Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!
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Good one! We'll be into egg jokes/yolks next
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We are new to caravaning, with two young boys. How this programme was ment to make others see this past time in a good light, I have no idea. What a dreadful programme, how did the CC sign up for this nonsense. Surely it would have been better to promote a family frindley caravan club.
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PS I hope the chairman will not be claiming on his CC caravan insurance for his idiotic attempt at climbing an embankment with his caravan in tow.
Make no wonder they increase the premiums year on year.
I truly hope my insurance will not be going up when it is due next month.
I damaged my van in very similar circumstances and I can assure you I did claim. So no doubt I am responsible for 0.0001p of your insurance premium. I make no apology for this. Does this make me a bad person?
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Does anyone know how the caravaners were chosen i am a regular a carvaner with the club and did not know of any one who took part in my local centre were normal members contacted in any way????
The request for "contenders" for the title was published on this web-site, in the Club magazine and, probably, on the dark side of the moon !!
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Ha ha I think we were watching different shows on the BBC. What I saw made me embarrassed to be a CC member. Sorry it was appalling. A PR opportunity well and truly wasted.
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DD, how do you know it wasn't a set up in the style of JC and his crew? The beeb has a habit of stage managing these things.
And the Chairman went along with it?
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Just read the comment about next week's programme in the Sunday Times Culture:
'... the remaining couples are treated in this final as this dull and mercifully brief series comes to an end. If feeling charitable you might wonder if the show is a bizarre spoof, or a particularly po-faced mockumentary..... but it seems likely, though
incredible, that bosses that brought us The Great British Bake Off....really imagined searching caravanned complete could be just as exciting'I dare the club's PR department to spin the positives out of that damning preview.
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DD, how do you know it wasn't a set up in the style of JC and his crew? The beeb has a habit of stage managing these things.
And the Chairman went along with it?
Write your comments here...Well he seems to have gone along with the rest of it!
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Very surprised that this thread hasn't been closed due to the number of posts of complaint. The champions must be so embarrassed that they daren't close it down. What an advert for ct and the cc.
MD, Rochelle has posted in this thread as have a few Champions. Why would any of them choose to close it? As long as everyone abides by the T&Cs and Guidelines, there will be no reason for closure.
Write your comments here...
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PS I hope the chairman will not be claiming on his CC caravan insurance for his idiotic attempt at climbing an embankment with his caravan in tow.
Make no wonder they increase the premiums year on year.
I truly hope my insurance will not be going up when it is due next month.
I would be very surprised if the Chairman's insurance covered competition caravanning. He may well have been cover by a policy set up by the BBC though, and probably will end up with a new caravan out of all of this.
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Best comedy programme I have seen for a while,
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PS I hope the chairman will not be claiming on his CC caravan insurance for his idiotic attempt at climbing an embankment with his caravan in tow.
Make no wonder they increase the premiums year on year.
I truly hope my insurance will not be going up when it is due next month.
I damaged my van in very similar circumstances and I can assure you I did claim. So no doubt I am responsible for 0.0001p of your insurance premium. I make no apology for this. Does this make me a bad person?
But you were not in a competition, were you. Proper accidents do happen, and I'm sure that many of us have suffered one at one time or another and made a claim against our insurance, but not in a competition.
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DD, how do you know it wasn't a set up in the style of JC and his crew? The beeb has a habit of stage managing these things.
And the Chairman went along with it?
Write your comments here...Well he seems to have gone along with the rest of it!
Exactly!
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Just watching Caravanner of the Year and I have to say what a 'load of rubbish', I feel that the cause of caravanning has been set back years. I am sure the competitors were lovely people but some of the programme seems to portray them as rather excentric,
at times 'nurdy' and in some cases in a state constant of arguement. At times I was also disappointed with the way in which the Chairman was portrayed, surely he cannot really be that pedantic.A very disappointing advert for caravanning and caravanners. We just want to go and enjoy ourselves with our van and will not be wasting our time entering such a ridiculous competition.
PS I found the schoolboy inuendo about erections extremely painful and totelly unnecessary.
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Does anyone know how the caravaners were chosen i am a regular a carvaner with the club and did not know of any one who took part in my local centre were normal members contacted in any way????
The request for "contenders" for the title was published on this web-site, in the Club magazine and, probably, on the dark side of the moon !!
