stew 46
Member Since: 01 Dec 2011
Location: cornwall
Posts: 10146
  
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Are these clubs any good ? , am looking at doing a bit more camping so joined it this week as the site we are going too this weekend is one, Helford river camping , looks a nice quiet site and I guess many club sites are ? .
Stew  -------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
D3 SE 05,
110 s wagon 300 tdi SOLD
h top transit
crew cab transit
transit connect
ausa dumper, muck truck .
peljob 2.5 digger
06 L 200 crew cab
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 1st Aug 2018 8:03 pm |
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gundogman
D3 Decade
Member Since: 18 Apr 2012
Location: Geordie - exiled in Manchester
Posts: 536
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We've been members for a couple of years.
We mainly use the Windermere site as our caravan is stored there.
We find the staff very helpful and friendly and the site is always beautifully kept. Original Owner.
Mods:
RRS modded grill- Narpy.
De tango'd lights- Beanie.
EGR's blanked -Flack
LED's allround.
282,000+ club (miles)
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| 1st Aug 2018 8:28 pm |
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tintenter
Member Since: 29 Sep 2006
Location: Oldham
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Hi Stew, been involved with the Camping and Caravanning club for a long time  , the club has a lot to offer, but to be fair it really depends on the type of camping/caravanning you do. so long as you use one of the main club sites for 4-5 nights you will get you membership cost back as none members pay more, but have a read of the magazine out and about section which lists all the weekend rallies and Temp holiday sites that are up and coming, most of these dont need to be booked in advance and will always give a friendly welcome. happy to try and answer any questions you might have.
Chris. Tintenter
Corris Grey Discovery 4 HSE
Bigger permagrin now installed
Semper in excretum, sole profundum moveat.
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| 1st Aug 2018 8:29 pm |
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timmyt79
Member Since: 18 Oct 2016
Location: Pemrokeshire
Posts: 585
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I would say yes.. We have been members of the various ones for a few years now and the membership has paid for itself... Access to certified sites at around £5 a night is always a bonus!..plus you always know what your getting with a cc site... They are clean and tidy and well presented. But as I say there is always the option of CL sites which are around a fiver a night.. Usually on a farm etc.
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| 1st Aug 2018 8:31 pm |
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James W
Member Since: 27 Mar 2008
Location: Wirral, UK
Posts: 3067
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I joined both big clubs but only because two separate one week stays on great-location sites covered the cost of joining each time, when you work out the club discount on fees.
Will probably stay with just caravan and motorhome club but only because our friend are only in this one so we will tend to go to the same sites sometimes.
Both clubs have offered good, well managed sites and some interesting CLs
PS Stew... If you're joining one get a friendly member on here to 'recommend' you - someone might as well benefit from the free gift D4 XS, gone, much loved, never forgotten
2018 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography - Gone to someone with less sense and more time to enjoy it 
2016 Toyota Hilux Invincible - Liberating experience
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| 1st Aug 2018 8:33 pm |
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peter.green
Member Since: 26 Aug 2015
Location: South killingholme Lincolnshire
Posts: 148
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Been a member of the C&CCfor over 30 years, really friendly bunch don't do many rally's now I've retired but there temporary holiday meets are great value. Just off to one in the north east for a month £9.50 a night OK no mains electric but have a 200 watt solar panel to charge my batteries. Land Rovers don't leak they just mark there spot
1973 Land Rover Series 3 110 safari Gone but not forgotten
1990 Discovery 200Tdi Gone thank god
1996 Discovery 300Tdi sadly missed (still going strong but not with me)
2003 Discovery TD5 Gone to LR heaven
2004 Discovery TD5 Gone to Aberdeen hope it likes it there
2005 RRS HSE Rimini Red (my Disco 3 in a posh frock)
Think I see a pattern here
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| 1st Aug 2018 8:38 pm |
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M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8072
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I have found the C&CC to be very good and friendly not only as a member but very fair to site owners, I give the other one the thumbs down in my experience, think Discovery owners compared to RR FF owners  It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
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| 1st Aug 2018 9:08 pm |
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J@mes
Member Since: 10 Nov 2008
Location: Bomber County
Posts: 4547
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I've been a member for 10 years, like someone above said once you've had a week at a site you've saved your membership.
we love the Keswick & sandringham sites (sandringham next week)
a night is expensive though, nearly £30/night at sandringham. We're going to a site in Yorkshire at the end of the month, comparable in quality to a CCC site but £12/night 2014 D4 XS
2005 D3 SE - Gone
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| 1st Aug 2018 9:18 pm |
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Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
Posts: 1418
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Yes, it's worth it.
