Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!

Oh dear is it true that we have fancy dress next week ?  I have enjoyed caravanning for many years but I have never found it necessary to wear fancy dress.  Have I been missing something.

OMG - I've gone hot with embarrassment! This programme was designed, produced and edited by someone who hates hates hates caravanners!  Is this a late April fools? Even the commentary was in a vain where she could have been accused of taking the mick . I take my hat off to the folks who put themselves through this ordeal. I'll just stay anonymous thanks! 

C'mon how could you say it wer'nt funny, you had combover running round his van cos he thought he'd run his old mum over, the silly moo rolling her knickers up in the right order, the dope who ripped the back of his van off putting white gloves on an criticising a bit of dust on a trailer, and whay about old long hair's wife cracking up at the errection comment (awning) brilliant, cant wait for next week...

Cringeworthy!  CC done more damage than Clarkson has ever done!  Has the club a secret agenda to get every caravanner labelled as a complete social misfit?

About as funny as watching paint dry.  If I wanted funny I would have watched Boomers  The title indicated serious intent (sorry about the pun) instead we goty cringe worthy garbage

Just think of the money the club could raise by selling " I've just resigned from the Caravan Club" stickers. That should bring site fees down by about a tenner a night.

Aaaaarrrrgghh!  awful programme obviously designed to make vanners/motorhomers look daft.  OH couldn't believe the stupidy or pointlessness of some of the tasks.  How could the Club allow this?  It will have reinforced many people's negative views about our hobby.  We seriously wonder about renewing our membership.

The problem I have with this programme is that every time i'm out and about I see hundreds of competent vanners doing good stuff in pitching, setting up etc and enjoying themselves withoput being prattish.  This programme seems to dispel that.  The judges are in a word pathetic.  This programme has made us vanners a laughing stock and brought the club into disrepute with an already skeptical non vanning public

..So true

There I was considering 'coming out' as a caravanner to my friends and family but after this show was aired, I think I'd rather stay in the closet! I'd heard that caravanning was becoming more 'socially acceptable' amongst my generation (mid-thirties), but this debacle soon put paid to that idea. On the plus side, I get the excitemtent of keeping my dirty little secret for a little longer (maybe another 20 years or so?). 

Did anyone else enter the caravan of the year competition to be on this show? (And I do mean show!) Where was it advertised? Well of course we all know it wasn't! These people were hand picked for the 'entertainment value.' That poor old lady of 81, clearly didn't know why she was there, and who in there right mind would ask her to reverse a caravan she had never towed before? Oh yes the Chairman of the CC!!!! How stupid. Good on her for having a go though. At one stage she was stood right behind a reversing caravan, at this point the Chairman should have stepped forward to say this is not what we do in the CC , it is dangerous, but no. These people were picked - in most cases because their outfits were different.  I have never been to a rally but do they really have competitions where they put on white gloves and inspect your caravan?! Just asking because one couple seemed to know that they would get extra points for rolled underwear in a cupboard. Or did this just try to give a bad name to rallies as well.