I contacted Town Farm campsite near Leighton Buzzard and enquired about availability and prices. The site is on farmland in the Chilterns and has reasonable facilities but it's not in a beauty spot nor is it a luxury site.
The price was quoted as £10 per person per night regardless of tent or pitch size (and another £5 if you want to hire a firepit).
A tenner for one person is not so bad but twenty for a couple (or thirty for three people) sharing a tent seems excessive for a fairly basic site off the tourist trail, especially given it is still early April. I pay less in Cornwall in high season.
Is it just me being penny-pinching? What do you all think?
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I agree with you Scep. Have paid that (& more) on a C&CC site with the tintent but it was one of the ones they run with the Forestry Commision (they are always pricey I think) however but it does have very high standard showers etc. - & we had ehu.
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sorry but that not a bit pricey it's VERY pricey!!! we're a family of six tho eldest doesn't usually come with us these days. So £50 a nght for us. we're paying less than that in peak for an all singing all dancing site, for pitch that could hold 8!!
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Hi - had this site in mind for a w/e in June with some friends who want to try camping but dont want to go too far,,,,didnt notice that the price was per person(!)
I will be looking for somewhere else,,,,although I think they may be able to price that high due to the fact that campsite are not exactly thick on the ground in Bucks.
Def expensive. I feel that the cost for single hiker camping on sites which are basic etc should be around a fiver. Penny-pinching Scep? Not in my book
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I totally agree.... thats a hell of a lot of money for one night, even though there are only 2 of us, I still wouldnt want to pay £20 a night to camp unless the site was in a fantastic location or had the wow factor somewhere along the line. All I can think is that they dont want to attract familes for some reason at those prices.
I've just had a look at the site and it looks lovely. However, and maybe they're taking advantage and why not ofcourse of being in Cool Camping, but £10.00 a head per night - too rich for my blood
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If it was mid-high season then I suppose £20 for 2 people inc EHU and anything else i.e free showers wouldn't be so bad... but £10 a person in low season IMO IS pricey!
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Quote: Originally posted by Alphonso De Lard on 07/4/2011
For lone campers, I'd say a tenner per night was a good price... Other than that, far too expensive...
As a lone camper I agree but it works both ways. As a lone camper I usually have to pay the price of two on those sites where the charge covers two people. I think the most I ever paid in a moment of madness was £18 a night just for me...but then that is only £9 a person if there are two of you. So how do you judge what is expensive...it depends on the circumstances.