is the Club about touring or static holidays?

On our most recent 5 week trip to the SW, we got caught in the bad storms in September, quite a bit of rain but mainly wind.  There was not much scope to alter things as the weather was bad everywhere down there, so we did miss out some of the NT places we had intended to visit.

A few years back we had the same problem up north, we were at Morvich then booked for Bunree, but the forecast was terrible, gales followed by heavy rain, so we stayed on at Morvich an extra night till the gales were past and then cut short the trip and headed home, Bunree was to be our last stop.

As ET said, if the weather is bad it is usually bad over a fair area.

We have in the past altered a trip significantly after setting out, or extended a stay somewhere and missed out an intended stop, but not generally because  of weather, rather because there were still things to see.

When over the water, where we usually never book anything, we often end up somewhere completely different from our original intended destination, and have changed routes to avoid floods in France in 2016, and in Germany a few years before that.

Thanks ET & Kj for your replies.

We cut short a trip last November due to very high winds on the East coast, then moved to the West where they had winds + snow so gave up and came home  our rule of thumb in the UK is if we can move out of it we do, if not and it doesn't look like its going to change in the next couple of days then we go home.

Abroad though its always possible to find somewhere better, yes it might mean a couple of days drive but that is preferable to trying to sit it out.

TG, we stick to where we've booked, unless of course we get snowed in!! And that's happen a few times too. As we tend to use CLs the owners are a lot more flexible in bad weather with regards changes in arrival dates.  

TG, the other thing that (for us) would cause the sort of problems you describe moght be the fact that site/area one is hugely interesting and we could spend far more time than 'planned', or conversely, it turns out to be nowhere near expectations and one/two days is more than enough.....

setting out a timetable of matching chunks may work for some, but for me, theres nothing worse than hanging around a place that is of little interest.

shifting booked dates, especially in a popular area/period, would be just as bad as trying to get them in the first place on Frenzy Day..ie a pain.

WE have moved on early because we have seen enough. Not worried however that there are things we would like to see but have not enough time. Hopefully there will be another time in a few years

If you want, you can be static for a whole season through a seasonal pitch so the answer to this is that the Club does cater for both touring and static in this way. So I guess there's something for everyone!

I think the club acknowledged that "touring" using club sites was an "urban myth", years ago, when the magazine title was changed from "En Route".

In that case, I’m a myth. 

That's it in a nutshell Hitch - not enough sites in this overcrowded island to enable people to tour easily without booking + short season/weather/cost.

I would agree that touring without booking is difficult.

However:-

Short season, It is possible to caravan all year in the UK, although choice does reduce.

Weather, yes we have that in the UK, rarely puts us off.

Cost, a wide variety of sites are available to suit all pockets.