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27/3/2019 at 12:50pm
Location: County Durham
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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.
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27/3/2019 at 2:39pm
Location: East Herts
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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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27/3/2019 at 10:27pm
Location: Aberdeen
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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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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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28/3/2019 at 7:29am
Location: Luton (no jokes plea
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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 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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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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29/3/2019 at 1:31pm
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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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2025=3 sites, 5 nights; 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.
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