Dornafield Touring Park

Lovely site is Stover👍

Who knows, Arch, but CAMC sought planning permission for more HS at Stover only a few years back and duly installed them. It's a completely different type of site from Dornafield, and closer to the A38, Exeter and Dartmoor. I'd think there is room for both.

Btw, I think it's more than 4 miles between the sites using towable roads. I suspect those distances are as the crow flies in the same way as Cornwall is reckoned to be 90 miles from Swansea😂

That was my first thought as well. It’s a nice location in some ways, edge of Dartmoor, not far from Devon Riviera, couple of nice towns close in Newton Abbot and Totnes. But high Summer traffic is usually horrendous, and getting onto Dartmoor with anything larger than our MH would be a challenge, unless you drive off and get on from somewhere further South or North.
Best potential for it would be to go the whole holiday camp route, shove more on-site facilities on, such as an all weather pool, indoor play space for children, cycle hire etc……. Along with pods and lodges. Go for the family market. We won’t be tempted, much prefer Exeter Racecourse or Stover. More our kind of place. And Price.

What an amazing extrapolation YT. Just because it's written on CT it must apply for all club members? Is that what you're saying?

IMHO metering is not as much of a priority as having more sites in this clubs portfolio that they actually own rather than lease

That did cross my mind.

After the inrtoduction of deposits shall i leave shall I stay swung in favour of staying but purchases like this are absolutely of no use to a motorhome owner. What am I paying my membership for? This year only 14 percent of my nights away have used Club sites. The swing ometer has started to head towards the shall I leave direction again. If that happened I would give my membership fee to CAMpRA. They are doing for motorhome owners than ever the Clubs are!

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The proof of the pudding of course will be in the pitching, not what is posted on here. Will people use it? Who knows but it will be interesting to see when it's possible to see the booking pages, I assume as an AS it had its own booking system? 

Was it well used?

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DD has a negative view of everything that CAMC do, so I wouldn't take his comments too seriously.

For many members, this will be a good move

'In my experience'....and in only one day of announcing it, the vast majority of comments I've seen have not been gushing with praise or excitement.

I've only stayed at Dornafield once and enjoyed my stay - I was allocated a pitch which I'm not keen on, but it was in a nice position so I was happy.

The Blackrock Copse section's layout  is less regimented than the majority of CMC sites, so I hope it stays that way and they don't try and cram in more pitches. I also prefer that Club sites allow you to choose your pitch rather then have it allocated.

Perhaps the Club had no choice but to either lose the site or buy it if the current owners wanted out?

John