We got quite confused about the "Caravan" Club". We joined the Caravan and Motorhome Club mainly as we were experiencing problems getting insurance with mainstream insurers. Now regret it. What I did not appreciate is that there are two Caravan Clubs. As well as the Caravan and Motorhome club there is the Caravan and Camping Club. The later is the one I wished I had joined now, talking to several people there are not so stuck up so your problem is less likely to have occurred. Will be switching at the end of the year. Incidentally I understand that the two are a result of the original Caravan Club splitting and it is the Caravan and Camping club which has retained the distinctive logo of the red pennant.
Goodness, so many people get hung up on the two biggest providers of membership-linked campsites .
So many tell you that the CC has more rules yet it is the Camping and Caravan club that allocate your pitch and escort you to it as opposed to the CC practice of find somewhere then come back and tell us where.
Both offer a proven product within a given framework ( OMG --- Rules

) which as many object to as there are as many revere. I love those rules. It means I can avoid if I object or embrace if it is what I want and sometimes it is, as both normally result in peace and quiet!
They have always been separate entities, each with their own history, each with their own quaint idiosyncrasies. My advice is don't knock it if you haven't tried it. I belong to both. It costs me less than £100 per year to belong to both. I get huge discounts on M6 toll roads, access to a combined 4,000 member-limited 5 unit max sites, access to 400 superb full facility sites, great offers on ferries, insurance and other offers plus a magazine a month that is excellent at providing an impromptu low rise levelling block.
I have invested close on £60k in a vehicle to give me the ultimate flexibility in getting away so less than £100 to enable that vehicle to have access to thousands of locations is peanuts.