Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!

I wonder how long it will take some one from HO to come on here and explain last nights farce?????

I have just been on CC LiveChat asking for the Chairmans email address and they claim they don't have it ?????

either they are trying to protect him from the members or he is shameful in keeping it secret from his own staff.

can anyone share it here please as I wish go email him directly to complain about the show.

I will just stick my faithful C&CC in future. Less talk, promotion and junk mail....they just get on with the job and concerntrate on important things.

Lighten up people.  Its a TV programme, not real life.  How many ordinary members entered this competition?  By the very nature of the thing more "interesting" people would be the entrants. Well done the ladies who showed their husbands (and themselves) that they were perfectly capable of driving their rigs.  Many ladies do not have the confidence to drive their vans as their other halves undermine them.  If this programme did one thing it should give non towing/motorhoming partners the boost they need to try their rigs.

I'm sure the chairman reads CT as he has talked about it at a show.  

I've literally just cancelled all forward bookings on CC sites for the remainder of this year and will be replacing them with C&CC bookings and commercial sites. After the portrayal shown last night, the club are not deserving of almost £1000 of my money, I'll put it elsewhere instead. If their is no apology forthcoming to the members for this debacle or should the Chairman not offer to stepdown, I won't be renewing my membership come November. Whilst I'm an advocate of CC sites (see my posts in other threads), the way the TV Programme portrayed caravanning personalities last night is beyond belief and has completely changed my perception of the club. A massive opportunity was missed to make the hobby look 'cool' and appealing to the next generation of caravanners and motorhomers. The manufacturers are doing their best to appeal to the wider audience, the Sport & Fun caravan, contemporary internal designs, even fitting bike rack mounts on caravans as standard. Yet, it's the biggest and most subscribed club that is doing it's best to keep our hobby in the dark ages. Not good enough Caravan Club, you ought to be ashamed

Had you a booking at Burford for the Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend, per chance?  

I did as it goes but I cancelled that a week or so ago, going to Field Barn Park, Bourton instead.

 

The only good bit of "caravaning" I saw was from the Green VW team who disconnected their traitor and pushed it around the reversing course. This is because it was so small it was invisible to the driver whilst reversing so it was the safest way and it was what they always do in real life. 

When we have threads on here about excessive site fees, poor warden service, state of sites, possible ite sales, etc. we now find what the bods at HO do. Waste time, money and reputation on trivia and forget the basics. Will any one own up- no chance. Carry on as usual in our isolated HO and keep drinking the tea.

Well as far as I can see, the only positive to emerge from this dire shambles is that there's a subject on CT with almost universal agreement. Rare indeed! 

All of the contestants were, obviously, suffering some form of OCD. I wonder if it was an entry requirement?

Lighten up people.  Its a TV programme, not real life.  How many ordinary members entered this competition?  By the very nature of the thing more "interesting" people would be the entrants. Well done the ladies who showed their husbands (and tgemselves) that they were perfectly capable of driving their rigs.  Many ladies do not have the confidence to drive their vans as their other halves undermine them.  If this programme did one thing it should give non towing/motorhoming partners the boost they need to try their rigs.

I'm sure the chairman reads CT as he has talked about it at a show.  

Full agreement with your first sentence This programme had a serious title and many were expecting a serious programme, but it did not happen, it was a farce. You can bet your bottom dollar it was a condition by the programme makers that entertainment value must be a priority, if not it would not have happened.

The CC made a boob, but I laughed all the way through it, plus it won't affect my caravanning tomorrow or in the future.