Saving a pitch as you are booking in

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I'm off to a C&CC site tomorrow, only the 2nd time .... I assume they've already allocated me a pitch so we won't need to search the site for the 'best' pitch! This thread is making me lean more & more to C&CC sites.

Yes, doesn’t it just. All that angst must be exhausting.

We had this last year at the Wirral site. Checked in discussed with warden where would be a good area. Picked a pitch and headed to it, there was a lady standing on the pitch. I asked had she checked in with the warden and got the fob.

Checked in yes fob no. Her husband was emptying the waste tank and filling with fresh water (MH) so she was saving the pitch for him.

I pointed out that as she had not been back to the warden to inform them what pitch they were on it was open for first come basis. She wasn't having any of it and refused to move.

We decided it wasn't worth the hassle so selected another pitch. As it turned out she did us a huge favour.

The original pitch backed onto the road which is subject to traffic going past all day and well into the early hours and with little sun.

We had a lovely grass pitch with a nice view of the estuary 😊 no traffic noise and we were in sunshine all day. 😊

Your logic defeats me DD. So driving round and depositing a sign or a car on the pitch is OK. However, someone walking the site after checking in isn’t. We have done both by the way, it depends where the MH service point is located.

I have never been on a C&CC site where I have been allocated a specific pitch. When you book you have already decided the sort of pitch you want and from my experience the site staff tend to ask if you have any particular requirements, like near a service point or the toilets, would you prefer an open aspect or shaded. From that information they point out the choice of pitches available to you. I have even been on one C&CC site where I was told to go and find my own pitch!

Going back to the original post I wonder if the ability to be able to book a surface type with the CMC under the new booking system will stop this rush to secure a pitch? Those that have witnessed this rush to secure a pitch are they always hardstanding?

David

Steve

I think once you have booked in I see no issue with what you do. It hardly makes sense to drive further around the site just to set the wheels of your motorhome on the pitch to claim it. Surely there is a difference between someone who has not yet booked in and not paid wandering into the site to reserve a pitch?

David

Thank you David, exactly the point I was trying to make. 

Over the 6 years we've been with the CCC we have had all 3 different types of offers. 

Some we are given a choice within our pitch type at some no choice at all as that was the only one available within our vehicle size. Only twice have we been told to just go and pick a pitch and tell them later on. 

During Covid it was quite usual to be allocated a pitch, very awkward to change it on some sites. 

But it doesn’t have to be a drive around.

The point I was trying to establish was this:

Scenario 1 - your OH sees a good pitch so walks back to the office and is officially designated that pitch and returns to it to wait for you to finish at the MHSP. I see no issue with that at all.

Scenario 2 - your OH sees a good pitch and stands on it waiting for you to finish at the MHSP. When you arrive and have driven onto the pitch, one of you walks to the office and makes the selection official. The difference here is that, during the time your OH is blocking the pitch while waiting for you, she has not been allocated said pitch and is attempting to stop others taking it. That I consider to be rather cheeky to put it mildly.