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Topic: Camp Site Pricing

acesup1504

07/7/2013 at 9:11pm
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Having just spend a week camping at Haven Little Sea in Dorset, although we just missed high season it cost us £108, which is around £15 per night for a place with top notch facilities, electric hook ups and amazing views

Which to me makes your average campsite with hook up and showers charging around £20 per night vastly overpriced.

So do you think the independent/ farm campsites are over charging or offer poor value for money at times?

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rochford6

07/7/2013 at 10:15pm
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no i do not think they are overcharging, places like haven make their money by inflating the cost of drinks/food on site etc.

commercial sites like haven are sites that i prefer not to visit so i guess the money i save on their over priced food and drinks compensates for the higher prices at the campsites i do want to visit

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07/7/2013 at 10:21pm
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we pay £15 per night in total for 2 adults and a child and car, and there's nothing on site, no frills no pool no arcades, club, bar etc , and I love it :D got clean showers and toilets and the most gorgeous views, I think thats a great price, we go for 10 days , £150 well spent!!

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Fay Fife

07/7/2013 at 10:27pm
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Rochford is right. If enough campers pay out for their horrible burger n chips, they soon claw it back.

I wrote a thread yesterday complaining about the price of sites too...but from a slightly different pov. I'm not fussed about amenities particularly, but location.

I'm happy to pay £20 a night for the right location....even if the toilet block came from the arc.

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Fay Fife

07/7/2013 at 10:49pm
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To be fair though...quite a lot of those hail and hearty good-old-fashioned-grub traditonal pub/eateries that are so waxed lyrical over, in places like The Lake District and Glencoe, dish up overpriced guff as well.
You are informed that the pub up the road does great meals, in front of a roaring fire, with a pint of local ale, but you find yourself staring down at a plate of microwaved lasagne and oven chips that you're about to hand over £12.50 for, and you wonder how they dare.

Far prefer to cook on site - all part of the fun.

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08/7/2013 at 9:04am
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Something I have noticed about the large commercial sites like haven and park resorts etc, is that although they are cheaper per night, they make the money by charging ov the odds for drinks, food etc.

I have also seen that many of their pitches are a lot smaller than a standard pitch elsewhere. We looked at park resorts for example, and the pitches there are 6m x 6m.

HT James

08/7/2013 at 9:37am
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Overpricing? No. It all depends on what the market will stand........It's only overpriced if you are obliged to use what one considers an over priced site.

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jelboy53

08/7/2013 at 9:39am
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£115 for a week non EHU for me and the dog seems reasonable..On a site with it's own shop and cafe/restraunt etc...And beach side pitches where you can have a campfire of an evening....

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acesup1504

08/7/2013 at 10:16am
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Ok maybe switiching the other way as I certainly dont grudge paying £20 a night for a farm style campsite.

That Haven offers great value for money especially with the facilites that are included. Its your choice if you want to buy the over priced beer / food. While we would not touch the food and prefer to make our own or eat out, we did have a few drinks in the bar and are what you would expect to pay in a hotel.

I looked at some other "resort" camping and some wanted in excess of £30 per night which matched the Haven facilties.

saz121299

08/7/2013 at 10:17am
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We are paying £110 for a 4 night stay for 5 people in a TT with EHU which i think is fine for the site as has 2 pubs, one of them being an entertainment venue, a takeaway, arcade and in 5 minute walk from the beach and 5 min drive to the leisure park, we have only camped 3 times and have been to the same place each time, going again in August but will be looking for somewhere else after that (Stowford Farm meadows looks right up our street!)

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andy57742

08/7/2013 at 1:52pm
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I have to agree with saz were off to warren farm for the 3rd short stay in a row in a weeks time just love it not over priced at all and within easy access of everything you could possibly need.
for short breaks this site is great for us for longer breaks we are looking all over the north Cornwall coast and maybe even France but everything is dependent on price.

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RachlN76

08/7/2013 at 8:13pm
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I was talking to my mum about this today as we were reminiscing about our caravanning days when I was a child.

My dad (who died about 7years ago) was ALWAYS going on about site prices. We almost always stayed on CLs, and I remember he would turn the van round and leave if it was more than £3 a night for everyone!! That was probably thirty years ago. By the time I stopped going with them, about twenty years ago, I think he might have raised his limit to about £7 a night, but it had better be good for that!

I cannot imagine what he would think of us taking a tent to a CL no matter how nice, for £13 a night, like we will do next weekend. Which I think is a complete bargain. He'll be turning in his grave (or rather his ashes will be shifting in their Tupperware container!

But he never did keep with the times, he wouldn't believe that I was posting this for an iPad either!

Jakers

08/7/2013 at 9:56pm
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