No News Yet on the New Booking System

I didn't know the Club used such a system. I have stayed at an affiliated that did but they are of course a free agent to run their site as they wish. ANPR could have its advantages if we ever moved to an automatic booking in system where you paid in advance for your stay and when you arrived at the site it automatically let you in. I suspect even that is a long way away from the objectives of the new booking system

David

Surely what the club would want more than week long stays is to be able to fill the sites with single nighters, arriving late leaving early and paying the same per night as any that are staying longer, as they will use less electricity and water per day.

That is true Nellie...but customers equally want prices to be more akin with what they make use of...

staying overnight and being charged £35+ for a stay where most of it is in darkness and comprises a bit of tv usage and then bed, prior to an early ish getaway won't seem too attractive.

CLs would give a better value option for this type of stopover, or even a pub stop.

we have many such stops on our longest tours (whisper....over there) but don't need to rely on expensive sites just to sleep in the van....the sort of provision there is sadly lacking here.

Touring in the uk and using sites, we would probably make the stay at least two nights and go exploring, other wise it's a blooming expensive way to 'pull in for the night'.

Not my van, although a vanner of great taste, this is the type of basic overnight pitch the club could sell to one nighters, via another new pitch type (easy with the new system) and some rules that allow normal visitors to use them from, say 10am - 5pm (or thereabouts) and one nighter stopover vans to use them out of those hours.

new pitch type ('aire pitch') to be sold via normal booking system to add useful extra capacity to sites and to provide extra dimension for touring vans (caravans and MH).

in order to maintain spacing, every other wide pitch could be coned off, giving 6m. No awnings, table, chairs etc....cars to be left hooked to caravans for spacing purposes...in the day time, visitors to use all spaces.

cheap to set up, no EHU to provide, a few white lines and a tweak to the booking system, available at sites where sufficient parking is currently allowed.

No disruption to normal visitors, extra capacity for the club freeing up several extra pitches for longer stayers, extra revenue (keep overall prices down👍, pitches a better 'fit' for increase in MH traffic but also available for touring caravans...all at a sensible price....£12-£15.

something like this can't be rocket science can it?

the example happens to be in Spain (although something like this could work anywhere) and I found it when checking out overnight stopping places for my route south in January.

great view, too....no extra charge.

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Agree David, as my photo shows....this one is free....like many, many others.

my point is that this isn't a difficult thing to replicate and even provide more capacity, more choice, more income, small outlay leading to extra pitches at low prices yet generating 'more' for the club and its customers.

Oh yes, they would love that😁 It’s why we so seldom use most Club Sites. £30+ for less than 14 hours on a Site, it’s not for us.😂 We got badly stung a few years ago at Hurn Lane, I am now a much more careful selector of Sites, even at very short notice. 

Have you thought about putting your suggestion to this club ? the LNAs on sites that have them the majority seem to have an EHU, and you only pay for the occupants if used not for a pitch

Although it is not unusual.  (I have been told)for those that are "in the know"to arrive and depart when site office/staff are not available for payment

We have occasionally been tempted to use overnight stops in this country that are no more than car parks, in fact did have a very good night in the Leisure Centre car park in Stratford a few years ago. That was well lit and as it turned out empty of all bar us and a small HGV. However, we stopped off for a meal break one night in Clumber Park, one of the big car parks, and half way through cooking, found ourselves rather intimidated by other car users being very unsocial. We moved off, finished our meal elsewhere, and continued home. Since then, we have been rather wary of areas we don’t know, that are open to anyone. (Not talking Britstops or similar). We know from our own town what can go on in perfectly safe in the day areas, that become no go areas in the dark. Is it like this overseas, or is it more usual to find MHs parked up, and not bothered by unsocial behaviour? 

We used to overnight regular in big laybys with caravan in the 80’s and 90’s, but wouldn’t do it now. Genuine question🤔

31st October, clocks went back and  everyone on site had a free hour of camping!