Affiliate sites

It’s good to mix up Sites, there are Club Sites we love, and others we wouldn’t go back to in a hurry. We have been on a lot of small private Sites as well, some very nice ones.

It all depends what floats your boat. I have used a mixture of both clubs sites, affiliated sites and C&CC equivalent. Independent sites and CLs. In general I would chose cmc sites. However my choice is dependant on what is available on my tour routes and there are a couple of sites that I will not return to but mainly for their exit or entry.

For me the most important aspect has been location.

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There are few sites that I have used more than twice in the last 15 years. What makes the likes of Stanmore Hall such a high Standard for you David. The only thing that stands out for me is location

We used Stanmore Hall some 9 years ago. I don’t remember the pitch or facilities being significantly different from most CC sites. The grounds were exceptional though. More recently we used the ML site at Betws y Coed and thought that inferior, particularly in the ratio of facilities. We have stayed at Grantown on Spey four times and I would rate that as above average.

I have visited 4 of their 5 touring parks. For me not overly keen other than (as I said) location. The only one visited more than once is Stanmore and purely for location.

We used Carnon Downs in Cornwall before the club took over, the main reason being that it stayed open all year and it's handy for both coasts. It was always a well run spacious site so we were happy to use it and also get a slight reduction on fees as part of the affiliated offer.

We have used a few AS sites over the years and always found them good maybe different from regular club sites but still ok. With regard to The Ranch I think you maybe just caught them on a bad weekend because it is one of our regular weekend sites being only 45 mins from home and we find it a great site we have been using it for 16 years now and know the owners well they are very good and strive to keep a good site the pitches are fully serviced and we have never saw the toilet block dirty. I would give it another go it is a site I would recommend to anyone. Also there fees are very competitive. Especially compared to regular club sites