Posted on 29/11/2017 18:57
Reading the latest magazine I was annoyed to read an AGM comment that motorhomes are causing problems because they stay on a site for a few nights and spoil the opportunity for a week's booking.
Personally all the people dashing to book in December for next year spoil my opportunity for going away on a whim and touring, stopping off for a few nights then moving on to pastures new.
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Posted on 02/01/2018 19:51 by JVB66There far fewer places available or is it not the case that caravans cannot use many of the places off season that are available to motor caravans when a large volume of sites are closed
Posted on 02/01/2018 18:09 by JVB66We find the same in the UK, there is a need to book some popular sites but touring at a whim is still possible ,off peak more, the same as " over there"but of course off peak with a caravan in motor caravan country over their is more dificult as so many of the thousand of sites have a very short season
Posted on 03/01/2018 18:21 by FishermanVery much static now with the increase in Seasonal Pitches and allowing the mass booking of week ends on Frienzie day. Not having late availability on week days limits us peripatetic vaners and drives us to the commercials.
Posted on 03/01/2018 23:59
I wanted to stay 21 nights at Gatwick but couldn't get a pitch there because fully booked over this weekend even though there's weekday availability. So it's 21 nights at Redhill instead! Thankfully, I've got a seasonal pitch at Gatwick for next winter which will solve the problem.
Posted on 04/01/2018 15:39
We tour for 6-8 weeks at a time, using a mixture of sites, cl's and C&CC rallies. I only ever book the first stop, and then from there we decide were we want to go. The C&CC do a pitch ahead system, where the site you are on, will make the booking for you at a site you want to go to. It has never failed for us, although I do appreciate that this might not apply in peak season at some of their sites, e.g. Keswick in the Lake District. But then there is usually a rally we can go to instead, where no booking is needed.
We also use non club sites, again we have experienced no problems with getting a pitch. The only thing I find these days, as opposed to our early touring years, is that turning up on spec., seems to be frowned on, but a quick phone call enroute is acceptable. That probably has more to do with the advent of mobile phones.
We have a caravan, have no problem with MHs, each to their own.
Also, and we might have been lucky, but we got on Clumber Park for a weekend in the Summer hols, as they had just had a late cancellation when I phoned on a Friday morning when we were heading back south from Scotland..
Posted on 08/01/2018 14:57
I am not undertanding the financial model of there being sites which are never ever full, and if they were there are more similar very close to hand, and all in a short season. From what I have read, the prices charged are not high, so how do the operators make a profit? Do foreign governments (local or national) pay out huge subsidies?
Posted on 08/01/2018 14:57 by NavigateurI am not undertanding the financial model of there being sites which are never ever full, and if they were there are more similar very close to hand, and all in a short season. From what I have read, the prices charged are not high, so how do the operators make a profit? Do foreign governments (local or national) pay out huge subsidies?
Katrina Hope Valley
Motorhomer