Shop around

That’s only because like us you clearly qualify for age related discount. Anyone younger would be paying £377. Still admittedly less, as the C&CC have less peaks. However, they are totally different sites, one coastal one well inland. We have stayed at both and liked both very much, but if you want to be at River Breamish, Dunstan Hill isn’t really a substitute, however the CL at Brandon ford may be. Looked very nice when we walked past it on a trek from RB.

It always pays to shop around but is it like for like?

The club site has just been redeveloped with all HS and some SP if that the same as DH? If they are like for like and the actual location doesn't bother you as Steve says, then go for the cheapest.

We recently stayed just outside of York at a none club site. The club site is directly next door. We paid £78 for 3 nights (2 adults and 1 child) and the club site wanted to charge us just over £150 for the same 3 nights - nearly double the cost.

My advise to anyone is shop around and don’t think the CAMC are the best/cheapest as there’s many other sites cheaper and IMHO better.

Good advice about shopping around, of course, and that is the point of the "small private sites" thread,  Chris - why not add that site at York to the list there,  bound to be a lot of interest. 

that's why we only use c.l.s

Just booked to stay at West Runton (C&C club) which adjoins Incleborough Fields.

September stay is £26.10 per night with EHU on C&C site; but £32.30 on C&MH site.

Have stayed at both previously and regard them as being of equal quality.

Now that C&MH club takes a deposit it has no advantage over C&C club in this aspect.

Interesting that C&MH club now offers free internet, C&C club has done this for some time now.

I joined C&C club to use a specific site (Dingwall) but am staying with them for sure.

C&MH club well we will have to see.................

It wouldn’t be the same for somebody younger. In that case the C&CC site works out a few pence more expensive. I suppose the CAMC could adopt a similar discount but somewhere it would have to be paid for. Whilst I’m not going to decline the C&CC’s offer of a discount, I have to ask why does the fact we are  of a certain age justify us getting a discount, as against a younger  family.

I suppose the risk is that if the C&CC becomes more successful at poaching traditional CMC members it will start to have an impact on their finances which eventually might lead to them reviewing either the discount or the age at which you qualify? The qualifying age used to be 55 but that went up to 60 a few years ago. What is to say they will put the age up to 65 if it becomes too popular. I wonder if the reason the C&CC originally introduced the age discount was that traditionally its members were younger and perhaps it was done to widen the age range of the membership. We stayed at the C&CC site in Cambridge about a month ago and it was quite a bit cheaper than Cherry Hinton. Next month we will be calling in at Moreton in Dorset. We could have stayed at Crossways which is almost next door but for the three nights it was £10 more expensive than with the discount at the C&CC site. Despite the difference in price I think I would prefer to go to Seacroft than either of the two West Runton sites as we find it just that much more convenient albeit more expensive. Swings and roundabouts I suspect?

David

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Perhaps they offer age related discounts as if people are retired, they are far more likley to tour far more than people who are not, so will be spending a lot more money on site fees throughout the year and also, it may act as an incentive for some members to take up mid week pitches at quieter times of year, when many sites would not be very busy!