Particularly if you make use of the CS sites (small, minimal facilities but generally very cheap.
Also you can get some good discounts with retailers and on ferries etc.
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| 1st Aug 2018 9:57 pm |
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Rnclayton
Member Since: 13 Apr 2018
Location: Radstock, Bath
Posts: 564
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Been a member for a little over a year.
We have found it very good when we take our tin tent as family of 5. we've tended to see a lot of people only stop for 2 nights etc, whereas we tend to go for a week at a time.
Can get a bit awkward with the extended family. When we go with my 2 sis-in-law with families, and mother-in-law, it tends to be 3 tents and a tin tent with awning. Clubs have been very good in giving us 4 plots together. When we go like this, we tend to share things, rather than taking 4 sets of everything. A CC site this year got really pedantic about spacing. The tents etc were spaced out according to their rules, but one staff member got really angsty with us for all sitting together to have breakfast one morning. Made a point of coming back 3 times to tell us to move things to maintain the 'Fire Break'. This was maintained at all times. After the 4th visit I got a bit annoyed, and pointed out that he had not visited others that had a similar set up to ours. I also had a fire blanket next to the cooker, and 3 fire extinguishers to hand. (I'm a Facilities and H&S Manager). I made a formal complaint to the Site Manager, who came down to look at our setup. He didn't see a problem with it at all.
Apart form what 1 issue, it has been a good investment. The in-laws all joined as well. The saving they made on that 1 week camping paid for the membership. MY07 Freelander2 SE Santorini Black - Gone
MY10 D4 XS Buckingham Blue
MY06 D3 HSE
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| 2nd Aug 2018 9:05 am |
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Brian_DL13
Member Since: 25 Aug 2013
Location: Teesdale
Posts: 1418
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Yeah, the C&CC (and also the CMC) have gone crazy in the last year or so over this minimum spacing thing. Apparently the insurers have specified it and if there's a fire spreads from one pitch to another and they aren't a minimum distance apart, they're not covered  Whilst most staff take a sensible approach to this, you'll always get some jobsworths wherever you go
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| 2nd Aug 2018 9:40 am |
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Scarab
Member Since: 11 Jun 2011
Location: Hastings
Posts: 1283
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Considering joining one of these clubs this weekend (as our insurance insists on it )
If anyone out there gets a benefit from referring PM me, happy to stick your name down on the form rather than leave it blank
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| 2nd Aug 2018 10:09 am |
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stew 46
Member Since: 01 Dec 2011
Location: cornwall
Posts: 10146
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many thanks for all your replies and comments didn't know about the gift for an existing member oops sorry am off this fri and sat night to a nice site with the rv5 near the Helford river not far from Falmouth and only 30 odd miles away from us
Many thanks again , stew . -------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
D3 SE 05,
110 s wagon 300 tdi SOLD
h top transit
crew cab transit
transit connect
ausa dumper, muck truck .
peljob 2.5 digger
06 L 200 crew cab
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| 2nd Aug 2018 10:24 am |
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Rnclayton
Member Since: 13 Apr 2018
Location: Radstock, Bath
Posts: 564
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Scarab,
Just PM'd you. MY07 Freelander2 SE Santorini Black - Gone
MY10 D4 XS Buckingham Blue
MY06 D3 HSE
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| 2nd Aug 2018 11:14 am |
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dadof7kids
Member Since: 23 Aug 2011
Location: sunny Doncaster
Posts: 1303
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Stew when is the caravan site opening at your place?
Iam down your way again soon and I am in another farmers field for 3 weeks  java Black D3 gone : (
Club Lux : ) GONE : (
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| 2nd Aug 2018 2:50 pm |
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