New site - West Wales - eye watering prices!

[number14]

Welsh Water are opening a site at one of their reservoirs in Pembrokeshire - https://llys-y-fran.co.uk/camping-west-wales/. It's a decent enough place for a walk or cycle but nothing really special. Now, hold your breath, check the link, scroll down and get an eyeful of their prices. The basic fee is bad enough but one that really gets me is £15 for an awning and it will only be open for 3 months/year.

 

[jann]

 

[1807truckman]

Those prices are horrendous.

 

[mistericeman]

Easy solution ....

Stop somewhere else .

Let folks that are happy to pay it ...pay it

 

[Trotter]

Nice to see we are finally going to see European style aires taking off over this side of the water.

 

[Fisherman]

Let’s not beat about the bush here.
Someone should take photos of the idiots who pay these fees and post them online, they must be joking.
2 adults, 1 child, a dog, with an awning, hard standing with EHU wait for it

£66 a night

Just think you can hire a Motorhome for less.
You can easily get a hotel with breakfast for less.
I hope these greedy bar stewards will struggle to get punters.
Just think a week there will cost £462 what a bargain.

 

[Trotter]

To be fair, the July -Sept price is only £45 a night more than the one Rob and I had in France.
No, my rubbish maths again.
2 vans = £90

To be fair, the July-Septprice is.............Oh sod it. I give up.

 

[Moped]

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Activities And Facilities​

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Adventure playground

Mountain bike trails and pump track

On-site café

Visitor Centre with reception open 7 days a week

On-site shop

Free wi-fi in the visitor centre

Land and water activities (extra charges apply)

You are paying for a lifestyle and facilities that need to be staffed so if that sort of thing floats your boat, then it may be considered reasonable value.

There are all singing all dancing family sites in French hotspots during high season where the daily fees are even higher.

As a couple who do not want these facilities then yes the prices are not going to encourage us to stop there!

 

[mistericeman]

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Activities And Facilities​

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Adventure playground

Mountain bike trails and pump track

On-site café

Visitor Centre with reception open 7 days a week

On-site shop

Free wi-fi in the visitor centre

Land and water activities (extra charges apply)

You are paying for a lifestyle and facilities that need to be staffed so if that sort of thing floats your boat, then it may be considered reasonable value.

There are all singing all dancing family sites in French hotspots during high season where the daily fees are even higher.

As a couple who do not want these facilities then yes the prices are not going to encourage us to stop there!

Sensible reply ....

 

[marchie]

Welsh Water are opening a site at one of their reservoirs in Pembrokeshire - https://llys-y-fran.co.uk/camping-west-wales/. It's a decent enough place for a walk or cycle but nothing really special. Now, hold your breath, check the link, scroll down and get an eyeful of their prices. The basic fee is bad enough but one that really gets me is £15 for an awning and it will only be open for 3 months/year.

Is it £15 to buy an awning, or is that the fee to erect it?

 

[Fisherman]

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Activities And Facilities​

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Adventure playground

Mountain bike trails and pump track

On-site café

Visitor Centre with reception open 7 days a week

On-site shop

Free wi-fi in the visitor centre

Land and water activities (extra charges apply)

You are paying for a lifestyle and facilities that need to be staffed so if that sort of thing floats your boat, then it may be considered reasonable value.

There are all singing all dancing family sites in French hotspots during high season where the daily fees are even higher.

As a couple who do not want these facilities then yes the prices are not going to encourage us to stop there!

The cafe will make money, the visitor centre will double up as reception, the onsite shop will probably be in the same building, and will make money, free wifi at visitor centre, costs virtually nothing to supply, and note the land and water activities extra charges apply.
As for the the adventure playground most campsites have something similar, and the mountain bike trails will be available to the public.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

And that’s-
‘Up to FOUR people’ I suppose

 

[marchie]

£45 for up to 4 people is only £11.25pppn. For a couple, or single traveller, the price is pushing beyond the limit, and the £15 fee for the awning takes it over the edge

Steve

 

[Martin P]

Not a whelks chance in a supernova

 

[Jo001]

We thought about taking a month or so travelling around the UK using a mix of wilding, pub stops, CLs and sites. Even a lot of the CLs are expensive now. We are going to Europe instead.

 

[colinm]

We thought about taking a month or so travelling around the UK using a mix of wilding, pub stops, CLs and sites. Even a lot of the CLs are expensive now. We are going to Europe instead.

My suggestion is someone put a tracker on Barry, he seems to be able to find cheap sites.

 

[mistericeman]

My suggestion is someone put a tracker on Barry, he seems to be able to find cheap sites.

Loads of cheap sites still out there ....just avoid honey pots and places with hot and cold running everything .

 

[Trotter]

We thought about taking a month or so travelling around the UK using a mix of wilding, pub stops, CLs and sites. Even a lot of the CLs are expensive now. We are going to Europe instead.

Yup ! But the 90 day thingie is a pain

 

[Jo001]

Yup ! But the 90 day thingie is a pain

It is. But if we can go and be back by a particular date, we could still go away mid January for up to 90 days. Mr 001 tends to get cabin fever at around day 60 anyway (we have been working on it, that's a good couple of weeks longer than his previous limit).

 

[Trotter]

Be nice if I could borrow your unused 30 days