Where have site reviews gone?

Posted on 20/09/2022 19:50 by DavidKlyne

TDA

That is exactly the link I found by just putting the name of the CL into the search box, top right of webpage. 

I am not sure the the time out is still in place? John could of course just cut and paste what he has written in this thread which would only take a few seconds?

David

Posted on 20/09/2022 20:21 by nelliethehooker

But why do we have to use these elaborate ways to find CLs in a specific area when it was simple with the old system, and being able to use filters to reconsider search. They have made a right pig's ear of the new system! How are all those who do not read the methods posted on here going to cope? A lot of CL owners will be pulling their hair out because members can't access the CL section as they once could, and will be loosing bookings.

Posted on 20/09/2022 17:08 by JohnM20

How do you write a review about a CL, David. I can't immediately see a way to do it. I was wanting to write a review about a CL that we have recently visited to advise others that the description on line and in the club hand book is quite incorrect.

The CL is Ty Cerrig near Dolgellau. The first point to note is that there are 3 hard standings, the surfaces of which is made up of slate cobbles of up to 50mm dia. It makes using a motor mover with the jockey wheel on the ground quite difficult. The H/Ss are positioned at right angles to each other meaning that the corners of outfits are very close together on two of them.  All the pitches, grass or H/S need levelling blocks although there is a supply provided.

The description of the site states that there is a water tap at each pitch. There is not, there is only three taps with only one that may be considered to be exclusive to that pitch. I think it ought to be pointed out that the water supply is a private one. After heavy rain one day the water was quite brown. When I mentioned this to the owner she claimed it was perfectly safe, it was filtered and UV treated but I think some people may like to know that it isn't mains water.

Television is claimed to be good. Wrong. There is no television signal via an aerial. The owners have provided a Freesat dish with connections at each EHU and a Freesat decoder box provided. The only problem is that there isn't enough equipment to go around especially when there are more than five outfits on site. Our first night, (without TV), there were seven outfits and the owner said quite openly that she always overbooks in case of no-shows. The club website and the handbook claim that there is WiFi. We didn't need it but a neighbour, who did need it, claimed they could find no signal at all.

The loo emptying point is quite the strangest I've come across. It is an adjacent paddock occupied by five sheep (rams). Bolted onto the top of a piece of pipe about 18" in diameter let into the ground is a top from a garden incinerator with the 4" diameter chimney pointing upwards. One has to try to direct the contents of the cassette into this 4" hole, hopefully without spilling anything. Not an easy job. There is a long hosepipe next to the point to allow a swill down but this is also needed for the cassette which, if of the wheeled variety, picks up sheep droppings on the way to the point.

It is also claimed there is a picnic area with a photo shown on the website. I don't know where the area is as it certainly isn't on the CL although there is a picnic table at the side of the main access drive but not the one shown.

Course and game fishing is claimed to be on site. Again I don't know where this is. There is only a small stream running at the side of the CL which I was told by the owner, John, that there used to be a few trout in it but he believed they were long since gone. He used to fish for them as a boy but he is now 75.

Just on a final note, I fully accept and quite enjoy normal farm noises when camped at a farm but each morning we were not only woken at about 5.30am by a cockerel in the next paddock but also a number of farm dogs that barked incessantly for hours on end.  At the other end of the CL there is another farm that trains sheepdogs. They also do bark quite a lot but only at feeding time, about 7.00am and again about 5.30.

Had I known that the description was quite incorrect for what is quite an expensive CL I don't think I would have booked it. The question is, aren't CLs inspected by the CaMC and checked that descriptions match the realities.