Serviced pitch

Do you honestly think that everyone who use the toilet facilities, on club or commercial sites, wash their hands thoroughly on leaving, where they touch the doors and handles etc? Have you ever seen the state that some of the cubicles are left in? At least on a CL, using our own facilities we know who has used them!

What we use:

For waste water you will need a long convoluted hose or pipe to reach from your caravan to the waste drain.  As we frequently use serviced pitches we invested in these: https://colapz.co.uk/collections/flexi-waste-pipes/products/flexi-waste-pipe-kit-8-pipes.  They are certainly not cheap, but takes the guess work out of how much waste hose to take with you.  As they are in metre sections, you just use as many as it takes to reach from the caravan to the drain.  You will only need to buy them once..

For fresh water, you will need to add a valve (like a toilet ball-cock valve) to the centre of your aquaroll, and some food grade hose to reach from the pitch tap to your aquaroll.  Put the pump into the aquaroll in the normal way.  As water is taken from the aquaroll, the ball-cock valve drops and allows water back into the aquaroll via the hose which is connected to the tap.  Kits are available to buy:  https://www.aquaroll.com/aquaroll-mains-adaptor.html (or similar).  We use a much smaller version produced by Collapz, called a FreshMini  (https://colapz.co.uk/collections/water-containers/products/fresh-mini-starter-kit).  The FreshMini is also available with the food grade hose, but we prefer to use a food grade flat hose.  We take 3 x 5m lengths and use as few as is necessary to connect to the FreshMini.

Hope this helps.

David

 Flatcoat - it's a CS - Thornthorpe Camping and Equestrian Centre, about 3 miles south of Malton. Andrew and Tracey that run it are the loveliest of people and have become very good friends - we go there at least twice a year, being only just over an hour from home. Indeed, we are due to go back later this month. It closes in October, however, for the winter - and I know he is very busy at the moment - but worth a phone call plus they now have on-line booking. It is adults only.

Re the rigid waste pipe - I've tried that - but not as convenient re storage as the Colapz system which stays in the van all the time 'just in case'. I also bought the special pegs so that you can adjust the 'fall' to make sure what you are describing doesn't happen.

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I agree and would really think about paying the extra£4.00+per day just to not carry

 a couple of watering cans every couple of days and empty my waste every three days, I go to the.dustbins,   when cc facilities are normally of such high standards of cleanliness,

But it must be a growing trend as when this site is refurbished this winter?  many serviced pitches are to be installed and the site extended to also incorporate  super pitches, ,and some complain about site fees

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as David says, when on a full facs site we use their showers....this reduces the amount of water used and one tankful will last us 10-12 days (and the ability to drain said waste into our waste tank without issue) so absolutely no need whatsoever for a serviced pitch....fill once on entry, empty once on exit.

i would have thought that, with most new MH (especially Continental ones where MHSP are the thing) tank volumes are around the 100-120 ltr. again, if using site showers, no need to keep the tank permanently brimmed (like the aquaroll ball valve set up) just gradually let the tank get used. btw, what do caravanners do with the full aqaroll at the end of the break? ive seen many just kicking it over onto the pitch....gallons of water being wasted.

even using twice as much water as we do (thrifty but not to excess) five days on a site like that should be easy peasy for any MHer without the need to fetch another drop. why pay another nr £30 for a tap for a week on top of Club prices?

so, who is using these much in demand serviced pitches?....

they're obviously designed for caravanners who dont have a tank and who find it a chore/difficult/inconvenient to do the usual 'water management process'.

im sure they are popular with this type of customer but, with even Continental pvcs having 100+ ltr tanks, the move to MHs isn't going to be a driver moving forward.

the problem is that, as more SP get built, the more difficult it might be to book an ordinary pitch....i for one, would not pay the Clubs asking price.

Whilst it can be nice to have water an drain at pitch it is for me a waste of time. I fill once in 5 days or longer and empty once. £20 seems a lot for a fill.

I have never queued for a shower except waiting outside an individual washroom on one occasion on a commercial site.

Well we would and do pay if they are available. We mainly use our own facilities at the moment, and are likely to do so for the foreseeable future. Apart from the convenience of being to top up without moving the van or carrying water cans full from the service point, we just pass the queue at the MHSP by, with a nice empty tank, as we leave. Given how difficult they are to get I would imagine the majority are using them through choice and it always includes a large number of MH’s. So they are certainly not just for caravaners. At some sites, if you are arriving late, they also guarantee you a nice level pitch.

Just accept that everyone is different. I don’t find anything strange in folk not wanting to use one and saving some money. Also means there’s more chance of us getting one.😀

I'm with you on that one Steve. I read how much you'd enjoyed a service pitch at Hawes, so booked the same and it was worth every penny!