£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.

Raising prices in response to demand is literally not profiteering. I don't think posters on this thread know what profiteering means.

If said campsite owners were lying about the services on offer, making false claims about their site, or suggesting falsely that this is a one-time only deal, THAT would be profiteering.

Raising prices =/= profiteering.

For it to be profiteering, there would usually need to be an element of deception or unethical behaviour (and no, raising prices on camping holidays in response to demand is NOT unethical).

This article gives a few examples: www.blakemorgan.co.uk/law-in-a-time-of-crisis-how-to-stop-profiteering-from-panic/

@Laughingstock91 it would be a straightforward ‘fuck that’ from me - I save up all year for one decent holiday and I will NEVER be tempted to waste that money here in the overpriced, sodden (yet pretty) UK - take me to France, Spain, Malta, Italy - fab weather, culture and food - fuck overpriced ‘staycations’ - absolute madness ...

[quote Lockheart]Raising prices in response to demand is literally not profiteering. I don't think posters on this thread know what profiteering means.

If said campsite owners were lying about the services on offer, making false claims about their site, or suggesting falsely that this is a one-time only deal, THAT would be profiteering.

Raising prices =/= profiteering.

For it to be profiteering, there would usually need to be an element of deception or unethical behaviour (and no, raising prices on camping holidays in response to demand is NOT unethical).

This article gives a few examples: www.blakemorgan.co.uk/law-in-a-time-of-crisis-how-to-stop-profiteering-from-panic/[/quote]
Exactly!

If a business has 50 pitches and can sell them at £700/week each, how much do people think they should be charging instead?

Would these MNers sell their own work or assets at under market value?

Do they tell their employers that they don't need to pay them £xx,xxx per year because they'll happily do it for less than the market rate?

Crazy.

Holly moo! That’s expensive! In the Lake District we pay £20/25 PWR night for a pitch with electricity and use of facilities on sight😳

Mind it’s been a while so price may have rocketed

Wow! I booked a whole cottage for June half term for £830 so for a tent pitch to be £700 is beyond ridiculous! I did make the booking last September though, it probably would have been more if last minute.

Wow that's nuts. We camp occasionally and pay about £30 a night. I accept things will have increased but that's a crazy amount of money to put your own tent up in a bloody field.

We've booked a lodge with a hot tub in Devon for a week for £800. September, but even so!

Hold off a bit, I’m hearing locals say lots of folk cancelling to rebook abroad.

Might bring them to their senses re: prices.

That's madness. Dh is doing the same with dd this weekend (after the gales) and it's 20 quid a night. We're paying about 700 for 9 nights in a 4 bed detached house with massive garden near the sea this summer.

I'm still smirking at the idea of 'the plaque ridden French'.

Golly, we’re off at half term for 5 days to north Devon in our caravan. Cost £135.

Then a similar price in summer in Pembrokeshire (the one in Wales, not Northern England 😉)

People on here bragging about double booking are in no position to talk about what's morally acceptable

When you cancel your UK holiday at the last minute because Spain has been added to the green list the owners will be left with weeks of vacancies that it will be too late to fill. Last minute cancellations are going to finish many small businesses off.

I wouldn't pay that and you don't have to either. Hang on to your money. You may be able to book somewhere last minute or you might be able to get to France after all.

There should have been a price gouging dept set up for people to report these things. There is where I live, hiking up pricing to take advantage of people in this time is outrageous and isn’t tolerated. Yes fair enough they’ve lost money prior but there have been all sorts of govt schemes to help
Out.

How many adults? How many kids? How many dogs? If it’s for a full commune of people maybe is justified, but anything less it does seem extreme. We’ve just paid £60 for two nights with two dogs and two adults for a motorhome luxury pitch with our own electric and water supply in Lake District x

@HerRoyalNotness

There should have been a price gouging dept set up for people to report these things. There is where I live, hiking up pricing to take advantage of people in this time is outrageous and isn’t tolerated. Yes fair enough they’ve lost money prior but there have been all sorts of govt schemes to help Out.

So people are not free to fix their rates? It's bloody outrageous.

No one is taking "advantage" of anyone if prices are clearly advertised at the time of booking. If you don't like it... book elsewhere!

If I want to put my spare room on airBnB or rent my garden as a parking spot, I charge what the hell I want to charge! Who is going to tell me it's too expensive?

Aren't people allowed to lower their prices off-peak either?

😮 Me and DP got flight and hotel in New York for a couple days for that money pre COVID. That’s crazy!!

@Losttheequipment

France is poxy and plaque ridden too

Lol it really isn't unless you hate the french for other "reasons" ?

Booked a Manor house in the Pyrenees nr a Spa town (where the spa is free), 10 nights BnB, BBQ thrown in with the owner - 600 euros... for two of us... free cancellation.

France's infection rate is falling like a stone, within a couple of weeks will be similar to ours...

The "cool camping" website links to particularly nice sites. Maybe cost a bit more than bargain basement, but way less than you were quoted in Devon.

Absolutely shameless profiteering

• maybe, but then when you got people doing this I'm not sure I can blame them.

I've actually double booked us - a week in France and a week in North Yorkshire.

I'm in hospitality and the number of bookings that have been no-shows in the last few weeks is shocking. We're turning people away, even more so due to reduced capacity, and people can't even be arsed to find an email and click cancel, or just pick up a phone. It's really frustrating.

French campsites will have a years losses to recoup too so I'm sure their prices will have gone up by similar amounts.

Just had a look on air B n B and week in hired 4 person bell tent with compost toilet and outside shower, in Cornwall is approx 1,200 including service charges!

Last week in July I should add

I get grumpy when I have to pay £15 per night. I aim for under £10.

And don't get me started on sites that insist on paying for 2 people even though there's only one of me.

I got so fed up with trying to find something with availability and without being ripped off, I spoke to a friend and we are going to house swap. We get a week in her home on the Gower peninsula and she gets a week in Somerset. Feels like a good, stress free arrangement!