Paying for a booking

  Maybe the option should be avalible. Personally I'd rather pay up front. 

Black Horse Farm is a very busy  one nighters for the ferry and train arrival and departures at all times of the day and early hours,so i would expect to have the up front payments,,but is an exception that is and would hope is not repeated elsewhere, we have used it a couple of times ,but only ever paid on arrival  as we were not on a Ferry pitch 

I can remember before that site was bought? by the club,The race course at Folkestone was the site (gone years ago) and the wardens used to line up the departures,in lines on the big field behind the office in departure times,and back then (before the WTD and euro)) i can remember the wardens being on duty until well gone 2200 hrs still booking early departures in,,

And in the mornings the field would be full of LVs that had arrived overnight,and then the warden would be working out who had paid,as the office floor would be covered in many types of currencies

Kent show ground used to be a site with the same overnight LVs 

But Bearstead is used for some now 

you are paying up front...two weeks before you leave

Black Horse Farm is a very busy one nighters for the ferry and train arrival and departures at all times of the day and early hours,so i would expect to have the up front payments,,but is an exception that is and would hope is not repeated elsewhere,

I would agree about paying upfront, not something I would want to become common practice. The C&CC give you the option on booking. I declined, just paid the deposit, the rest on arrival.

Rookesbury Park also have ferry pitches, do they charge for those upfront?

But are they just for only  the Pompy ferry ,where Black horse would be for all the ferrys and the tunnel,  do not know  about  Rooksbury but  AD may ?

Royston

Is there a particular reason you want this system in place? Is it to spread the payments or is to just get the payment done and dusted at the time of booking? Nothing I suppose is insurmountable but I would question how popular such an option would be. There would need to be some changes in the booking/payment system as sites would have to be alerted to the fact that you had already paid. Given the sheer volume of bookings the club handle I somehow imagine they would need to be sure there was sufficient demand to warrant making changes for a system which seems to work pretty well?

David

Did you book on line or via the site for your ferry booking  at Black Horse,as i have just done one on line for a ferry pitch,no mention of an up front payment

Cancellations would mean refunds and therefore more admin, so for me it is a no.

Regards,

Ray

It was a few years ago but I believe the info re paying came in the confirmation email. Said you had to phone the site and pay with a credit card a week before.