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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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08/7/2013 at 9:56pm
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Topic: Camp Site Pricing
But he never did keep with the times, he wouldn't believe that I was posting this for an iPad either!
