Security when on site

Tammygirl I would also like to know if caravans get stolen from sites I never worry about it but perhaps I should!  

The C&CCdid publish statistics on this. It does happen but not as common as from homes and non CASSOA storage sites. You do need to be aware but if a site is busy removing security devices by force draws attention and therefore is less coommon.

No device at all but then again we are a m/h. When we had a caravan on site it was hitchlock and wheel lock. This was to comply with insurance. Do caravans get stolen from sites? 

We have stayed at Clumber, Abbey Wood and Middlesbrough all sites that have "problems" but have never been bothered by that. Strange isn't it that in the UK we all take precautions yet while abroad bikes are left outside toilet blocks, by the pitch, outside the supermarket. In fact most folk leave chairs, tables, bbqs, bikes etc. got out for the day leaving windows open. While here in yhe UK we put everything away and lock it up like fort knox, what does that say about our society.

Whole different world 'over there' TG

i wouldnt leave anything (including the MH) unlocked here, yet we just dont bother when 'away'.

when here we only have one security device....key fob for locks, alarm and immobiliser.

just another aspect of caravanning we just dont even think of..im glad to say....

hitchlocks, wheellocks....ive even seen wastemasters locked, as you say, all a bit sad....

 Hmmm,A different culture 'over there'. More respect & disiplin maybe ? ?

Can't say that I worry about security on most CC sites - depends on location of course. As I said on another thread, we were on a small none facility CC site last year. We had gone off to a nearby park and ride carpark to catch a bus. Realised that (both laid back and sun shining) we might well have gotten int othe car on the caravan offside with neither of us having shut, let alone locked, the caravan door. I phoned the warden and asked him to check that the door was closed and said as long as it is shut I am not bothered if it is locked.

I am naturally cautious and lock things up but I think campsites in general (perhaps outside the main holiday periods when a lot of "non campers" are out in a £20 tent for a boozy weekend) are on balance still quite safe places to be.

Only had 2 things taken in decades for camping. One was booz that I left under a flysheet that could be seen from a walk past. I put that down to being my silly fault and some food that I had left again under a flysheet to keep cool.

A chap in a small tent that clearly had not got 2 pennies to rub together took it because he was hungry. When I challenged him he admitted it, said sorry and I took him for a pint and a meal in the next door pub. He was either genuine or the best actor I have ever seen.

Next day he was gone early, probably embarrassed by it all.

I use the usual hitch and wheel lock, plus caravan is alarmed.

I have not looked that close at entrance barriers, but would assume that a lot of sites would have cctv installed at these points. Which may help the security of that area.

It would assist in case of stolen vehicles or vans.

 .... and I took him for a pint and a meal in the next door pub. ....

You sound a perfect neighbour  Mine's a pint of bitter & steak and chips (med/rare) please 

sat out for a coffee in the sunshine here at Littlehampton, OH says (totally unprompted...) whats that funny yellow thing on the wheel of that caravan opposite......

 .... and I took him for a pint and a meal in the next door pub. ....

You sound a perfect neighbour  Mine's a pint of bitter & steak and chips (med/rare) please 

If I find you camping next door skint and hungry. No problem mate.

......Only had 2 things taken in decades for camping. One was booz that I left under a flysheet that could be seen from a walk past. I put that down to being my silly fault and some food that I had left again under a flysheet to keep cool...... 

I leave things in the awning and even outside the van when we don't put up an enclosed awning - including a portable fridge with 'bottles' in it and by the side of it.  To my knowledge, I have never had anything taken in 40 years of camping and caravanning.  However I have had a caravan stolen from storeage and have had a caravan broken into in storeage many, many years ago.

We do usually go on fairly busy sites.

David