caravan parks

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Seen a fair few Caravan Club members only small sites on my travels so it must be worth it if you have a spare bit of space for 5 or 6. Pitch is around £6-£9 a night + £6 per adult & £2 kids..... family of 4 around £25 a night...

Unless you have relations in the less pleasant caravanning community and they can knock up a 40 pitch over a bank holiday weekend. :mad:

Not quite that I'm afraid. Probably looking more like £7 to 15 a night at the small CC members only sites depending on facilities and location.

P.S Nice new forum addition @admin
 

Ben M

Member
Location
Suffolk
Yay the Diversification forum is open for business :)

The little 5 pitch CC sites are well worth it if you have a suitable little paddock or similar not being used. No planning and very few services required, just fresh drinking water and waste disposle point I believe. I wouldnt hesitate having one if I had the small area of land required,
 
Thought about the caravan club six pitch job in 2006, sent for the stuff and two nice people from the Caravan club came to see us and we got the green light, but, at the time to command a premium of £17 a night I needed electric hookups, hard standing, shower and toilet facilities, Elsan potty disposal is the minimum requirement, and also would have to drain the paddock. It was going to be a fair expense for six caravans, so I didn't bother, maybe Internet advertising would have put us on the map, but at full whack a hundred odd quid a night, it wouldn't pay back the £'s spent getting the pitches done, no one wants to set up on a wet field and rough it obviously,so for me it was a no goer. And also we have one of the largest touring parks next door, and a lot of his customers are shocking - newish motor and caravans, but they behave worse than shameless, a lot of the time his men have to go tell families who cause trouble to feck off, they can't leave due to the fact they are drunk and can't drive. I couldn't deal with trouble people however remote the incident, any other way than giving them a hiding, I'm not the person to have a caravan site to be honest, it would only take one roudy git to tell me to feck off when I ask him to turn his noise down and that would be it. Takes a patient type to have caravans / holiday makers.
 
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ianw

Member
Location
east yorkshire
Thought about the caravan club six pitch job in 2006, sent for the stuff and two nice people from the Caravan club came to see us and we got the green light, but, at the time to command a premium of £17 a night I needed electric hookups, hard standing, shower and toilet facilities, Elsan potty disposal is the minimum requirement, and also would have to drain the paddock. It was going to be a fair expense for six caravans, so I didn't bother, maybe Internet advertising would have put us on the map, but at full whack a hundred odd quid a night, it wouldn't pay back the £'s spent getting the pitches done, no one wants to set up on a wet field and rough it obviously,so for me it was a no goer. And also we have one of the largest touring parks next door, and a lot of his customers are shocking - newish motor and caravans, but they behave worse than shameless, a lot of the time his men have to go tell families who cause trouble to feck off, they can't leave due to the fact they are drunk and can't drive. I couldn't deal with trouble people however remote the incident, any other way than giving them a hiding, I'm not the person to have a caravan site to be honest, it would only take one roudy git to tell me to feck off when I ask him to turn his noise down and that would be it. Takes a patient type to have caravans / holiday makers.
That was basically my conclusion,just worded better,the mrs thought it a good idea,I have the people skills of basil fawlty,first moaner first thing in a morning would be getting caravan muck forked over hedge
 

exmoor dave

Member
Location
exmoor, uk
@exmoor tom will know abit out this subject.

I saw a pick up yesterday with one of those caravans you bolt on the back. Suspension bottem'd right out. Gust of wind or too fast round a corner and it would tip over....idiot! :facepalm:
 
The faff just ain't worth it, spending an easy ten thousand quid on getting it sorted- that's if you have a decent redundant building to fit a decent shower, shitter and drying facilities plus washing up sink, then an onion cess pit, 4 cubes of concrete to keep the fecker down in our wet ground, 13 tonner to dig a bit of track, make the pitches and quarry the shale out to make the hard standings and drain the field, armoured cable and a load of bollox in the house to get levy to the pitches, the hook up boxes with a decent post in front of them to prevent them being flattened, then I gotta mow the fecking lawns, grass on pitches, pich up dog shot, litter, my mrs bake courtesy cakes, all for at the time £17 a night to caravan club people only. Feck that for a game of Alan sugar.
 

JP1

Member
Livestock Farmer
When we stayed at Dentdale two weeks ago it was obviously peak season. Lovely site in a "protected" village. Two of us plus 2 yr old, 8 nights inc awning, free electric but plus showers on tokens cost £230.

