Servicing calls at CLs for Motorcaravans

Most vans can be used off grid, but most owners have no idea how to use them in that way. 

All vans can be used off grid but most prefer EHU or decent solar etc. I suspect that there are many on this forum who have lived without EHU

We are looking at all the options available this year, to ensure we can tour as we want, and at a nightly cost we consider reasonable. Club and CLs are just one string to our bow, but we have decided to look at more basic stops that just give us somewhere to sleep legally, fill up and drop waste where we can. To that end, decided to buy Britstops guide, see what takes our fancy. If we use it a few times, it will be worth it. Likely to give us a push into staying somewhere a tad different as well, so another positive. 

Even on cc sites i have been "without electicity " as two days at Black Knowl one trip when the transformer from the grid  blew up as did the nearly full site ,and again last year at FM when the site power went down all day so i would think quite a few members will know how to work without the umbilical to the Bollard

As i posted on page two

It makes sense to make use of what is available as long as it suits your needs. Makes more sense to me than looking for what is not available

I'm not against Biggarmac's suggestions although it's not something I'm personally searching for as I like to have a rest when travelling and overnight  car parks etc don't do it for me. We once watched the car park at Stonehaven fill up with overnighters and the safe spacing between the vans was compromised. We've seen it in Devon too with nose to tail vans and bbqs etc. I found the update for the Scottish Forestry experiment LINK. I think there was tremendous pressure on Scotland last year with many freewheeling motorhomers heading there, under the misconception that there was plenty of space and they could vanish into the scenery.. Maybe these are the motorhomers who usually head off to Spain etc. However we met a lot staying on sites in the south of the uk and there was room for them.

I can't quite make up my mind about the lifestyle either and whether I should be bothered when there are provisions already on sites and safe overnight spaces to stay.

I'm not anti either, Brue, and neither am I pro but I have trouble grasping BM's reason for posting. Is she asking others to do the work to achieve what she wants or seeking suggestions - of which we've given plenty?

Starting threads on the same old topic is bound to generate the same old responses. Far better to be proactive and go out there lobbying for what is wanted. 👍

Certainly some motorhomers/motor-campers perceive a need for such facilities. I can only suppose that, financially possible providers do not see a large enough profit stream to provide for such a need.

Hopefully more CL owners will spot the business opportunity.

If they do, they would have to put up the standard motorhome dump sign under the CL sign and advertise more widely in some way. I have seen at least one CL who highlights they have a proper MSP. You would think if it is on a mains drain there would be some profit in opening it up to passers by.

If a proper MSP wasn't available I would have to be pretty desparate to stop off and use it. If I am on a CL for say a long weekend, I arrive with full tanks of fresh water and I am more than likely to take my grey waste home where it is much easier to dump than trudge across a field with bucket fulls. Same goes for shows and rallies. I have always made the point for Club sites to offer this service to members on the basis that it is rarely convenient to service a motorhome when staying on a CL

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We didn’t have much trouble winging a tour (booking on the road, just checking day before we moved) last September, and we stayed at some top notch sites.......  picturesque CL near Rothbury, £8. Small Private site/CL near Berwick on Tweed, £12 per night. Small private Site, near Powburn (full facilities), £15 per night. Racecourse Site, with brand new facilities at Hexham, £15. I think we averaged something like £13.50 for the whole holiday. That to me is wonderful value. I want to be safe as well, not inches away from another outfit, no matter how many pounds I save, so fully endorse what brue says. 

If had a pound for every time someone said to me last September, “oh we usually go abroad, we can’t get a pitch and isn’t it expensive?” I could have funded our whole holiday. Two different things happening there.......possibly out of touch with how things now work in UK (you have to be pro active, willing to compromise, get that bit more organised) and yes, you might have to pay more to get what you need. Once you accept that this is the way it is, it’s fine. Folks can happily hop back over the Channel once it’s safe to do so, and go back to enjoying what they know and love, but at the moment, the UK way, whether you love or hate it, is what we have got🤷‍♀️ Hopefully, it won’t be too long for those that do tour predominantly overseas, it must be frustrating.

Last place we would go this year is far North of Scotland. Just too many doing it now, ticking the boxes. Fabulous place, but it’s become a victim of its own success. Better to go back when things have calmed down a bit. Mind, I don’t do midges either, so it’s no Summer loss to me😉