Unconfirmed all sites arrival times to be 1300 hrs

Don't forget members of the CCC have for the last two years had this 13.00hrs arrival time,and with the issues it brings.

The queue's at the reception,even Devizes site we were lining up into the small approach road well after 13.00hrs and Keswick with its long approach lane,we must of been 20th in the queue,and this was a Tuesday, goodness knows what a Friday must be like.

To me it creates this bottleneck now of arrivals rather than drip feeding from say from 12.00hrs. I find myself looking at the sat nav to see arrival times when touring,also I find myself hanging around the storage site before setting off.Going away now just for a weekends, especially low season are hardly worth it.And the people it is probably bought in to help ie site staff get all this flack.

Yes you will always get early arrivals,someone has to be first,and as SteveL says he pulls in to a shop for an hour in his motor home,but it is just not that easy with a van on the back.

As you can see it may only be 60 minutes ,but to me, I find it,it feels like 2 hours difference.

I can see the logic of 13.00 arrival at sites with restricted access, Chatsworth & Cheddar are two we have used

For the others if the arrival time is being pushed to 13.00 then surely the departure time can also be pushed to 13.00 

Or is this another way for the club to save 50p in electricity costs?

Do they employ someone to think up these annoying changes just to wind everyone up?

Perhaps the reasoning is to give site staff a lunch/rest break? Has there been some rationalisation of site staff to save money? As always with our wonderful Club they seem very much behind the curve when it comes to keeping us informed and giving us an explanation for the reason why they do things. As Dawn suggests we can all understand why some sites with difficult access need to do things slightly differently  but it is much less clear where access is not the issue. It is my view that if you keep people informed they are more willing to accept things, even if they are to their disadvantage, but lack of information breeds discontent.

David

One of the main reasons why we use CLs, which 9 times out of ten will accommodate you if you happen to be a bit early. Some even don't mind you turning up mid morning, especially the well established ones. New ones tend to follow the club line.

Less of a problem with a motorhome David than a caravan. Plenty of places you can park a motorhome for an hour or so en route. There should be more though, but that's for a different thread.

The official arrival/departure time at Bonterra Park is 17:00.....however, no one takes the blindest bit of notice and arrivals start from 10:00 ish with departures anytime after 08:00.

seems odd that one of the fullest winter sites with a very high churn rate can accommodate incoming vans and departing campers (who need bills raising for pitching and electric) at all times of the day without batting an eyelid....

i wonder what the clubs reason for the change is, beyond standardisation of a time that's at least an hour too late for most.

PS if I was in the area (rather than driving the longish distance from home) and was visiting Concierge Camping I would call them and ask to arrive earlier. I'm fairly confident that, if there was a vacant pitch, I would be allowed on.

Is Bontera Park in the UK BB? This is the UK touring section and discussing the club so I can't see what relevance it has and why you like bring in European sites to any discussion about over here. It's like asking why is coffee here so much expensive in a cafe here than in Italy (about 2 to 3 times the price). Who knows we have to deal with what we have.

You post of the change in times on club sites:

 beyond standardisation of a time that's at least an hour too late for most.

Really? that is an amazing statement How do you know this statements, too late for most? For all club site users? You really can know that? What are you basing it on?

It's not even an hour too late for most people on this thread. All people are complaining about is that as always we're the last to know.

I'm sure if you rang a club site that might be allowed too btw - some have posted and done it I recall. Some of course just arrive early (a selfish practice I think you called it even with ringing ahead) and are let on anyway.

But really that's not the point, your gold standard Concierge camping has out by 11 and not on till 2pm and it's showing full at times which means it will be enforced so that must be by your own comments another hour too late for most?

I'll be in the lakes tomorrow and I've just looked a few nearby large sites and apart from being far more expensive than the club site both have arrival times of 2pm (another two hours too late) and off by 10 am. 

"seems odd that one of the fullest winter sites with a very high churn rate can accommodate incoming vans and departing campers (who need bills raising for pitching and electric) at all times of the day without batting an eyelid.."

Tut tut !! BB, you know full well the business model is very much different, Bonterra Park full time reception staff no cleaning  duties etc, much the same as many commercial sites in the UK. Never stayed on this particular site but did walk round to check it out once