Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!

I do wonder how long the club will allow honest comment from their members via this thread.  It's not the first time that quite innocent threads discussing senior CC management decisions have mysteriously disappeared. 

Once the CC chairman has done the honourable thing and resigned, the CC will be able to continue as before, but hopefully will have taken note of the  management failure in partaking in this programme which has spoiled the reputation of the CC in the short term. 

K 

We are delighted to announce that our ‘Caravanner of the Year’ competition was filmed by the BBC and will be on BBC2 on 20 and 27 April!...

..Tune in and watch, and don’t forget to tell your friends and family about it too!

 

We certaily did Rochelle.  Not sure I want to tell my friends and family though.  lol  I am having to wear a wig now to go out........

Bob

Sorry but it failed miserably at being light hearted - the p taking at work this morning is unbelievable...people really think we are all like this - anal(knicker folders!), crap drivers and all over 60! 

And you`re really bothered about what others think?

Get a grip.

+1

Plus another, I shall carry on as before, who cares. All this moaning just reinforces others opinions that caravan owners are all 'stuffed shirts'.

Watching the clown rip the back off his van was fun (bearing in mind who he is) ...but as has been said who is paying for it and who's van was it (missed the begginning!)? As with others I am of the opinion that this was an opportunity missed to promote caravanning and the Club. What a shame and whoever sanctioned this in the CClub should consider their position. Fancy dress and cooking skills is it next week...riveting tv

Embarresed! If this show was advertised to be what it clearly intended to be, It's title should have been 'Carry on Caravaning' That way we would have expected a p**s take.

The amount of ridicule that this programme has brought on passionate club members is scandelous..Shame on both the BBC and the CC.

I too feel the Charman's resignation would be  wholly appropriate. Should he choose to stay, it will only be until the next membership vote!

Waiting with great anticipation for the club mag 

lets see how Grenville talks himself out of this one ,

Or Will He 

proberly blame it all on the editing by The BBC , but in all fairness were the heck did they get the contestants from 

As with others I am of the opinion that this was an opportunity missed to promote caravanning and the Club.

Seriously though, how exactly could the show have promoted the club and caravanning?

Those who have zero interest in caravanning are unlikely to be swayed by 60 minutes on TV. It`s a hobby you either get, or you don`t.

Not all of them were over 60 - there was the delightful young couple with the camper van and the eriba, and not all of them were 'stuffed shirts'. I though the 2 women who drove in the driving skills section who had never towed/driven the motorhome before were incredibaly brave and very good.  It showed what people can do if they put their mind to it.  We all know that the awning is a 'divorce in a bag' and have quietly laughed behind the curtains on site (as I am sure others have at us on occasion) - so what's new there? Lighten up everybody and stop taking yourselves so seriously

Agree with previous comments. What is the Club thinking of. The programme made the point these were the best caravannners in the club membership. If this is the image the Caravan Club want to project maybe I am in the wrong club. These people belong in a sit com. I've been caravanning since 1968, campervans and caravans and have rarely seen such complete incompetence.

I have just managed to watch IT.

The excuse may have been put forward that it was lighthearted.....I for one am gob-smacked fancy ripping the back out of a caravan like that.

 Fancy suddenly saying to partner YOU WILL DRIVE.....I know what my reply would have been....bullying or what?

White gloves...!!!   How dare he?

Joke or not I will now reconcider re-joining next year which also means not re-insuring with you.

On the plus side we did laugh...but only because of how ridiculous the programme was.