£700 for a weeks pitch camping in Devon?

[Laughingstock91]

We normally go camping in France in the summer and pay about £600 for 2 weeks on a lovely site with a pool in Provence. We take our own camping gear when we go.

£700 for 7 nights for a tent pitch in Devon? It’s basically a field with no other facilities bar a toilet block. That’s for us to pitch our own tent too! Not glamping or anything.

Aibu to think it’s taking the fucking piss? I am so over this poxy plague ridden island today. I know we are lucky to get any holiday but it’s a weeks camping - we save up all year to go to France & love it.

I'll raise you your £700 and give you £1400 (although to be fair its not just a pitch....)

Here:
www.thepointatpolzeath.co.uk/blog/the-rock-retreat-glamping-polzeath/

Local radio/TV reporting people are leaving Cornwall early due to the weather.
A beach hut in Perranporth could be around 600 per night july august.

A Spanish 14th C Parador with stunning sea views, in Galicia can be had for £550 for 5 nights in July (2 people)

Your lack of planning does not constitute my crisis.

That is insane! No-one should pay that. We've recently booked a week's break for half term in West Sussex for £700 in a 2 bed Air B&B. Our room is ensuite and we get shared use of a tennis court and heated outdoor pool. I couldn't find anything right on the coast - bonkers prices for ugly caravans so I just looked a bit further inland. It's a 25 mins drive from the coast and on the edge of the South Downs. It will be lovely if this weather lets up!

Just randomly looked on Air BnB and you can get a 3 bed flat, sleeps 4, minutes from the beach, a week in the middle of August with parking for £85 a night.

Obviously I don't know your circumstances etc etc but £700 seems a lot to camp.

I know a nice place in Devon where you can camp for £20 a week and you have access to electricity, if you want the link?

It’s close to Woolacombe & Ilfracombe.

Nasty rip off merchants taking advantage of us mostly having to staycay - don't do it, I'd want something much better for that money

That does sound another. Last yr I pair about £69 a night at River Dart with ehu and I felt ripped off. This yr I've only been able to find non electric but it looks like lots for kids to do ( I have teens so that excludes any quiet sites for us). £372 for 6 nights in Woolacombe non ehu. I usually go to France too and a beautiful site in Annecy for about £700 for 14 nights with ehu. This country is a rip off.

Hi op, it is a lot. BUT everywhere has had to enforce covid precautions. Which means extra cleaning and fewer customers. Plus that everywhere has been shut and most places are teetering on bankruptcy. People need to make enough money to survive the winter when the holiday business in the uk is dead and possibly another lockdown. They are trying to hedge their bets not rip you off. I haven’t been able to find anywhere to book for a joint family holiday- everywhere is full on the dates we can make.

We cant justify going camping this year, usually pay £30-50 a night for 6 of us, get away for a week and a few long weekends normally, but this year we're looking at around the same price you quoted, more on some sites, and that's not even an electric pitch! We've also noticed more extra charges added too, one even charged for your car! Totally disgusting to the point we've booked to go all inclusive in Spain next year instead which will actually work out cheaper as with 6 of us, just eating outs costs us minimum of £30 quid just for the chippy!

It is supply and demand. More people want a tent pitch, so the supplier can charge more.
In the same way economics works, if you think it is too expensive, go elsewhere.

Paying that only continues the idea that it’s acceptable.

I could afford it, but i never would pay it.

@Bard6817

Paying that only continues the idea that it’s acceptable.

I could afford it, but i never would pay it.

Makes no difference. Plenty of people are obviously paying whatever is charged.

YHA have great accomodation in interesting places, towns, seaside, country, villages and cities. Usually breakfast is included with PLENTY of choice, hot clean showers, library, often evening meals at very reasonable prices. WiFi, sometimes bike hire, washing and drying facilities, TV. Can't go wrong and I've made many friends from many countries over the years.

It's one thing to rent a caravan, but very different to essentially be given a small piece of grass to pitch your own tent and use the loo. That's not worth £700 no matter which way you slice it. I'm shocked.

YANBU unless you’re going to pay it then YABU as that’s why prices are so high as people are willing to pay it.

@Laughingstock91

I am so over this poxy plague ridden island today.

Where have you been for the last 14 months? It's not just this 'island' that's been affected by covid, the whole world has.

As far as paying £700 to pitch your tent in a field, you have a choice... pay it and make the best of your break or done pay it and either look for somewhere cheaper or save your money, camp in the back garden and have a great holiday next year instead.

I have paid that much to camp in Cornwall in the past for a week during the summer holidays, its expensive! (and normally quite wet)

Even before covid the price of having a holiday in the UK has been extortionate. Add to that crap weather, prices for attractions and meals out and for us it never feeling like a holiday. The Uk has never been an option for us. We travel a lot within the UK in normal times but it certainty is not a holiday. There have been so many threads on Mumsnet about how selfish people are if they want to holiday abroad, they all totally miss the point. I suspect those with this view are happy to holiday in the UK anyway and do not understand why others feel differently. For my tiny family of myself as a lone parent and DD, travel has been something we continued since DH died and is a priority. It is our thing and we head to where the £10 flights take us and relax whilst exploring various cultures. Uk holidays are just the same shit in a different location. Nice for a weekend but certainly not a few weeks!

Holy crap!

That's nuts! We are doing 8 nights in Cornwall next week for £250ish.

We too were meant to be going to France, it has already been cancelled and refunded. We live in Devon and love going to France as the sites are so much nicer, have much better facilities and the weather is generally better (less rain). We will camp locally if the weather improves but it certainly won't compare to where we were going to go in France.

That is a crazy price. But holidaying in the UK is expensive.