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Whether you invest in either the Silver or Gold cards will depend whether you intend to use the service in subsequent years. As far as I can tell the Silver Card and Paper Cheques equate to more or less the same thing. The advantage of the Silver Crad is there is no writing addresses on the cheques and everything is done electronically. The Gold Card, which is much more expensove to buy in the first place, offers more advatages in that you can make reservations without paying a deposit and the cheques have a longer life than the paper or Silver Card.

The cheques/cards will cover you for the pitch and 2 adults, all other guest pay the going rate which means that children over 7 tend to pay the same as adults although that does vary between sites.

David

At La Croix du Vieux Pont the supplement for extra people is not too bad - person 3 is 7 euros, but persons 4 and 5 are 3 euros each, so only 13 euros on top of the Camping Cheque price - still a bargain at 27 euros for 5 people on a four star site.

Paper cheques are the best bet for your first foray - then if you decide you want to carry on using them buy a Silver or Gold Card.  As Jaymac says, if you buy too many you can always 'trade' paper cheques, but the Silver Card and Gold Card would be only useful to the person who's name was on the card.

If you buy paper cheques you can get your cheques posted with a 24 hour delivery, though I think there's any extra charge for this. 

We use Camping Cheques a lot - and still have some paper cheques, as well as those on our Gold Card (some of them acquired through people selling them on here and other similar forums). 

That seems a good price for 5, considering the nice facs, we have stayed there a few times and always had a good time.

Beware of the ducks invading your unit in search of bread though! They are really tame.

Enjoy.

 ordered my paper cheques last friday, customer services said may take 2 weeks to arrive, but they arrived the very next day.

we decided on paper ones as it is our first time abroad camping, so will be trying it out, used them in this country though, just a pain writing your name and adress 16 times.

stu

Quote: Originally posted by G,Winger on 12/4/2010

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 ordered my paper cheques last friday, customer services said may take 2 weeks to arrive, but they arrived the very next day.

we decided on paper ones as it is our first time abroad camping, so will be trying it out, used them in this country though, just a pain writing your name and adress 16 times.

stu

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We now use Able Labels on ours and never had them refused, in fact most campsites have thought it a good idea!

David

Many Dutch people we've seen use labels, too!  I'm printing out mine later today!

Just a mention that you can also order Camping Cheques through the Caravan Club if you are booking a ferry through them - and that will save you the administration charge (every little helps).