Serviced pitch

How long before caravanners want a direct connection from on board toilet to an external pipe to a sewage system? No more carrying cassettes to an emptying point.  Piped sewage as well as piped water, piped waste, piped tv, and piped electricity. Just like living in a bungalow on a housing estate instead of camping.

Indeed they are very nice. Just back from another week there in that very hot weather. The hot water lasted for ages in the shower, as the cold wasn’t particularly cold. So was glad I could top up and empty with  ease. Plus have a decent length shower.😂

They are very popular, next July is already highly booked and it would be impossible to get more than 3 days in a row. Hopefully we will be over there at that time though.🤞

It’s not compulsory to use one 😉 but the super pitches at Chatsworth do have a CDP on each pitch. Our Cadiz had its cassette door on the rear and it could be pulled out and emptied straight in. On the MH I have to walk a few yards as it is half way along the side.☹️😂

BB wrote "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."

Nor me. We could, as suggested, increasingly be asked to pay for services that we do not always require and that includes EHU. I suppose an argument could be made for a 100% service pitch site and dispense with the shower/toilet block. That could impinge, however, on Campervans and Trailer tent owners.

They are in a particularly nice spot on the Hawes site, I haven't seen a similar arrangement on other CAMC sites. In fact some service pitches aren't in very good spots at all, Hawes is the exception, I think?

Since we started our van holidays we've come across all sorts of serviced arrangements, some by chance and maybe just an individual tap per pitch but we enjoy the opportunity to use them. 

 

..but Steve (reportedly) only stays a few days during tours....with a 100+ ltr fresh tank (plus the extra 10 ltr in the boiler) and a waste tank size to match 'a few days' shouldnt require any water management at all, should it...or have i missed something?

even when using our own shower (as weve been doing this week) a single fill lasts five or six days.

agreed, if staying far longer than a tank lasts (10-14 days) then perhaps getting once to a tap might be a problem, but after two weeks on a serviced pitch one will have paid nearly £60 for a tank (and a bit) of water!

ok, it might be filled in dribs and drabs, but that is the nub of it...I'm in the wrong business!

there are laws against reselling electricity at a profit but (under the guise of a 'service') this is whats happening with water...

already fitted to some MH....

either a macerator 'black tank' (been around for ages) or the latest Thetford 'mix the black and grey waste together' system which is exited to a drain via a pipe....

As I put BB we are all different. There is no way I would want to manage our 100 litres to the extent you do. If on a non service pitch we don’t do a lot different, it’s just not quite as easy to fill and dump. I don’t have a problem paying the premium. I am not sure why others are so concerned. Even in normal times we don’t do any other sorts of holiday, such as cruises, hotels etc. So a few extra pounds to make our stay more enjoyable isn’t that significant.

Oh Hawes is one of the few places we would go for more than 3 / 4 nights with the MH. There is just so much to do walking from the site, it doesn’t move for the week.

We rarely use site facilities so a serviced pitch is a bonus sometimes, but we don't look for serviced pitches as a priority just nice to have the option. We won't be using our van forever so we use it in a way that suits us. Not the slightest bit bothered if some want to make use of facilities, the communal trek to them has no appeal, reminds me of old style holidays!  (Hot and cold in every bedroom and a bathroom down the corridor....) As said, we are all different and can do things to suit ourselves.

Just as happy with very basic facility sites, a tap and disposal point, glad we have reasonably good facilities on board for our own use. Don't want camping style stays, would buy a tent if we did!

So far this year we've used a mix of sites from non facility to serviced.

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