Non electric pitches not on site plans

wellum1959 replied on 27/06/2023 16:06

Posted on 27/06/2023 16:06

Hello, I'm hopeful of getting away soon and was looking at a few sites in the west midlands area for a two or three days stop over.

Whilst looking at the Chapel Lane and also the Malvern Hills sites, I noticed that they were both offering non electric pitches, which I have never noticed before. Looking at the site plans there no mention of these pitches and there is no mention of them in the websites offers page.

The way it looks is that some normal grass with electric pitches have been set aside for non electric use?

Malvern is giving a £4.80 discount whilst Chapel Lane is £4.60, on the grass with electric price.

In the summer I am quite happy to not have electric, so these pitches would appeal to me. I haven't seen any mention of this on the website or any CT discussions. Are there any other club sites doing the same or are these the only ones ?

Mike

young thomas replied on 27/06/2023 16:59

Posted on 27/06/2023 16:59

I've seen these before but they are usually tucked away, miles from the office and in the dingiest part of a site...

we were at Black Knowl last year and I decided to seek it (there is only one there) out....not a good pitch, right under a tree...

Later, I've tried to make a booking on it and it always comes up out of use..🤷🏻‍♂️

the Club is trialling a metering system at a couple of sites and, should this prove successful (no what the criteria to define 'successful' are.....) and rolled out network wide, members will be able to go 'non EHU' on any pitch...

like you, we don't need electric and until now, options have been few...

Randomcamper replied on 27/06/2023 17:08

Posted on 27/06/2023 17:08

I've seen these before but they are usually tucked away, miles from the office and in the dingiest part of a site...

Whereas at New England Bay, say, the non electric pitches are the best location, on the front row ( best location judging by how most people seem to want a front row spot here). They are also marked on the site plan, but confusingly the tent pitches at the rear of the site are also shown in brown.

The club needs to borrow my boss for a week or two, she loves a good colour coded map or spreadsheet, she would soon have this all sorted out.......smile

eurortraveller replied on 27/06/2023 17:44

Posted on 27/06/2023 17:44

For anyone coming south west instead Harford Bridge Touring Park on the edge of Tavistock has 33 grass pitches right on the bank of the river Tavy - a lovely spot, though salmon cruising by are rarer than in days gone by.

Half of those riverside pitches have electric hookups and half don’t - and there’s a price difference of £4.50 at most times of year. They are well marked on a good site map.

Love Tavistock too.

brue replied on 27/06/2023 18:08

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:08

Chapel Lane doesn't appear to have non electric, there are no green tick boxes by that type of pitch.

Steamer Quay used to be all non ehu. Altnaharra has several non ehu. They are around if they are marked on the details page with a green tick box.

Lots of CLs offer non ehu at very competitive prices. smile

MidsomerMikey replied on 27/06/2023 18:19

Posted on 27/06/2023 16:06 by wellum1959

Hello, I'm hopeful of getting away soon and was looking at a few sites in the west midlands area for a two or three days stop over.

Whilst looking at the Chapel Lane and also the Malvern Hills sites, I noticed that they were both offering non electric pitches, which I have never noticed before. Looking at the site plans there no mention of these pitches and there is no mention of them in the websites offers page.

The way it looks is that some normal grass with electric pitches have been set aside for non electric use?

Malvern is giving a £4.80 discount whilst Chapel Lane is £4.60, on the grass with electric price.

In the summer I am quite happy to not have electric, so these pitches would appeal to me. I haven't seen any mention of this on the website or any CT discussions. Are there any other club sites doing the same or are these the only ones ?

Mike

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:19

brue replied on 27/06/2023 18:24

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:24

It seems that the site details pages don't match the booking system pages. I've just checked and there appears to be an error. No idea which is right but yet another fault on the web pages. frown

brue replied on 27/06/2023 18:35

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:19 by MidsomerMikey

Here`s the current list of sites offering non electric pitches smilehttps://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/useful-information/types-of-pitch/non-electric-economy-pitch-discounts/

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:35

young thomas replied on 27/06/2023 18:44

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:44

"...we were at Black Knowl last year and I decided to seek it (there is only one there) out....not a good pitch, right under a tree..."

and there it is.....pitch 132.....with just one pitch of this type, will availability always be LOW?

 

wellum1959 replied on 27/06/2023 22:09

Posted on 27/06/2023 18:24 by brue

It seems that the site details pages don't match the booking system pages. I've just checked and there appears to be an error. No idea which is right but yet another fault on the web pages. frown

Posted on 27/06/2023 22:09

This is what  I wondered about. I've used non electric pitches on CMC sites previously and know they can be iffy.

I've never seen them available on these two sites but then you can go to the booking page and see them as an option.

Knowing that the website in general is rubbish, if this is an error, it's a pretty big one.

MidsomerMikey replied on 28/06/2023 11:37

Posted on 28/06/2023 11:37

I've seen these before but they are usually tucked away, miles from the office and in the dingiest part of a site...

we were at Black Knowl last year and I decided to seek it (there is only one there) out....not a good pitch, right under a tree...

 

That`s because if they were in a prime area of sites they would be normal pitch prices also these pitches will have been identified as usable space but not prime positions possibly not within an EHU either

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