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Hi to all,

I'm a complete newbie, have done some camping with a tent but we will be buying our first caravan in the next few weeks hopefully. But which club to join? The Caravan Club or the Camping & Caravan Club, or both?

Many thanks.

We joined both for a while, but personally we preferred the layout of the caravan club sites, the soap in the toilets & separate waste and drinking water points - we may just have been unlucky with the C&CC site we stayed on and it was about 8 years ago, we were going to re join them last year but I was a bit put off by the deposits for booking. When we last went to C&CC site

Pitches were allocated, where as most of the time you can choose on CC sites.

We usually make it to all our bookings - occasionally we have had to delay due to illness and last year we canalled one due to back trouble and lost CL deposit.

If you can afford to and join both to give you more choice.

J

We are with the cc&c.  The online booking can be a nightmare at busy times as it is very hard to book a site with availability.  You have to go onto the site you are wanting to book fill dates in and then find out that there is no availability, you can click on nearby sites but if there is no availability on those then you have run out of nearby sites so have to go right back to the beginning to find there is no availability.  That really annoys me and i can't see why you can't put in the dates and pitch you require and it come up with what is available.

I like being taken to my pitch by the cc&c warden as he then points out where everything is and last Friday helped us onto our pitch with his tractor.  I am going to try out the cc when it comes to renewing membership in September.

We only have CC so can't comment on C&CC.  The CC as previously stated is of a very high standard and I think that the the price is very good for what you get. 

We mainly use CC site where possible as it suits us, and on the few times we have used commercial sites I always think that the standards arent quite as good!  By this I mean cleanliness of toilet blocks, pitches etc

I have been on my own a couple of times and have always had offers of help when pitching too.

Both myself and hubby are in our 30s with 1 child so it isn't just for retired couples.

Quote: Originally posted by blondieandi on 16/4/2009

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Hi Lin ,

        I am member of the camping and caravan club, i have a tent and my friend has a caravan also my mother in law is a member and she has a caravan, we have found the club to be very helpfull in the past and all the club sites are of a high standard. I think you would find joining the club quite usefull and interesting as they also put on lots of activities at various sites throughout the year.

Regards

John Boggild