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We are looking to take our tent to France next May.  We aren't members of the Camping and Caravaning Club but I have noticed they give discount on ferry crossings for members.  Does anyone know roughly how much the discount is and if it is worth joining.

Thanks

No basically! Lol

Although saying that we are members and book through them most times, this year on Dover-Calais crossing probably saved a fiver, an if your anything like me we book December for the following Aug, then usually change our minds about dates/campsites and end up paying £10 amendment fee

But saying that its good in the way, that its all paid for well in advance so we just need to take our spending money with us, I also like reading the brochure in the bath and planning where to go the following year

Discounts offered by the Clubs can vary tremendously from route to route, and even from week to week.  The Caravan Club had a very good offer around the time of the NEC Caravan Show last year, and again in February, where the discount was about 40% or even more for car and caravan crossings.  I don't know whether the Caravanning and Camping Club may have the same offers.

However, if you're only travelling with a car, then you can get some very good prices directly from the ferry operators on the shorter crossings from Dover.  At the moment Norfolk Lines are doing some good deals for cars.  Personally I wouldn't think that you're going to save the cost of joining if you're booking just one crossing, for just a car.

If you have friends who are members of the Caravanning and Camping Club - or the Caravan Club then ask them if they can do 'dummy quotes' for you - then compare this with the same crossing priced up on the ferry companies own websites.