Caravan and motorhome club

[Clunegapyears]

I'm in both. I prefer the C&MC certicated locations, and there seems to be more of them. Some of their club sites are located right in the town centre, eg York and Bristol, which is good for a sightseeing day or two. The C&CC are perhaps more informal and the old f*rts discount is good, together with the temporary sites.
Although I enjoy wilding I do occassionally like to get the chairs and bbq out, and have a shower without thinking of having to fill the tank.

We are also members of both. Have used both for insurance but the C&MC this year as they will give us green cards for E Europe.
We hardly ever stay on the C&CC CSs as they are nearly always a lot more expensive than the C&MC CLs.

 

[mossypossy]

Pays for itself

Discount on channel crossings.
Free RSPB entry....saved £12 yesterday.
Discount at Cotswold Outdoor

Used a CL a couple of times as well.

 

[Wooie1958]

Free RSPB entry....saved £12 yesterday.

Thank you :wave:

20 years we`ve been members of the CC now CAMC and i never knew that RSPB | The Caravan Club

 

[wildebus]

I'm a member of both, but I use the C&CC more as the THSs are so useful. The cost of nembership varies from £39 for online membershjp of the C&CC to £52 for membership of the CMC. If you join the C&CC quoting the membership number of a current member they get a free gift. I don't know if the CMC has a similar scheme.

I joned the C&CC last Christmas and selected the online/Digital option.
After a wee chat with Biggarmac I realised the "normal" membership for just £6 more where you get send a physical periodical magazine to hold and read through is a much better option for those folk who like paper magazines rather than on-line ones. So I renewed for 2019 with this option instead.
Not considered seriously joining the C&MH Club as they seem - at least going by the website - rather anti Self-Build Campers and I'd prefer to join something where I would feel welcome rather then endured.

 

[Millie Master]

Having been in both, I find the Caravan & Motorhome Club is the best by far as they aren't so over the top luvyduvy with kids.

We never use their club sites and as others have said their CL's are tending to be getting to be very expensive................ However, if you sit and search through their Sites Directory handbook and the attached Location Map you can find literally dozens and dozens of excellent CL's for under £10, in fact, each and every year, as soon as the new edition comes out, I sit down and highlight every single CL I can find that has good reviews (on their website) and at the right price for me, tight git that I am!!

Every single year I plan our various trips using a combination of the CL's so that I can always leave with full water tanks and empty waste tanks, we can then 'wild it' for a couple of nights before then stopping at another CL. Doing it this way our average 1 week trips only average out in total at somewhere around £15 to £20 total site charges per week.

 

[lozbou]

Camping and caravanning club for us BUT only use their small 5 pitch sites with limited facilities (don't want or need club houses, swimming pools etc...
Price is usually less than a tenner on most of the ones we use...

Won't have anything to do with the caravan club or whatever they call themselves these days...
Far too many rules/regs and Nazi like site stewards involved for my liking.

its obvious you are not in either of the clubs.

 

[Wooie1958]

I joned the C&CC last Christmas and selected the online/Digital option.
After a wee chat with Biggarmac I realised the "normal" membership for just £6 more where you get send a physical periodical magazine to hold and read through is a much better option for those folk who like paper magazines rather than on-line ones. So I renewed for 2019 with this option instead.
Not considered seriously joining the C&MH Club as they seem - at least going by the website - rather anti Self-Build Campers and I'd prefer to join something where I would feel welcome rather then endured.

In all the 20 years that i`ve been a member of the CC now CAMC i`ve never been on a site that hasn`t had at least one self build on there.

I`ve seen several " vans " turned away despite being members the best one being at the Chapel Lane site near Birmingham a few years back.

It was a battered old transit with just a mattress thrown in the back and one of those all in one canister single ring cookers.

The guy who was a member said they couldn`t stop him but they did and i believe he got his membership refunded.

 

[Wooie1958]

Camping and caravanning club for us BUT only use their small 5 pitch sites with limited facilities (don't want or need club houses, swimming pools etc...
Price is usually less than a tenner on most of the ones we use...

Won't have anything to do with the caravan club or whatever they call themselves these days...
Far too many rules/regs and Nazi like site stewards involved for my liking.

I can`t recall any of the C&CC sites having club houses or swimming pools :rolleyes2:

 

[mistericeman]

its obvious you are not in either of the clubs.

Cancelled my caravan and motorhome club membership last year after 2 years or so.....

Been a member of the campin and caravanning club for close to ten years now....
Do you require a picture of my membership card as proof ?

The caravan club are far too regimented and sniffy for my liking and some of the folks they choose as site Commandants would make Goering shudder.
Never again

 

[wildebus]

In all the 20 years that i`ve been a member of the CC now CAMC i`ve never been on a site that hasn`t had at least one self build on there.

I`ve seen several " vans " turned away despite being members the best one being at the Chapel Lane site near Birmingham a few years back.

It was a battered old transit with just a mattress thrown in the back and one of those all in one canister single ring cookers.

The guy who was a member said they couldn`t stop him but they did and i believe he got his membership refunded.

I am sure there are plenty -but I am not going to have some self-appointed officials looking me over before they deign to decide if they allow me to join their club. As you will be aware, my Camperbus does not look like a typical Campervan and so may not meet their criteria.


