WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE 12 O'CLOCK ARRIVAL RULE?????
Returned from another great weekend at Clumber with our grand-daughter.
We have been staying on this site for more than 20 years, even before it was expanded, and we stay there several times each year.
This is an excellent site for families as you can let the children play knowing that they are safe - set area limits for them to stop them wandering off though!
The woods are a dogs paradise.
The facilities are looking tired, but are always kept clean.
The Team of wardens is new this year, and they are all very friendly and do a good job. However, our first ever and only complaint would be that they let new arrivals onto the site far too early - as early as 10am on one morning.
We were ready to leave on Sunday, and were hitching up around 11.45am, when a new arrival drove up to us. We moved the car out of the way so that he could pass, but he just waved his arms and shouted out of the window that he wanted "THAT" pitch. He parked very closely to us, made us feel uncomfortable and under pressure to move. We had still to get our grand-daughter into the car, as it was a warm day and we didn't want her to be inside for too long. In the end, we hitched up, and I moved the car and caravan away from the pitch, and parked up near to the toilet block so that we could do our final checks and so that my husband and grand-daughter could get into the car.
We have experienced frustration at times when arriving early at a site and having to wait (or in the case of Chatsworth arriving five minutes early and being told to drive away and come back!), and it is sometimes difficult to arrive at exactly the right time, but the 12 noon arrival is in place for a reason and should be observed.
The "other" caravanning club actually has an hour between the departure and arrival time, which makes moving around the site much safer and less pressurised.
We have several more trips planned during the rest of this year, and we love the site, but this time it seemed chaotic.
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