New Booking System

I agree with both Steve and Brue....

firstly, there will be many coming to the new site for the first time, and who aren't CT members and who won't know about putting UK at the end of their search..these folk will surely pull their hair out and give up, especially if on a phone that can't or doesn't display the map.

secondly, Steve is probably right in that folk will generally know which town they are heading to and will get a small number of returns to sift through.

however, there will be folk who are planning a tour and might want to start their investigations with a wider search, this might be a struggle....

I'd just like it to be OK for all Steve, it's a mess at present and not good for CL owners. 

Brue

It's probably because they are using Google Maps which no doubt takes you (unless specified differently) to the most searched for location for that name? I agree it's not very satisfactory and is something that should have never found its way into the new system. I assume having purchased the software there was no way out? It's a shame when thinking of buying new software they didn't investigate how easy it would be to incorporate the best of the old website into the new?

David

Hopefully lengthening the list does not make it run more slowly. Although I currently don’t have a problem, many on here have said they do.

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How long will it be for CL owners to recognise the shortcomings of the system and change the name of their CL. Your search may then come up with 20 lots of "Aardvark Adventures, Aardvark Accommodation " etc.

Currently, if you type in 'Norfolk' and you'll probably get 'Virginia Beach, Great Neck Park, First Landing Beach' etc.

 

David, that certainly is not the case on my iPad using the Googlemaps app, which I use all the time.

if you put in 'Somerset' it returns the county of Somerset, with Somerset House being the next on the list.

similarly, there is no issue with typing 'Welshpool' without the UK, it returns the town of Welshpool.

now, it may well be that google maps is pretty clever and uses the location of the user to determine that UK might be the area they are searching. We could only verify that if someone 'elsewhere' could do some testing.

perhaps all the club needs to do is make use of location services rather than building a filter?

I think it's a bit naughty to hide behind google maps as it clearly returns relevant search results when used in its naked form.

ps...CY if you type Norfolk into google maps you get....wait for it...Norfolk, the county👍 In the CAMC app you get 'Norfolk Island', followed by 'Norfolk, UK'.

there are two Norfolk Islands...one is in Penrith and one is in Australia...guess which one the CAMC app returns?😉

David, I believe you booked your long stay in Spain well ahead to secure the pitch you wanted etc ( at least I think I recall this in your previous posts?). This is just the same approach for many here although such very long stays aren't possible and not always wanted and even in Europe they are now limited for UK citizens.

I'm sure you'd find it tiresome if your Spanish site introduced a new system that didn't work easily.

So I think it's reasonable to say that booking ahead is the norm for most and would be even better on a fully functioning system. It has improved over the weeks but there are a lot of fixes still .needed. 

I would love to see a normal search engine, just CAMC sites and CLs, I don't want a London ice Rink or an East Grinstead Hockey club when looking for sites. I can't think why this passed muster.

 

 

 

If they all changed to A the search list will still stick at 20. There's no functioning search beyond this number, a-z search doesn't work although it's in the filter box.

This is in the fix list, CL owners and users will have to wait a bit longer. 

 

 

I am sorry you get stuck at 20. I don’t.

I just typed “CL sites Cornwall”  onto the spyglass search box. It gave me a list of 18 main towns in tne county, and by touching each in turn it gave me all the CLs close to that town.  I lost count but there must have been well over a hundred across the county. 

Perhaps it’s because I have an I pad. Or perhaps because I live here. But I find it all very, very simple.