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I have also started to look for an Easter booking and found prices are getting out of hand. I think these greedy site owners will kill the golden goose and many campers may make this their last camping year.

I am thinking of opting instead for the cheep flights and an apartment rental. We will know when the camping bubble has burst when argos stops putting camping gear in the catalogue.

When this happens I hope prices will tumble as the campsites try to get back the custom they lost. 

As for a rip off site try the link there are 2 adults and  3 kids making this a £29.50 a night

http://www.parkfootullswater.co.uk/tariffs.html

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The link states high season price for 2 adults and a car costs £19, then £2.50 per child aged 4 - 15. That makes £26.50 per day, for a family of five, in high season (or £185.50 per week).

You can find cheaper pitches, but it still seems a pretty good deal to me for around a fiver per person, per night, in high season.

(I've just noticed you have done your costings on a numbered pitch, with electric hook up, which does work out at £29.50 per day, sorry! But, suspect that in this case you are paying for the considerable facilities and lakeside position at a site like this?

Lots of sites still exist without clubhouses and childrens clubs, which don't cost so much. You pays your money and you takes your choice, surely?

Quote: Originally posted by pauljacey on 22/2/2007

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Perhaps not Liddenham but a friend has just returned from spain on a weeks break 2 people flights, coach to the 4 star hotel, full board inc alcohol £120 per person. Teletext hols.

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Hi pauljacey,

I take your point that a site like this can seem expensive for a couple (think it would work out at £154 for two people, high season and with EHU), when they then have to also pay for travel costs, food and entertainment, and it can then end up costing more than a holiday like the one your friend has just been on. In that case, you would have to think what you wanted out of a holiday (and for us, it would be no contest, as thought of sitting on a coach to Spain and back, plus having to eat hotel mass-produced grub isn't appealing, even with the inclusive booze! ).

Add three kids to the cost of that Spanish package holiday, though, and the cost shoots up (they usually charge the same for kids on last-minute deals, in our experience).

It's about what suits you, I guess. We go to a fab site in Cornwall every year, and pay quite a lot for the privilege, but then it has absolutely everything we want from a site, is immaculately kept and in a lovely location so we reckon it is worth it to us. Likewise, we go to some sites which have minimal facilities and pay very little, but they are fine for what we want in a break.

Camp sites are businesses, at the end of the day, and you choose what you want and how much you are prepared to pay in just the same way you do when shopping for food, for clothes, or for most anything else, don't you think?

Liddenham, my post started out saying I was looking at booking for Easter and how the prices have risen.

So April 5,6,7,8 or Easter high season would cost £22 a night plus £7.50 for the kids.

Making it  £29.50 per night over Easter. This was not for a numbered pitch which would be an extra £3 a night.

Paul

Quote: Originally posted by pauljacey on 22/2/2007

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I'll have to check but I don't want and didn't ask for EHU numbered pitch.
No clubhouse or childrens club at Hollands Wood just a beautiful location with the usual toilet/shower/dishwashing block.
I am still surprised that it's gone up so much

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Sorry, pauljacey, that costing referred to the link posted by pauljones for the Park Foot site, at Ullswater, not to your booking.

If the site you are going to has recently put fees up, have you queried why? I know they put prices up a bit each year - happens everywhere, don't you find? - but if it has shot up, maybe they have had the shower block renovated, or are under new management?

I hope you have a fab time, anyway.

Don't get me wrong; I would like costs to come down as much as anyone else, just realise why it doesn't happen in high season and at the best sites.

I stayed on a site in North Devon in July '06. The only reason was that I had just fitted a new ring main in the van and I wanted to test it on some wonky campsite EHU. £23 for one night, that's me and the van, nothing more. It is a total, total P. take.

When I look at what some of the sites around North Devon want in the season for a family of four it almost beggars the imagination.

 - and then the British leisure industry wonders why people go abroad

I could never understand why they charge a different price throughout the seasons anyway. Why not just charge one price throughout? Then we are all treated fairly and doesn't matter when you are able to go camping.

You can't compare a package holiday with camping because there are far too many differences to consider. Hotels are usually half board or even full board, so your meals are in with the price. You get clean bedding, towels, soap, maybe even room service and waiter service. You have your own en suite bathroom and many other things.

When camping you get a 12 foot square patch of turf...if there's any turf left, and water from a stand pipe halfway across the field which you have to carry back. You get a loo, probably also across a field and quite often have to pay extra for a shower.

The entertainment is usually within a club and is paid for by the proceeds of the club as with any other pub entertainment.

The area...well, that is a natural landscape and you can go there whether you camp or not.

I am just wondering why I pay £20 a month to house my caravan on a farm, then at the weekend tow it 100 miles or more to another farm where I pay £15 a night! Am I mad or what?

 hi i have just booked our caravan into lomond woods holiday park located in balloch on the south side of loch lomond scotland.owned and managed by the wood familyhas consistently earned top gradings from visit scotland .most recently best park in scotland and the prestigious scottish thistle award at lomond woods thy never for get its your holiday

carava\motorhome\£15peak season £20bank holidays weekends

looking forward to getting away and dont mind paying £20 for a five star parkits a spring break or cosy haven to escape every day life;