Hard Standing Pitch Booking Dificulty.

Club Members for over 20 years and have always booked Hardstanding Pitches.

Being Disabled having to use a grass pitch would be a disaster.

Using a grass pitch for a Motorhome would be a disaster.

Why is the pitch choice available on some sites and not others?.

 Does Southport actually  have grass pitches?

Other than a one year trial on 3 sites a few years back, booking a hard standing, where there is both grass and HS, has never been an option since we joined back in 1998.

If you need a HS due to disability, you need to ring the site well ahead of arrival so they can reserve one for you.

Tricia, Kj is correct. There are no grass pitches at Southport so there is no choice, bookable or otherwise. As they are all HS, the booking page shows them as such, although the site plan refers to them as 'standard'. On sites where grass and HS exist, the booking page labels them all as 'standard'.

Kj is also correct in saying it has never been possible to choose surface type when booking and he's been a member longer than I.

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Correct Tinny. It’s the Club’s choice of wording that is misleading. If there’s more than one choice of pitch surface, you cannot choose.

There is a small panel on the right on the site details screen where it states total number of pitches and number of hard standings, this is a reasonable guide as to whether there are likely to be any HS left when you arrive.

In the peak school holidays in a popular area, if there is a large percentage of  grass pitches you are quite likely to end up on one.   This would also apply at other times if arriving on a Friday, Saturday, and even a Sunday.

We had booked Stamford and on checking more closely, the week before arrival, realised the site was fully booked and we were arriving over the weekend, so even though there are not a lot of grass pitches, with sites so busy this year it was highly likely we would end up on grass.

We found a nearby CL with fully serviced hardstandings instead.

For touring late Autumn to Early Spring, grass pitches will have been taken out of use.

Yes.

At Southport in May, opposite our Hardstanding Pitch they had grass pitches.

According to the site plan and Southport's webpage it is all hardstanding (171 of them).

Care to tell us where?

Just taken a look at the Southport site and as said there are no grass pitches shown.

If a van was on grass, maybe there was a problem ..........flooded pitch.....member taken ill.......car breakdown......and the warden had helped by moving them to a temporary location?

Or old grass pitches no longer in use?