Saving a pitch as you are booking in

Generally the C&CC system works well, someone accompanies arrivals en route to the type of pitch chosen and there's usually a choice which they'll help you with and they also relay the pitch you've taken to other site managers. Things are kept up to date, a system that works well and fairly.

Personally I find arriving at a C&CC site a much calmer event and the arrival time is adhered to by all. You won't find anyone standing on a pitch trying to "bag" it first!

I don't think the proposed new CAMC system will improve the rush to pitches on busy sites, it will always be grab and go with delays in information going back to reception. Some arrivals are met at the gate which happens on a handful of sites and this is a better solution than the general free for all. CAMC could improve the arrival experience if they read threads like this one.

I agree, Brue. I think the C&CC method benefits everyone.

I suspect though that it needs more staff, especially on busy sites like Moffat, in order to keep the office manned while others are escorting arrivals to pitches. Still, if C&CC can do it and maintain lower membership fees, give age related discount and have shorter peak seasons, surely CAMC is also capable🤔.

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.

So what is the difference to just putting a motorhom maker on the pitch indicating it is occupied? Both are perfectly acceptable if you have paid and already entered the site with you vehicle.

peedee

Put it another way, what is the difference between bagging a pitch with a marker or a chair? Nothing at all - they are both intended to prevent others from having that pitch which is not on if the person has not approached the office and been granted use of that pitch. Compare the two scenarios and you should better understand the difference, PD.

You have to put a marker, or as in PD’s case a car. You can hardly go back to the site office to claim the fob for an empty pitch. I fail to see why you think it cheeky. We are checked onto the site, not pushing in front of anyone else to claim a pitch, all those in front of us in the queue have had the chance to select said pitch as they have driven past it. Plus it minimises  driving around the site unnecessarily, which has got to be a good thing.

There is no difference between any of the meathods if you have paid and entered the site.

peedee

That’s in your opinion, PD, not fact. My opinion differs.

I already said it isn’t necessary to drive and you still haven’t said which scenario applies.

OK, let me ask it another way as I’m not getting through here. Does your OH put a marker on the pitch then head for the office to be allocated that pitch? Alternatively, does she physically block the pitch and make no effort to return to the office and thus prevents others from choosing that pitch which is not legitimately hers/yours?

On the other hand, I don’t really care and I’m a bit sick of some folks selfish ways as they will never see the unfairness of their acts.

I agree with Tinwheeler! IMHO you only have claim to a pitch when you have put your MH or caravan onto the pitch. On a few occasions I've not informed the site office straight away as I've forgot or have been otherwise distracted. Getting your other half to walk to an empty pitch to reserve it is taking the proverbial! Which takes us back to clatinetman's original post.

For couples with two phones .The best walker strides out across the site and chooses a pitch, stays there and phones partner who is still at the office to say where he/she is -  and for him or her to let the warden know the pitch number. That partner then drives to the pitch already logged with the warden .

Isn’t that sensible? And on a big site it also saves the long walk back.