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If you join the C &CC when booking you pay a £10 deposit  BUT if you cancel you do not lose your deposit it's credited against your membership account and can be used for your next booking. If you just dont show then you lose your deposit.

I always book ahead. No way would drive for miles and just turn up. you've got nothing to lose if you book then cancell

Thanks for the advice. As we won't be going out during the school hols I think we should be okay, especially if we opt to camp inland away from main resorts. Will report back after we try it!  CCC are asking for a deposit of 25% this year on pre-bookings.

Sorry but camping in wet weather doesn't do it for us!

By joining the C&CC, you get a book listing 90% of the sites in any given area. This allows you to move on and find another site in the area, if the one that you have arrived at turns out to be unsuitable.

Not all sites, club or commercial, are suitable for all campers but atleast by joining a club, be it UKCS and/or C&CC, you will have a better idea of what you are looking for in a campsite and be able to make more informed choices before having to pay any deposits.

Personally we do not book unless we are going to a real back of beyond place that only has one campsite every 50 miles or so.

Camping, for us, is all about freedom of choice, exploring unknown areas and moving along only when we feel that we are ready to do so.
Even when we are signing into a campsite, we do not know how long we will be there for and so we only pay for a couple of nights, with the prevision that we may stay for longer.

This has backfired on us a couple of times during the school holiday period but overall it has saved us having to stay overlong in undesirable areas and/or sites.

We're lucky, neither of us work anymore so can go as and when, we avoid bank holidays and school holidays and often do Monday to Friday trips

We never book, the weather dictates when we go, we just get everything ready, ring a site and go the next day, often we have been the only unit on site, the most we paid in 2008 was £12 and the least price was £5 per night, we only need basic sites though

I book ahead, at least to start with, and then, depending on the weather, decide where to go and phone, we use CLs and CSs as much as possible so take both club books.

Anne