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The 2.5% reduction in VAT means squat to most people and is not even worth the time and effort to impose it.  If I were a retailer I would continue to charge the original price and pocket the difference.  Forcing me to reduce my prices would cost me probably more than the pocketed difference.  In addition, maybe my business would survive longer. 

I have no objection to the CC pocketing the difference as in the overall scheme of things, it would not amount to a huge sum, however re-printing the price structure would cost more than the difference!.

I know  Lets get it back round to the Booking system again

Hi all, 16 nights in july/ august 2009 £303 at Knaresborough in my opinion a bargain as for snobbish in

15 years I have never encountered any, also have only had occasion to complain twice once at Blackwall Plantation about unruly kids damaging fence at toilets/noise after 10pm same bunch of kids 11/14 year olds ruined our holiday.wardens did not seem to be bothered or check them. And once at the

 Invercauld about a relief wardens attitude glad to say I have not seen him anywhere

in Scotland since,maybe he got a job with the Gestapo.

Quote: Originally posted by jeepster on 11/1/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by The Stabiliser on 11/1/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by jeepster on 26/12/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by normannbelson on 26/12/2008i still standby the snobbish bit. we were on a club site and te attitude was my caravan is better than yours .   ( yeh but mines paid for)  anyway thats my opinion. home truths....

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How can you judge the whole club by an experience and attitude you thought you detected, on one site on one occasion?

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There was no shortage of snobbery at the garden party at  Buck House which we went to. The hierarchy of the club took prime positions at the front where they could fawn, bow and gush when addressed by His Royal Senility and people who would normally speak to you at the water on a site, walked around looking at the sky. We thought we had come to the wrong do ! Of course, there was the traditional caravanner easily identified by a suit smelling of mothballs, and in a state of distress due to the fact that there was no alcohol!  

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If you go to a party at Buckingham palace what else would you expect?

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 Hi, I have met Prince Charles both formally and informally on several occasions

 and can state that he is very friendly and approachable and not at all snobbish

 unlike some of the monied Ruperts about, also my wife and myself were walking around Loch Muick near Balmoral when we met a very nice older lady walking her dogs she wished us a pleasant walk and yes

 it was her Maj my missus nearly fainted when I told her who she had just been

 speaking to.

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Quote: Originally posted by jeepster on 11/1/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by The Stabiliser on 11/1/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by jeepster on 26/12/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by normannbelson on 26/12/2008i still standby the snobbish bit. we were on a club site and te attitude was my caravan is better than yours .   ( yeh but mines paid for)  anyway thats my opinion. home truths....

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How can you judge the whole club by an experience and attitude you thought you detected, on one site on one occasion?

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There was no shortage of snobbery at the garden party at  Buck House which we went to. The hierarchy of the club took prime positions at the front where they could fawn, bow and gush when addressed by His Royal Senility and people who would normally speak to you at the water on a site, walked around looking at the sky. We thought we had come to the wrong do ! Of course, there was the traditional caravanner easily identified by a suit smelling of mothballs, and in a state of distress due to the fact that there was no alcohol!  

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If you go to a party at Buckingham palace what else would you expect?

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 Hi, I have met Prince Charles both formally and informally on several occasions

 and can state that he is very friendly and approachable and not at all snobbish

 unlike some of the monied Ruperts about, also my wife and myself were walking around Loch Muick near Balmoral when we met a very nice older lady walking her dogs she wished us a pleasant walk and yes

 it was her Maj my missus nearly fainted when I told her who she had just been

 speaking to.

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Prince Charles went past in a Landrover with a dead deer in the back when I was walking by Loch Muick. I

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Quote: Originally posted by Jerry+Tina on 18/1/2009

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Prince Charles went past in a Landrover with a dead deer in the back when I was walking by Loch Muick. I

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Thats not a nice thing to say about Camilla Jeepster

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Quote: Originally posted by Jerry+Tina on 18/1/2009

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Prince Charles went past in a Landrover with a dead deer in the back when I was walking by Loch Muick. I

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Thats not a nice thing to say about Camilla Jeepster

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It was late 1980s, so not sure if she was on the scene then?

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I am a CC and a CCC member.  I think the club sites are fair value, but not outstanding.  Some of the warden's are lovely and helpful but others are very concerned about following all the rules and come accross as less than friendly.  After saying that, I tend to prefer good commercial sites which are less of a 'clone'.  Often the sites have there own more extensive websites where you can have a good look around and get a sense of where you are going.  Many good sites will allow you to book a specific pitch, this is particularly useful if a small group of you are meeting together but are unable to arrive at the same time.  The CC and CCC tend to say we'll try and get you together, but no promises (and indeed they do try - most of them - but *try* is not really what we want to hear).

The aspect of booking specific pitches is one of my main gripes with club sites.  Some club sites will not even say if we could have a hardstanding or not.  (Ferry Meadows!)  I've just booked for a group of 6 units at Townsend Caravan and Camping Park, Leominster, for the August Bank Holiday weekend.  The site were so helpful, it was unbelievable.  We looked at a combination of pitches to suit our needs - some hardstanding, some grass, grouping the families with children together, the host caravan for evening meets further away from other units not in the group, to avoid disturbing others at night time, and positioning the units so that one family who were leaving a day early were on the end so that if anyone else came they would not be pitched in the middle of a 'party' of caravans.  On top of this we were given information about length of hoses for drainaway and tap connections and electric points, information about where one of our party could go fiahing (if he wanted) and a sight brochure was emailed to me within the hour to help us with our decisions.  If the site lives up to expectations, and I've no doubt about this, we will have a brilliant weekend.  In all my days as a CC and CCC club member I have not recieved such care and attention.

Last summer we went to Little Trevarrack Holiday Park, near St Ives in Cornwall.  Look at the website.  You can view individual pitches on line to see what they are like - a number of sites do this now.  Then you get Dornafield in Devon, with a chemical disposal point shared between each two pitches.

O.K., for the most part you pay for what you get, but I don't think Townsend in Leominster in wildly more expensive than a CC or CCC site.  I think the CC and CCC should be more flexible in the way they treat customers, not by compromising standards, but by aiming to please the ever differing needs of caravanners and campers.  That would be value for money.

Best wishes

Quote: Originally posted by wilma rubble on 13/1/2009

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It may only be 77p but the whole idea of the VAT reduction was to help the population in the current financal difficulties, if all the retailers decide on this option the only peiple being helped are the businesses and clubs of course

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Not a happy camper with the cc at the moment, unable to find any pitches in North Yorkshire, Filey, Scarbrough area for Easter weekend

Think I will book now for Easter 2010

CC Sites can be expensive when you have children, nice sites though.