'The Sun' caravanning/camping from £1 offer

[Andrea_374395685]

Hello all,
just wondered if anyone has taken advantage of this great offer? we have booked in at Thorney Lakes ner Langport in Somerset. Looks really nice and its only costing us £3 a night (with electric)

Andrea

 

[Guest]

Just tink of the 'fun' you will have with all the Sun readers. String vests, lots of beer and maybe a Page 3 girl thrown in.

Where are they??

 

[DeliDave_]

Wish Id saved the Sun vouchers there is a Haven site for £3 I'd have had a week on.One mans meat and all that SL

 

[Soozeeg]

Just tink of the 'fun' you will have with all the Sun readers. String vests, lots of beer and maybe a Page 3 girl thrown in.

I read the Sun (amongst other papers online).....I've never owned a string vest and don't like beer. Page 3 girl? Hmm, maybe if I was a year or two younger.....*winking cheekily grinning smiley icon thingy* Good way of having a cheap holiday, if you're into that type of campsite, although I should think you have to read the small print to find out exactly what the offer covers.

 

[Guest]

There are plenty of ways to save money on your hobbies. Giving money to someone like Murdoch does not appear on my list I am afraid.

You can always contact the site you are interested in, and see if they can do you a deal that is at least almost equivalent, and then you have the satisfaction of knowing you have achieved it yourself, not relied on something rather tacky.

 

[Guest]

As said Murdoch has now made his on line Times subscription only, it may be a matter of time before your access to teh Sun is similarly curtailed. I also 'browse' the papers on line, but as the blue rinse ladies in Jenners coffee shop were overhead saying 'My dear, if it is in the Scotsman, it must be true'. No answer to that one.

 

[Andrea_374395685]

Thank you for all your comments. however, if any of you had actually bothered to look at the website for the site we are going to you would find it is not a cheap, tacky site and normally quite expensive. It has also won various awards for its wildlife and nature and is set in lovely countryside.
We are mainly taking advantage for 2 reasons: 1- to get a last break before the caravan is put away for winter 2- to visit my family who live nearby
Andrea

 

[Gafferbill]

Yes Andrea some of the sites look good and at that price!!
Enjoy yourself .....it is a nice area.
A friend has collected the tokens for me.... I don't buy newspapers.
I will be going later on..... I have just been on a CL for £3/night with no hook up.
I thought that was cheap.

 

[Soozeeg]

Andrea, I wasn't being derogatory, and I agree that Thorney Lakes looks a really nice site. I simply meant that we generally preferred to use Club sites, having no children and liking quiet places. I hope you and your family have a lovely time there.

 

[LMH]

Hi

Someone else started a thread about the Sun offer a few weeks ago.

There's a site in the offer list and if I had more annual leave, I would have booked it in a shot. It's a lovely site in cornwall we've used time and time again. Quite a bargain on the site's normal fees.

Hope you have a great time.

Lisa

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

Good way of having a cheap holiday, if you're into that type of campsite, although I should think you have to read the small print to find out exactly what the offer covers.

I did see somewhere that the offer is for pitch only. EHU is extra. I'm not 100% sure of that though because I never followed it up because like Sooze we go for peace and quiet if possible. Hopefully it is £3 pn. If so and you have kids it sounds a bargain.

 

[Parksy]

A friend of mine went on a Sun holiday earlier this year, he thought that he was getting a bargain price touring pitch on a nice site near to Ilfracombe.
The holiday wasn't the bargain that he first thought because there were 'hidden' charges for ehu and 'club membership' so he ended up having a slightly cheaper holiday but he told me that if he'd known what was in the small print he wouldn't have bothered.

 

[LMH]

Hi Parksy

He should have read the small print first. It quite clearly states on the Sun's website that its pitch price only and everything else is extra.

Like you say, still a saving but not £1 per night total.

LIsa

 

[JonnyG]

We took advantage of I think it was The mail, where we stayed on a haven site [St Leonard] near Hastings. this was last October, and never again.
I believe in live and let live,don't stereo type as a rule, but the term" chavs" comes to mind.And that's how the place was set up too.
If i had been 10 years younger then maybe fine but not my cuppa tea now, and the hidden costs merely took the piss....

 

[Gafferbill]

......there are some bargains with this offer.
Don't knock it.

For example £1/night for a pitch only or £4/night for a pitch+hookup at Unity, Brean Sands Somerset, up to November 14th
......that takes in the Somerset Carnivals and has to be good value!!

 

[Soozeeg]

......there are some bargains with this offer.
Don't knock it.

For example £1/night for a pitch only or £4/night for a pitch+hookup at Unity, Brean Sands Somerset, up to November 14th
......that takes in the Somerset Carnivals and has to be good value!!

Oh, well it's worth it just for the Carnivals, they're brilliant, we love them! We'll be there again this year.

 

[Steve L]

Sun holiday offers are ok by me. Personally I loose page 3 and don't drink or wear a knotted hankie onmy head or a matching string vest.
We have stayed in static vans and generally they have been under 10 years old and the weeks we stayed were priced at £300 plus p/wk. So £60 for us was a brargain. This year though we got alocated a chalet at a JF holiday park at Coomb Martin. It was a 30 year old dump that was way past it's usefull life.

Getting a pitch for £1 and £2 for EHU sounds a bargain if you ca tollerate the halabaloo of a commercial park, after all you take your accomodation with you so you know you'll be comfortable.

If we had not been fulltiming with a full and I mean full awning of stuff, I would give it a go.

I saw a comment once and it has stuck with me now. "Why try to keep up with the Jones's, drag them down to your level, it's cheaper."
Atb Steve L.

 

[mikecandsarahb]

for the one about unity, did you have to pay for the entertainment passes to?
mike