Adults Only CLs Annoyance..

We are retired and as Mrs One looks after other people's children, as a Cub Scout leader for two nights a week (and some weekends) we have to take most of our breaks during school holiday times. I confess that we look for AO sites, and don't feel any embarrassment about our choice.

No need for embarrassment One. We all choose sites for various reasons. 

I just wish that the infinitesimal portion of my membership fee that goes towards supporting CLs didn't go towards supporting those that exclude me and my well behaved children who arent  noisy and don't damage land or property. 

We are very happy to have children staying at our CL.  Our son is an only-child and enjoys having other children to play, and the CL is big enough to allow guests to spread-out and not disturb each other.

The reality is that we seldom get more than a total of 20 children staying here in the course of a full year.  A lot are toddlers carvanning with grandparents whilst parents are at work.  

I have given this much thought over the years and reckon that it is because we live in a quiet rural location, without 'bright lights' to attract teenagers.  North Shropshire and the Welsh Borders is a great area for National Trust properties, dog-walking, cycling and bird-watching, but these tend to appeal to adults rather than children.

Ian Kelly

01691 622951
Caravan@BirchHill.co.uk
www.BirchHill.co.uk

Birch Hill Farm – a multi-award winning caravan site in the beautiful lake-lands of Shropshire - exclusively for members of the Caravan Club

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We do not deliberately select AO CLs but certainly tend to use CLs and non-facility sites during the school holidays because they usually have less children on them than one finds on full facility sites. 

Many thanks for everyone's input on this topic - some very good replies..

Just to allow me gain some context to all the previous comments, Would the forum members allow me to ask how many of you guys actually caravan with children or have the luxury of having piece and quiet in the van!   :-> 

Many thanks for your replies.

IJ, we've caravanned for nearly 40 yrs with the CC and so our children grew up going out with us in our van for rallies and most opf our holidays. Since they left home we've caravanned with our grandson and finally by ourselves. Does this help?

Sometimes Ian peace and  quiet is not a luxury,to many it is loneliness. Like this forum many different views not all right ,not all wrong.

We have only ever tented with young kids. Although ours sometimes meet up with us, on sites that allow tents, they are now in their 30's. We never seek out AO sites as we can holiday out of season. If we had to go away at peak times we would probably opt for the quiet option, which might be AO.

We haven't vanned with children yet but hopefully when the grand twins are a little older they will come with us

We bought our caravan in order to take our son on holiday and to educate him about the wonderful places around the UK.  He is now aged 12 and still enjoys his caravan holidays.

Ian Kelly

01691 622951
Caravan@BirchHill.co.uk
www.BirchHill.co.uk

Birch Hill Farm – a multi-award winning caravan site in the beautiful lake-lands of Shropshire - exclusively for members of the Caravan Club

Read the reviews - look at the photos.

Number 1398 in the 2015/16 Sites Directory