I'm surprised that anyone would waste their August bank holiday (especially with such cracking weather too) arguing rather pointlessly about the RAF Club. I became eligible to use the facility in 1976. I went there once, during my officer training, when we were introduced to its "delights" during a London visit.
I found it to be a stuffy old place to be honest and therefore I haven't ever bothered to go back since, even though I do stay over in that neck of the woods quite often.