£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.

For those considering house swaps, do be aware it's very addictive - though if you run out of friends whose homes you want to visit there are several agencies who facilitate swaps all round the world

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@Lotsofsocks we have just come back from a week's campervanning at Nodes Point. Fully inclusive pitch £20 a night. Views to die for. Idyllic walks. They were just opening up the tent field as we left. We will definitely be going back.

as to how a successful business can be run without the need to behave like this

true, but only if you run your small local business catering for regulars only.

As soon as you grow a bit, working with supply and demand make much more sense, and is more profitable and manageable in the long term.

Hard to get any self catering on the coast this year due to high prices and minimum let being a week. I'm not committing to a week in Scotland when it might rain every day. Got 4 nights in rural Aberdeenshire in a gothic mansion, 4 poster beds and all! Sleeps 6 and £500 for 4 nights

@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.

To what end would you report them?

They're not doing anything wrong.

Just because you can't have what you want at the price you want doesn't mean it's illegal.

Just because you can't have what you want at the price you want doesn't mean it's illegal

Mind you, it's shame.
I quite fancy a weekend at the Dorchester for the price of a Premier Inn stay. It's only fair after all.

@AnyFucker

Absolutely shameless profiteering

Too. Bloody. Right.

I’m not a holiday cottage owner but I think fair play to them charging what people are willing to pay. And if that’s eye watering figures - go for it I say!!

I’ve paid a small fortune for 3 Uk hols this year (and a foreign one end of the year so won’t be so gutted if weather doesn’t play ball this summer in Uk) and I don’t begrudge fact that any other year it would have cost me 40% less in all likelihood.

@AnnPerkins

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.

@AnnPerkins But if your customer cancels at the last minute aren’t they liable for the full cost? All holidays I have taken if you cancel within 4 weeks of travel you have to pay in full. You can they sell the week to someone else albeit at a lower cost as it’s last minute and make even more profit?

@Laughingstock91

Not going to say exactly where but it’s North Devon so lovely area but still WAY too expensive

I live there! You can camp in my garden

This is why I hate holidayed in the UK since 1999. Nor do I support Britain tourism, just rip you off, then moan that people holiday abroad

All those saying it’s criminal have made me giggle
We’re talking about holidays here. Not access to drinking water

@Whammyyammy

This is why I hate holidayed in the UK since 1999. Nor do I support Britain tourism, just rip you off, then moan that people holiday abroad

And absolutely nothing to do with the weather?

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

But I'll be paying both costs, unless there is plenty of cancellation notice. The France trip I booked last year when things were looking up. I've got the option to move it, but I won't I'll just lose the coast if we can't go. But I also won't book things that are extortionately priced, and campsites which have done this (that I've previously used) I scrubbed from my list!

@Laughingstock91

Looking at Snowdonia at the moment! I am from south wales so tend to avoid holidaying at 'home' in wales as I am there a lot anyway but hey, its gods own country and all that...

I think you’ll find that’s Yorkshire though Wales is undoubtedly lovely too.

www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/sep/03/yorkshire

www.thesun.co.uk/travel/7285858/stunning-new-pictures-of-yorkshire-reveal-why-it-earned-the-nickname-gods-own-country/

m.imdb.com/title/tt5635086/

I think thats just Devon prices in general. I love Devon but at peak its crazy expensive because everyone loves Devon lol.

The other year (before Covid) I was looking at Devon and it cost 3x more in school holidays to go to Devon than it did to go to Germany or France... we ended up going in october instead of august which made it much cheaper.

@freakyfridays

as to how a successful business can be run without the need to behave like this

true, but only if you run your small local business catering for regulars only.

As soon as you grow a bit, working with supply and demand make much more sense, and is more profitable and manageable in the long term.

Well that's not right either. Our regulars are about 40% of our business. I still don't want to alienate them though. I have put my prices up gradually and manageably so that people get used to them, rather than doubling them in one go, which does just look like profiteering.

Have you thought about an alternative place, or perhaps somewhere at autumn half term?

Noticeable how silent the government have been over rip-off pricing, or cancelling then re-booking to someone else at higher prices.

if your customer cancels at the last minute aren’t they liable for the full cost?

Sometimes, yes, but an awful lot of offers have come with last minute cancellations rights because of Covid - in many ways booking's been seen more as a hope than a reality

You should see the number of emails I get a day from cruise lines; with no hope of sailing any time yet, they're getting increasingly desperate and throwing everything at it but the kitchen sink just to keep revenue coming in

Well said @HesterShaw1

@HesterShaw1

* Well that's not right either. Our regulars are about 40% of our business. I still don't want to alienate them though. I have put my prices up gradually and manageably so that people get used to them, rather than doubling them in one go, which does just look like profiteering.*

But your totally entitled to profiteer and it would not be the slightest bit immoral.

A return discount for returners perhaps but otherwise... don’t feel slightest bit bad about setting your prices according to demand. After a tough year for businesses - you do what you need to.

After a tough year for businesses - you do what you need to.

Honestly, I'm doing just fine now that I am allowed to operate! But thanks for the advice :)

Apologies for the brain fart, Pembrokeshire coast OR North of England like Northumberland coastline.

Both stunning, cheaper, and better traffic.

[quote Egghead81]@HesterShaw1

* Well that's not right either. Our regulars are about 40% of our business. I still don't want to alienate them though. I have put my prices up gradually and manageably so that people get used to them, rather than doubling them in one go, which does just look like profiteering.*

But your totally entitled to profiteer and it would not be the slightest bit immoral.

A return discount for returners perhaps but otherwise... don’t feel slightest bit bad about setting your prices according to demand. After a tough year for businesses - you do what you need to.[/quote]
Again, people keep throwing the word 'profiteering' around without knowing what it means.

No, you are not entitled to profiteer. Profiteering is illegal in the UK.

Profiteering is the use of deception or manipulative tactics in order to force or make a sale.

Raising prices on holidays is not profiteering.

www.blakemorgan.co.uk/law-in-a-time-of-crisis-how-to-stop-profiteering-from-panic/

time it’s too late, you’ve moved it now .

@Lockheart definition is profiteering is NOT necessarily illegal

* a person or organization that takes unfair advantage of a situation to make a large profit, often by selling goods that are difficult to get at a very high price:*