Posted on 25/11/2021 11:54
The Club have released more details of the new Booking System here
There are still finer details still to be arrived but the link (thanks Harry) sets out how the new system will work.
I have closed the previous thread on when we will get details of the new booking system and opened this one to allow comments specifically on the new system rather than discussing what they might be.
David
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Posted on 05/12/2021 16:27 by JVB66Have you not been on sites that at busy times have to have regular cess pit honey wagons in to empty them , the whole area down wind gets the "smell"
So you have also not been on a CL or site near, to a farm that has animals
the only time we have had any smell? from a ccep is on the very rare occasions some one who does not use any form of add fluids In their cassette m and then it is only as you would be in your own toilet with an upset tummy
Posted on 05/12/2021 16:50
I'm a country boy who has plenty of first hand experience of farms and smells but I still wouldn't be happy to land on a pitch where 2-3mtrs away a regular troop of people empty their bodily fluids and turds into the pit while I'm sitting there having my breakfast or evening meal, some may not mind but not me no thanks.
Posted on 05/12/2021 15:42 by DavidKlyneI am not sure I would encourage the Club to go down the road of booking specific pitches. That might be all well and good on sites where people book in multiples of a week at a time but the club doesn't really work like that. OK there are a lot of members who do stay a week or maybe two or three but would they want to be dictated to that they must arrive on a set day the week as is the usual case for many sites offering this option? With people arriving for all sorts of lengths of stay it would be very difficult to neatly dovetail everyone in the make the maximum use of occupancy. The biggest problem for me is, unless I have been to the site before, how do I select a pitch from a site map and know when I actually get to the site that it will suit me?
David
Posted on 05/12/2021 16:50 by ArchI'm a country boy who has plenty of first hand experience of farms and smells but I still wouldn't be happy to land on a pitch where 2-3mtrs away a regular troop of people empty their bodily fluids and turds into the pit while I'm sitting there having my breakfast or evening meal, some may not mind but not me no thanks.
Posted on 05/12/2021 17:07
Ah, the smell of the countryside
We had a member this summer wanted to be as close to a service point as possible because of a bad back and lugging water rolls etc, then constantly moaned about the amount of people using that service point and the associated smells
As TW says above you can please some of the people some of the time
JK
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Posted on 05/12/2021 12:59 by JVB66But then you are yet again talking about very large sites during off peak periods in mainland europe
Posted on 05/12/2021 17:27
Our New Year commercial site at Henley has such a system, it's adjacent to Four Oaks, which hasn'tš
....we know where we want to be and have booked a serviced pitch alongside our pals...it's not that difficult.
Weve booked a mixed surface site at Black Knowl for June...if the new system is in and everyone has booked HS, well obviously be left with the grass.
Shouldnt be a problem in June but this shows what might happen during the crossover....
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Posted on 05/12/2021 18:00
The emptying of toilets, whether with chemicals or without, will produce microscopic droplets as well as the bigger splashes which are left behind by some users. The likelyhood of breathing in such droplets and becoming unwell as a result is probably quite low but I personally choose to reduce it further by being a greater distance away.
Excrement has a smell to warn one it is there and encourage keeping away from it. So I would always try to book a pitch well away from a sewage point.
Posted on 05/12/2021 17:27 by young thomasOur New Year commercial site at Henley has such a system, it's adjacent to Four Oaks, which hasn'tš
....we know where we want to be and have booked a serviced pitch alongside our pals...it's not that difficult.
Weve booked a mixed surface site at Black Knowl for June...if the new system is in and everyone has booked HS, well obviously be left with the grass.
Shouldnt be a problem in June but this shows what might happen during the crossover....
DavidKlyne
Motorhomer from Buckinghamshire