Am I Tight ????

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We have just looked at one of our favourite sites in Dorset, 'Freshwater Bay ' at Burton Bradstock, it is a lovely site and we have enjoyed many a weekend there with out G/ Kids, however, to go there BEFORE Easter they want £55 per night.......... I have refused to pay that price ............. what do you recon ???
 
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Two of usI said:
We have just looked at one of our favourite sites in Dorset, 'Freshwater Bay ' at Burton Bradstock, it is a lovely site and we have enjoyed many a weekend there with out G/ Kids, however, to go there BEFORE Easter they want £55 per night.......... I have refused to pay that price ............. what do you recon ???
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Depends what you are getting for the money - Freshwater Beach looks like an all singing all dancing type of site with private beach, swimming pool, bowling and more besides. I guess keeping that stuff running costs a penny or two and as we all know, the price of everything is going up . . . .
 
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What are you getting for the money?
 
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Two of usI said:
We have just looked at one of our favourite sites in Dorset, 'Freshwater Bay ' at Burton Bradstock, it is a lovely site and we have enjoyed many a weekend there with out G/ Kids, however, to go there BEFORE Easter they want £55 per night.......... I have refused to pay that price ............. what do you recon ???
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Highlands End also a nice site nearby. Week before Easter grass pitch with EHU £70 for 3 nights. All hard standings booked up
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Two of usI said:
We have just looked at one of our favourite sites in Dorset, 'Freshwater Bay ' at Burton Bradstock, it is a lovely site and we have enjoyed many a weekend there with out G/ Kids, however, to go there BEFORE Easter they want £55 per night.......... I have refused to pay that price ............. what do you recon ???
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Not the price I found on the website. It was much less. For how many adults and children are you being quoted £55?
 
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I feel that many will destroy the goose who laid the golden egg.
Best in my view is not to discuss just take action, they often read here and judge !
 
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matamoros said:
Not get many Travelodge rooms with breakfast for that these days and there is a slight difference in spending 3 nights in a Travelodge at Birch services on the M62 and beach site in Dorset.
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They would have to pay me to stay at birch services :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
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As been said what do you get for the money versus what do you want/need. Even if its £20 and all you want is grass water and black disposal it is expensive and youre not tight. Frugal is the word.
As to travel lodge i once stayed in one near Raglan (see castle in Avitar) and cooked in the Bongo, but that's another story.
 
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Friends of ours were charged £24 per night to stay in a waterlogged field last weekend. There was a tap, ehu and waste dump but other than that nothing - literally just a farmer’s field. Had it been in a spectacular area maybe that price is ok but it wasn’t. They won’t be going back!
 
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You know the price and can see the description so it's up to you. Whether it's"worth it" depends on what people will pay to go there so if it's too high it won't sell and they're going to have reduce the price. If enough will pay it why would they charge less?

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Lenny HB said:
If its more than a fiver I have to think do I really want to say here. A few Aires in France I've been known to splash out €10 or €12 because it was a nice place. :LOL:

On a ferry week tomorrow, much cheaper than staying here.
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Think similar, but I would run to a tenner if it was really where we wanted to be.
As we don't need anything but a place to stay, everything else is just a waste of money.
It's not being tight it's just sense.
I think most of the sites are still geared up for families in caravans who probably need all the stuff and as long as they can get it they aren't bothered about motorhomes who are just taking up space that a caravan could be on.
 
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Think similar, but I would run to a tenner if it was really where we wanted to be.
As we don't need anything but a place to stay, everything else is just a waste of money.
It's not being tight it's just sense.
I think most of the sites are still geared up for families in caravans who probably need all the stuff and as long as they can get it they aren't bothered about motorhomes who are just taking up space that a caravan could be on.
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We were speaking to a bloke looking at setting up a cl he was quite surprised when I said he could just set up places without ehu and attract motorhomes.
 
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We went to haven mablethorpe last week £9 a night all in, but apart from the first afternoon when we we went for a drink and a look round, we never went near the amusements which is not really what they want, they want the pubs and stuff full of kids spending.

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Linking this to a msg from John Barret and the pricing at 'Pig at Brockenhurst' one of the highlights of our stay here is to walk over the hill, across the golf course and have lunch at an open air chalet cafe ( have removed the name ) it a lovely place, however, just looked at the website and for a sea food platter, its £60 each .............. I now think that with covid etc we haven't been out enough for too long and have lost touch............ but, also I am tight !!!!!
 
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Two of usI said:
Linking this to a msg from John Barret and the pricing at 'Pig at Brockenhurst' one of the highlights of our stay here is to walk over the hill, across the golf course and have lunch at 'Rachels' it a lovely place, however, just looked at the website and for a sea food platter, its £60 each .............. I now think that with covid etc we haven't been out enough for too long and have lost touch............ but, also I am tight !!!!!
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I think all eating out has gone up in price quite a lot recently, I do understand why with shortage of staff, increase in prices for food and power. We will eat out now more as a treat rather than just when we fancy it as in the past.
 
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Two of usI said:
Linking this to a msg from John Barret and the pricing at 'Pig at Brockenhurst' one of the highlights of our stay here is to walk over the hill, across the golf course and have lunch at 'Rachels' it a lovely place, however, just looked at the website and for a sea food platter, its £60 each .............. I now think that with covid etc we haven't been out enough for too long and have lost touch............ but, also I am tight !!!!!
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Just crazy prices that people are sort of just accepting as the norm now and yet we keep getting these programs on the telly showing how you can live for far less.
Folks keep moaning about low wages but at the other end they just throw it away.
My grandson started another job a couple of weeks ago where he had to find his dinner as he is out on the road, he started off having a Tesco meal deal every day, but then suddenly he thought he could maybe do this cheaper, so he now goes to Tesco at the weekend and buys a loaf and some stuff to put on it, and gets almost enough for the week at the cost of one days meal deal.
 
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Two of usI said:
We have just looked at one of our favourite sites in Dorset, 'Freshwater Bay ' at Burton Bradstock, it is a lovely site and we have enjoyed many a weekend there with out G/ Kids, however, to go there BEFORE Easter they want £55 per night.......... I have refused to pay that price ............. what do you recon ???
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I wish I could get £1500 plus to rent out our house for a month. That's what this site are charging for 100mts? of grass.
OK, add a £ a day for the ability to turn one of three taps on (and dispose of the resultant grey) and then the disposal of black water. (That's at our house)
 
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