Hose length

The length of hose required will be 1 metre more than you have available. (Murphy's law, variant 27)

 Just talked to care-van looking for a hose length to reach a tap  on site away from motorhome pitch  ,because I think some sites will keep facility's closed  the care-van 15m hose on a reel is British made and members discussions recommend this company , only down side pipe has to be fully taken off the reel .

The reviews of pipes that stay wound on reels can have poor water flow and leaks so I am ordering  15m from care-van hope this is helpfull .

                      Stay safe Pete

As far as waste pipe is concerned I can recommend The Colapz system

Better be good Richardandros or i am coming after you as have just ordered 8m which comes as 1 item rather than having to buy 2 x 4m, and £10 less than 2x4m, plus dual connection, also you get 10 pct discount via club.

I used to have two or three of those flat hose reels for filling up the boat's water tanks.  They're fine when used for that purpose - but I found that when I used one for the caravan to connect to the aquaroll with a ball valve fitted - in hot weather, it split due to it being under constant pressure

The other annoying thing is that you have to squeeze all the water out before you can coil it up - otherwise it won't fit back on the reel.  I did have one that had two rollers in the cassette which squeezed the water out as it was would up but eventually that gave up the ghost and I couldn't find another one with that design.

Much prefer the rigid blue hose-pipe even though it does take up a bit more room when coiled up.

I just use the cheap convoluted pipe you buy at caravan shops. I have a couple of different lengths & join them if needed with push-fit solid waste pipe connector from Wicke/B&Q/etc Obviously not used much on CC sites but they carry waste water to the hedges at CLs

This kind of stuff ....

Again, thanks to all who took the trouble to respond.

Lots of different input, and there seems to be no clear consensus as to pipe length.   Well, reading through all the responses I've decided to go with 15 to 16 metres of both fresh and waste water piping.  I'm thinking of chopping up the fresh water hose into 10, 3 and 2/3 metre lengths with female couplings, and using colapz piping for the waste.

This summer hoping to make several trips in Blighty, which I suppose will be mostly on sites, Club, CL and some others.  I'm planning an initial run taking a couple of Club sites to get to know the van and also to experience Club sites for the first time. .The information on the web booking page for the Kendal Club site was very impressive. It mentioned "You may require a maximum of 6 metres of fresh water pipework and 6 metres of waste water pipework to connect on some of the service pitches."  I called up the wardens on the other site that I'm hoping to visit (which shall remain nameless.)  They were lovely, friendly people but they could only guesstimate the length of hoses needed.

All being well, will be riding the Big White Bird to mostly COVID-19 free Japan in September.  Looking forward to pointing the old Honda van at the mountains.  I'll miss the convenience of all the bits and pieces on the Auto-Sleepers campervan, but won't be sorry to be back to the ease simplicity of wild camping complemented by daily soaks up to the neck in hot springs.

We are very ‘low tech’ and use a collapsible bucket for waste. Empty when it’s getting full, takes up no space and it cost around a fiver. 

A bit laborious if you've 100 litres to get rid of.😂

Thanks for that Martatin - you've saved me a few quid ...

... So, a postscript.  It's time for a "By the Way".

By the way, wouldn't it be a really good idea if the minimum length of hoses required for every Club site that offers serviced pitches be included in the information which we see online when booking?  If the Kendal site can do it, then I suppose it must be possible.