Weekend fully booked

hotfog replied on 21/02/2019 21:39

hotfog

Posted on 21/02/2019 21:39

As this has been discussed many times and this post will be locked to stopped any comments.

Yes you can book a year in advance but this still stops people booking a a whole week (7 days) due to the weekend bookings. The problem is not going to go away until something is done about the weekend blocking. I suggest that the club takes a look at the amount of weekend bookings. I notice that there are discounts for midweek booking so this surely must show that CMC must be loosing out on revenue do to weekend blocking.

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Posted on 22/02/2019 19:01 by

People who tour tend to prefer to be able to book prior to arrival, If you turn up at peak without booking and want EHU tough. If you don't want EHU you might have more luck

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Posted on 22/02/2019 19:40 by

Tent campers often will settle for grass, non EHU. And there are many two man tent back packers who use C&CC sites. And it is a C&CC site to which you made reference.

As 'most times' motorhomers (we also have a caravan) we are content to use non EHU pitches as we have solar panels, an inverter and Gaslow. And we dislike booking (too far) ahead. On the day does us nicely when in the UK and we will settle for grass, non EHU.

Posted on 22/02/2019 20:23

I take it that you do not know the site. When I was there in May the 4 grass pitches outside the main barrier were taken up. Not any use to a weekender who wants EHU which must be over 90% of weekenders.

Dut you'll be fine.

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replied on 22/02/2019 20:46

Posted on 22/02/2019 20:31 by

I never saw the attraction in weekends or more importantly did my wife on whom the bulk of the preparation fell, just as much work for a couple of days as a week

Posted on 22/02/2019 20:46

No preparation for me David. Caravan always packed along with toiletries etc. Only thing to come in was dirty clothes for the wash and fridge stuff. If clothes were not replaced it was no problem as there was more inside the caravan and the same with kids toys and toiletries.

Biggest job was to take a bag of perishables out of home fridge to cool box in car and hitch up - 15 mins.

As we were early risers it was no problem to breakfast the kids, drop van off at home and for me to carry on to work on Monday as OH either did not work or worked part time evenings.

huskydog replied on 22/02/2019 20:49

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Posted on 22/02/2019 20:49

Same here ,our motorhome is always ready to go ,food in the cupboard and some clothes in the drawers, just need to put milk in the fridge and we're ready to go

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Cornersteady replied on 22/02/2019 21:05

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Posted on 22/02/2019 21:05

yes caravan is already ready to go, we used to buy food before a trip but we always used to bring it back seeing better stuff while out and about so now all we have now stored is a tin of baked beans and sausages for emergencies only that has been there for a few years (must check the date on it actually). Tea, coffee, sugar is always there, bedding and towels likewise, and even a few clothes. Toothbrushes are un-used new ones in their packaging which we throw away after each trip.

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Posted on 22/02/2019 20:46 by

No preparation for me David. Caravan always packed along with toiletries etc. Only thing to come in was dirty clothes for the wash and fridge stuff. If clothes were not replaced it was no problem as there was more inside the caravan and the same with kids toys and toiletries.

Biggest job was to take a bag of perishables out of home fridge to cool box in car and hitch up - 15 mins.

As we were early risers it was no problem to breakfast the kids, drop van off at home and for me to carry on to work on Monday as OH either did not work or worked part time evenings.

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Justus2 replied on 23/02/2019 06:31

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Posted on 23/02/2019 06:31

There is always bound to be a greater demand for weekend days. At a weekend pitches are required by those who work Monday to Friday, but they are also needed by the many of us who are retired and who are away for longer periods covering both weekdays and weekends, so the demand can be double. As for booking a whole week, we never stay for seven days in one place, we rarely did when we had a caravan either, always a few days and move a bit further on. Yes we book months in advance, we have bookings all the way to November, some of those cover weekend days as we can be away for long periods. Some of our bookings are with the Camping Club, deposits have been paid in advance, it doesn't matter in the slightest to us. We simply book early because we can. PS.. it can also be difficult to get on to the Camping Clubs most popular sites, at weekends, and school holidays despite their T&Cs requiring minimum periods of booking at some sites and times, AND deposits..

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Posted on 22/02/2019 20:23 by

I take it that you do not know the site. When I was there in May the 4 grass pitches outside the main barrier were taken up. Not any use to a weekender who wants EHU which must be over 90% of weekenders.

Dut you'll be fine.

Posted on 23/02/2019 07:20

Actually the site foes not list Grass pitches but there was an area outside the gate where up to 4 outfits were pitched and used site facilities.

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Posted on 22/02/2019 22:30 by

We had two children to cater for one of whom had severe behavioural difficulties, others would never know what we had to do to get away and it wasn't worth the effort for a weekend.. But when we did go it wasn't just around the corner.

Posted on 23/02/2019 07:22

We had two children to cater for but thankfully no severe behavioural difficulties.

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