caravan club breakdown cover

we are thinking of joining the caravan club and maybe taking out their break down cover.can anyone recommend this or is there a better breakdown service?  we would like our car covered as well as the motorhome  .we have planned a trip to scotland from the east midlands coming back via the lake district so we think break down cover  is going to be an essential item 

I recommend it for two reasons. There are no size or weight limits to the recovery and recovery is also form being stuck in mud in a field at no extra cost even if specialist recovery equipment is needed. It is only UK cover.

Peter

We are covered with the caravan club and it cost me £19 extra to add 
our car (Citroen C3) for me that's a deal (Green Flag)
Mike

I have a mayday policy with the caravan club to cover my Duetto. the problem with Greenflag is they use local garages and there are good ones and bad ones. I have a premium policy which includes home start. My van wouldn't start one morning. Ignition light on not a murmur from the starter. Contacted CC, Local Accident Repair Centre turned up in half an hour. I had told the CC that it was an electrical fault but the guy didn't even have a meter and his vehicle couldn't tow my 5.5 metre van. They did come back hours later with one that was big enough. As I had told CC I suspected the immobiliser even if it had been AA or RAC I doubt that they would have been able to fix it but this guy just came out to tow my vehicle away. It eventually cost me £140 to fix. When my cover runs out I will go with the AA a bit more money but you get a patrolman who knows what he is doing

Pete

I'm thinking of switching to C&CC cover. I think they use AA in UK but also cover breakdowns in europe. Any experinces to help my choice?
Thanks
Fred

The C&CC uses the RAC in fact with some size of vans thats the only scheme that the RAC will give membership for

Mayday (CC) think you will find you get a discount on 2nd or 3rd vehicles. 
We used to have the cars with the scheme (van gets AA cover with insurance) when we went down to 1 car dont know why but I did a swop to Green Flag direct  but am going to change back this year

We had to leave the AA after 28 yrs because they would not even entertain a unit over 3.5 tonnes. So went with the C&CC club RAC which with Annual European cover is cheaper than the AA anyway.

which club offers the best deal for motor homes the caravan club or the camping and caravan club?  i didn't even know  until reading these replies that there were 2 different ones  why isn't anything easy  

RAC for us,  through the C&CC it isn`t the vehicles that are covered it is the person/persons which ever vehicle you are in doesn`t matter even if it  is someone elses, as I was told by the RAC office last week when I had my husband added to my RAC breakdown, hubby`s  was included with his car insurance before, as RAC is better that is why I added him on, he gets his own card so no matter which vehicle he is in, it is covered.

Were in the RAC years ago and had to use their breakdown service, it was brilliant, couldn`t have been better, in this country and  abroad. well recommended, it is a special deal through the C&CC you don`t get that if you just join without the club.

I think the Caravan club 'probably/possibly? offers the most comprehensive cover but I found it quite a bit more expensive and as Daisy mae mentioned it was vehicle specific so as I use a) just motorhome, b) Landrover and Caravan as well as c) just Landrover the C&CC covers the person not the vehicle.  So Swmbo covered in her car as well.   
I also noted that the C&CC  with the RAC did not load the premium for age of vehicle. My Landrover is 20 years old now and the others hit me with extra cost and reduced cover.

We have family membership of the RAC, which covers Wife and self plus Son and Daughter (they are still at home!). This includes all six vehicles in our "fleet" with home-start, full recovery and Euro cover included.
I think that there might be a 3500kg weight limit but that would cover the original enquiry; why drag heavier vehicles into the discussion?  

Breakdown cover on the vans has been with the AA via the Safeguard Insurance Scheme and the 2 or 3 times we have needed them over the last 14/15 years they have been quick to respond.

I've been with the AA for nearly 10 years and I have to phone them and complain about the price of the renewal every year and get it reduced. My renewal last year was £210, if I'd been a new member I could have got it for under £100. I rang them and had a moan and they reduced it to half.

I always do a price comparison with the C&CC's RAC Arrival and CC's Green Flag but the AA always comes out on top. RAC Arrival last year was around £140.

It's a lot more expensive if the cover is on the person rather than the vehicle, though, despite the fact that you can only drive one vehicle at a time. I don't know why they don't say it's just on the person while they're driving and not as a passenger. After all, if you're a passenger, isn't it up to the driver/owner of the vehicle to have breakdown insurance?

I used the AA a few times with a previous van, once with the current one and a couple of times with the car (which saved me the annual fee because it had to be towed to the garage!). They've always been very quick, very courteous and very helpful.

Nora

The AA recovery scheme used to pick you up and take you as far as the limit of that drivers area. He would then drop you off and another vehicle would pick you up and ....... until you got home. The RAC would pick you up and take you home on the same truck.

I was at a bike rally in Scotland in the eighties and two of the lads, both from Sheffield way needed recovery home due to breakdowns. One was with the AA, one RAC. In the Highlands (and some other places too) all the breakdown comanies use local garages, so the same guy came to pick them both up. He dropped the AA customer off around Glasgow and took the other lad all the way home!

Don't know if this still applies? I'm with the RAC through Comfort insurance.

Frank

I'm with RAC Arrival (C&CC version) and a few years back when we towed a caravan we had to call them out not far from Thetford in Norfolk. Told girl on phone that I had a seized brake caliper. Patrolman arrived and said 'I understand you have a snapped cambelt' !!! Anyway recovered to motorway services near Birmingham and met with another recovery truck, swopped over to that one and taken on to North Wales. It saved a lot of diesel that day !!

Ha ha. Had a alternator belt go on my Landrover on M1 with caravan and in thunderstorm. On,y problem was it also operated water pump so temp went up at the same speed as the rev counter   
Long story short; AA man insisted it would not be a belt problem but the tensioner. He argued furiously that it could not be the belt. I had to lift the bonnet and show him that V belts don't have tensioners  
He had 'assumed' it was a ribbed belt. What is that old saying 'to assume makes an a.s out of u and me' ha ha.