Caravan sites opening and safety measures feedback

Our daughter and her partner have a seasonal caravan pitch on a fairly small touring area of a static caravan and lodge site which is part of a larger golf and fishing complex. 

I visited her on Saturday to deliver and erect our old awning. It was the second day of reopening and most of the owners  were setting up for the season. There were no obvious  restrictions on visitors and no obvious additional precautions, notices or instructions on the touring area or the toilet block. 

Our daughter and partner had brought additional cleaning materials, sanitizer, etc with them to ensure the toilets and showers were clean for them to use rather than relying on the site.

The conditions were noticeably different to all I have read on here about the precautions being taken on CAMC sites. I am interested to hear what JK makes of it.

Have to say all the other seasonal pitch occupiers seemed happy with the site.

Also did you see this one Fish, far more recent:

“The outbreak associated with the workforce at the Rowan Foods plant in Wrexham remains active, although the number of reported cases has slowed considerably.

“At Friday’s OCT meeting (10 July), three more positive cases of infection were reported, which brings the total number associated with the outbreak to 305

Hi all, arrived at Rowntree park in York on reopening day, what a fantastic experience, contacted 2 days prior to confirm booking and make payment, then on arrival brilliant warden team throughout.   Met at barrier, registered in and then on to pitch of my choice.  Great information and humour, no queues on this very busy site.  Facilities restricted to 4 people in each with rubber band system. Early days but not faultless.  Cleaning 3 times a day, very very efficient team.

Now sat on Poolsbrook, no phone call to confirm and pay, very long queues to book in, understandingly only 1 in office at a time, but no urgency by members to get in and out quickly, hence very long queues of outfits.  Facilities only 2 in men’s and 3 in women’s, some strange decisions to mark some of the facilities out of use?

with regards to arrivals I would’ve thought the club would have a universal approach, York excellent and seamless, Poolsbrook not so!

restrictions on facilities are out of your hands and we appreciate them being open at all, many thanks.

Not been to Poolsbrook so don't know what the access is like but is the difference down to access and the need to clear the road at Rowntree quickly?

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Fisherman, the Covid 19 outbreak you are referring to is in Herefordshire and in fact nearer Gloucester or Worcester than Hereford itself as you site. From what I am being told it is Eastern Block Horticultural workers that have been working on various jobs on the farm,picking and packing.

I thought the phone call and pre payment was only for the first opening day. It’s now back to normal. 

If I understood correctly, the special contact in advance, payment and check in arrangements were just for frenzy day on 4 July.

By the time you arrived at Poolsbrook, Flora, the system would have reverted to something much closer to 'normal'.

Whoops, snap, Goldie.

The RNLI and RLSS got together many years ago, to offer a range of Lifeguard qualifications. As you might imagine, the training is slightly different for pool based and beach based. Pool based involves diving to bottom of pool to retrieve an object, and the depth you dive to is usually recorded on your qualification, so technically, if a Lifeguard trains in a 2 metre pool, then that’s the depth they are qualified. But we had a very deep diving pit, so all of ours had to do the retrieve in there, so they could work at any of our pools! The “sinkers” had no problems, the “floaters” had to put more effort in to get down there😂

Its a good while since I was involved, so some training aspects might have been updated.

Hi, fully understand the special arrangements for day one but the restrictions due to COVID-19 are ongoing and therefore procedures for arrivals will be difficult for some time so the phone call for confirmation and payment seems like a very good Idea to me.