They had a busy farm shop, small Dales visitor centre on pay admission and loads of caravans and campers

I'm sure it's not everyone's cup of tea but I reckon those two little in bye fields made a good living and gave some winter grass too
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
We have a 5 van Caravan Club site, been going for over 40 years now I think. I cant remember a time when it was not here. Based in an old orchard and we offer electric hook up, toilet and shower block with waste disposal.

Site is open 365 days a year and there is normally at least one van on site all year around and we are always full in the school holidays and spring/autumn term times. Location helps being near the coast and Exeter and only 10 mins from the end of the M5

www.crablakefarm.co.uk

Not sure about some of the prices being quoted above but we are pretty typical for the area at £13 per night for the van and £1 a night if awning used. We don’t charge per head or for dogs that some places seem to.

You have to keep an eye on the electric usage as some take the micky running fan heaters all day and night but generally people are pretty fair.

Hardest part is making sure the place is clean each day and cutting the grass in the summer. We hardly get any complaints.

The main annoyance is people ringing yup to book, you take their details and a deposit and they never then turn up meaning you have a gap to fill at peak season in short notice. We now insist on a decent non refundable deposit during peak season of at least 3 days payment.

As a result of the caravan site we also now store caravans, only about 24, all undercover. If I could find another site to store more I would tomorrow as I could fill ours 4 times over and it is money for old rope.
 
When we stayed at Dentdale two weeks ago it was obviously peak season. Lovely site in a "protected" village. Two of us plus 2 yr old, 8 nights inc awning, free electric but plus showers on tokens cost £230.

They had a busy farm shop, small Dales visitor centre on pay admission and loads of caravans and campers

I'm sure it's not everyone's cup of tea but I reckon those two little in bye fields made a good living and gave some winter grass too

£230 for a shower ? I'm building a block now!
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
As a result of the caravan site we also now store caravans, only about 24, all undercover. If I could find another site to store more I would tomorrow as I could fill ours 4 times over and it is money for old rope.

Do the sums stack up for building a building for storage? Quick guess of mine when I looked into it was income worked out at £1/sq.ft, and a building would be somewhere about £8/sq ft to build an open fronted straw barn type structure.
 

lim x

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Nottinghamshire
The faff just ain't worth it, spending an easy ten thousand quid on getting it sorted- that's if you have a decent redundant building to fit a decent shower, shitter and drying facilities plus washing up sink, then an onion cess pit, 4 cubes of concrete to keep the fecker down in our wet ground, 13 tonner to dig a bit of track, make the pitches and quarry the shale out to make the hard standings and drain the field, armoured cable and a load of bollox in the house to get levy to the pitches, the hook up boxes with a decent post in front of them to prevent them being flattened, then I gotta mow the fecking lawns, grass on pitches, pich up dog shot, litter, my mrs bake courtesy cakes, all for at the time £17 a night to caravan club people only. Feck that for a game of Alan sugar.

have not laughed so much in ages:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
Do the sums stack up for building a building for storage? Quick guess of mine when I looked into it was income worked out at £1/sq.ft, and a building would be somewhere about £8/sq ft to build an open fronted straw barn type structure.
Don't bother with a building, next door has them in palisade surrounded compounds with CCTV in them, he has about 400 odd in at the winter.
 
Might also add re storage, locals come here adking to store a tourer in the stack yard for the token fiver a week, and I always say no, simply because I don't want the headache of "it's damaged" "no it's not" bullshyte, caravan storage is quite lucrative, but needs to be in a compound with a decent CCTV system to keep your backside covered. You would be in charge of putting them in and out, and with a tow all on a loader, you can pack them in like sardines, a redundant silage pit with palisade across the front would be ideal. It amazes me as to how many people but a 5k caravan and spend a grand a year storing it just for a couple of weeks hols, if you want to feck each other you can't because the neighbours will hear, dogs will start barking etc, you have to shower communally, risking embarrassment/ gang rape, and virtually no security at all. All the money spent would get you a decent hotel more weeks of the year, or a holiday cottage, and you don't have to worry about storing the thing. Our neighbour tows the caravans out onto pitches and back in on his site, and the amount of broken crockery claims, and just about anything gits will say fell out of cupboards while he tows them out is unreal.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Most caravan owners want electric hook up , you will also need good toilet facilities that you have to keep clean , nothing worse that shity bogs , its a full time job if you do it right , if you don't forget it as word soon gets around

I would sooner pay 20 for a nice place than 10 for a dump
 

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