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£700 for a weeks pitch camping in Devon?

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Laughingstock91 · 20/05/2021 10:57

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.

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Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/05/2021 12:29

FWIW Laughingstock91 I'm off to Devon myself in June, to a small hotel I've used twice before where the standards are incredible - it takes a lot to keep me in this country for a holiday, but it really is that good

Of course they've been supported financially through lockdown, so they've responded by only raising prices slightly: £560 for the week with breakfast and an (also very resonably priced) evening meal available if wanted

It's called having a moral compass ...

Thewiseoneincognito · 20/05/2021 12:31

I fully understand and encourage businesses to seize the opportunity to make back some of the lost revenue since this began but £700 is ridiculous. Sadly if you can’t afford it, someone else will and no doubt pay it. Madness.

emmathedilemma · 20/05/2021 12:33

Last time I went camping it was about £22 a night and I thought that was bad for a patch of field and access to a not very special toilet block!

AdobeWanKenobi · 20/05/2021 12:34

@freakyfridays

People have long memories.

They really don't.

There was a lot of anger against local businesses who didn't respect the rules, stayed opened when they should have shut etc.. and promises never to use them again.

A handful of people might remember, but said businesses have never been so busy despite everywhere else reopening too!

Maybe not in your area, but round here they do. The two businesses charging £5 a disposable mask and £15 for a small bottle of sanitiser have both closed. The furore on the local Facebook page was enough to ensure hardly anyone used them again.
HesterShaw1 · 20/05/2021 12:35

no, it's called business. You are confusing them with a charity.

I work in tourism. I could have doubled my prices this year and filled my bookings still. However I refuse to do that because it's taking the piss. And I know it would be an insult to my regular customers.

We're not all arseholes.

ivykaty44 · 20/05/2021 12:36

I’m going camping, it’s £90 for the week, nice site in U.K. with fire pits

BlueLobelia · 20/05/2021 12:36

@idontlikealdi

I got quoted 6k for a week in a bog standard 2 bed static in cornwall. Good luck to whoever is prepared to pay that/
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I discovered that even with flights I could get 7 days in a lovely lovely hotel right on the beach in Jersey for half the price of 3 nights at a holiday camp on the IOW.

Love the IOW. But Jersey gets my vote this year.

Aprilinspringtimeshower · 20/05/2021 12:37

@Timeforabiscuit

Talk about making hay while the sun shines! That is taking the piss IMO, but if people pay it ...Confused

I have found that Nothern England (Pembrokeshire Coast) is a far better option.

If you think Pembrokeshire coast is northern England you may want to re check your geography!🤣🤣🤣
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Laughingstock91 · 20/05/2021 12:39

@BlueLobelia ooh Jersey! Are we allowed to travel there? Now there’s an idea!

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MrsJBaptiste · 20/05/2021 12:39

OP Camping can be very expensive! Shock

We’ve paid £850 for 2 weeks camping in Cornwall which gets you a patch of grass (slightly waterlogged as it rained for 2 weeks before we got there!), the toilets and the on-site shop.

We paid £300 for 2 weeks in Norfolk a couple of years before that so the extortionate price is due to Cornwall not Covid.

Mycatisthebest · 20/05/2021 12:39

That is taking the piss. What's going to happen next year will they still be charging that amount? Angry

shouldistop · 20/05/2021 12:39

I paid £850 for a 3 bedroom cottage in Cornwall! I wouldn't pay that for camping.

Iamnotminterested · 20/05/2021 12:39

I've just (as in the last hour) booked a 3 bed caravan on a small site near Sandown on the IOW for £750, but that's for 5 of us, site looks lovely and it's going on July 24th, so just before the hiked prices of a week later.

RaisinsRuinEverything · 20/05/2021 12:42

We’v Booked a site in Suffolk, £400 for 7 nights in August. I thought that was a lot, but it’s a small site with large pitches well spaced out.

freakyfridays · 20/05/2021 12:44

@HesterShaw1

no, it's called business. You are confusing them with a charity.

I work in tourism. I could have doubled my prices this year and filled my bookings still. However I refuse to do that because it's taking the piss. And I know it would be an insult to my regular customers.

We're not all arseholes.

it's not being an arsehole to run a profitable business.

We are not talking about essentials like baby formula.

If people are happy to pay the price, it's not too expensive. Supply and demand...

Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/05/2021 12:44

It's also worth remembering the exprience you may get, staying at the property of someone who'll behave like this
Are these really likely to be the sort of people who'll try to please their guests, or indeed welcome them at all except for their wallets?

Bad enough to be asked for such prices at all, but worse if it's a letdown ... and that's even without the British weather

BlueLobelia · 20/05/2021 12:44

[quote Laughingstock91]@BlueLobelia ooh Jersey! Are we allowed to travel there? Now there’s an idea![/quote]
yes I believe so! But they have quarantine and testing requirements which actually might make it tricky for our family this year.

www.jersey.com/visit-safe

maddening · 20/05/2021 12:45

tyddynisaf.co.uk/

This is a lovely site on Anglesey, private path to the beach, really nice restaurant on site, V clean toilet and shower blocks, just under £400 for an all weather pitch 2 adults 2 kids

osbertthesyrianhamster · 20/05/2021 12:45

YANBU. We're going abroad. Sick of 'Stay here, support the economy' when it's a total fucking rip off.

Losttheequipment · 20/05/2021 12:46

France is poxy and plaque ridden too

freakyfridays · 20/05/2021 12:46

@Mycatisthebest

That is taking the piss. What's going to happen next year will they still be charging that amount? Angry
Like every other businesses, you can guess it will depend on what people are prepared to pay.

When things don't get booked, they run sales and "special offers" and bring prices down until bookings restart.

GulliBelle · 20/05/2021 12:47

Waaayback in time, night of the millennium many people thought they could cash in by charging £100s for a night's babysitting, clubs thought they could charge £100s for admission. They were wrong.

Back in 2012 Olympic year, people thought they could let out their skanky London flats for £1000s, they were wrong

Those who think they can let out their field or pokey caravan for that type of money will also be wrong.

Friendofdennis · 20/05/2021 12:47

Pembrokeshire is lovely but it does rain a lot here in Wales.

JingsMahBucket · 20/05/2021 12:49

@Losttheequipment

France is poxy and plaque ridden too
At least the food and weather is better too. And people are dressed better.
JingsMahBucket · 20/05/2021 12:51

Pardon me. That should be food and weather are better in France.

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