A few selfish campers but lovely site.
We stayed here just as the sites reopened in early July when site was about half full. Got a lovely pitch and found that the covid measures implemented in the toilets and showers were very good. If you get there and no armbands are in the disinfectant pot, you wait on the 2m apart markers until someone comes out and drops their armband in which you then pick up and in you go. A simple but effective system to limit the numbers in an enclosed space.
This worked very well when we stayed in July with just about everyone complying with the system.
Fast forward to last week when we stayed there again and a very different story. This time the site was full and although the same system was supposed to be in operation, if you stood and waited for an armband you would be very much in the minority. I found it amazing how many of my fellow campers thought that the rules just did not apply to them and just wandered in and out regardless.
This obviously shows up the problem that no matter how good a system you put in place, unless it is policed there will always be the selfish people who carry on doing as they please. It’s not that they don’t know as it’s all explained to you whenever you arrive and book in so there is no pleading ignorance.
Such a shame that there are so many people who seem to think that the covid safe measures implemented in order to be able to reopen the sites can be ignored when they don’t suit them. My wife is an NHS emergency nurse practitioner and has spent months dealing with covid patients and seeing just how dangerous this virus is so for her it is a bit of a kick in the teeth seeing people flouting the measures put in place to protect them.
This aside, our stay at Southlands was very enjoyable but we will not return other than during quieter times.
Vanophant
Reviewed on 28/08/2020 16:38
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