Adults Only CLs Annoyance..

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

Thank you Ian for the great comments..  

Its this " Back to basics" type of camping that should be promoted to all children and the caravan club has a huge role to pay in this ( amongst others ).

It brings great honest values regarding the outdoors and kids just playing and building dens etc..  Something that seems to be rapidly being lost in this modern age of xbox's and playstations etc..

 

 

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

Thank you Ian for the great comments..  

Its this " Back to basics" type of camping that should be promoted to all children and the caravan club has a huge role to pay in this ( amongst others ).

It brings great honest values regarding the outdoors and kids just playing and building dens etc..  Something that seems to be rapidly being lost in this modern age of xbox's and playstations etc..

 

 

I'm going to take issue with you there, Ian. Why should 'back to basics' camping be promoted to children? That is just your opinion, mine differs. These days children lead very different lives to the ones you and I did and I don't feel that is the way to go at all. I agree that CC has a role to play in promoting leisure activities but the Club represents us all, not just children In basic camping mode. 

I'm not sure either that CL owners will thank you for  spreading the idea that their sites are basic.

We have not yet used an AO site but its not to say we wouldn't. By having them in the network of CL's surely this is a help not a problem. The way I see it  for every couple that uses an AO site it means extra availability at the sites that do take children, this has to be an advantage. If the AO CL's were removed from the network I can imagine it wouldn't take long before people came on CT complaining that there wasn't enough CL's 

I have to agree with Tinwheelers last post, you cannot compare children today with children 40 years or more ago. We caravaned with our children from the age of 4 and 2 until they were 21 and 19, they have done all sorts of camping, some of it extreme camping as they got older. But school holidays usually found us on a beach in a hot place watching the boys having fun, and at the end of the day going back to a nice comfortable caravan.

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

Thank you Ian for the great comments..  

Its this " Back to basics" type of camping that should be promoted to all children and the caravan club has a huge role to pay in this ( amongst others ).

It brings great honest values regarding the outdoors and kids just playing and building dens etc..  Something that seems to be rapidly being lost in this modern age of xbox's and playstations etc..

 

 

I'm going to take issue with you there, Ian. Why should 'back to basics' camping be promoted to children? That is just your opinion, mine differs. These days children lead very different lives to the ones you and I did and I don't feel that is the way to go at all. I agree that CC has a role to play in promoting leisure activities but the Club represents us all, not just children In basic camping mode. 

I'm not sure either that CL owners will thank you for  spreading the idea that their sites are basic.

Many thanks Tinwheeler for your response,

Why should 'back to basics' camping be promoted to children? 

Perhaps you should check out http://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/ for your answer to this..

I disagree with you whole heartedly - Kids still have to same vaules as they always did. 

Can I ask if you camp with kids or not?

 

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I'm going to take issue with you there, Ian. Why should 'back to basics' camping be promoted to children? That is just your opinion, mine differs. These days children lead very different lives to the ones you and I did and I don't feel that is the way to go at all. I agree that CC has a role to play in promoting leisure activities but the Club represents us all, not just children In basic camping mode. 

I'm not sure either that CL owners will thank you for  spreading the idea that their sites are basic.

Many thanks Tinwheeler for your response,

Why should 'back to basics' camping be promoted to children? 

Perhaps you should check out http://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/ for your answer to this..

I disagree with you whole heartedly - Kids still have to same vaules as they always did. 

Can I ask if you camp with kids or not?

I'm not actually looking for an answer, Ian. You stated your opinion and I gave you mine. I think you are getting into the realm of things that are outwith CC and are wandering off topic from your orininal complaint about too many AO CLs.

IJ, it's choice, the more choice the better for everyone Kids & Adults

I caravan with kids although they are past all the camp fire, sing song, den building nonsense now thank goodness. 

It's a very tiny part of a well rounded education 

We are a retired couple but will not stay on any sites that advertise as 'adult only'.    We think it goes against the whole ethos of camping and caravanning holidays and deprives families of the chance to enjoy the pleasures of caravanning and camping.  That in the long term is not good for the Club either.  (At the risk of generating comments from those who like such sites, we also find that such 'adult only' sites can be very sterile and more like mediocre suburbia.

Like OldGirlandStaffy, we would never stay on sites which advertise themselves as Adult Only.  My sons were brought up camping and caravanning, and it's still the choice of holidays for both of them.  They had great fun as children on campsites in this country and abroad, it taught them how to appreciate what we had in this country, and the differences between here and sites in Europe, they mixed with all sorts of people, and it helped to make them 'responsible' campers.

Both of them, as older teenagers, were allowed to use our caravan on a site in North Wales which 'allowed' them because we'd taken them there so often as children - and the site owner congratulated us on their behaviour, as did some of the other people camping/caravanning there.

Children learn their camping and caravanning habits from their parents, and responsible parents will bring up children who grow up to be responsible campers and caravanners.  Hopefully, their children, too, will be brought up with the joys and benefits of camping and caravanning holidays but NOT on Adults Only sites!