Club sites - advance booking system

not big ideas at all, Ask, it's just that the CC IT ideas (and its capability in delivering them) are very small....

i sympathise with your view, it's an oft discussed matter but the club will not move back to deposits, nor charge for dogs, nor for awnings, nor for ehu......it just has its way of doing things.....and that means (unfortunately) having to join the 'process' to get a popular site at a popular date.

why not give the site a ring, if a vacancy comes up, they will call and let you know.....perhaps this will happen and ypu could cancel any other alternatives you are planning...this worked for us at Baltic Wharf recently.

the club doesn't do 'flexible' in the way many tourers see it, it relies on a 'desire/perception' to book it's sites, giving the situation that TDA alluded to upthread of a group of 'honey pot sites'....

i wish you luck with your situation, you might get lucky....

wonder why club sites are so popular then?

I mean that's the bottom line isn't it? The club has a product that people want, and this must upset some who keep asking for these changes and big or small ideas, that keeps on selling year by year?

Anybody using CMC capsites have to assume that the figures on availability are accurate. The CMC have not published any figures to support the fact that pitches are being booked and people are not turning up. 

Rather than assuming that the figures are wrong just because occasionally there is an unused pitch on any site, accept that there could be a good reason for that. It may be that there has been an illness or a mechanical breakdown or the pitch is being held for one of the Warden's friends to use. there are many reasons why not all pitches are  populated all the time. 

Have some faith in the booking system, it's not perfect, but works well most of the time. 

K 

I am a customer of many, many successful businesses, CC included...

it doesn't stop me having a view on their (any business') products, processes, etc....

being successful (not being debated here) doesn't necessarily mean perfect (exactly what the OP is on about....

CC provides good quality site pitches, usually coupled with the basic facilities of toilets/showers, again usually of good quality in the mid/upper price bracket......but this is not the point of the thread....

the OP is questioning the 'nuances' of the booking/cancellation system.

indeed the OP is, but then perhaps you should stick to that?

I mean what do prices for awnings or dogs have to do with this thread?

you know very well I was illustrating that the club does things it's own way and were unlikely to change any of the those things, including moving back to deposits...(and dogs and awnings and.....)...as mentioned in the OP.

sometimes it seems that you try very hard 'not to understand' postings (especially from one or two people)...in order to make some sort of pedantic point yourself.....(now what was that post the other day about teacher and classroom...?)

I'm sure that isn't the case.....but perhaps it may be 'those people' who are the catalyst or just that you just simply 'don't understand'....

ill try and add a couple of footnotes next time

yes that would be helpful BoBo

It would matter not a jot, me thinks, what booking system is in place, popular sites will always remain popular. Having deposits, or whatever, will not increase the number of pitches on a site! When all said and done the present system apparently does work across the C&MC network of sites and is possibly seen as fair in many folks eyes.  

+1

what is needed is more pitches

Mmmmm.... watch this space

JK