New Booking System

Well, your perceived “keyboard warrior” grouping is significantly larger than my “rose tinted spectacle” count, but I don’t actually disagree that reporting faults isn’t helpful.

I do however remain sceptical of the decisions made, the reasons why, and highly disappointed in how things have been communicated and drip fed to the Membership. That’s my feedback, but I don’t think it will be of any concern to the Club. I am of course open to being re-enthused and otherwise convinced………

This may sound flippant, it isn't meant to be. I'm hoping JVB  may have an answer as I believe this site is his "second home" . We are looking to book FM for next year . We prefer the east side to the west . Question , will the new booking shambles let us book a HS on either side as realistically they are two different sites ? . Think I already know the answer , but no harm in asking.😁.

If having a positive experience of being a member and supporter of this club is deemed to be 'rose tinted' then thats something that I'm happy to live with.

On an iphone I don’t get a split screen. It’s all site info / availability, or all map. The map actually runs even faster than on my iPad as it has a better processor. Does an android phone split the screen, rather than as detailed above?

If you can wait until next week I will try and find out , we are stopping to meet up with others on our way to a private site in Norfolm i,  suspect that booking a hardstand will be just that as in the past and will be which ever side has availability East side has 20? but seems more spacious 

Yes, I think our most expensive site was £27, a fully serviced pitch on a small commercial site near York.   Balanced however with much less expensive CLs.   And much less expensive than CAMC  Beechwood Grange! 

We had booked Banchory Silverbank for late March, with mid week discount, but had to cancel that as DD and family asked if they could use the van for the first week of the Easter school holidays, so after that we used Greenpark instead.   Less expensive and serviced pitches.   Nice toilets and showers too.

Unfortunately, since 2018,  having volunteered for grandparent duties, we are now restricted on when we can go away.  Late April till mid June is now out, as is mid August till late September.  And also mid October through to late March, though  we have not often gone away at that time anyway.

So we are mainly left with school holiday periods, SIL is a teacher, and times when we can swap with the other grandparents, and CAMC are not known for low prices any time there is a sniff of a school  holiday!

We have in the past used several non facility sites such as Cadeside, Englethwaite and High Onn, which are less expensive, but these days we find we use quite a few CCC sites as we get the age discount, and their peak periods, especially in Scotland, are shorter.  

We also use a lot of CLs, plus a few commercials.  

These days the joints are getting pretty creaky, I have arthritis setting in in my hips and my hand joints, so we are splashing out (moderately) on serviced pitches where affordable, and we do prefer a hardstanding most of the time, so this has pushed up our average spend.  

Fewer nights away each year mean we can spend a little more per night on pitch fees,  but I do think our days of using Club sites are now over.

Just FM next year cc to meet friends unless we use ccc site at St Neots,as those without ccsite passes are going to join ccc 

We normally would have at least one tour booked by now,on mostly this clubs sites but ,seriously having a rethink,but must have full disable facilties on sites.  with the user friendly previous system it was easy

And with our ages we are reticent as we may lose quite  large amounts of money

Is Clumber Park too far for you JV? New upgraded facilities are best we have ever seen on a Club Site, and compared with some Sites, the price is mid range. Nice midweek, busy at weekends. 

so I understand we have stayed sevaral times in the past we have friends about 10 miles away, ,Sutton on sea and Cayton village are good,we have friends within easy striking distance of them also,  but we shall see if we can book sites at very short notice so as to miss the deposits ,but wiil wait to see if it will work 

When you have been a member as long as us and seen in recent years how the original ethos of what was in the past a real club ,has been eroded,and is now nothing more than a money making organisation,   and with this latest booking system? debacle by trashing what was a user friendly  system with the USP which made this club head and shoulders above other pitch suppliers,