Queenbrough ATL Price almost 50% increase

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Mine has gone from £27 a night to £35.50.
Looks like we will be anchoring more often in Stangate from now on!
Last week stayed in Bradwell Marina, all in £24 a night with Elec, showers and clubhouse.
 
Everyone seems to be joining the inflation bandwagon while they can get away with it.

Still about £17 per night for visitor swinging moorings but you don't get a lot. Agree, might as well go to Stansgate.

I like Conyer if you can take the mud. Have not used it in recent years because of the bridge.
 
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I am researching the Med for moorings and laced to park a 15m boat... (for a mate who is in boat lust as sadly my yachting days have come to and end). One thing that really stands out is the huge number of marinas and facilities available as well as the size of them compared to the UK. By comparison we just play at providing for boating.
 
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Fixed that for ya old timer!
 
Tomahawk said:
I am researching the Med for moorings and laced to park a 15m boat... (for a mate who is in boat lust as sadly my yachting days have come to and end). One thing that really stands out is the huge number of marinas and facilities available as well as the size of them compared to the UK. By comparison we just play at providing for boating.
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Have you seen Michael Briant's video series on marinas in the Med
Turkey seems to be his area of choice. He's sort of the Rick Steinberg of sailing in my view, to quote "the TV equivalent of a nap in a good armchair after a Sunday roast: necessary, peaceful, luxuriously exquisite and very slightly naughty":-)
 
Am moored at Queenborough for the third year now on their swing moorings, about £1100 for a 9m boat. I love it there, the harbour gang is cool and helpful, trot is great although I have my own dinghy. They're getting an awful amount of visitors these days, not unusual to see boats rafted five or six deep on their visitors moorings so I suppose they have to cash in:-) An hour from Charlton by road so great London escape, very tranquil to overnight on the boat, easy out into the sea, nice hard in the creek for anti-fouling during tides, nice pubs, etc. Just need an ant-ship missile or two for the jet skis!
 
Parabordi said:
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PeterMax said:
Am moored at Queenborough for the third year now on their swing moorings, about £1100 for a 9m boat. I love it there, the harbour gang is cool and helpful, trot is great although I have my own dinghy. They're getting an awful amount of visitors these days, not unusual to see boats rafted five or six deep on their visitors moorings so I suppose they have to cash in:) An hour from Charlton by road so great London escape, very tranquil to overnight on the boat, easy out into the sea, nice hard in the creek for anti-fouling during tides, nice pubs, etc. Just need an ant-ship missile or two for the jet skis!
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I think their increased costs are the staff costs to cater for trot boat. But peeps on the ATL are paying for them.
I am not denying the staff are good and i like it there, but 50% in one go is a massive hike. Visitors may get a shock next visit and perhaps think twice before returning or go on the bouys next time.
 
Yeah, I do agree it's a bit steep. They did build a loo on the ATL though so your money has literally gone down the drain. They seem to be trying to discourage long term usage of the ATL as it can be quite congested. Pity they don't extend it as it is in a great location. Wonder what's happened to these plans, some interesting old photos though Pier and marina plan gets wave of public support
 
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Yeah, I do agree it's a bit steep. They did build a loo on the ATL though so your money has literally gone down the drain. They seem to be trying to discourage long term usage of the ATL as it can be quite congested. Pity they don't extend it as it is in a great location. Wonder what's happened to these plans, some interesting old photos though Pier and marina plan gets wave of public support
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No one can build a marina anywhere on the East Coast because the bug huggers and bird spotters have laid claim to every square yard of mud from Pegwell Bay via the Medway, the Swale, Foulness, The Roach, the Crouch, the Blackwater, the Colne, Walton Backwaters, The Stour, the Orwell, the Wash and up the the Humber as a preserve for their and only their hobby of looking at animals through binoculars.
Yet ecospotters account for less of the population that boaters and they return a hell of a lot less to the economy. Who has ever put together a business model to build a facility for ecospotters and charge marina and boatyard prices to look at flying things? No one. The RSPB relies on donations not commercial reality.
 
Tomahawk said:
No one can build a marina anywhere on the East Coast because the bug huggers and bird spotters have laid claim to every square yard of mud from Pegwell Bay via the Medway, the Swale, Foulness, The Roach, the Crouch, the Blackwater, the Colne, Walton Backwaters, The Stour, the Orwell, the Wash and up the the Humber as a preserve for their and only their hobby of looking at animals through binoculars.
Yet ecospotters account for less of the population that boaters and they return a hell of a lot less to the economy. Who has ever put together a business model to build a facility for ecospotters and charge marina and boatyard prices to look at flying things? No one. The RSPB relies on donations not commercial reality.
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You are David Attenborough and I claim my £5.
 
Looks like the price increases didnt put many people off, Sat night was apparently rammed with all spaces taken up, Sunday was very busy too. We were rafted up on one of the grey buoys, with a single large yacht on the next one. A large motor cruiser wanted to go on outside of our group but we suggested he go elsewhere. Just as well he did as it got pretty lumpy early monday morning with wind against tide. Im sure if he had been on the raft there would have been a collision with the large yacht on the next buoy.
 
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