Posted on 16/10/2021 13:46
Has the club abandoned pitching guidelines? I've always been told quite firmly to reverse the van onto a pitch with the nearside corner next to the peg.
I'm currently at Malvern Hills and people are going freestyle with people seemingly pitching in any direction they want. I wish I'd been told this when I arrived as I would have ignored what I thought was a rule in favour of a better view.
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Posted on 20/10/2021 10:36 by cyberyachtWe were at C&CC Sandringham three and a half weeks ago and, due to height barriers at a planned lunch break location, we arrived at a couple of minutes past 1pm. Must have taken me all of four minutes from entrance to pitch.
Posted on 19/10/2021 21:12 by KjellNNThis year was the first time I found that the CCC showers were too hot, that was when we were at Oban. I had to be very quick! Otherwise we have found facilities to be fine.
We often just use our onboard facilities anyway, especially at present.
I like being able to book a HS, as Steve said, means there is no need to arrive as soon after opening time as possible, so if we are travelling a distance, we can take our time and stop somewhere for lunch.
The 1pm arrival does mean a late lunch if we are not travelling very far.
HSs can be a bit narrow, but we found the newer ones on some sites are much wider. I would prefer the car on the HS, some are long enough to have it across the front, or "in tandem " with our porch awning, but more often it has to be on the grass.
We found the check in process pretty fast this year, and they were handing out site plans on arrival. OH noticed that on the website you can now see site plans of some, but not all, sites. However pitch numbers were not shown. Normally it would be a slower process, which can be a bind if hungry! Do not mind being shown to our pitch.
I do like the age related discount, lets us have more time away for the same outlay, as does using CLs and CSs, and the much shorter peak periods than CAMC operate mean it applies for most of the times we want to be away.
Posted on 20/10/2021 10:49
This year was the first time I found that the CCC showers were too hot, that was when we were at Oban. I had to be very quick! Otherwise we have found facilities to be fine.
My problem is radiation damage on my back. A section of skin feels like stroking a plucked chicken. At home We have temperature stop on shower set For Fliss. I just turn down a tad.
Presently I am happy not to be able to book hard standings on CMC sites as I always get a hardstand on arrival. It works with CCC but wonder if I will have problems on CMC sites in that instance
Posted on 20/10/2021 10:39 by JVB66Most sites in both of the major pitch suppliers will be the same at this time of year ,was the site full?,and the glamping tents in use?
Posted on 20/10/2021 11:54
Even in the middle of August, at Dunstan Hill in Northumberland, we had a similar experience to CY. Given that you have surface type booked and aren’t given free reign on pitch selection, other than maximising your stay, there isn’t the same need to arrive just after one. I think we have just been conditioned😂 by mainly using CAMC sites. Perhaps those queuing at Sandringham have an afternoon booking at the house.
Posted on 19/10/2021 15:48 byThe one I have in mind is terraced with lots of dead ends and there is no way one could search out a vacant pitch towing. If you asked nicely one of the ladies on reception would get you run you around in the Golf buggy
. As its been pointed out before honestly this mass influx at 12 or 1 doesn't happen.
Posted on 20/10/2021 13:23
As AD mentions and Steve highlights, perhaps CAMC members are 'conditioned' into an early(east) arrival.
It seems that the mass arrivals at club sites (for the best pitch?) seems to prevent any other system from being employed.
It might work elsewhere but it wont work here because....
Ive just looked at my actual T/C for our long term winter site....arrive after 5pm, leave before 5pm....now that would cause a stir on a club site.
As it happens, 5 ish will be the time we will arrive due to the long drive, but it makes no difference when folk arrive as, in practice, this arbitrary arrival time is completely ignored and units arrive from morning coffee onwards....
never an issue, even on a totally busy, always full site there will be sufficient 'before morning coffee' leavers to accommodate any really early arrivals....
it just works, trickle feeding and no cars on the main 'highway'.... but, of course, it could never work here....we can't have anyone getting onto a pitch before their paid for T/C can we?
Still, won't be long now...
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Posted on 20/10/2021 14:12
It is not the "best" pitch that drive some (and perhaps many) of the early arrivals, but the wish to have some day left to do something after setting up. I can't arrive anywhere much before noon as it takes a while to pack up at the previous location, and I am not into early starts.
So the coming situation, where after paying out a 50% booking deposit from a year ahead, I have an allocated arrival period of no longer than half-an-hour to get on to some staff members choice of pitch, could well have me saving £45 (or more) each year.
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Posted on 20/10/2021 14:12 by NavigateurIt is not the "best" pitch that drive some (and perhaps many) of the early arrivals, but the wish to have some day left to do something after setting up. I can't arrive anywhere much before noon as it takes a while to pack up at the previous location, and I am not into early starts.
So the coming situation, where after paying out a 50% booking deposit from a year ahead, I have an allocated arrival period of no longer than half-an-hour to get on to some staff members choice of pitch, could well have me saving £45 (or more) each year.
Posted on 20/10/2021 16:26
So the coming situation, where after paying out a 50% booking deposit from a year ahead, I have an allocated arrival period of no longer than half-an-hour to get on to some staff members choice of pitch, could well have me saving £45 (or more) each year.
Can you clarify. Have I missed an announcement ?
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Posted on 20/10/2021 18:37
On some possibly older sites with less regimented and standardised pitch sizes it may help to pitch differently to the picture. Of course it is better not to assume but to ask the staff out of courtesy, as described in the pitching diagram given to us on arrival. After all, it’s the fire breaks which determine the positioning. Not checking with staff will lead to being asked to move mind if you get it wrong!
Posted on 20/10/2021 14:12 by NavigateurIt is not the "best" pitch that drive some (and perhaps many) of the early arrivals, but the wish to have some day left to do something after setting up. I can't arrive anywhere much before noon as it takes a while to pack up at the previous location, and I am not into early starts.
So the coming situation, where after paying out a 50% booking deposit from a year ahead, I have an allocated arrival period of no longer than half-an-hour to get on to some staff members choice of pitch, could well have me saving £45 (or more) each year.
Posted on 20/10/2021 19:35 by NavigateurI meant allocated. Have you ever travelled with Ryan Air . . . ?
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