New Site Booking System

Morning

Just out of interest BB and 'cause I get bored not being in the sun!! I've been going through some of last seasons figures for my site. We were full from Whitsun bank holiday to the 2nd week of September. The majority stay was 14 & 21 nights during that period. 65% of the 14 day stays were motorhomes and 40% of 21 dayers were also motorhomes. So, although many tour as you do, there is a huge chunk who stay put.

There indeed many people like EasyT who book up tours a year ahead, and many are motorhomers who "caravan" in their vans. 

JK

Surely that wasn't a non facility site JK? I have never stayed more than 7 nights on any site in the UK with a motorhome and I am struggling to think of one I have used more than that when I had a caravan! In my 30 plus years of touring, most if not all my long stays have been "over there".

peedee

In the UK there is not that amount of flexibility especially in peak periods (possibly overseas at peak times also)but it seems the majority who post about the type of touring you do is normally it seems , off peak 

Just highlighting peedee that we all are and use our leisure vehicles differently. And yes that's on a non facility site which are more popular than ever before.

21 night stays are more common than you think!

JK

I would be very interested, JK, in how often the "residents'" motor caravans are taken off-site, as compared to the tow cars.

Morning to you JK, I'm also bored......waiting for my ferry😉

my point about having a MH was that it supports 'our' touring style better.

any member staying 'religiously' 14 or 21 nights can do it just as easily in a MH or a caravan.

when you turn the thing around, and look at folk who wish to (say) 'move along a coastline' as we did on our return from Portugal a few years back, dropping into an Algarve fishing village for a day's explore, dinner and a single overnighter (to be repeated several times along the way) works best for us in a MH - especially when you don't need to call on a site for the stopover.

my point was that, the fishing village might be dead boring and off we go the following morning, or it might have a wealth of personality, a few good restaurants and a cracking beach.

once we've found this out we can decide how long we wish to stay.

if we had to decide months ahead which of those places we had to stay at and for how long, we'd have found another way to do things.

the van supports what we do, not the other way round.

when we do return from Spain, we have a 4 week summer 'tour' (not all CC) to coincide with a concert we are attending, so dates are more fixed around that...the sites before it and after it...but, even in the uk, this is not something we specifically like to do, preferring to look around a week or two before each 'off' to decide where to go, weather dependant, of course.

I can see how bringing a wholely CAMC tour together on the booking system might be made an easier process, but it's not one we will be likely to use as we generally have other providers (THS sites) scattered in between, some of these with unknown durations.

In the area of JK's site it would be a very brave person who took a MH bigger than a small camper off site, other than on the odd occasion. That could explain MHs having longer stays and not moving much in several parts of the Westcountry.

Unless folk with MH’s routinely erect large awnings for short stays, there are quite a few all over the country stopping for longer. Particularly noticable since the first lockdown ended. I can’t recall seeing as many previously.

It would be easy even in peak period abroad with a MH.......plenty of aires or similar around.   More difficult with a caravan, though we have travelled in Norway and Sweden in June/July/August without booking and without  problems.

I'd agree but you would be a bit stuck otherwise unless you had a toad. I don't recall public transport being that accessible. Nice site otherwise.

peedee