Or maybe I'm like Groucho Marx? I wouldn't want to join a club that would have me as a member

 

[antiquesam]

It's fortunate that everyone has the choice of joining or not, but I do protest at the, frankly, bizarre criticisms by people who patently haven't used their facilities for some considerable time. If at all.

 

[Moped]

On the self build camper thing it could be that caravan parks or their insurance provider consider that they could be a fire or explosion risk. How many self builders get certification for gas and 240v electrics? It may be down to the small print in their public liability insurance.

The question is are those who have “acceptable” motorhomes and caravans prepared to pay increased site fees to cover increased caravan park insurance costs to cover those vehicles currently considered a potential hazard to others on the site?

It may actually be totally impossible for the various camping clubs to obtain public liability insurance which includes cover in the case of an incident involving self build vehicles.

I have no problem parking alongside self builds when wild camping as clearly the owner of the vehicle alongside would prefer it not to explode and the owner hopefully has some form of insurance cover in the event of the worst happening. But when it comes to public liability insurance which campsites have to have it it a completely different ball game.

 

[Wooie1958]

I am sure there are plenty -but I am not going to have some self-appointed officials looking me over before they deign to decide if they allow me to join their club. As you will be aware, my Camperbus does not look like a typical Campervan and so may not meet their criteria.


Or maybe I'm like Groucho Marx? I wouldn't want to join a club that would have me as a member

I`m not casting aspersions against your Camperbus but i do think just a mattress thrown in the back of a van is taking the piss :rolleyes2:

 

[brucews]

Gordon, as we have previously posted in another thread, we were in both clubs but did not renew with the CAMC last year as too regimented and they refuse to provide use of facilities for small cost without staying overnight; the CCC has this for £7 at some sites. Of course we mainly wild, but it is helpful to unload and fill up somewhere so we use CS (CL when in CAMC).
Bruce

 

[antiquesam]

I believe the CAMC use the same requirements as the DVLA to classify a van as a motor caravan.

 

[alcam]

Cancelled my caravan and motorhome club membership last year after 2 years or so.....

Been a member of the campin and caravanning club for close to ten years now....
Do you require a picture of my membership card as proof ?

The caravan club are far too regimented and sniffy for my liking and some of the folks they choose as site Commandants would make Goering shudder.
Never again

Swithered about joining one of these clubs a few times . I use campsites very occasionally home and abroad .
The camp commandant complaint is a common one but I can smile politely and go about my business if , for example , the location suits me .
Hard to know which club is 'best' for a solo traveller with dog ? Would be using club for certain locations [York centre for example] , not really interested being stuck in middle of nowhere with others unless it is somewhere outstanding .
Any advice appreciated .

 

[wildebus]

I understand the Motorhome club tends to charge "per unit" based on multiple occupancy but the Camping Club are "per person"?
no doubt individual sites will vary, but I believe that is a common difference.

 

[antiquesam]

I understand the Motorhome club tends to charge "per unit" based on multiple occupancy but the Camping Club are "per person"?
no doubt individual sites will vary, but I believe that is a common difference.

Both charge per person and a unit charge at Club Sites. The certicated sites are per unit.

 

[Caz]

I understand the Motorhome club tends to charge "per unit" based on multiple occupancy but the Camping Club are "per person"?
no doubt individual sites will vary, but I believe that is a common difference.

Not exactly. Both charge per person but CaMC charge a flat pitch fee plus the per person charge whereas C&CC just charge per person. BUT the CaMC pitch fee includes EHU whether you want it or not, whereas you can book a non EHU pitch on a C&CC site or pay extra for a serviced pitch with EHU.

Clear as mud, sorry. An example -

CaMC -
Site name Chapel Lane Caravan Club Site
Pitch type Serviced Pitch With Awning
Arrival date Friday 12 April 2019
Departure date Sunday 14 April 2019
Pitch fees for 2 night(s) @ £15.70 per night £31.40
1 adult for 2 night(s) @ £9.40 per adult per night £18.80
TOTAL £50.20

C&CC -
Kingsbury Water Park 12 April 2019 for 2 nights
Grass Pitch no EHU at 9.50 per night per person - Total Member price: £19.00
Hardstanding with EHU at 15.05 per person - Total member Price: 30.10

I've always found C&CC cheaper even with EHU, as the above illustrates.

 

[Moped]

That is completely wrong. Their insurance will only cover their liability. If someone brings an unsafe vehicle, the driver (and their compulsory insurance) is liable for any damage, not the campsite.
No, the reason is simple snobbishness.

I may be right or wrong but if the self build vehicle is unsafe then the compulsory insurance will be void in the event of an incident when parked up. And then what? The assessor would want to see evidence of habitation checks by suitably qualified persons. You are talking LPG, 240v electrics and petrol or diesel. If a members turns up in a self build with all the appropriate gas, electric and habitation certification and insurance then regardless of the vehicle age the vehicle should be allowed to enter.

Having paid for a space on a CAMC site surely members would like to think the site wardens would use some common sense when allowing members to park up on their sites and if they consider there is a possible hazard they would not permit the vehicle on the site.

Many privately owned caravan parks have similar requirements. Including not permitting white vans to enter on their own as these are considered to be commercial vehicles and not designed for sleeping in. Self builds potentially do not have the safety features that professional builds have to have to pass certification.