Write your comments here...And did they offer them all an awning to compete with.There was the one one couple who did not have an awning and I am sure I heard them say they were given one to compete with and had never put one up before... How stupid why
compete then??????SG20 -
Caravanner of the Year was an insult to the members of the Caravan Club which is now being called the Comedy Club far and wide. The Chairman was as inept as 'the chosen' 6 and how the selection was made is questionable. However, the only good thing that
should come from this is that very few people will want to join the CC after seeing such an idiotic spectacle, leaving more pitches free for the future.0 -
The programme was totally boring and underwhelming. It only confirms in the public's eyes that the CC is full of doddery old weirdos.
The female judge trying to look like Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ was equally bizarre.
In all a waste of programme time and has set the publics impression of caravanners back by about 30 years.
Mind you rally center committee members will think it was great as it would be very familiar to them.
K
Having been given the heads up by a couple of FB friends about this debacle and reading the first 15 pages I felt I had to comment because after watching the YouTube links I had no intention of watching the programmes that my little Bumdimple had recorded.
This has now caused a bit of bad feeling at Screwham Hall since Her Ladyship wanted us to watch it together.Thank you K for the above remarks because I needed a laugh to cheer me up. I'm also saddened to see you still stuck on one purple
From memory of what I've read maybe Bugs puts it the most succinctly in his summing up and coming from me that's a rarity to praise Bugs so I hope he's sat down if he reads this
Oneputt I also agree with your comment of 'no surprise' regarding the motorhome comment. It was expected
No doubt I will comment again because this thread is like the old CT and doesn't involve discussions on making marmalade etc. and as I've got another 78 pages to read there must be something that tickles my fancy. If not I will bid you adieu and retire back
to the closed FB groups of where I'm a member which consist of railways and caravanning.0 -
Christ on a bicycle. Goodbye once more, Club Together.
Excitin' innit Thingymebob
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The only good that has come out of this program tonight is the fact I have not known C T be so busy for a very long time certainaly brought the posters out , come on Lordy where are you would love to read your comments on this
I'm here Roobz and yes, was told about this thread by a couple of others who rarely post. I'm glad they did and I took the trouble to read the thread because my wife had taped the first episode because we were away in the van. Now I know what it's about
she's got the porker with me because I'm refusing to watch it after seeing the clips on YouTube.Where on earth did they get those people from? It's not only embarrassing for all of us it also makes them look like loons. No doubt they are a bit odd and don't mind people seeing them make fools of themselves because people who they know already regard
them as such. Who knows?Still I suppose it's given people ideas for other threads like bog roll origami.
Hope all is well with you Roobz and your better half
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Caravanner of the Year was an insult to the members of the Caravan Club which is now being called the Comedy Club far and wide. The Chairman was as inept as 'the chosen' 6 and how the selection was made is questionable. However, the only good thing that should come from this is that very few people will want to join the CC after seeing such an idiotic spectacle, leaving more pitches free for the future.
We belong to the CC because it gives us access to a large number of sites, that we like, spread throughout the country. Booking is easy and the cancelation policy, if needed, second to none. It gives us access to Mayday, and various offers and discounts more than cover our membership. Why would anyone watching a TV reality programme think it in anyway reflected real life on a CC site. I think most people take these sort of programmes with a very large pinch of salt. I await to be surprised by the ease at which I can book prime sites next December.
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Does anyone know how the caravaners were chosen i am a regular a carvaner with the club and did not know of any one who took part in my local centre were normal members contacted in any way????
The request for "contenders" for the title was published on this web-site, in the Club magazine and, probably, on the dark side of the moon !!
The dark side of the moon being where GC should be!
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DD, how do you know it wasn't a set up in the style of JC and his crew? The beeb has a habit of stage managing these things.
Should we expect a motorhome demolition derby on Wednesday?
Well iv'e done caravan racing, but i'm not using my M/H
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We belong to the CC because it gives us access to a large number of sites, that we like, spread throughout the country. Booking is easy and the cancelation policy, if needed, second to none. It gives us access to Mayday, and various offers and discounts more
than cover our membership. Why would anyone watching a TV reality programme think it in anyway reflected real life on a CC site. I think most people take these sort of programmes with a very large pinch of salt. I await to be surprised by the ease at which
I can book prime sites next December.I anticipate a huge demand in December.
Why pay to go to Butlins or any expensive theme park when you can pop on to any CC site for the day and have limitless amusement watching the "residents" ...
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