Serviced pitches

Happy to have a serviced pitch any day.  Why carry water and waste when there's no need!

David 

Happy to have a serviced pitch any day.  Why carry water and waste when there's no need!

David 

Not on club sites £3.50 a day a non starter for me.

we love serviced pitches, particularly for our main summer break, as with us and three teens is much easier to have showers in the van than queueing up at wash block. Plus I actually like washing up in the van!

however learnt early on that you need to be prepared for being a long way from drain point at times, particularly on european sites Where uk vans are back to front. We have 8m of tube, most of it in rigid sections and a couple of metres of grey pipe. never been stuck!

youre on holiday, who wants to be filling and emptying every day

It would not matter how much tube you had on some French service pitches. Unless of course you also had a pump in the system. On one pitch the drain was about 30 cm higher than the caravan outlets. So a service pitch meant that it was only about 5 metres to wheel the wastemaster. I presume the idea was that if your waste outlets were on the back, you would take the van right back on the sloping pitch, and would be able to connect up. Ours were half way along on the side.

I carry nothing extra to what I would use on a non serviced pitch, if I happened upon a serviced pitch it would just mean not walking as far. I'm happy with that and certainly wouldn't pay for one, but I can see reasons why others would.

Happy to have a serviced pitch any day.  Why carry water and waste when there's no need!

David 

Not on club sites £3.50 a day a non starter for me.

It went up to £3.90 this year, but still worth every penny. However, don't tell the CC they will put it up even more.

We booked a serviced pitch for two weeks away last Christmas. No point otherwise when we move every 5 nights and use site showers if available and suitably locatated. We are away for 15 nights this Christmas but as the serviced pitches are not on a part of the site that we wish to choose will not book serviced. We didn't hook up however it just made topping up water and emptying waste a doddle

We booked a serviced pitch for two weeks away last Christmas. No point otherwise when we move every 5 nights and use site showers if available and suitably locatated. We are away for 15 nights this Christmas but as the serviced pitches are not on a part of the site that we wish to choose will not book serviced. We didn't hook up however it just made topping up water and emptying waste a doddle

We've booked serviced pitches for 5 nights but I wouldn't bother for 2 nights..

David 

If we are using site facilities that requires only one fill and empty. Seems rather an expensive for one fill and empty on a 5 might stay at almost £40. 

If we are using site facilities that requires only one fill and empty. Seems rather an expensive for one fill and empty on a 5 might stay at almost £40. 

We must use more water than you Alan.    If we are on water hook up we would consider using the shower in the 'van too, whereas we wouldn't if we didn't have hook up.

David 

Like many things - is whatever suits - personally I'll happily pay extra for the serviced pitch. It's a very small percentage of the total cost of a holiday for 5 for us and is worth it.

Take the point about some French sites and have had to come up with some ingenius solutions in the past. Part of the reason why we have lengths of pipe now as easier to get a flow out the van which will go over small rises.