Pitching Instructions

As always I pitched as instructed and in accordance with the diagram on the site leaflet. I have never been told there was a choice. It has always sounded like an instruction. 

For clarity I'm talking about towbar  facing the road or away. Not at 90deg. Apologies for not being clearer. 

If that’s still the case at Sandringham they need to change the site leaflet, which shows either direction is OK. In most cases we end up nose in, as more pitches seem to slope up from the road than away. This normally means no ramps are required for levelling and on our van puts the door on the UK side. Although we are not really bothered which way it faces.

It’s only in the last few years they have clarified it with a diagram on the site plan. However, when we first started caravanning some 16 years ago, we certainly put the van nose in occasionally. A distinct benefit of a power mover.

There was a myth in the past that the estate insisted all LVs should reverse onto the peg,,it was just a myth that was perpetuated by some site staff

It’s the text that tells the full story and you’ve seen now that going forwards is fine and anything else needs to be checked with the warden. There are some exceptions, as TDA illustrated.

In recent years I don't think I have arrived at a CMC site where the correct pitching procedure has not be explained ad nauseam. Having said that, on the site we have just left a fellow motorhomer pitched perfectly to the peg, the only trouble was that it was the wrong side of the van It might have been a left hand drive van so to be charitable it may just have been confusion especially if the "drivers side"  was mentioned?

David

Thank Steve it was that way a while back but maybe they have changed the rules (it was caravans), it was something to do with the lease or something like that?

Agreed, it is always explained on arrival even if you tactfully make it obvious that you are the most seasoned member ever. 

Despite this, I find it amazing how many people still get it wrong. Like in your example, at Ayr in September, one motorhome, British built, right-hand drive, had neatly parked perfectly with the rear corner adjacent to the peg. Trouble was it was the wrong corner. 

What gets my goat is that despite this "ad  nauseam" explanation of the pitching rules, incorrect pitching is then never, or at least very rarely, pointed out by the wardens and rectification requested. Also at Ayr, one caravanner, with two cars, spent an entire weekend on site (possibly more as it was still there when I left) with one of the cars parked, laterally, across the edge of the pitch with roughly one third of it on the road. Other outfits had a tight squeeze to get past. If he had pitched his van accurately to the peg, instead of it being a foot or two towards the middle of his van, he could have got a car either side (he did not have an awning).       

I spoke to one of the very helpful wardens here at Malvern. It turns out you can pitch either way. Ie with towbar facing the road OR away from the road as long as you are in the middle of the pitch. This means that the diagram we are given is incorrect and so are the wardens who explain it.