Serviced pitch

We recently returned from our first multi site touring trip with three CMCC sites and two private ones. The average cost was £25pn, the highest being Bunree which under normal times would have been £32pn.

On our return we were asked to fill in a survey which we happily did and part of it asked the questions as to what we might like to see added to CMCC sites. (See the attached photo!) For us the answer was none of them.

Some motorhome owners are crying out for more aires as if self contained vans have only recently been invented, others on the other hand are paying huge amounts for a VW style van that has little in the way of facilities whatsoever and you would have thought would want sites with toilet blocks (yet you see few parked up in CMCC sites from what I could tell.)

As a caravanner I have always used my own facilities. I have absolutely no desire to use a shared toilet or shower.The only thing I want is electricity on my pitch. Water and drainage would be an added benefit for sure but towing my Aquaroll to the tap doesn't usually afford too much effort despite my advancing years. 

No, if I had a vote it would be to charge for the key to toilet blocks for those that need them, and concentrate on providing hardstandings with a tap and drainage facility and hold the pitch prices for some years to come. So, don't complain about water costing you extra for your serviced pitch if you are using the toilet facilities without extra charge. Someone like me is getting double whammied if I have to pay extra for a serviced pitch and the non use of other facilities.

 

 

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One of the reasons they are popular is because they guarantee a decent hard standing pitch. So there are all sorts of reasons coming into the  "extra" fee. However we've been on sites including CLs where an individual tap next to the pitch is included and it's not an extra.

So many variations on a theme! 

However in spite of not being hard up for £4 I have a resistance to being ripped off.

I just don't like paying for something I do not need. I have never used a Club serviced pitch yet but have used them when that is all that is provided.e.g. on some Continental sites and CLs Some of the affiliated sites only offer serviced pitches e.g. Love to Stay

In that survey I also answered that none of the proposed facilities were required.

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Each to their own I think and I would only book a service pitch now. I can only see the numbers increasing as time goes by as they are obviously popular as I have found it difficult to book the ones I wanted even for next year. However the demand is difficult to calculate as it is confused by the fact that you cannot both hard standings. It was the fact that I had to book a serviced pitch to guarantee a hard standing that introduced me to them and now that’s all I book 

DaveWales, Thanks for posting the screen shot of the survey questions. I was beginning to think I was the only one getting them

I remember when we started caravanning 40 years ago virtually all Club sites had grass pitches and if you wanted electrics you had to book those as an addition because, unlike now, electricity wasn't available on all pitches. I suspect the Club gets away with charging £4 a night extra for a service pitch because it can. Serviced pitches are usually the first to be booked up. An ideal sort of site for us would be all serviced hardstandings and no toilet block but that is unlikely to happen as the Club would find it difficult to charge £35/40 a night for a pitch on a site without other facilities? 

Like others we tend to book a serviced pitch now and then to guarantee a hardstanding, Seacroft springs to mind and just bite the bullet on the extra cost. So far we have lost two normal years of using our motorhome so even if we get back to some sort of normality next year I do wonder if we will do fewer nights a year moving forward and if that is the case we may as well spend the money on something that eases the load?

David

The reason we started to use serviced pitches initially, was to secure a hardstanding pitch.  Now that we've started to use them, we actually quite like them, and come with another benefit....  We now no longer take an aquaroll or wastemaster away with us, if we are on a serviced pitch.  The saves an extra bit of room and, more importantly, weight.  We now get all our water/waste equipment in a small collapsible box which travels in the boot of the car.

David

RandR, thanks for the site heads up, long weekend booked in 3 weeks. Another one in the area is Overdale at Thornton Le Dale, adults only and larger but very popular hence we were looking for something else. 

I always book a service pitch if one is available.  I'm in favour of more of them at as many sites as possible. I can't see why every pitch can't be provided with at least a tap like on many continental sites.

What I find annoying is seeing someone on a service pitch not using the services by not connecting to mains water or drainage.  Even more annoying when i wasn't able to book one!

We'll see you there then! We're there from 16 -31 August.  KnausCol who sometimes posts on here is also there for part of that time (we're having a Knaus rally - 2 of us!!)

I think you mean Overbrook at T - Le - D,  We don't like it - went to have a look and thought it was very crowded.  We prefer Deerholme Farm CS - just outside Thornton at High Marishes - when Thornthorpe is closed.