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21/10/2020 at 7:49pm
Location: Derby.
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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 21/10/2020
Quote: Originally posted by 664DaveS on 21/10/2020
We have the Alde heating, its very good, we just turn the thermostat down at night. You can set it on timed just like at home.
We have a ceramic fan heater which we used to use in previous vans but is occasionally used in the awning now. It has a cold setting so useful in summer!
Doesn't Alde heating use up your gas? If I'm going to pay rip-off prices for electricity, I'm going to use it wherever possible. Most sites seem to charge between £3 and £5 a night extra for an electric pitch, and I don't use that at home for both gas and electricity, even with the central heating on. I always knew it was a rip-off but it really came home to me last year when I was on a site with metered electricity. It was July so it was only my battery charger and fridge, and occasionally a kettle, but we used less than £3 of electricity for a whole two week holiday!
Camp sites cannot legally profit from the electricity they supply you. They can only charge you what they pay for it.
They can, however, charge you a standing charge for the equipment they have kindly installed, to get said electricity to your pitch, hence the apparent "Rip-Off pricing" of set nightly fees.
Those that charge the electricity supply by meter do "appear" to be doing you a favour, but of course, they could hide the additional costing within their own standard pitch fees.
In much the same way that some folk consider an extra charge for showers to be a rip off, (or per dog... per child... per person... per gazebo/awning... etc) when in fact they could be paying less (in total, per night) than another site with "free" facilities, but more expensive overall pitch fees.
Ultimately, the overall cost is the only fair way to decide whether you feel ripped off or not.
I do agree though, that when it comes to the fixed price nightly fees for EHU, human nature dictates that you make the most of it, and use mains appliances whilst ignoring your own gas and/or battery operated equipment.
I suspect that's why many of my fellow tenters now take fan heaters/kettles/fridges/sandwich toasters/electric hobs/ovens/mains lighting etc... etc... etc...
... etc! 
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21/10/2020 at 10:49pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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Quote: Originally posted by Mucker1884 on 21/10/2020
Camp sites cannot legally profit from the electricity they supply you. They can only charge you what they pay for it.
They can, however, charge you a standing charge for the equipment they have kindly installed, to get said electricity to your pitch, hence the apparent "Rip-Off pricing" of set nightly fees.
Those that charge the electricity supply by meter do "appear" to be doing you a favour, but of course, they could hide the additional costing within their own standard pitch fees.
In much the same way that some folk consider an extra charge for showers to be a rip off, (or per dog... per child... per person... per gazebo/awning... etc) when in fact they could be paying less (in total, per night) than another site with "free" facilities, but more expensive overall pitch fees.
Ultimately, the overall cost is the only fair way to decide whether you feel ripped off or not.
I do agree though, that when it comes to the fixed price nightly fees for EHU, human nature dictates that you make the most of it, and use mains appliances whilst ignoring your own gas and/or battery operated equipment.
I suspect that's why many of my fellow tenters now take fan heaters/kettles/fridges/sandwich toasters/electric hobs/ovens/mains lighting etc... etc... etc...
... etc!
I wish there were far more sites like the one we stayed on last July. Not only was their electricity metered, but their site fees were very reasonable too. The nearest C&CC site was considerably dearer, despite the fact that we are members and entitled to seniors discount. I was so impressed with the site that I left a review on here heartily recommending them. We had a fully serviced pitch with metered electricity for much less than we would have paid for an ordinary pitch on the C&CC site with EHU, and probably less than we would have paid for a pitch without EHU on the C&CC site. (I didn't check that). The site we went on certainly weren't charging more to cover the cost of electricity, although I can see that others might. It was the only site we have come across recently with metered electric.
The site we stayed on also only had high and low seasons, whereas the C&CC sites tend to have high, mid, and low seasons. The 2 weeks we had were classed as low season, which ended in the middle of July. High season for them only seemed to be school holidays.
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24/10/2020 at 12:49pm
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Hi Bridgelayer, I had to smile at your comment about the awning, we are both 70+ but like you can have the van up in minutes, we do have both hot water and heating, I think whoever had the van from new paid the extra money, as we also have extra cabinets and a radio fitted, our full awning we can get up and pegged out in about an hour including the ground sheet inside, we did however purchase a porch awning which we use probably more, it is about 5 feet by 6 feet, just handy for the boots etc on shorter breaks, if we do more than 7 days we use the full awning
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