A CAMEL IS A HORSE DESIGNED BY A COMMITTEE.
This is as true of both CC and C&CC, as both of these clubs were started by and are still run by, members who have their own ideas about what campers/caravanners want to see from a club.
Most “Club Sites” started their lives as commercial sites, taken over later by one of the two clubs and then the facilities changed, I don’t want to use the word upgraded as this is not always the case, to suit the needs of their members.
Later they may revert back to commercial ownership as popularity in areas ebb and flow.
Personally, being members of both clubs, we never bother about who owns or manages any site. That is not a priority when we are planning trips away. We don’t give a whit about whether the toilet area has piped music, or whether the dish-washing area is covered or not. We do look at where it is situated and whether it is near a major (noisy) main road and whether it has a large children’s play park. (Again the noise issue). But many members want these facilities and they are a priority part of their holiday plans.
No one here can advise you on which club will suit you best, because no one on here knows you or what you want from a club or indeed why you are leaning towards using a caravan for your holidays. Perhaps you don’t even know yourself. You’ll just have to have a go yourself and see if it suits you. But please try both clubs. Try their sites, the pukka Club Sites, their CS’s and CL’s and the THS’s. Try their Rallies and try our own UKCS Meets. There is also the Rapido Caravan Club which I’m sure will also run rallies.
Only by trying will you appreciate the huge choice of experiences that lie behind the door that your key, your caravan, can now unlock for you. And by the by, it will take you a lot longer than one year’s membership to try out everything. Perhaps a 5 year membership would be more like it.
My first camp was with the Cub Scouts and my wife’s first camp was with the Brownies. That was back when all Cubs were boys and all Brownies were girls. Now I never know which is which and unisex seems the name of the game. We are now OAPs and looking back, our needs for what we required from campsites have changed as often as the different types of units we used. But the one thing that has never changed is our love of the comradery and freedom that only a campsite can give us.
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Lobey.
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Topic: Club Membership
