Clachan Arrival Trial.

Well, I guess there just no pleasing some folk, BB. The club takes a step forward by starting a trial of something you and others have been pushing for years yet still you tell us it's not enough and go into great detail of the better ways it could be done. 

I think we all get it that things are done differently overthere - goodness knows, you've told us often enough.

Whilst under the current system I think a strictly enforced  1pm arrivals is the best policy. This new technology if it works, without causing more problems than it solves,  does throw up some interesting possibilities for the future. 
As the system will know when folk leave and pitches of different types become free, why not market those at the last minute to those wanting to arrive early. £5 flat fee payable on an App and your early arrival is secured.😀 If hedge trimming or something else is required before a new arrival, those particular pitches could be removed from the early arrival system.

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Like yourself, I am happy to just drive onto a site and am not bothered if no-one is there to greet me.  I stayed at the North Yorkshire Moors site last month (a large site with no facility block) and there was an envelope with my name on in a box outside reception, asking me to choose a pitch and check in later.  Fine by me and a really lovely, very well kept site with very pleasant Wardens.  Why some people need to have face to face contact as soon as they arrive on a site, is a mystery to me. 

ANPR has been around since the 1980’s, revolutionary-approx 40yrs ago really?.

Maybe options-std £20, std+(met at gate with flowers)£30, gold std(met at gate with flowers then taken to pitch by flag waver) £50😊

Like yourself we are happy to sort ourselves out. However, I don’t find it particularly surprising that other folk prefer a more hands on approach. We are all different, some more confident than others. For some of the arrivals it might be there first time on a CAMC site, or even there first outing with a caravan in tow / driving a MH. Others might require some assistance because of a disability.

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Trialing ANPR does seem to be a good idea. And doing so at a small site that is in effect a satellite of a larger site is a sensible place to try it out. I just hope that the trial is not jepordised by the physical location.

At present new arrivals have to attend at the 1/2 mile away Maragowan site's office which has a bit of space before the barrier (and a LNA area) and most new arrivals have to drive around that site to get back onto the highway and approach the Clachan site heading east. The road there (and all around the area for miles) is narrow and busy but new arrivals appearing singly and spaced in time will have no trouble entering the site. 

With ANPR, arrivals may not be so well spaced out and some blocking of the road could occur as a convoy gains access. That problem will be much worse if a new arrival appears before 1 p.m. - whether or not they are pre-booked. No space to wait; those heading east will have to travel many miles to turn, those heading west might get turned in village of Killin, but the Caravan Club Maragowan site is probably the safest.

I don't see the local authority or the police being happy to allow outfits to queue on the road in view of the chaos it will cause to the local traffic.  I fear the Caravan Club could be forced to abandon the trial early by the authorities.

There’s a multi storey car park I use now and then -the system there knows if there’s space inside, and if there is then the barrier opens and lets me in. It doesn’t make me wait till 1 pm

You've made this comparison before and has someone else mentioned you're not towing then? And if you did find a car park like that opened at 1pm maybe you wouldn't turn up early?

Again you don't use club sites, and say you won't yet have all these ideas how they should be run?