First post - Booking confusion

HI Kassiepoo. I am a long time member. There is no option to book a hard standing on CMC sites - just Awning, Non-awning or Serviced pitches which have water and waste water on pitch for an extra £3.90 a night. On arrival you choose the pitch that you want of the type that you have booked (awning, non awning or serviced).

I know that for some reason the Broadway site does show a grass with awning option. If you look through the various months all days are shown as not avaiolable. Very strange and confusing but I suspect that there are no grass pitches on that site.

Generally if it is 12am arrival that is the earliest that you should arrive. I use about 14 different CMC sites a year along with other sites and when I arrive (usually around 12.15pm) there are normally none to 3 other units before me. 

I usually book an awning pitch and as there are more of these I will get a better choice of pitches normally. On some sites I may book non awning due to their prime position. I don't actually use an awning at present

It very unusual to be able to book a H/S pitch. In fact what I think has happened is that the site will not be opening the grass pitches at all at Broadway, as they appear to be fully booked all year. It may be that they are being allocated for use as seasonal pitches.  What you normally see is a choise of Awning/Non-Awing/Serviced pitches, and these can be either grass or H/S (although Serviced pitches are usually H/S but you have to pay £3:90 pn extra for them). Usually unless you arrive at 12:00 (or the listed earliest arrival time, as some have a different listed arrival time from 12:00) on a Friday you will not have to queue. You do have to select a pitch yourself, once having booked in.

Hope this helps, and welcome to the club. Any other questions don't hesitate to ask.

Snap, ET.

Hi EasyT, thank you for that.  We’ll not know till we get there what the set up is at Broadway. As it’s only a couple of weeks away, we’ll find out soon. It’s good to know that in your experience there are no long queues so feeling happier about that.  We only have a small awning just to give us somewhere to clean up ourselves and the dog after walks. She tends to like mud and puddles! We only have a 2 berth as we wanted to get used to the whole experience of towing a caravan again without too much worry.  I’m not the driver btw I’m only the passenger. Not even the navigator anymore since Sallysatnag came into being. My husband does all the driving and is more than happy to do it. We have a Swift 460 SE which is a 2004 model and a Nissan Navara doing the towing, so a pretty stable setup....I think? Thank you again for the info and hopefully all my future posts will be ramble free or on the “Story Page” 😉

Thanks Nellie 😊

I think Broadway is a bit unusual by giving a choice of grass pitch. Perhaps because of the small number on the site it is easier to have them as a separate category just in case they have stop using them because of wet weather (the site is open all year). Best to have a look at the site plan for any site you are intending to book as that will give you an impression of the mix of pitches. You are right about Kessingland but it is only the front row.

David

I have seen the same anomaly on other site pages with grass options shown to book but shown unavailable for all months David. Not sure if they have been removed from other site pages. 

I thought I understood the system as well as anyone but having read all the above I’m starting to wonder🤪. It's not surprising that Kassie was confused.

Hope you’re OK now, Kassie.

Just because you stipulate an awning pitch it does mean that you have to put the awning up.  Your right about the Kessingland, on the seaside annex the row closest to the sea is non awning.  We have stayed on the second row and haven't put up the awning

  With  apologies  if  I'm  reading  the  post  incorrectly  {  I  don't  usually  try  folks  patience  by  correcting  other  peoples  posts  }  BUT 

I  think  Oneputt's  in  urgent  need  of  Breakfast    'cos  I  reckon  the  first  line  should  read:-- 

Just  because  you  stipulate  an  awning  pitch  it  does  NOT  mean  that  you  have  to  put  the  awning  up.