Motorhome facilities and rules

Posted on 17/09/2021 14:41 by cyberyacht

It's dumping the grey that seems to take longer. My previous Moho had a pathetically sized grey waste tap which I changed for something a little larger which about halved the time. There's room for a Moho and a wastemaster if the MHSP is properly designed.

Posted on 16/09/2021 14:21 by jb99

I can't remember ever being told that I couldn't use a water tap anywhere.  And that's in about 60 years camping, in countries all over Europe, Morocco, USA, New Zealand, Australia and even Cuba.  Of course one shouldn't block up roads and indeed in this case, I was parked on the grass near to the tap (it's an all grass site, so no problems parking there).  The private site we stayed on the night before had taps scattered about with no restriction so you didn't need to spend as much time at the motorhome service point;  "park where you like, but 6m separation", and it was a few pence cheaper!

As I said before, this Club seems to like inventing rules and I'm not sure that I can be bothered when there are alternatives.

Posted on 16/09/2021 12:05 by jb99

We've just returned from a tour of mid and south Wales in our motorhome.  We stayed at a number different locations: pubs, public car parks, private camp sites and one night at the C&MC site in St Davids.  We have paid our membership fees for many years, but in practice we haven't stayed on a Club site very often, and not since the name change and rebranding.  So we expected great improvements for motorhomes. 

We arrived rather early, but were warmly welcomed by the lady on reception who unexpectedly checked us in before the official time. 

I was rather confused by the parking rules, but looked at the way adjacent vehicles were arranged and tried to imitate them.  Since our motorhome is less than 2.5m wide, versus a car/caravan/awning measuring maybe 7m, it was easy to maintain the 6m separation from our neighbours.  However, apparently I had picked the wrong corner to go next to the white post.  This was explained to me that evening, but since we were leaving the next morning the very friendly warden said not to bother moving.  Fine, I'll be more careful if we visit again.

The next morning, there was a queue of motorhomes at the only grey waste point, so we decided that, as we only had a small amount of waste we would empty the toilet cassette at the service point then just fill up with fresh water and leave.  So, I pulled up next to the adjacent service point and attached my hose connector to the threaded tap.  Shortly after, a  different warden who was maintaining the grass, came along and said that motorhomes weren't allowed to use the service points and indeed there was a notice that said this that I hadn't seen.  He said that this was because filling a motorhome takes a lot of time so other people would have to wait.  I asked why I had to wait rather than other members and although a 100 litre motorhome tank will obviously take longer than a 50 litre rolling caravan tank, there were three other service points on the site.  No! Jobsworth was adamant and claimed that it was a health and safety risk (which is hard to understand). 

According to various comments on Facebook, these is just a couple of many petty rule enforcement incidents that are alienating motorhome owners.  I really think that if the Club wants to encourage this massively increasing sector of the market, they need to learn the differences between motorhomes and towed caravans.

So, the rebranding was clearly just a marketing exercise and we will have to seriously consider whether to renew our membership next year.

Posted on 17/09/2021 15:47 by SallyD

Oh for heavens sake get a life! Join a Club obey the rules End of story!

Posted on 17/09/2021 15:01 by JVB66

I take it by your post you have a "properly designed"? MCSP on the drawing board

Posted on 18/09/2021 09:26 by cyberyacht

I don't need to. There are 'some' sites with a full width open grid so they do know how to do it. Easy for a Moho and a wastemaster at the same time.

Posted on 18/09/2021 11:33 by viatorem

Maybe due to the rapid growth of motorhome use we have a club originally designed around caravans somewhat wrong footed and floundering to be all things to all people with diversification into holiday pods at certain sites etc. Would focusing on getting things right for the core of the membership be a better approach than experimenting at some cost with developing and marketing these additional public facilities?