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Great location, too expensive.

Great location. 5 minutes drive from Durham. Visited Newcastle. Beautiful coastline, try Roker beach (amazing fish and chips), Whitburn, Seaburn, Tynemouth. Beaches and sunsets wonderful. Site very close to main road so expect some noise - earplugs always help. Site busy for first few days then very quiet from 2 January. Understandable really when the prices are so expensive - we paid £206 for 7 nights (the price is lower for this year than it was for last year for some reason). This equates to just under £30 a night which is excessive when there are no facilities other than a toilet block and a playground. Not even a food van visits the site. CMC are coming perilously close to pricing themselves out of the market - when we paid even the warden said it was going to hurt!
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replied on 06/01/2019 16:57

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Posted on 06/01/2019 16:57

Christmas and New Year prices are high at most CC sites. I was on site at Southport during the Christmas period and decided that it was dear but, because it was where I wished to be I paid it knowingly

PamandRay replied on 09/01/2019 20:22

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Posted on 06/01/2019 16:52 by Tinwheeler

Did you not realise the price when you booked?

Posted on 09/01/2019 20:22

We only booked the night before so had limited choice of sites.  My main gripe is that the site was charging £30 per night which is well over the odds for what it is.  It’s not the only one that’s over-priced - several now cost more than private sites.  We go to north wales for example on a superb site that costs a lot less per night.  It comes to something when even the wardens are embarrassed about how much it costs. 

PamandRay replied on 09/01/2019 20:23

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Posted on 06/01/2019 16:57 by

Christmas and New Year prices are high at most CC sites. I was on site at Southport during the Christmas period and decided that it was dear but, because it was where I wished to be I paid it knowingly

Posted on 09/01/2019 20:23

The prices at Durham grange are cheaper in 2019 than we paid in 2018.  Is this because people aren’t booking I wonder. 

replied on 09/01/2019 20:27

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Posted on 09/01/2019 20:27

I have used the Southport site for 8 Christmas periods. The site is not usually full for Christmas but really fills for the New Year. We usually leave on 28th

Tinwheeler replied on 09/01/2019 20:38

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Posted on 09/01/2019 20:22 by PamandRay

We only booked the night before so had limited choice of sites.  My main gripe is that the site was charging £30 per night which is well over the odds for what it is.  It’s not the only one that’s over-priced - several now cost more than private sites.  We go to north wales for example on a superb site that costs a lot less per night.  It comes to something when even the wardens are embarrassed about how much it costs. 

Posted on 09/01/2019 20:38

The trouble is that none of us know how much it costs to operate any particular site which is why comparing a club site with a privately owned site many miles away in a totally different type of location with different overheads isn’t comparing like with like.

At the end of the day, all we can do is accept the prices as they are and pay up if it’s where we want to be, or to vote with our feet if we consider the price to be too high. Booking and paying is tantamount to accepting those fees and leaves the site operator believing the price was right.

 

JVB66 replied on 09/01/2019 20:45

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Campervanner from Hertfordshire
Posted on 09/01/2019 20:22 by PamandRay

We only booked the night before so had limited choice of sites.  My main gripe is that the site was charging £30 per night which is well over the odds for what it is.  It’s not the only one that’s over-priced - several now cost more than private sites.  We go to north wales for example on a superb site that costs a lot less per night.  It comes to something when even the wardens are embarrassed about how much it costs. 

Posted on 09/01/2019 20:45

I take it the North Wales site and charges are for the same "peak " period?

replied on 09/01/2019 20:56

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Posted on 09/01/2019 20:45 by JVB66

I take it the North Wales site and charges are for the same "peak " period?

Posted on 09/01/2019 20:56

I could have used a commercial site and paid about £25 for Christmas period. I thin that Southport was just over £30 but for my 15 nights averaged at £27 with some being outside the peak. The commercial site is one that I used in the past on an occasion and it was OK. However not as well located being 5 miles from town centre and I think a greater emphasis on statics now compared to when I used it.