£90 per night for b&b? Was it a room in the Cornish equivalent of Buckingham Palace? Good hotels can cost this or less, especially in low season! But lets all thank our luck stars that the new 2009 rates for camp sites are alot cheaper than £90 per night! We use CC sites alot and really enjoy the free awning or pup tent, plus as many hot showers as you want for no extra charge. And although CC sites are a little more expensive than some commercial sites, they do the job right. My only grumble is there is no family rate. I am lucky, my kids are both young, but when they are old enough to be charged as adults, the cost of a night camping gets a fair bit more expensive. Surely if you are 5, 10 or 20 years old, your cost burden on the site is the same. I think a family rate would be more fair than a child/adult rate. I cannot believe an adult uses a significantly more expensive amount of resources than a child. Maybe somebody else knows better....
Am travel agent ( have been for more than twenty years ) and a keen caravanner too - take exception to being called a money grabber - think that maybe you need to look at the economy in general - here and abroad to see why all holiday costs are increasing. I can't always afford to take my caravan away nor book my holiday overseas but I don't blame anyone in particular ( and certainly not the travel agent or the caravan park ) I just don't go away - maybe try calling the PM instead
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£90 per night for b&b? Was it a room in the Cornish equivalent of Buckingham Palace? Good hotels can cost this or less, especially in low season!
Lol, wish it had been! No, just a common or garden motel, it wasn't even an English breakfast, just do it yourself toast, and cereals. I tried all over and apart from a B & B which was £13 per night less but on a main road with no apparent parking, it was all I could find close to the town where we needed to be for a funeral.
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If you can't see the light at the end of the tunnel, just keep going till you go round the bend.
We're off this weekend for £5 per night....it's a CS with no facilities but you get what you pay for, and we haven't had to book. The site the OP mentions has a full range of leisure facilities including a swimming pool plus it looks to me like the OP has booked a serviced pitch? Could have saved a few quid on a normal pitch.
There are plenty of cheap sites around but if you want facilities they have to be paid for by someone....
Am travel agent ( have been for more than twenty years ) and a keen caravanner too - take exception to being called a money grabber - think that maybe you need to look at the economy in general - here and abroad to see why all holiday costs are increasing. I can't always afford to take my caravan away nor book my holiday overseas but I don't blame anyone in particular ( and certainly not the travel agent or the caravan park ) I just don't go away - maybe try calling the PM instead
So WHY do the prices go UPon school holidays?
Kids need a holiday to, you can't just not go because of the price.
So do i take them out of school to get a cheap holiday?
Found a brill site when we wanted 'just one more day!!' and the C&CC couldnt let us stay on!! It was only £10 a night and better pitches than we had been on. I wont be broadcasting where it was or what it was called because it will soon be booked up and we wont get on next time!! LOL
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So WHY do the prices go on school holidays? Kids need a holiday to, you can't just not go because of the price. So do i take them out of school to get a cheap holiday?
I think that is the nature of supply and demand. If more people want something the value goes up. If you want a free market economy (not sure I do), then that is what you get!
Also, I bet that if you looked at the business plan for a holiday park, if they lowered prices in the peak season, they would have to raise prices a lot out of season to compensate - and the reduced mid-season bookings would push prices up further.
We home educate so we can go out of season mostly, although a week on an electric pitch at Wooda in Bude for £250 in August was still good value when compared to a cottage (approaching a grand).
Why do we pay more for a taxi on new years eve? Why do we pay more at the little shop on the campsite than we would at the local asda? Why do we pay more for bus travel at peak times than off peak? - All examples of busineses strategy. Touring parks and holidays abroad are also another victim of the business strategy but in defence of the Travel Agent we are not responsible for the increase in cost during school holidays, the airlines increase their prices, the hoteliers increase theirs and all the Travel Agent does is sell the holidays for the Tour Operators who package the holidays together using these elements,so go easy on us we are only doing a job just like everyone else...............
Yes you may be rite on the travel agents but that is not the main point.
My main point was the price increase being so high, yes you will get a price increase every year but this year has seen a huge increase from previous years
is this because we are staying at home more this year?
Were off to Cartmel race course for the annaul War of the Roses this afternoon (Land Rover thing) £8.00 per night extra £3 if you want electrics..... free loos...hot water... and great showers... electric in showers for hairdryers ect., you can arrive when you want and leave whne you want..... no leaving by 12 on sunday
I've just booked a site in Cornwall for end of July beginning of August - left it late because just found out that new van is arriving on July 24th. While looking around I found the Seaview International Holiday Park in St Austell. I'm sure it must be out of this world - certainly the prices are. Check out their 'Premier Pitch - Extra large all service perimeter - a snip at £50.50 per night!! (OK - I admit it - you are allowed up to 5 people for that - but even so......) Could this be the most expensive pitch in the country - or does someone know better. By the way, we got booked in elsewhere, but even that was £23 for three of us (for an all singing/dancing pitch).
We priced Pentewen Sands last year, and it came to just short of £70 a night for pitch 2 adults 4 kids, so glad that we didnt book once we had a look around the site, reminded me of a african shanty town with all the gazebos and windbreaks around the pitches
We pay no more than £15 a night if we are just going for a weekend, but our main holiday this year has cost us £280 for 10 nights. Dont mind paying that because its a brill site with everything on it you could need.