UK staycation boom predicted

I booked mine last spring when this nightmare started and the C&MC extended the booking window.  Glad I did although suspect Easte won’t happen.  From the whispers it seems like May BH weekend might be the final unlocking all being well

This reminded me of a post last year from someone who had ventured to France and said how great it was to have lots of pitches to choose from as it was almost empty.

I mentioned this to my wife and got the expected response- “how flipping boring”!

We also use your descriptive word and dont return to sites that don’t have a ‘buzz’.

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No credit note as we used our crossing last year (& got caught out on the way back by the sudden introduction of quarantine) I’ve got a great photo of our car & caravan being the only car waiting to board the ferry in Dover on a Sunday at the start of August. Almost surreal.

We like the Dunkirk route as it’s safe to sleep overnight in the car park to do a full day of driving the next day. Calais used to be like this. Also I want to head down to Croatia this year and Dunkirk on the driving route although if prices don’t come down it’s going to be Tesco vouchers for the tunnel as the cheapest option. Never quite feel I’m in France when I use the tunnel! 

Back in the UK.  I booked a site yesterday, like DSB I'd rather book something and cancel, there are no deposits to lose or transfer with CAMC.

I've been looking at CLs too as I found some were fully booked last year. At present I'm thinking about dates after Easter as I think at best we'll still be in a tiered system, I might be wrong and there'll be many families needing a break.

 

Hi, So if its Croatia then a BF crossing is not a lot of use!

However, a Harwich one may be? last time we headed East, to Lake Garda, we used this crossing after arriving in the early hours and getting a bit of rest in the van.

This is not something we like to do, but did it that time as our travel companions have a MH and did not want to pay out for a site, and the lack of sleep due to all the noise going on means we wouldn't do it again.

The advantage the day crossing is the price and when I looked for this year think it was around the £170 mark. One other thing is that one of the best meals we had in the whole holiday was in the ships restaurant on the way home, it was superb. 

We have used the tunnel a couple of times, solo, but its not a great experience and the longer ferry routes with BF are, for us, a great way to start the holiday.

Hi David, lets be diplomatic and say that,as a married man,and after being together for over 46 years, one tends toward the things that are likely to please!

So far I've only booked one club site. Whether we go or cancel depends on the state of things at the time as I too think we will still have some form of restriction in place for many months to come. It's certainly a big plus with this club being able to hedge one's bets. 

We have I think 14 booked for May/June, some CAMC which we rebooked for this year when they were cancelled in Lockdown 1, some with deposits which we asked to be transferred. When we did it we thought we would be OK, now not so sure. Even if OK to go, there is the question as to wether some of our booked sites in NW Scotland will open for business. Hopefully we will at least be OK for our booking at Hawes in July. Not done anything beyond then, as we have a ferry booked for over there in September.

I have booked two sites in the UK so far, one independent at a canal marina and the other a Club site. Neither may happen but need to get a few slots in just in case, along with the need to be within travelling distance to my home in a day. Travelling 'overthere' could still happen towards the end of the summer, but it will not be an advanced booking.