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Check-in a nightmare and needs rethinking before tempers fly and somebody has an accident!

Oh dear, we've loved this site for many, many years but, like other reviewers, it's going backwards! Chain across the entrance - what next, razor wire and a 8ft fence? Has the club tried parking an 8.5 metre 4.5 ton Motorhome anywhere in Baslow for half an hour ? No, obviously not. 1 o,clock is not unreasonable, but you have enough wide verges down the driveway to create a proper waiting area, rather than the 'gulag' experience we had checking in on a Sunday. Not only that, I was directed and waved up to the stop sign so my vehicle length could be checked. I've been a member for 45 years, owned my current Motorhome for 11 years, and know exactly how long it is. Talk about 'Jobsworth'. Finally, the ground being very wet due to heavy rain, the grass strips between many of the pitches were very muddy immediately next to roadway. This mud was mainly caused by the resident ducks digging away with their beaks filtering for worms. Rather than solve the problem all the wardens did was to put bollards right on the end of the mud areas making it impossible for most people to drive their car onto the pitch - easy solution - put a bit more hard standing next to the roadway! In all other respects the wardens were very helpful.
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GrandpaGraham replied on 08/10/2017 09:52

Posted on 08/10/2017 09:52

This is the view of a typical selfish member who thinks that arrival rules apply to everyone apart from himself. If arriving from the M1 there are numerous laybys to full into along with at least two more between Chesterfield and Barlow. It is not the wardens fault that members constantly break the rules with regards to arrival times . Why is there an obsession to try and be the first onsite when after all a booking has been made and therefore a pitch is guaranteed. The club is for all members not just selfish ones like Yorkshire dogwalker.  All in all the wardens at Chatworth do an excellent job and I sympathise with them in having to receive these negative comments perhaps YorkshireDogwalker would like to be a warden for a week to see what it is like  !!!

replied on 08/10/2017 13:10

Posted on 08/10/2017 13:10

Given the understandable difficulty in parking a 8.5 metre 4.5 ton Motorhome maybe the reviewer should consider a little more forethought on their own behalf to avoid the problem. Yes, although he/she might wish to put the problem in somebody else's lap (wouldn't we all) the problem is the reviewers and he might be advised for aim for a later arrival time. Personally I would not have been more than 10 minutes early through miscalculation and would have indulged in a 10 minute tour before arriving back at the entrance.