Rallying for the senior caravanners

Best of luck to anyone wanting this kind of thing, its another alternative choice.

I'm retired but I don't like to be packaged into a group like that, I still have a free spirit and don't feel the need to congregate with the elderly just yet. It sounds like an old peoples home, except on wheels.

 I don’t think your interpretation of this Association can possibly  be considered as correct if you think of the RCA as a group of  ralliers as like an old people’s home on wheels.. ..Older  they may be but all are young at heart and a marvellous example of playing your part in life and enjoying yourself.  It’s obviously not for you so that’s fine so thank you for your opinion.

Try rallying with a CAMC Centre and you will mix with people of all age groups and interests and not just the over 55's.  One of the problems with the RCA is that you have to pay for a whole rally even if you only want to go for a few days or a weekend.  Most Centres will let you attend for as many days as you want and only pay for those.

The RCA rallies start from 5, 7, 10 and 14 days...In summer I would not think of going to join any rally for less than 5 days...If you only want a 2 day break then a CL or CAMC , is what you want...If you went to a hotel after having booked for a certain number of days, and you told the hotel you were leaving early, do you think the hotel would refund the unused nights, I don’t think so, so why do you think a rally officer should refund you.

Gee, you can count me out as well Scottie if that’s the prevailing mindset.  

That's why we use the C&CC Temporary Holiday Sites most of the time now, which are good for our needs, go off when we want, just turn up at the THS, or a quick phone call first, tell the stewards we do not know how long we are staying, they book us in and I just leave my membership card with them. When we decide to leave, I then tell them the night before we want to leave and pay up. So easy.

Sounds good to me people but it is a free country for a little while longer, so you can take it or leave it; preferably without moaning about it. 

I see little difference between CMC rallies and those of the RCA. Same age groups with the same interests.  So CMC rallyists  might be very interested.

I personally got fed up with the CMC weekend rallies simply because they were only two nights away  Hardly worth hitching the van up for 2 nights only... I did enjoy the C&CC Temporary Holiday Rallies where you were free to stay or leave whenever you wished. There was far less formality and in most cases no advance booking was required.  

Best of luck with your RCA organisation  Scottie2.

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.If you went to a hotel after having booked for a certain number of days, and you told the hotel you were leaving early, do you think the hotel would refund the unused nights, I don’t think so, so why do you think a rally officer should refund you

Fair comment - not sure about a hotel but the CAMC would not refund entirely on a club site so why are others complaining about the RCA?

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