Bongo Fury

Hi folks, just wondered what your views are on joining a camping club, are they worth it? Up to now have used "Pitchup" website Do these clubs give a wider range of sites, possibly exclusive? Thanks in anticipation.
N.B Also what are members views on wild camping?

There's the "Camping & Caravan Club" and the "Caravan & Motorhome Club" seems to be a mixture of people some prefer one to the other others belong to both. Myself I'm with the C&CC and use there sites and Wildcamping as time and location permits. Never found the private sites to be particularly worthwhile, facilities and prices don't appear to have much correlation! Whilst the two main clubs you know for certain that all the Club sites always meet a very high standard, and then there are all the listed sites which are smaller and quieter often only 5 pitches to stay within the planning permission rules.

I don't belong to any of the Clubs, but use UKCampsites.co.uk if I'm wanting to book a site.

Their website is very good and easy to search for any area you are looking for.Good reviews on each site as well.

They haven't let me down yet.

We are members of the camping and caravan club for the past year and as it's up for renewal we are contemplating whether to renew or not. We found many of the campsites were not as good as some independent ones we visited. And talking to the owners as to why they were not in the club, they informed us the C&CC put too many restrictions and requirements on them. The advantage of the C&CC is the discount, which would be advantage for us only there are not many club sites here in the southeast.

Thanks guy's
Really appreciate your time and comments
Paul