us, we only need a safe, legal place to sleep. We use a CL at Gilsland nowadays.😀

As posted by a few they pay their annual fee to be  members of this club , to enable the use of numerouse other "perks"that are available with their membership, which also gives a £12 per night per night advantage on production of a current membership card against those who are on the "outside"

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I do think club sites are a bit expensive, but I suppose it depends on what one compares them with. I like the fact that I know (pretty much) what I’m going to get. As has been shown before, the prices have outstripped inflation by some margin, over the years, so quite unlikely that people’s income has kept pace. Of course, I have a choice, which I’ve exercised, staying at a mixture of sites. As has been said, CC sites in general are pretty well occupied, especially during peak season, but, will that trend continue in the future? I like the fact that the club is investing in things like ‘pods’ (contentious, I know) that allowed me to give our daughter and grandchildren a break while we stayed in the ‘van’. Of course, these investments don’t come cheap. To me, the real benefit of membership is the access to a great network of CL’s. 

PS, we really liked Troutbeck Head, and will return next year 🙂

Troutbeck head has a room with a bath, and better views

That is good to know for future, as it isn't in the Site Directory. I don't think I've even seen a symbol for "bath" in the Directory, or the list of symbols.  Makes me wonder how many other sites are hiding a bath.

Also did not know one could see a lake from there.  I felt it was "over the hill" a bit to see Ullswater.