Allocating pitches by site manager!

It wasn’t wardens who turned me off Club sites many years ago and I never criticised them - after all I had no more interaction with them than with the lady at the petrol station pay desk today. In both cases I just went inside to pay and came straight out again. It was the sheer number of rules, regimentation, regulations and restrictions on Club sites. And it seems to be what others are describing here. So I gave it up.

if the reports are accurate it’s quite disgusting behaviour by the wardens.

Please tell me what I have said that you consider as being inaccurate. This is only the second club site in over 40 yrs of using them where I have a had concerns with the wardens' attitude. On previous visits here we have only had very good dealings with the wardens, who have been both helpful and friendly.

I trust those "reporters" went through the proper channels to complain about the service they received and the "disgusting behaviour" of the site staff site at the time? Or maybe as usual prefer to take to social media to highlight their plight?

As I said, quite entertaining.

JK

Can you not throw some light on this, JK? Too many people have commented of experiencing the same issue for it not to have a basis in truth. I don’t think it can be lightly dismissed.

Well, given we were thinking of Wales Nellie, BD could have been our transition stop, but I’m blowed if we are going to have someone like you are describing parking us up inch bloody perfect.😡

JK, you know that many of us have nothing but time of day and a lot of respect for Site staff, and fully understand that they have to deal with some awkward customers and a total load of sphericals from HQ, but this is taking the mickey. This isn’t staff bashing, far from it. It’s about having some respect for those visiting, and using some common sense. It’s supposed to be a holiday, not a ruddy boot camp for semi delinquents.

Agree with Tinny, is this sort of carry on going to be the norm at every site, under all circumstances, or is it trying to manage this transitional booking period? Surely on a half empty Site it’s a bit OTT, unless it’s another blanket rule without due regard to individual sites? 

We were there in August. We asked for a grass pitch but were refused. He told us he was going close the grass pitches and cancel 8 bookings due to them being wet, which we thought doubtful, being at the end of a drought. We disliked our allocated plot so left early. In our opinion the pitch was too small to be classed as an awning pitch, the white lines were necessary to fit the caravan and awning on, the car had to go across the front almost in the roadway.
The caravan on the next plot was put on by the warden with his tractor because it didn’t have a mover. 
The wardens were very pleasant and helpful apart from the rigid pitch allocation.

JK

I certainly wasn't " warden bashing" I was just posting what we were asked to do by the wardens. They were polite but firm and we complied. Both wardens were in fact very pleasant during our stay . It was just the fact it was unusual to be asked to unhitch and use our mover, and to be watched to make sure we did, that's all. 

On the two club sites we have been on have both been pulling their hair out after the pitch allocation was advised to them when some members had already chosen their pitch and set up

 It is it seem like a club site we were on last year ,we asked if we could leave a bit later as the journey to the next site was about 40mins 

But it was refused as the pitch we were on had to be inspected? before it could be used again,  we were on a hardstand ?

When I said we would not get away by 1200 as my OH was not having good day I was advised I would be reported to EGH if we were not off by 1200