Unconfirmed all sites arrival times to be 1300 hrs

TW, Me too but not because of arrival times.

peedee

Ok thanks Muscles you’ve been around since the early 1900’s so I’ll bow to your superior ‘boots on the ground’ knowledge😂😂

Folk tour all year round and use sites which are open all year. In winter time someone might get on a pitch by 1:30 and it's getting by 3:30, even someone as speedy as you won't see much daylight to explore.

we had a guy on the next pitch to us in Spain and he took a full day just to put up his enormous awning and fill it with all the kit they used.

when they left, it took a day and a half to empty it, load the car and then take down the awning and fit that into the caravan.

glad you've got it down to a fine art😉

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Indeed they do but you didn't make that clear it was just referring to winter touring but now you have. And in Spain too.

Btw you often say that Concierge Camping is your gold standard site which the club should aspire to?

Well their checkout is 11am and earliest stated arrival is 2pm making the club hours look rather good and of course its lowest price is in the £30, so it's not just the club that very little daylight in...to explore.

 

It matters not what time a sites arrival time is people will turn up earlier and the plead ignorance of what the arrival time is

Where we are the arrival time has been 1300 for two years and it is shown in several places but some still arrive at before. 1200 

And because of the layout of  the extra security barrier (to deter some )early arrivals if not allowed in block the lane outside the site,

The staff try to delay booking them in, but they have to open up about half an hour early as the the arrivals area gets full and those on site who have been out get tangled up in the queue

Meantime those waiting to book in have already been round the site and "chosen their pitch "

If I am travelling a fair distance to a site, say 100 miles plus the 1.00pm arrival does not particularly impact on me. Where it can be a pain is when you are going to a local site, say 50 miles away, which means to have to hang around before leaving home. Likewise its a issue when moving sites which can sometimes be less than 50 miles apart. We will just have to plan longer stops en route!

David

I don't mind a 1300 hrs arrival time across the network as it would probably work better than 1200 departures trying to get out when folks are arriving but I do think the club is out of order by not publishing this information. 

We tend to nip into a supermarket on route to restock. If the sites are only 50 or so miles apart a 10:30 / 11 am departure usually works out OK for a 1 pm arrival.

I certainly didn’t like the 1pm arrival time at Chatsworth back when we had a caravan. Most others were 12:00 in those days. As it was less than 40 miles from home, it was one we visited in the dark months when we didn’t want to tow far. By the time we had got stuck in the 1pm queue, it was often 2 pm before we got onto a pitch and starting to go dark by the time we had set up.☹️

Now from a personal standpoint I’m not bothered, we can be set up in a few minutes and as I put above, we often stop off on route to resupply if moving between sites. However, with the caravan I much preferred 12:00, whatever time of year.