Would It Work ? – Open for sensible debate.

I think I would rather keep £300 in my account

  Damned predictive text! 

Anyway, point laboured enough I think. Reckon I might go to the AGM this year, just for the craic, and it's not far to travel. Anyone been before? Is there free beer/wine/nibbles or is it buy your own tea/coffee/hobnobs

Any questions you think I should put to the floor? Or should I just discretely lob peanuts at our Grenville? 

I could be awkward and ask why there's a distinct lack of sexual equality & diversity on the board of directors 

We tried mid Jan 2016 to book a week at Chatsworth for mid March. Only able to book Sun-Fri. On arrival told the Warden the prob. Was told highly likely there'd be a cancellation for the weekend & I'd get 1st option - which indeed turned out to be the case.

Glad you got what you needed aaj, not always easy at that site. I am always rather puzzled by just how popular Chatsworth Site is to be honest, but guess it's proximity to some big urban areas (Sheffield, Derby etc...) make it good for long weekends, as well as those wanting longer holidays. Perhaps it's being very familiar with the place that doesn't make it a favourite, done the house, gardens, walks, Horse Trials, Country Fair etc... on a regular basis. The estate is very beautiful, but Baslow doesn't have much to offer we have found. Couple of pubs, an Italian eatery, that's about it. We have found travelling and staying further out gets you closer to more interesting places. Could be just us, not overly tempted to use site.

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some of this is due to not enough sites/pitches to go round and someone doesn't want to drive to say Cornwall with kids in the car only to find out the site is full ,then what sleep in a layby?

whereas overseas from the photos I have seen there seems to be no lack of sites or places to stay ,the whole culture is totally different

We the British seem to want to pre book everything from holidays to a meal at the local pub       

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Maybe its time for the Club to be a bit radicule and have one site where no booking is allowed, just turn up and stay

I must stop dreaming

Many thanks everyone for contributing to this discussion and for your feedback, which has been forwarded to the Sites Operations and Product Development teams for their reference.

Our flexible booking system allows members to amend their bookings if they need to change their holiday plans at short notice. We understand that some situations can't be predicted, and we do want members to be able to postpone their holidays by moving their dates forward. We're always sympathetic to members who breach the 72 hour late cancellation policy for genuine reasons. However, members who persistently late cancel their bookings may be suspended and have all their forward bookings cancelled.

We know that a small minority of members book more sites than they need, and choose to deprive other members of their holidays by amending bookings then cancelling them to avoid any late cancellation penalty. We can't stop them doing this, otherwise we would be making our booking system too inflexible for members who have valid reasons to change their travel plans. However, when we see frequent changes to bookings which appear to be designed to avoid the late cancellation policy, we take this very seriously and will always investigate and deal appropriately.