Camper van parking etiquette

Leslie Glover
Leslie Glover Forum Participant Posts: 7
edited July 2016 in Club Membership #1

can anyone advise if there are rules regarding the parking of camper vans inward or outward facing on pitch. Some of the foreign made vans have awnings and living quarter doors on the offside. Consequently when these are reversed onto a pitch they end up
facing directly into their neighbours pitch. This is a situation I am currently having to accept with about eight feet between my awning entrance and my 'neighbours sun loungers ??. No use speaking to staff - this pitch was reserved for the occupants arrival
 and it is clear from the hugs and kisses on arrival that they are good friends. 

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  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,427 ✭✭✭
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    edited July 2016 #2

    I assume you are on a club site, then you can park whichever way you wish, nose in or reverse, as along as you are to the peg. Some sites like Chatsworth do have set rules but I'm not even sure if they apply to MH

  • Justus2
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    edited July 2016 #3

    Generally one side of the van has to be in line with the peg. It doesn't usually matter which side

    If doors end up facing that is usually considered of no consequence. Same applies to caravans, campers uk and foreign built.

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2016 #4

    Generally no matter which way. Nose or rear in. Sandringham club site you must reverse in however. 

  • Leslie Glover
    Leslie Glover Forum Participant Posts: 7
    edited July 2016 #5

    So are you saying as a caravaner I can pitch nose first if I choose too ? 

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2016 #6

    So are you saying as a caravaner I can pitch nose first if I choose too ? 

    Indeed you can and on some sites I do if there is a suitable view. 

  • jeffcc
    jeffcc Forum Participant Posts: 430
    edited July 2016 #7

    I have been on some sites(not cc) that 8' would have been sheer luxuryWink. Use left and right arrows to navigate.

  • mickysf
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    edited July 2016 #8

    Never am sure which side the car goes on non awning pitches (can be pitch dependant it seems) but if the hab. door of motorcaravan opens onto where the car would have been I see no problem. Similarly if the hab. door opens on the other side next to where the neighbours car would be then I see no problem either as long as fire breaks are intact all should be well. When two carless motorcaravans are adjacent to each other all should be well either way.

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2016 #9

    Generally no matter which way. Nose or rear in. Sandringham club site you must reverse in however. 

    ...Not so this year as several m/vans and a couple of Eriba c/vans were nose in it does make one wonder if a previose warden was just being
    Yell 

  • Leslie Glover
    Leslie Glover Forum Participant Posts: 7
    edited July 2016 #10

    So there MAY be a rule depending on which site / wardens views /own rules

  • brue
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    edited July 2016 #11

    No, there is no rule, I think one of our moderators, Jill, has a letter from the CC with the details.

  • Navigateur
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    edited July 2016 #12

    If memory serves me right it was publicised many years ago just after the dinosaurs left, that it had to be "hitch out" so that 'vans could be moved if there was a fire. (presumably to avoid news stories that would embarrass the site owners.)  It would be
    speciaal fire there, of course, that would jump the 6m that gives protection elsewhere in the country.  Now with hitch locks, wheel locks, chains through wheels, etc there seems no point in the "rule".

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2016 #13

    "Our Friends" some years ago when working on a one couple site,were only given a couple of days off a month(before the WTD)the couple who covered them were of the really old school,and on arrival back on site were met by said relief warden,who wanted to know whether a report needed giving to EGH as a caravan had pitched nose in to get a view and would not turn it round to park it as it "should be"Surprised

  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #14

     ... they end up facing directly into their neighbours pitch. This is a situation I am currently having to accept with about eight feet between my awning entrance and my 'neighbours sun loungers ??.  ....

    Have you tied talking to your neighbours? They might e really nice & you both get on like a house on fire Cool

  • Leslie Glover
    Leslie Glover Forum Participant Posts: 7
    edited July 2016 #15

    We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received. 

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2016 #16

    We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received. 

    Such an approach from a neighbour would not upset me My response would (in nicely couched wording) be 'tough whatsits fella'.

  • mickysf
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    edited July 2016 #17

    We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received. 

    Such an approach from a neighbour would not upset me My response would (in nicely couched wording) be 'tough whatsits fella'.

    Just live and let live. Unless they are a proper nuisance of course. Happy

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2016 #18

    If I had been sat on site in the heat of this afternoon I would have sat on whichever side of the caravan offered most shade. I don't generally use an awning

  • Tammygirl
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    edited July 2016 #19

    Provided you have the 3m gap between your awning and their canopy then that is all that is required. If you have a grass strip between you then that can be a problem with facing awnings as you both may want to sit on the grass.

    We have a M/H and it depends on the view/ slope of pitch which way round we park. 

  • SteveL
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    edited July 2016 #20

    Once someone very nicely asked if I minded them going in front first so their door was facing our van. I replied that we were only there one night, but that I had no problem with it at all, and could not see that it should present a problem to anyone else.
    Looks like I might have been wrong from the OP.??

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2016 #21

    I think most would agree with your view of 'no problem'

  • ocsid
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    edited July 2016 #22

    It seems "main site" caravanning is not the right type of caravanning/motorhoming if one is hung-up at being overlooked.

    It is not for me either but not really for that reason, its simply all too cramped however one or ones neighbours are pitched. A big field,open view CL/CS is far more our thing.

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2016 #23

    how do you think your neighbours feel about you looking at them....?

    were they on their pitch before you arrived?

    perhaps you would like to go nose in and then all would be well in your world?

     

  • InaD
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    edited July 2016 #24

    how do you think your neighbours feel about you looking at them....?

    were they on their pitch before you arrived?

    perhaps you would like to go nose in and then all would be well in your world?

     

    But BB, what's on the pitch on the other side?  Could be a UK unit, nose out, then it would still be the same problem.

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2016 #25

    True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?

    merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....

    answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....Happy

  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2016 #26

    I do feel that if you  mind someone facing you like that on a campsite caravaning/MH isn't really for you

  • InaD
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    edited July 2016 #27

    True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?

    merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....

    answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....Happy

    Of course not BB; it was said tongue in cheek, but I forgot to add the relevant emoticon
    Embarassed

    Agree with you, it's not important, there are far more serious things to worry about in life; but...everyone is different I s'pose.

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2016 #28

    True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?

    merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....

    answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....Happy

    Of course not BB; it was said tongue in cheek, but I forgot to add the relevant emoticon
    Embarassed

    Agree with you, it's not important, there are far more serious things to worry about in life; but...everyone is different I s'pose.

    Haha, perhaps I should have added one or two myself....Wink

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #29

    Only my second trip away soon ,and now i have to worry i have parked the "rightway round"
    Undecided, there is more to this motorhoming lark than i first thoughtWink

  • Navigateur
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    edited July 2016 #30

    As long as you can still park right-way-up all will be fine!

  • eurortraveller
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    edited July 2016 #31

    I think good order, neatness and symmetry should be maintained. It always was so on Club sites in the past and it's a sign of the times that standards have fallen. 

    PS I am over on the mainland where no one gives a damn what you guys on the island choose to do. 

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