Pitch availability

Except that many people report that sites have pitches stood empty......despite showing full on the web site. For exampke, the original poster......

If I were a warden, and I could see that there were empty pitches out there, despite the computer telling me that the site was fully booked, I think I would deduce from this that some people hadn't turned up!

The computer would probably even concur with that blindingly obvious deduction.

I would therefore go out of my way to take late bookings in order to fill those empty pitches and to increase income to the Club.

Is it just me, or isn't that how anyone with even a tiny bit of business acumen and willingness to do the best job possible (for both my employer and other Club members) would behave??

A nice idea but you do not know if people are no shows until the morning. You could then sell the remaining days though although I do not know if these go back on the web site.

If the computer shows space wardens do take people just turning up but beyond that I cannot see what more they can do unless they have a vacancies sign.

They could get their heads out of the computer and act as though they owned the site.......and help some late bookers along the way.

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Here's the thing. On club sites as you should already know, you can access your pitch on your arrival day up to 20.00. We don't accept arrivals after that time (take that up with egh) and I'm off duty then as well. If all of my available pitches are prebooked it's really beyond my control if people decide not to turn up or cancel. I must say though that on my site, empty pitches at the end of the day are a rarity.

..Great post from the front line

We have turned up twice and been given a choice of one pitch so sites do fill up with no no shows sometimes.

Ps

We now have a pitch for friday and Saturday thank you who ever cancelled saturday night

The only way to eliminate that odd occasion of an empty pitch or two would be to adopt the overbooking system the likes we see on airlines and some hotels. Bet you though, the few 'bumped off' to the next nearest site would not be best pleased if all booked did turn up.  

The current system works well with only a few empty pitches showing on what has appeared to be sold out site.

If situations decree a non arrival surplus pitch hasn't subsequently been 'sold'! on occasions it may also help when an emergency or the like has precluded a departure untill after that 4:pm cut off or even the following day. Things happen, thankfully I've never been in such situations but I guess those that now best have to manage these on regular basis.

Mickysf re your last sentence, I can only say, nail on head