I diagree with robin52 - we joined the camping and caravanning club for the rallies and cs's not the club sites. Club sites are good but I think quite expensive. Rallies and CS's on the other hand are very cheap. Going to a rally this weekend for the princely sum of £7.40 per unit for the weekend!
There's also all the other benefits. The RAC Arrival scheme membership saves me the cost of the C & C C membership each year so the Club sites, rallies, cheap holiday sites, monthly mag and everything else is a bonus. My caravan is insured with Club Care - they are the only company I found who didn't insist on a wheel clamp - I can't lift any of the wheel clamps I tried so any other insurance would have been worthless.
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We joined the club initially for the arrival scheme but we've found that the cs sites are brilliant for cheap weekends away, we looked at one the other day at Clevedon in Somerset, tiny little place, ideal for a overnighter as it's very close to the M5, incl ehu all for £7.30p/n.
And also this year we want to try a holiday site near to Falmouth for a fiver a night in peak season.
Personally i think both clubs are rubbish you really don't want to be a member especially the CC&C as iv'e been a member for nearly 15 years don't listen to them about cs and temp holiday site you really wouldn't like them honest i only go to them under protest nothing to do with them being cheap out in the country quiet and well equiped no honestly don't join leave us members to suffer this kind of site alone
The CC charge per person too, and a pitch fee, but don't have the over 55s off-peak discount the C&CC have.
The club sites are not cheap, but neither are they particularly expensive. And they are reliably good and usually peaceful.
Quote: Originally posted by rollsroyce on 07/7/2006on this subject. i was thinking of joining the c&cc do they have any sites with fishing on the (is it cls or css?) is it in the little black book??
Quote: Originally posted by romany on 07/7/2006
Personally i think both clubs are rubbish you really don't want to be a member especially the CC&C as iv'e been a member for nearly 15 years don't listen to them about cs and temp holiday site you really wouldn't like them honest i only go to them under protest nothing to do with them being cheap out in the country quiet and well equiped no honestly don't join leave us members to suffer this kind of site alone
It's very kind & considerate of you Romany to warn folk to stay away from all the discounts both clubs boast about as well as staying away from the well kept sites with the lovely clean toilets & showers. Without someone like you going "under protest" to some of these sites, members of this forum may well have fallen into the trap & joined.
have just this minute joined the c&cc. HAVE I DONE THE RIGHT THING ?? just looking at their costings. 2 adults at £7 90 plus plot at £2.60 = thats £18 40 a bit steep-- just stayed at unity site at brean with brill entertainment and free fishing for 3 night at a cost of £39. just hope these small sites are going to come up trumps. have got some reservations now /??/
You'll get sent a couple magazines per month, one of these is out and about, in this they'll tell you all about the holiday sites and rallys hosted by the DA's, this where the club earns it's membership money along with the CS sites as well.
Top marks go to Barnard Castle`s Camping and Caravanning Club site, good pitches, the cleanest and most well kept facilities and the most helpfull and friendliest staff I`ve met at any site club or commercial. We booked grass with EHU and the gentleman on site could not have been more helpfull, he took us round and we had any choice of pitch, then he gave us hand to unhitch and locate the van. I think Keswicks sad faced staff should take a lesson from them.
There are not many of the club sites that are £7-90 each most are £6-90 and thats high season, we use them as we can take advantage of age concession off peak. you will get a super big sites book that is worth quite a few pounds.
We're in both, but for sheer number of CLs the Caravan Club wins hands down. Some lovely sites at £2 or £3 a night, often with no extra for more than two people, with no wardens (-: and where you're left completely alone to do as you please - no-one fussing about arrival or departure times, pitch position, etc.