What do you consider a good price per night?

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Discussion with DH, as everything seems to be listed as an extra now!

Campsite we were on last week was £30per night, including two adults, 1 tent, 1 car. Children were £4 extra each.

On the price list there were the costs for EHU, dogs, extra cars, extra tents, extra people, gazebos...

We were paying for the location and the fact it was high season. Other pitches were as much as £75!

Site we are going in a few weeks is £45 for 4 of us, but includes swimming pool and entertainment.

Assuming somewhere popular like on the coast, I'd be accepting of paying around £30 a night for a large pitch with hook up and including 2 adults 2 children.

Much more than that and camping stops being a cheap holiday once you consider the cost of buying all the kit and replacing gas canisters, batteries etc.

I haven't been camping since before the pandemic but would expect to pay up to £20 for the kind of camping we do: basic pitch, no hook-up, two people in a 3 person dome tent with a car. Maybe £25 if it was very close to the coast or in a particularly touristy area and perhaps £30 if I had a bigger tent or lots of kids in tow.

It's normal to pay extra for a hook-up or a bigger pitch for a family tent or pup tents and not unreasonable for a site to ask for more for bringing a dog. Tents are a lot bigger than they used to be and minimalist camping seems to have gone out of fashion.

I guess sites with pools, entertainment etc would be more but I've ever stayed on them. All I look for is level grass, peace and quiet, and decent showers and loos.

£30 seems reasonable. We pay that for caravan, electric hook up. Where will you find for cheaper than £30? A few, not many.

We paid £40 a night earlier this year. That's for a family tent with 3 adults and 2 dc with an electric hook up. The facilities were great (and the showers were incuded) and there was a playground for the kids.

£30 was definitely reasonable for the location in August (lakefront in the Lake District with direct launching for small craft like canoes and paddleboards). It cost the same for our massive tent as it did a 2 man hike tent though!

Another basic site we use is £15 for tent and car.

I prefer to use sites that charge per person, rather than per pitch. I camp on my own so paying for a pitch that includes 2 adults and sometimes children, isn't a good deal for me.
I generally pay between £8 and £15 per night, for a rural site, usually lake district, with clean facilities and no hook up and no extras like playgrounds and shops.

It wasn't as cheap as l thought it would be - we paid over £100 for 2 nights in April.

Sold our camper and book hotels now😀

We paid €21 for a campsite in a fairly rural part of France .. 1 adult, 2 children, one tiny 3 man tent and our car. There was a swimming lake on site and a restaurant. Best value we had all summer ... 5 different locations.. BIL's enormous garden in Norfolk was free but no on site swimming!!

£25-30 with electric.

£15-20 without.

One car, two adults, two dogs, 6 man tent.

If it's any more I choose another site.

I don't ever go anywhere with electricity etc, but the few sites we go to regularly in the Lakes range from £8 a night per tent with no extra charge for cars (but it's very, very basic - no showers, no hot water in the toilets) to £12 per person a night with a few quid extra for cars (but this has nice toilets and showers, plus a pizza van, and lake access). So I think £30 sounds expensive!

We will pay the extra for the premium waterside/front row beach pitches but otherwise now stick to Temporary Holiday Sites or Certificated sites.
Paying £11/night for the Bank Holiday weekend right on the Dorset coast, but it is only a lovely flat field with a tap and Elsan point.