£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.

This kind of camping isn’t a holiday
It’s an endurance test
I have spent £700 on 3 nights glamping
A shepherd’s hut, containing a shower and toilet, with a tiny kitchen and double bed.
And an outdoor hot tub
Overlooking a nature reserve

That Is what a £700 Uk holiday should look like

@ChocOrange1

Look somewhere else

Isle of Wight is lovely. I've just had a very quick look- £213 for 7 nights at Nodes Point or £300 for Torness Bay. Both have swimming pools and other facilities.

The New Forest have the sort of basic field with a loo block for around £300 for 7 nights.

Devon and Cornwall are lovely but its worth shopping around.

I was going to suggest the Isle of Wight. We stayed at Nodes Point last year but in a caravan. Really nice site, we had a BBQ on the beach, we're looking to go back this year but camping.

Have a look at the Cumbria coast....... In particular around St Bees, Maryport etc. Pretty devoid of tourists because no bugger knows where it is but miles of stunning coastline and countryside to explore.

@Timeforabiscuit

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

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

Pembrokeshire is the far west coast of Wales, not "Northern England"

There you go.

£182 for 7 nights in August and free WiFi.... Electric hook up too.

www.wallacelanefarm.co.uk/

I saw a house in cornwall for a week £8000 .00

I know they have to try and recoup losses but that’s ridiculous.

If you see that as being an arsehole then you're way too personally involved...Although your regulars might love you, you're unlikely to have a very profitable business long term.

Well, i don't know. If you're fully booked at your usual (profitable) prices with your regulars what's the problem? How does that risk having a profitable business long term?

The risk with hiking your prices up for a year is actually losing some of your regular, reliable, well behaved customer base. That is the epitome of risking profitable business.

On another thread someone complained that they had been booted off a camp having paid £700 for four days unless they paid another £150, that was a bit of a shock.

I keep getting ads from Girl Guiding about camping. Their sites are available for small family groups at the moment. Not expensive. Not usually open to the public.

Lots of site owners have told us that last year people were expecting a bit of Spain type holidays and the litter and condition they left pitches in was disgusting, so some are trying to price out those sorts

Classic Mumsnet middle class, stuck up, snobbery at its best 😂

Wow, that is a lot. I do understand that businesses want to maximise the money they get but I think they should also consider the longer term impact. If people are put off booking this year because they've put crazy prices on, there's a good chance those people will want to continue supporting the cheaper places in future years.

I refused to book one site because they were charging 4x their usual price. They were, unsurprisingly, not fully booked despite many other places being booked up.

I managed to get a static caravan for less money for a week.

That is crazy money!!!

I'm going to Devon (Hope Cove) in July and have booked a three-bedroomed flat overlooking the beach for under £900

No way would I pay anywhere near that for a basic camping pitch.

There are absolutely loads of campsites available in Devon for far more normal prices. Unless you’re looking something particularly fancy, there must be loads of other perfectly good options in Devon without needing to change county!

It's a lot of money to be sure, but if people are so "desperate" for a holiday (which let's face it, you can live without) that they're prepared to pay it then more fool them.

I didn't go on holiday last year and I can't see myself going on holiday this year. It's a shame, but I won't keel over from lack of different places or beaches.

If you don't want to pay crazy prices then wait. If you can't wait (which I admit I can't understand but you do you) then you'll have to pay the crazy prices.

It's also not profiteering or exploitation. It's simply demand.

The problem with it being England is that it could rain all week, at that price that would really sting.

That's insane. Surely you'll get better bargains on airbnb!

Ludicrous for camping. We are paying not much more than that for a cottage rental.

A very quick look on airbnb shows a cute caravan with two bedrooms on a pretty farm not far from Lyme Regis for £450 in high season (late July) or a 2-bed chalet in Seaton with washer dryer, TV and cosy seating area (it rains in bloody Devon), decking etc for £550pw. That was on the first page of many.

Don't go to Devon or Cornwall. They will be rammed full in the summer!

That is appalling profiteering, and makes no long term business sense. I say that as a hotel owner. We have kept our prices at a fair price point, and have a zero charge cancellation policy. We have a loyal customer base who return year on year and we value them. There is no way I'd rip people off like that. Every business decision needs to be part of a long term strategy. You can of course price with short term supply and demand pricing, alienate your regulars, get some snotty reviews as a result of people feeling what they got didn't measure up to what they paid, and spent the next 5 years trying to claw back your reputation.

Lots of site owners have told us that last year people were expecting a bit of Spain type holidays and the litter and condition they left pitches in was disgusting, so some are trying to price out those sorts

Classic Mumsnet middle class, stuck up, snobbery at its best 😂

Not just a Mumsnet thing, we heard this from people running campsites last year, lots of people who don't normally go camping and have no regard for camping etiquette e.g. noise levels at night and general respect for other campers. They got chucked out after keeping everyone awake but every day more night time noise makers arriving.

And if you want to do wild camping, there's this place in Devon, high season with a toilet and shower block but not much else, for only £250 a week.

I remember a while ago a poster complaining that they couldn’t afford an English summer holiday. I linked to places I had taken the dcs in Norfolk and the Isle of Wight which were very reasonably priced and had lovely beaches.

The poster snapped back that a summer holiday meant ^Devon or Cornwall”. Silly them.

@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.

Yes it's taking the piss, but it's supply and demand. I paid £200 to camp in a crappy field with a portaloo (no showering facilities) in Yorkshire some years ago when the the Tour de France was in that local area. I wanted to be in that immediate vicinity. Roads were going to be closed 24 hours before the race come through so no other way of accessing the village, so I paid up. Had a whale of a time despite knowing that the camping was a total rip-off.

I'm paying under £300 for Cornwall. The difference is I booked in December last year as we go camping every year.