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Consider this situation.

A site has 10 pitches available for a popular long weekend. Some people decide just to go for the Saturday night - the site takes 1 night's worth of money from them. Repeat 9 times. Now, for the same long weekend, others decide to go for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, but they can't because the site is full on the Saturday.

The site loses out due to the shorter stays.

Also, regardless of the length of stay the admin charges are pretty well fixed per booking, say £1.00 for stamp/stationery/getting to the post box/processing card (even more if you pay by cheque and the site has a typical business current account) as a very conservative estimate.

The site loses out due to a greater number of shorter stays.

Maybe if a site was full to the brim from the start of its season (say 1st March) to the end (say 30th October) you may have a point. But like any outdoor activity supply and demand ebbs and falls due to weather and the like, you can see any number of threads on the forum moaning about the cold weather "at Easter".

I'm with scarletsfan on this one.

Not personal, just good business sense1

Not sure if it's a Haven site that you would be interested in.  Just booked Blue Dolphin Filey (Haven) for £94 did get a small discount for freedomtrail member.  That was for 4 nights Thurs to Mon with elec for 5 of us.

Have a look an the Haven website and go on to special offers.

Hope you find what you want and have a fab holiday

we have got 7 nights at haven in wales (one with a private beach) for 54 quid !!! And it is in peak season! all booked and paid for! Woo hoo

Stayed at Blue Dolphin last year - we only paid 9 quid a night for 2 nights then with electric - again cos its easter they shove the prices up!

Have you tried High Gate Barn near Poulton-Le-Fylde?

We've got on for two nights over Easter.

Quote: Originally posted by Sophiesmum on 25/2/2008

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If you pay for three nights it does mean that you should be able to get to the site first thing on the morning of arrival rather than waiting for a check-in time!

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And if there's someone on your pitch for *the previous night*? I'd have thought it's more likely to work the other way around, i.e. that you wouldn't have to pack up by 11am or similar, but could have a leisurely lunch, high tea, dinner and leave in the evening?

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