Caravan sites opening and safety measures feedback

Evening All

I was going to give daily feedback of how things are going onsite but I'll leave it until the end of the week. By all accounts the measures we've put in place have been well received. Valuable lessons have been learned the last three days and will be put into use moving forward. 

Thanks everyone on site for your patience and understanding, we'll all get used to the new normal! Thanks also to the folk who needed some elastic bands, if you'd only ask we have a drawer full of about five thousand in reception.

Had a well earned rest day today, it's been hard graft the last couple of weeks but good to be back in the saddle again. 

Now on for a large brandy or two!!

Cheers all

JK

Thank you for the few people staying on the club caravan sites at the moment that responded to my request. I am sure lots of people will be happy to hear your positive responses to safety on the caravan sites. We are looking forward to our trip away this month.

Enjoy that much deserved brandy!

As you say, valuable lessons over the past 3 days will have been learned.  What is happening is new for absolutely everyone.  I get quite tetchy when some people offer nothing other than criticism as to how things should be done, aren’t being done, and seem to have this wonderful gift of seeing into the future with assertions or at the worst, probabilities!  We can only try our best and learn by our mistakes.

Cheers to all enjoying their caravans, campervans and motorhomes this week.  Long may it continue.

Thanks for update JK enjoy your evening.

So are the allocated pitches an ongoing thing or just for the initial rush? We are booked for Troutbeck head on Thursday and can say are looking forward to it immensely! 

We arrived at Modbury on Sunday. Check in was great. Paid by card around the plastic screen, asked if we would be using the facilities, which we aren’t as we only decided to go ahead with the trip on the basis of being totally self sufficient. So brought drinking water and all food with us and using on board facilities which we have always done anyway and are fortunate to have.  The site is just under half full I would estimate but there is a steady stream of trudgers back and forth to the wash block, some of them tent campers but also many caravanners who have onboard facilities but are choosing to use the shower block. This has surprised us but each to their own. We wear gloves to dispose of rubbish and waste after waiting for a lull at the SP.

Quite relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere here and definitely worth coming.

The alternative way of using the band system (one band per pitch and hang it outside when you use the facilities) seems better than the ‘2 bands in a bucket’ used at Burrs although they would need to buy a lot of bands here because the site is almost full.  Lots departed yesterday but pitches were taken up with new arrivals - seems a lot of people are testing the procedures with short breaks this week.

Band system breaks down a bit if there are 2 showers being used.  Would be better if they closed all but one shower so the ‘desperate’ could use the toilet cubicles.  Husband called at the block yesterday evening, no bands in the bucket but when he popped his head round the door the block was empty.