Arrival time at Ferry Meadows changed to 1pm

It's seems that 1 o'clock arrival has been sneaked in through the back door under the guise of COVID 🙄

We are at Ferry Meadows and although it states 1300arrivals have been accepted  at no earlier than 1200 it has changed as very well  advertised last year on many sites to 1300 as add time was needed to give site staff more time for the add covid cleaning and sanitising around the whole  of sites,

A problem it seems is the shortage of staff on some sites  , so it is best to check the arrival times on all sites as many were changed to 1300hrs for earliest arrivals last year, and it has not changed this year

I thought the arrival time at Ferry Meadows was changed some time ago when they installed the outer barrier so it was not longer possible to get into the quite large outfit parking area?

David

Did you arrive before 1pm? Last year it was 12:00 arrival and some members who arrived early were told to go back to the lay-by and park up, come back at 12.00.

We arrived at 1250mostly because of very light traffic,  ,but have noticed many coming in at just after 1200

Actually it was 1300 last year but the site staff were forever having to clear Ham Lane with early arrivals even though the clubs covid info did advise of the amended times. ,and as you probably are aware, with the extra security barriers ,to deter some arrivals there is now no access to the LNA  so when busy a member of the site team is stationed at the first barrier to check arrivals are booked 

Loads of Caravans / motor homes ignore arrival times and turn up early , knowing the club will do little, so simply carry on ignoring arriving early 
So 12 or 1 , no matter what site it is, for some it is irrelevant,and comes under the bracket of it does not apply to them 
Been a member of the club for over twenty years, i have never seen a caravan or motor home refused admission ,or turned away ,so why should they start paying attention to arrival times, when the club , and site managers  ignores them 

I think you are being a bit harsh when. saying site managers ignore arrival times,   as they have little or no choice at most sites, ,although in the years we have been members, site staff where possible try to restrict entry before the time shown on the booking pages ,,  ,where possible tend to make arrivals wait, but not all sites can do that. ,it depends on the site access roads in most cases, 

And as stated it seems it has got worse ,as has speeding on sites in recent years,  which may be it is more noticeable with the big increase in membership and LVs

And less members reading rules and information that is published for every ones benefit. even the  generations that think it does not apply to them

Re you last Para JV, you are correct👍🏻. Old folk are like that, its called ‘aged entitlement’☹️. Happily not all of them👏🏻👏🏻

We were turned away once at Ferry Meadows when we arrived at 11:50 and told to go and park up on the lay-by and come back at twelve o clock. Parked up in the lay-by and lots of caravans going up Ham Lane and not turned away. So do you arrive early or do you arrive at the allotted time. There will always be members who break the rules as some think the rules do not apply to them but I think the rules should be enforced more.

 ... We were turned away once at Ferry Meadows when we arrived at 11:50 and

sounds like the same wardens that kept the gates shut till the exact stroke of 12 when the site in question was virtually empty. They were both quite put out when I queried why it was 12 & they were keeping the 3 units waiting outside ... it was comical when they made sure that kept my place in the queue in the office 🙄