No News Yet on the New Booking System

I don't like deposits and I don't want deposits. I feel strongly about this.

 The club allow us to book as many sites as we want for a year ahead. I take advantage of this. They also allow us to cancel a booking or change it , which I also have used, although more so in later years through ill health. I pay extra for all this by way of the sites being more expensive than the commercial sites for just  a basic site and of course the membership fee.  I use the club sites because they are, for the most part, the same good standard.

If deposits are brought in , I wont be paying it, we shall be looking elsewhere as it wont be in my interest to stay. It reminds me of when we were all encouraged to buy diesel cars and now the government are phasing them out. 

But then as most sites that also have holiday caravans that is what keeps them going and with the prices as published for tourers, it seems the prices are already eye watering at peak times

That's a separate thread. A pity to see it wandering. I understand Joanie's comments about not wanting deposits. I think my main reason for them is pitch choice.

Several Club centres hold rallies there without prices being eye watering.

If deposits are brought in , I wont be paying it, we shall be looking elsewhere as it wont be in my interest to stay.

But everywhere else, except some CLs and CSs, charge deposits so you would achive nothing.

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Leave well alone.

No deposits and late cancellation are major benefits which it would be a shame to lose.

A better way of addressing the 'we'll book everything and then cancel at our leisure brigade' would be to simply limit the number of bookings one could hold on the system. If you were unable to hold more than, say, 5 simultaneous bookings over a year, then the net effect would be to smooth out a significant amount of the sites fully booked issues.

Well say a £4 charge, so a 10% or more  increase in pitch fees for about (in my estimation) 50% of the members using them, would perhaps change habits. Particularly if the other club didn’t  follow.

As any site manager will tell you, it is very rare that either of the above is seen by themselves

Doesn't that say everything about how Club sites are run. More time spent cleaning toilets than actually running and supervising the site.

That would even more curtail many older members who are spending their kids inheritance on tours 

What a silly comment  and uneducated look at  the ways ways of site management 

As our local bobby always says  no matter how much below the speed limit I drive  I always get a queue behind me