How much for a pitch!!
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It’s because of gullible people like these who are dumb enough to pay it that greedy site owners will continue to keep hiking site fees up year after year, there’s just as much demand for sites all over Europe but I’ve yet to come across any that charge the rip off prices that greedy uk site owners charge…….
….Just sayin
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There’s no way I ever consider paying any of these prices, I would rather spend that sort of money on a flight and package tour, my pet hate,…….just sayin.
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Where’s that site then, please tell.
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How much for a pitch!! ???
Best part of nowt if you tour in France and are almost 100% self sufficient!
Best part of nowt if you tour in France and are almost 100% self sufficient!
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...a bit harsh perhaps! I only raised it for funsters to guess the location (country maybe). it seemed appropriate at the time but possibly not, will let you decide.
The site is possibly not what you would consider a normal motorhome site, albeit motorhomes can certainly use it. Sort of a 'one-off' type holiday really, not in this country. But where...
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See post 36
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I posted this because a friend told me about it ,there is no way I would pay those prices
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I have had our MH for 14 years. I know that campsite prices have gone up over those years, so I did a calculation using £15 as a mid-14 year price.
I calculated that, if I had used a campsite for 130 nights a year for 14 years, that would have equalled what I paid for the MH. Bit of a mu's game.
As it is, I think I paid for about 10 nights over those years and the max was £18
I calculated that, if I had used a campsite for 130 nights a year for 14 years, that would have equalled what I paid for the MH. Bit of a mu's game.
As it is, I think I paid for about 10 nights over those years and the max was £18
I drive past motorhomes that seem to be on the drive every time I go past, maybe the pitch fees have put them off going anywhere 
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Whereabouts in Spain are you? from ‘interested’ in Los Narejos, Murcia
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#36Whereabouts in Spain are you? from ‘interested’ in Los Narejos, Murcia
Stratford upon Avon show is now charging £20 a night to park in a field I notice. Yes there’s a bit of entertainment I think but they really want you there to buy stuff. I expect the other shows will be similar. Most of us go to these sorts of things to meet Funsters and not buy things. It’s hardly cheap camping anymore though. I don’t think I’ll turn a hair at Camping Car Park prices or Acsi!
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We paid a lot, coming down through France 3 weeks ago, I think the average was about €30 per night. I had little choice as most sites were still closed. I'm hoping for better on the way back in May, or sooner of this awful weather doesn't clear up.
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There are enough free aires in France if you want to keep costs down.
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It's not just the cost of pitch fees that's limiting how often we use our van, but the pitch fees don't helpI drive past motorhomes that seem to be on the drive every time I go past, maybe the pitch fees have put them off going anywhere
It has us. Between the cost of campsites and the cost of crossing the channel we haven’t used our van so far this year.I drive past motorhomes that seem to be on the drive every time I go past, maybe the pitch fees have put them off going anywhere
The cost of everything has gone up over recent years, the higher cost of motorhome ownership is only one factor in how much money people have available for leisure activities and holidays. The 2021 freeze in personal tax allowance is really beginning to bite now and has the largest impact on my finances but I am lucky enough to still be able to get away when I want to.
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If, as some authorities would like, we were ever all forced onto campsites, it would not be the increasing cost, which we could probably absorb, which would make us give up, but not wishing to adapt to campsite life after 16 years wildcamping that would do it.
Safari in Kenya or something like that?
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I largely agree. We don’t wild camp but do use Aires, CLs etc. recently on a CAMC site (voucher to use) small site, for them, 80 pitches, half full. Was quiet and OK. However I would think certain parts of the site would be very claustrophobic and feel crowded if the site was full. We would certainly hate that.
It's a sh-tty old life isn't it?
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More than 10 years ago I stopped at a campsite at Ullswater to ask the price for just parking, not needing their facilities. 100 pitches, 5 occupied. They wanted about £20 then and would not budge.
We drove 200m up the road and parked in an idyllic pastoral spot. Sod'em!
We drove 200m up the road and parked in an idyllic pastoral spot. Sod'em!
Hard to find free spots in the Lakes now Geoff. Still a few if you know where to go of course. Certainly hard to find something for £20 or less. There was a right whinge on FB just now over the Club site at Bowness charging £55 a night mid summer. Seems cheap compared to some posted on this thread!
Its a horrible site though by the looks of it. Surrounded by roads and crammed in. Sadly our favourite CL closed a year or so ago not far from Ullswater. We were the last ones to use it Christmas before last. £16 a night then including hookup.Subscribers do not see these advertisements
Everything thing had gone mad, soaring prices of Motorhomes,caravans and cars ,went to look at new Volvo £40000 + for decent model Road tax £590 , going up in April salesman said from memory £620 or £610, these industries will soon sound the deathnell, Salesmen said can you wonder why some are struggling
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My mate, of 30 years from our sailing days in Greece, is now Master of the NT Steam Yacht 'Gondola' on Coniston Water, bit different from oil tankers he used to drive, so I would hope he could fix me up with a parking space.Hard to find free spots in the Lakes now Geoff. Still a few if you know where to go of course. Certainly hard to find something for £20 or less. There was a right whinge on FB just now over the Club site at Bowness charging £55 a night mid summer. Seems cheap compared to some posted on this thread!
More to the point, how are plans going for this year's European Tour? Any dates yet? I am planning on us setting sail for France mid-May, if house is tidied up by then.
Its all action stations here at the moment. Raft of vehicles including the van getting through MOT's etc and the van is off down to Leicester sometime soon to get an extra solar panel fitted a second battery and a Victron controller. The plan is Isle of Arran and maybe the Lake district end of April / early May for a month, three months in France Mid June to September then somewhere in Southern England back end.
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So he has, thanks for letting me know
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