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I'd like to see a discount for not having a car.  Cars on wet fields cause much wear and tear.  My boots do not.

As for the solo aspect, plenty of sites charge per person.

Quote: Originally posted by smashing69 on 14/9/2010

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I'd like to see a discount for not having a car.  Cars on wet fields cause much wear and tear.  My boots do not.

As for the solo aspect, plenty of sites charge per person.

 

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I've been on sites where backpackers and cyclists pay a lower pitch fee. I think it's quite common, actually.

Quote: Originally posted by fran1000 on 15/9/2010

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Quote: Originally posted by smashing69 on 14/9/2010

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I'd like to see a discount for not having a car.  Cars on wet fields cause much wear and tear.  My boots do not.

As for the solo aspect, plenty of sites charge per person.

 

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I've been on sites where backpackers and cyclists pay a lower pitch fee. I think it's quite common, actually.

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Quote: I thought they'd all be well over a tenner in this country.

Quote: Originally posted by Francophile1947 on 16/9/2010

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Quote: I thought they'd all be well over a tenner in this country.

They mostly are

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Quote: Originally posted by gulliver7952 on 16/9/2010

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I have been away 3 times this year and am a solo camper. The most I paid as a single camper was £8 per night. This was Aug Bank hol weekend.
Last weekend I paid £5 per night and back in July £5 per night.
All 3 sites had free showers, washing up facilities.
These were all farm sites.
Last weekend I stayed at a CL which was next door to quite a large caravan site, both part of the same farm. The pitch fee on the caravan site, with ehu and all the facilities, was £12 per night - pitch fee on the CL with ehu only was the same £12 per night, though you are allowed to use the showers/loos on the big site, so in this instance being on a CL was no cheaper. And even though I was on my own with just a small campervan I still paid the same price as a family of two adults and three kids with a 24ft caravan.

I tend to avoid sites that charge for facilities such as club houses.
So do I, but with the exception of a site on Anglesey - £7 per night, no ehu - I haven't been anywhere yet this year that has charged me less for being a solo camper

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 I, too, am a single camper and I would not stay at a site where there was a single person supplement; after all, one of the reasons I went back to camping is that hotels and B&Bs charge them as so few have single rooms nowadays - ok, can see they can make more money from doubles and twins, so not whingeing - they have to survive. 

Like most singletons, I have accepted that I have to pay the same as two people in one tent although I have had a £ or 2 knocked off for being on my own which was offered not requested. That is fair - the site gets the bulk of the pitch fee and the singleton gets a bit of a bargain, so feels good. 

Think this is going to come up more and more as more singletons go camping.

  The most I've been charged this year was £14 a night and although I thought it was expensive, I thought reasoning behind it was fair. There was a £12 charge for a family sized tent (4m bell) and £2 per person. So the price was combination of space used ( no marked pitches) and people using fascilities. Normally I use smaller tents and as such would have been charged less . Fair enough.