New Site Booking System

At the NT carpark at Blakeney the attendants had In their cabin a tally of how many cones that had got stuck under vehicles of damaged and written off cones

Ha, reminds me of a time at Godrevy when I'd put a cone on a patch of road I'd just filled. I heard a weird noise and went out to see a motorhome with the cone wedged under the front. Frantic waving didn't do it so I ran to my car to give chase as the cone could've flown out causing damage. I managed to flag them down a couple of miles away just before they got on the A30. They were oblivious and the cone needed serious first aid!!

I then had to refill the hole in the road

JK

I've been on and off here all day (waiting for storage customers). It's interesting reading peoples thoughts. I'm glad everyone's talking about ANPR's but don't get excited, I'm still waiting for a drive over motorhome point. I think my cone has a few years to go yet

JK

Maybe some of us would prefer to use a different card for the final payment?

I don't know how others operate their budget, but we have several cards with differing statement and payment dates, and varying credit limits.  When I retired, we reduced the limits on most of the cards, so now like to spread things over the cards so as not to exceed our limits on any one card, and stagger payment dates to our advantage.

It is bad to have all your eggs in one basket, good to have a few different cards in case one is compromised.

Last summer, we got a call from the CCC on the day we were due to arrive at our next site......the payment had been declined, should they try again?  We knew that as far as our spending was concerned, there was no reason for  a decline, so said to try again.  The result was the same, so we gave them a different card number and all was fine.   A call to the card provider gave no answers, in fact they  claimed no payment had been requested, all a bit of a mystery.  Just as well we had more than one card.

To me a credit card is just a very convenient method of payment. I never have used them to spread payments. I work on the principle that on the day I spend the money, it is gone from my account. We only have two CC and one debit. Online spending is restricted to just one of the cards. 

CAMC already have bank account numbers for direct debit membership payments etc so site payments will just be an extension of this activity or similar for most.

One method we never use now to pay by is our debit card, as the one and only time we ever did use it was to buy camping cheques, there was an extra charge to use a  credit card.  A couple of months later there was fraud on our account via the debit card.  Coincidence?   Maybe.

All but one of our debit cards are kept hidden away at home, the one we carry is only used, very rarely now, for cash withdrawals.

Unless I have missed it I haven’t seen anything about how the deposit or balance would be collected. Using existing information would certainly simplify the process, but I assume would require another direct debit mandate, to cover frequent variable payments. Personally I would like it, although others might prefer the credit card route.

No idea really Steve, I suppose assumptions might be rendered invalid?! 

PS I try to avoid details of banking and money on a personal level.

Wise move 👍🏻