Unconfirmed all sites arrival times to be 1300 hrs

Is that all sites except Edinburgh? - which says arrivals have changed from 0900 to 1000 now.

And what’s the latest at Coniston? Is that still 1000 too.

But at sites like Plymouth Sound, where the wardens have no toilets to clean, visitors have to wait outside until 1300? Yes ?

Put me down for an 11am.  That way all the faffing will be well over when I roll up about ??pm.

It will depend on the lease agreement with the land owners as to how a few sites arrival times is managed

Why would you need to wait outside if the arrival time is1300 you arrive then or later

It's complicated isn't it,  the small sites sometimes operate with single team managers and we don't know if this makes a difference to their time management? 

I suppose the exceptions where there are larger management teams times can be adjusted much more easily. But as there's been no general information given out I'm just guessing. 

A polite reminder to ask people to stick to the community guidelines and keep conversation friendly, despite differences of opinion - a few posts have got quite heated! 

I have forwarded this topic to my colleagues and have asked for further information. 

I cannot help but think that the Sites are operated for the convenience of the Club rather than for the majority of visitors.🤔 Ferry Meadows was a strange experience last week. Firstly, we had huge problems getting booked in, as the central booking system was down. Tried phoning the Site direct, nope, they are not accepting calls. So I had to try and try each hour on the online system. (We were wanting to arrive following day). Arrival day, we roll up at the now double barriered gates at around 2pm, no one else waiting. First barrier has a call point which phones the reception. After a muffled few questions, barrier opens and you progress to second barrier. Then it’s one out and into reception, two staff on duty in there. Usual run through (despite the fact we have been before, but you go with it😉) Bundle of paper to take away, and a promise to return to reception with pitch number. Can I phone it in? No, they don’t answer the phone. Seems this is only for calls from the first barrier🤷‍♀️ Was their booking system down previous day? No, but you couldn’t phone to book as they don’t pick up the phone in reception🤷‍♀️ So, we progress through the second barrier, set up, and then I walk back to reception to pick up a barrier card (generic but has that all important handwritten pitch number on it) 

There has to be a more 21st Century method of arrival, surely, that could be of benefit to both visitors and site staff🤔

The commercial site I visited earlier this month was booked and paid online, admitted by ANPR with zero contact with anybody. Slick or what?

I was looking at another small commercial's website who had a "any time after 09:00, leave when you like up to 20:00" policy.

Until CAMC enter the 21st century and dispense with the "any colour you like so long as it's black" mindset, we will continue to encounter arrival/departure issue, refusal of "dump & fill" use and no EHU opt out options.

Customer focused - not a chance.

Oh dear. Hope he makes a full recovery.👍👍

I can’t say I care if 12 or 1. For medical reasons we need to have lunch 12.15 to 12.45. 

we do most of our packing the day before, so by the time we have got up, had breakfast, and finished packing it is somewhere between 10 and 10.30 leave from home.

If a site is 12 entry and near enough we will try and arrive by then and have lunch immediately, if not, lunch on the road somewhere.

if travelling between sites that are relatively close we visit somewhere on the way. Easier in a Motorhome, but when we had the caravan we were rarely travelling between close sites.

As has been relayed to us by several site staff' when trying to keep to the arrival times  members who arrive earlier than the site arrival time will often complain that the wardens at XXX site let us in early why can't you?  even as everyone who posts on here should know no site is the same and has different amounts of work to be carried out before any new arrivals can be accepted so as in the past at 1200 did not give the staff time to carry it all out in time, 1300 has been found to be adequate and also have a quick lunch before the rush for pitches starts again