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Personsusiejane
27/3/2019 at 12:02pm
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Hi, Can non members use a caravan and camping club site? If so how much extra do they charge for non members?


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Personshaggy2000
27/3/2019 at 12:50pm
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None members can use Caravan and camping club sites just the same that they can also use Caravan and Motorhome Club sites (used to be called The Caravan Club)

I have no idea the different between the prices though, I used to be a member of the C&MC but recently cancelled my subscription as I simply wasn't using the club sites enough to warrant £50 a year.

Club sites are nice an all, but I went to a none club site that had electricity and water to the pitch and it really did make the short holiday a little bit more enjoyable. No filling up the waterhog last thing at night when it runs out, constant running water.


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27/3/2019 at 12:57pm
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As I understood it when I was a member, non-members paid the pitch fee plus a price per person or family etc; whereas members didn't have to pay the pitch fee, so it varies according to the campsite.

Members also get other benefits such as age concessions so a camping trip by a member may well be cheaper than a non-member but then a member will have paid something like £39 (or more) up front as a membership fee. So it depends on how many times in a year you can use club sites as to whether it is worth paying that £39.

I once worked it out that I would have to camp at a club site for 14 nights to recover the £39 membership fee, as compared to what it would cost me to use non-club sites. Since there was no way I could use club sites for 14 nights a year, and I would often have to use non-club sites as well because there were no nearby club sites, it worked out more expensive in the long run by joining the club.


PersonColin21
27/3/2019 at 2:39pm
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Whether you join a club does depend very much on your circumstances and outlook. The way I look at it my membership of the C&CC costs me less than £1 a week over the year. I normally go to a club site at least once a year, sometimes for 2 weeks, so maybe I get my membership fee back, maybe I don't. I just don't think of it that way. I insure my caravan through the club, and couldn't find any other company to insure it cheaper. I've never really looked at it as a way of saving money. I get 12 "free" magazines a year which are worth a read, and there are other fringe benefits too.

I use whatever sites are in the area I want to visit. If there's a club site nearby, I'll use it, but if not I'll use a private site. The only thing I will say is that the C&CC sites I have been to have all been to a good standard. Not all the private ones have been quite up to the same standard, although many have been.

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Many moons ago the Caravan Club sites included the driver in their Pitch charges as an essential part of the Holiday, extra persons where then added onto the pitch fee, so a couple would need to add just one extra person.

Somewhere along the line they sneakily changed the rules and after l had booked a couple of pitches using the tried and tested procedure, l suddenly arrived to find out that a rather large lump of money was added to my fees for the previously included Driver.

A Fortnight for a Couple in April or Early September on a CMC Clubsite would now cost me around £440. The same period on a small commericial site with similar facilities down the road is £260, or a small farm CL with EHU and Shower included and on a hardstanding can be had for the bargain price of £210.

Our Caravan days are sadly coming to an end anyway due to old age and health issues, but its getting a very expensive hobby to follow, and we have now made up our mind to Sell up at the end of this season and retire from owning any more caravans, its no longer practical for us to carry on.

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Personbobmel
27/3/2019 at 10:27pm
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It is £10 a night at least. Couple of visits and you have your money back. Not to mention the use of CLs that range from only £8 a night.

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PersonWhatamess
28/3/2019 at 6:23am
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I’ve just booked a couple of CAMC sites for June, which is getting towards high season, and we’re paying over £20 a night, one, I think, is about £25. Not cheap even for members at that time of year.i think non members pay about £10 a night extra. Why a non member would want to pay that beats me, there are plenty of other options.

We are members of both clubs and get our membership fees back through insurances, channel crossings etc.

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PersonMrs. Bonce
28/3/2019 at 7:29am
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We are members of both clubs, go away a lot, hardly ever use club sites, the last one was Cirencester in November a couple of years ago. We use CLs/CSs, small independent sites, insure through CAMC.

Trip to Wales coming up, staying at a CS which is £20 per night, more that we normally pay but it does sound very nice.


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28/3/2019 at 10:25am
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When I was a member of the C&CC going back a few years now, it cost me something like £9 a night as a solo camper with age concession. However, I was only paying about £9 or £10 a night at non-club sites at the time and there were more non-club sites to choose from so I didn't see much point in coughing up £39 just to join a club...that to me was at least 3 to 4 nights camping.

I also found that the pitches on two club sites I visited were atrocious with rabbit holes and bare mud patches with tree roots sticking out. They seemed more geared up for wheeled units than tents. I got my money back at one site, drove a mile down the road to a non-club site and for an extra couple of quid got a plush grass pitch on a brilliant site closer to the area I had gone to visit.

But what really did it for me was that I found club sites always seemed to be fully booked on weekends and I had to book at least 3 weeks in advance to collar a pitch. I also had to pay a substantial deposit and then within a couple of days of going the weather was being forecast as serious damaging gales and I had to cancel losing my deposit.

So, all in all, joining the club was a very expensive mistake for me. I have never paid over £16 a night on non-club sites and only then because I had a rush of blood to the head. I averaged about £11 to £14 last year...why would I want to pay an extra £39 and risk losing a deposit?   

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Personmorepints
28/3/2019 at 7:50pm
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Hi Susiejane. Just did a sample booking enquiry for 3 nights weekend grass pitch with electric mid April, two people. £98.25 - member discount £22.05. Hope that answers your question - other option available! Link here


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28/3/2019 at 8:58pm
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Quote: Originally posted by morepints on 28/3/2019
Hi Susiejane. Just did a sample booking enquiry for 3 nights weekend grass pitch with electric mid April, two people. £98.25 - member discount £22.05. Hope that answers your question - other option available! Link here


Geez! That's £32.75 a night or £25.40 for members!


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Personficklejade
29/3/2019 at 12:01am
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Yes, non-members can but you have to pay a hefty non-member fee on top of pitch and person fees.

I'd concur with Bob61 - used to be good value but now not nearly so friendly towards solo tent campers. I am not going to pay £16+ a night non EHU for very rough grass/boggy/rabbit holes/tree stumps and miles from the facilities.

But it is very personal depending on the usage, how often/long you can get away, if sites are in the right place and so on.       

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Personmorepints
29/3/2019 at 8:03am
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 28/3/2019
Quote: Originally posted by morepints on 28/3/2019
Hi Susiejane. Just did a sample booking enquiry for 3 nights weekend grass pitch with electric mid April, two people. £98.25 - member discount £22.05. Hope that answers your question - other option available! Link here


Geez! That's £32.75 a night or £25.40 for members!


Old codger’s price is just over £20 (age concession member). To quote Chevalier, “I’m glad I’m not young anymore!


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Well, 3 nights at £20 is £60 plus the £39 membership fee which makes £99...that's one heck of an expensive camping trip


PersonFiona W
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There is far far more choice of sites through the UKCS site search than in the C&CC site handbook. We don't even take the handbook away with us any more. Very few C&CC Club sites up here, but it's worth being a member to use their Certificated Sites (or CAMC Locations) or go to a (cheap!) Temporary Holiday Site.

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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.


PersonWhatamess
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 29/3/2019
Well, 3 nights at £20 is £60 plus the £39 membership fee which makes £99...that's one heck of an expensive camping trip


But the membership is a one-off and there are other benefits to consider, although I know you don’t use them Bob. We do and definitely get our membership feedback.

Nora



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