We are on a seasonal pitch in the scottish borders,last year our electricity charges rose from 19p per unit to 25p, I wondered what other sites are charging
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Quote: Originally posted by tartanthistles on 01/7/2023
We are on a seasonal pitch in the scottish borders,last year our electricity charges rose from 19p per unit to 25p, I wondered what other sites are charging
You were extremely lucky at such a small increase as cost per unit went up to over 80p a unit.
In June we went to Poplars in Sewerby and we paid nearly a pound a unit on a touring pitch, the owner said it was dropping down to 49p in July, dont know if it was the same on the seasonal pitches but I would imagine it was.
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I read that the Caravan Club sites are fitting smart meters. They claim it will bring prices down. Anyone who believes that tripe about bringing prices down is living in cloud cuckoo land. I have never been on a club site with a meter and I have never know CC to lower prices other than in the win. If they are fitting meters then caravanners will pay for them.
Len
Quote: Originally posted by cliffbrown on 04/7/2023
We used £24 over 8 nights the heating was on gas only but it all ads up kettle lights TV etc
Last time we went on a site with metered electricity was in 2019. We only had a fridge, battery charger, and small kettle running off it, but 14 nights cost us a total of £2.80, so 20p a night. Is it any wonder we consider a fixed charge of £3+ a night to be a rip-off.
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Quote: Originally posted by cliffbrown on 04/7/2023
We used £24 over 8 nights the heating was on gas only but it all ads up kettle lights TV etc
Last time we went on a site with metered electricity was in 2019. We only had a fridge, battery charger, and small kettle running off it, but 14 nights cost us a total of £2.80, so 20p a night. Is it any wonder we consider a fixed charge of £3+ a night to be a rip-off.
For you, Colin, that is true, but we use electric almost exclusively in our van, so if the weather is chilly we can easily use £3 - £4 a day. But that is offset by using no gas.
We were chugged for electric in Spain over the winter. For a month I paid €12.80 but I used gasfor heating, fridge and cooking, my gas bill worked out at€42.70 for the month. I use Safefill bottles so saved a lot by refilling, if I had Spanish bottles it would have cost me. €76.50 for 3 bottles.
I know it is expensive initially Safefill bottles but you get your money back quickly depending on how much gas you use.
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Quote: Originally posted by Colin21 on 04/7/2023
Quote: Originally posted by cliffbrown on 04/7/2023
We used £24 over 8 nights the heating was on gas only but it all ads up kettle lights TV etc
Last time we went on a site with metered electricity was in 2019. We only had a fridge, battery charger, and small kettle running off it, but 14 nights cost us a total of £2.80, so 20p a night. Is it any wonder we consider a fixed charge of £3+ a night to be a rip-off.
For you, Colin, that is true, but we use electric almost exclusively in our van, so if the weather is chilly we can easily use £3 - £4 a day. But that is offset by using no gas.
We would use a bit more if it was chilly, as we would be putting our convector heater on, but then when it's really cold we don't go away in the van anyway. We would use a bit more now than we did in 2019 because our gas water heater packed up and I replaced it with an electric one, on the principle that if we are going to get charged for it anyway we might as well use it rather than using up our gas. We have also considered taking our little electric oven with us next time for the same reason. We always go on sites that have EHU anyway as our fridge only works on mains electric. At this time of year we don't use £3 worth of gas and electricity combined at home on average, although we might on a day when we were using the tumble-dryer.
We are currently considering staying at CL which has a nightly rate of £22.50 which includes 8 units of electric per night, any more use to be paid at "cost". Please don't be too technical or arithmetical, but we have a tv on evenings for an hour or two, fridge 24 hours, kettle on 6 times for tea etc and hot water for washing, shower a D washing up. Would that equate to 8 units? TIA
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Quote: Originally posted by bazlam on 13/8/2023
We are currently considering staying at CL which has a nightly rate of £22.50 which includes 8 units of electric per night, any more use to be paid at "cost". Please don't be too technical or arithmetical, but we have a tv on evenings for an hour or two, fridge 24 hours, kettle on 6 times for tea etc and hot water for washing, shower a D washing up. Would that equate to 8 units? TIA
i would be finding another site! if the site feel the need to put limits on then they should do it properly and use a meter where you choose how much you are going to use and then pay accordingly
The other thing to remember is that on metered pitches the site is not permitted to charge more per unit of electricity than the site itself pays their supplier.
Just back from a site in the Derbyshire Peak District, thankfully with EHU included in pitch fee, despite being the height of Summer () overnight temperatures got down to 6 or 7C for a few nights and circa 10 or 11C for most of the others! - the heating was on rather a lot!
Not what I would expect, and not what I would budget for if electricity was metered! I'd probably book a more expensive site if I was reasonably confident I wouldn't be using much metered electricity on top, but that's obviously a flawed notion!
I was reading a campsite review a few days ago regarding a small site whereby the owner had installed electric meters in order to avoid campers paying the extra charges. The site initially provided you with £5 worth of electricity and you could add on respectively depending on the pitch nights you were there for. Any remaining electric that wasn't used was credited back to the camper respectively. The person leaving the review said that they had stayed for 2 nights and the total cost of electric used was £1.20 so they had a £3.80 refund. They also went on to say that the electric consumed was to run the electric kettle, the hot water, the TV and charging their phones. So it goes to prove just how much electricity is consumed generally over one night which proves that campers are just being ripped off!
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) overnight temperatures got down to 6 or 7C for a few nights and circa 10 or 11C for most of the others! - the heating was on rather a lot! 
