camping below average

Caravan pitch/facilities exactly as expected at all club sites, no complaints. However we shared this holiday with family who were camping (first experience of camping on a CC site). Unimpressed with the camping. This site does not allow vehicle access to the camping field (odd when caravanners are allowed to park next to thier vans!) which meant a lot of heavy lugging of equipment on arrival and also on departure, also when camping without electric (club do not offer electric for tents) it is useful to have car parked by tent for charging phones etc, Plus storage. No dedicated tap in camping field and pitches had the choice of overlooking the dog walkers field, or the football field which made the whole experience feel a bit like the club did not really care about the campers!

eloste

Reviewed on 24/08/2020 09:12

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BrianOrp replied on 28/08/2020 06:13

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BrianOrp

Motorhomer from Kent

Posted on 28/08/2020 06:13

Let me give you a clue and an English Lesson. This is the Caravan and Motorhome Club. Where is the word tent or camping in that? Try reading it again. As a gesture this site excepts tents, much against most members wishes, if you use a tent be a camper. Proper Campers don’t expect either cars, phones or electricity that’s the basics of camping. Try a dictionary.

Graydjames replied on 05/09/2020 21:48

Graydjames

from Leicestershire

Posted on 05/09/2020 21:48

I feel that BrianOrp is being arrogant and unfair to this reviewer and I wanted to say that. Fortunately, most CMC members are polite, respectful and caring.

It seems to me that what the club is called is entirely irrelevant. If the club offers camping facilities, as some CMC sites do, then it should do so up to a decent standard. This is not the 1960s.

The notion that "proper campers do not expect either cars, phones or electricity" is, with the exception perhaps of electricity, surely arrogant, out-dated and ridiculous. As I said, this is not the 1960s. Some campers might be on foot or bicycles but all the rest, the majority I imagine, coming to a relatively isolated site such as this, where public transport would be impractical, will be in a car. I know that to many campers, being able to park the car on or adjacent to the pitch is a crucial factor in where they may choose to stay. Not all sites allow it, of course, but it is a factor for many and for good reason. Surely cars should at least be allowed near the pitch on arrival and departure. [Except in cases where the ground is waterlogged and then cars may reasonably be banned on those occasions]

As to the phones thing, well, what can one say, who doesn't have a mobile phone now? The place where I store my motorhome has over 500 vans. They recently installed a new entrance system that requires telephoning a number on arrival to have the gates open. Only one person out of 500+ did not have a mobile phone and had to be given a special key.

If camp sites relied on purist campers, living in the dark ages, who think that the only way to camp is to rough it as much as possible and abstain from all modern appliances and conveniences, they would surely have very little business.