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07/10/2016 at 10:36pm
Location: West - North Yorkshire Outfit: Swift Speedbird 490 Mondeo Estate
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I don't think any of us are pushing ACSI over Camping Cheque, just pointing out that lots of sites are leaving Camping Cheque, and the quality of sites replacing them is not what it was and those sites are not getting good reviews. I pointed out something similar, years ago, when 'Touring Cheques' were losing sites.
I was one of the biggest fans of Camping Cheques, as you are probably aware. We used to go to the NEC and help out on their stall year after year, and met a lot of site owners. I spent lots of time promoting them on forums such as this one, and being users ourselves used to sing their praises whenever I could. I used to compile lists of sites which took them in the school holidays, as my son was a teacher and used my list to pick his holiday sites, and I was happy to pass these on to anyone who asked for them.
However, there is no doubt that something happened, and the organisation took it's eye off the ball some years ago and started losing sites to the competition. I think this was when it became an international 'Corporation' rather than a consortium of site owners.
ACSI is easier to use and site owners prefer it. The Camping Cheque organisation should have listened to their site owners. When Camping Cheque became a 'corporation' sites stopped having as much influence. If only Camping Cheque paid sites more of the fee they charged the customers, and paid up more quickly when sites tried to reclaim what they were owed in exchange the the 'vouchers' or electronic versions of Camping Cheque they may have kept more sites on board. Apparently they reduced the rate repaid to site owners, by a considerable amount, a few years ago, and then tried a further reduction last year. We heard that sites can receive as little as six euros per night per Camping Cheque - and this from a site which cited that as their reason for leaving and going over to ACSI where they get cash in hand as the customer pays the site fee at the end of their stay.
It's sad, for me, probably as much as, if not more than anyone, because some of our favourite sites were Camping Cheque sites. Fortunately, for us, all of them have now moved over to ACSI, at a similar rate. However, another sad thing is that I think that ACSI rates will start to go up if Camping Cheque lose more sites, because there will be no more competition.
We started using ACSI about five years ago, when we were given a free guide and card at the NEC. We (unfortunately for Camping Cheque) use more and more ACSI sites these days. However, like a lot of others we used municipal sites, and other cheap commercial sites and A la Ferme sites too.
Post last edited on 07/10/2016 22:44:00
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