Pitching Instructions

We wish to be on site as early as permitted in order to eat and go out

Although that is a good reason, didn’t you say you wanted a HS and being able to face your van in a specific direction. In our experience the two things go together. The times we have ended up on grass or with a less than desirable pitch, is when we have had a long journey and arrived after 3pm. Now we have a MH if this is likely to happen we book a service pitch, or use the other club. The one exception this last trip, was somewhere we have long wanted to visit, Yellowcraig. I must own up to being 3 minutes early. 😂 (the sat nav lied on the ETA) We did get one of the few HS pitches though. Much later and we would have ended up on grass with delightful  awning scars. A lovely site and despite lots of rain the grass was very firm. If we ever revisit earlier in the year I wouldn’t mind it.

As we move into the late touring period where iffy weather is more likely, it may be that some owners would like to be able to ensure they get the pitch type they want.

wet pitches with MH don't always blend well and knowing you'll get a HS during poor weather can be reassuring and offset that need to 'rush' to site.

by the same token, some prefer grass when the weather is nicer.

choice might be better than chance.

Sounds a bit of a rush to me. We are the exact opposite and prefer to relax and unwind on site. Perhaps you do not travel that far to a site.?

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Unless we are calling in somewhere on the way, we are usually at the early end of the scale...however, a few minutes for a warden to take us to a pitch (which we don't have to accept) takes no longer than driving round a site to find one of our choosing...

certainly not enough difference to influence membership of C&CC.

Also there are less and less 12pm arrivals every time I check. Therefore you are often forced into 1pm earliest which ever club you choose.

As we move towards the clock change, 1pm doesn't give much daylight on a site on arrival day...getting dark at 3:30 ish doesn't bode well for sightseeing...or seeing anything actually.....

not such a problem for us in a MH, as we set up in minutes, but for those wanting to set up a typical caravan/awning arrangement, there ain't going to be much of day one left to 'go out and explore'...

you can see why there is a bow wave...everything conspires to encourage the queue at 'doors open'.

time for a rethink....?

 

The commercial site at Hunstanton we use for our annual meet is 1400 arrivals 

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Not saying they don’t happen but I think this bow wave thing is a bit over hyped and only happens at a few sites on any sort of regular basis. This year we have used 38 sites, a few a couple of times and at all but three arrived close to the earliest arrival. The only bow waves we have been caught in were at Clumber Park on two occasions. Everywhere else has been very civilised.