Rallies

Hello Bill,  I read of your concern of having to pay a full amount for leaving an RCA Rally early...There can be several reasons why a rallier leaves a rally before it’s completion....I am not a committee member but I would have thought that if circumstances such as a medical emergency, the rally officers may decide to discuss the circumstances with you but I don’t know what your reason was and if you approached the officers...You must remember the officers work out their rally programme from the monies collected in but I’m sure you are only to well aware of this fact as you were previously a well established rallier yourself.

Regarding the details of rallies....The cost of joining and subsequent  subscription is so reasonable that obtaining  the required information you want is excellent value.

RETIRED CARAVANNERS ASSOCIATION

In response to yours and Bills comments about the RCA.

The reason for not publishing our current full rally listings for Guests was purely for Security Reasons to protect our members which as you would expect is paramount in our association, there is no underlying agenda as suggested.

If you revisit our website you will now find that as a guest you are able to access the current rally list with dates and the location of the rally but Not the full rally details for the reasons given. 

Hopefully this has clarified the issue raised, so now is the time to go to www.retiredcaravanners.co.uk  and have a look at what the R.C.A. has to offer you. You will not be disappointed, if you require further information go to the Contact Us page.

Rob Wilks    (Chairman & Webmaster for the R.C.A.)

Is it still a condition of membership that you have to pay full price for a rally even if you don't want to stay the full time or has that been waived now ?

Pam, thank you for putting up your 2018 rally list. Can I ask, do you use EHU. I was wondering if attending a ten day rally or longer and then attend a follow on how you keep the battery charged. If using gas for everything isn’t it expensive?

Ken

I run rallies for a small club and we don’t publish details of our rallies in the public part of our web site either. They go in the members only section, which I feel is fair. If a non member wants to know, I’ll tell them the area we’re going to, which should be sufficient to decide if they want to come - if they do, then they have to join for £12 a year.

Nora

Worth pointing out membership of the club automatically entitles you to attend centre Rally’s no extra membership fee.  Although £12 or £17.50ish for the RCA. 

Hi Bill.

The RCA does not offer Holiday rallies as other clubs where you pick and choose the days you require, to be able keep our rally fees low we have to do a deal with the site owners which as you may know is getting more difficult each season. The rally fees are a set price for the rally and not on a per night basis as we offer more than just a pitch. 

The RCA has been using this method of running rallies for the past 42 years proving that it works and has had thousands of satisfied members therefore we see no reason to change at the present time.  

Obviously you are looking for something different as they say you can't please everybody all the time.

Rob Wilks 

Hello Ken.

In answer to your question, most of our members like to have electric hook ups as modern caravans are power hungry. Therefore we try to arrange our rallies  to suit all tastes, most of our rallies have the option of EHP's  the non-electric rallies are mainly in the mid summer months and mostly between follow on rallies that have them. Most of our non- electric ralliers have two batteries and solar panels and can last several weeks if necessary.

This information is on our website but please do not hesitate to contact us for more information, if you go to the Contact Us page you will find an enquiry form, fill it in and we will get back to you. 

Pam

Pam, Many thanks. I have a 100w solar panel on the roof and a 100 ah battery, but never rallied with it. You seem to have it sussed, it’s just me letting go of the lead! Very interested.

Ken

IMO Ken you should with that kit give off EHU rallying a go, you might like what it opens up, its the only way to find out if it is your thing or not. It potentially avoids that awful "car-park", all lined up type vanning, a great plus for us, though some rallies still try hard to replicate that perfect symmetry.

Through the main part of the year, let's say from May till end of September unless you are glued to a TV screen a 100 Watt roof-mounted panel should make you "autonomous"  without any need for an EHU. Come the other bit with the increasing need for heating, longer nights so more pressure for TV, plus it comes with a lowering sun angle and less hours, then it is too challenging.

We use a free-standing 85 Watt panel and 80 to 85% of our UK base caravanning is way off EHUs, this can be 28 days at a THS.