Camping - When did it become so expensive?

Again it all depends on what you want.
We love camping and recently returned from Devon. The Dawlish Warren site charged us £26 per night inc electric hook up, but the prices were rising as School Holidays were starting.

I phoned a couple of sites in the lakes for August but they were booked up, I asked out of curiosity what the price per night was EHU and was told £43 per night whattttt?
I phoned a few more in Dorset but most were booked up with a few vacancies at other sites but again almost forty quid per night. Camping does seem expensive but as stated it's all about what floats yer boat.

Runningfast wrote: »

Stayed at a campsite in the Lake District recently

1 car 2 adults, 2 tents works out at £15 per night per person. The campsite itself was good, amazing views but no hot water for the showers in the morning.

So £75pp for 5 nights but not including travel there or around the lakes or cost of food and activities etc.

Now I have just booked 5 nights in Amsterdam for next month for £95 including flights, transfer and B&B hotel. How? How can it nearly be cheaper to fly and stay somewhere including breakfast than stay in a muddy field in your own tent while sharing a handful of showers and toilets with about 200 others!! I remember the days when camping was £4-7pppn not £15.

People say we should stay at home as it is cheaper?. In value for money terms the UK sucks.

I assume the plane isnt landing outside your house?

This lovely sunny weather has encouraged a lot of folk to think let's camp in the UK rather than go overseas.

Campsites are finite, what's advertised and available is not immediately expandable, and a sudden spike in demand inevitably puts short term prices up. On top of the wiggle you expect to see with school holidays etc.

Plus it's not all bring your own tackle but the whole concept of "glamping" where you can have the use of a tent, or a yurt, or other accomodation has taken off... Along with the price.

All being well, a nice wet summer will reset the market back to the old school diehard (& or severely frugal & well equipped) campers, at the previous affordable rates, and this two tents on one pitch lark will get stomped on, but I'm not holding my breath.

PasturesNew wrote: »

She recently tried to book on a site and they charge let's say £30/night - but instead of taking the HUGE/big tent her and her friend wanted to simply pitch their two tiny/individual tents on the same pitch side by side ... and the campsite wanted TWO fees of £30 per night "because it's two tents", even though those two tents are smaller than the one HUGE one and even though they'd still be using the same pitch.

The campsite we use has three prices for different sizes of tents - that seems very fair.