Booking late availability without losing money

borrowdale replied on 22/09/2022 12:34

Posted on 22/09/2022 12:34

I was trying to book a week away starting in the next few days and realised this is quite difficult now.

If e.g. you are going Wednesday to Wednesday and the Saturday night is not available, it used to be possible to book Wednesday-Saturday and Sunday-Wednesday separately, then keep refreshing to see if anyone cancelled the Saturday night.

I would then either get the Saturday night or have to try another site.

Unfortunately my wife and I have jobs which mean this is the only viable way for us to do holidays, our work is very unpredictable so it is very difficult to plan months in advance. That's why we have a caravan!

With the new system you now have to wait for all of the nights to become free at once (not likely!), or risk losing the entire deposit.

I suppose there won't be many cancellations now anyway so no chance of picking up a last-minute getaway if one or two of the nights are full, which is a shame really.

peedee replied on 24/09/2022 09:57

Posted on 24/09/2022 09:57

Don't forget some prefer grass Steve. I do if the weather is fine and if it means these will be available at short notice, great.

peedee

chrissies replied on 24/09/2022 16:37

Posted on 24/09/2022 16:37

Can anybody tell me how you look for late availability now it was so easy before where you could put in the area you want to go and see what was available for next six weeks I found it so easy and convenient. Now I can only seem to bring each site up separately to check availability not good 😌 

peedee replied on 24/09/2022 16:58

Posted on 24/09/2022 16:58

If a site is Full, it will show as such on the map, all the others will have availability. It helps to be more precise with the new system i.e. complete the date window with the actual dates you want.

peedee

peedee replied on 24/09/2022 17:27

Posted on 24/09/2022 17:27

 I have just looked for availability over Easter 2023 by starting to look for sites in the New Forest, Black Knowl is FULL the Centenary site isn't. From there I dragged the map around southern England looking at the availability of Club sites. Very few are FULL.  Note: If you zoom out too far you lose the information.

peedee

 

brue replied on 24/09/2022 20:15

Posted on 24/09/2022 20:15

I think I'd prefer to see a late availability page rather than go in via booking, I hope this awkward search route  gets adjusted. I would like to be able to type in late availability on the website and find a direct answer as previously. See the C&CC web site as an example which will state low, medium, high etc over the months ahead. It's something I'd like to do quickly to get an idea of what's available in general if I needed to book somewhere.

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