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tombar
tombar Forum Participant Posts: 408
edited July 2016 in Caravan & Motorhome Chat #1

Whenever I look to stay at a place, I go on UK Campsites to look at reviews at campsites in the general area, whether privately owned or CC or whoever.  What surprises me most of all are the ones that go on about having to pay for hairdryers, especially
the ones in motorhomes or caravans.  What's wrong with bringing your own?  You already pay for electric, why put tokens/coins to use one  What gets your goatHappy

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  • Justus2
    Justus2 Forum Participant Posts: 897
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    edited July 2016 #2

    The OH does bring her own. The annoyance is that to use her own requires a walk back to the van with wet hair to use the sites electricity. To use the sites electricity in the block without the walk back requires 20p, so effectively you pay 20p to avoid
    the walk back with wet hair.  Secondly, if the nightly fee is £18+ is a further 20p really needed by the owner ?
    Undecided

  • rodgerthat
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    edited July 2016 #3

    Reviews in my opinion just go to show we are all different. Some like this, others dislike it. Some dislike the other while others like it. Often wonder when you read a rogue detrimental review that there goes someone who didn't get their 'own' way!

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited July 2016 #4

    I write lots of reviews but rarely mention hairdryers, perhaps because I don't have much hair!!!

    David

  • EmilysDad
    EmilysDad Forum Participant Posts: 8,973
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    edited July 2016 #5

    I posted a similar question a while back. We stopped at a beautiful CL that had an obviously recently refurbished toilet/shower block & I questioned the charge for the shower instead of adding £1 a night ........ no right answer but from a convenience point
    of view adding to the nightly charge would be better for most rather than taking coins with us to the shower block.

  • 1Tracey1
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    edited July 2016 #6

    As someone before said....everyone is different.  We use our own shower so the extra £1 if added may mean we would stay at a nearby site if that £1 made a difference.  Whilst it's only £1, over a weekend thats £3 and if you go away every other weekend it
    soon mounts up.  Things being fairly equal then we were always go for the cheaper price so adding £1 for a shower could make a difference.

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  • catherinef
    catherinef Forum Participant Posts: 647
    edited July 2016 #8

    I think I'm going to pay attention to ukcampsite quite closely in future.  We have just returned from a very well kept private site, but boy was it regimented, expensive and not particularly relaxing come Friday night when the atmosphere changed as it filled
    up.

  • Wildwood
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    edited July 2016 #9

    The reviews that annoy me are those that include irrelevant comments like birds having dirtied their car or commenting on the caravan next door. To be useful they have to be things that might affect you not something that is a one off.

  • mickysf
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    edited July 2016 #10

    Gets my goat! WinkThose that state that things like the Dawn Chorus wake them up when clearly they have chosen a rural site. Me, I love the sounds, creatures and the smells of the countryside!Wink

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2016 #11

    Can't understand those of only a couple of lines which say that the owners were nice and that they'd return, but say nothing about the site its-self, places of interest close by etc.

  • Wildwood
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    edited July 2016 #12

    The ones that can put me off are the very long ones. The system does not allow paragraphs so large blocks of print do not get read. Partly a defect in the site though. If we could put in paragraphs the reviews would be more readable.

  • brue
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    edited July 2016 #13

    Gets my goat! WinkThose that state that things like the Dawn Chorus wake them up when clearly they have chosen a rural site. Me, I love the sounds, creatures and the smells of the countryside!Wink

    ...In the days when reviews where non existent we stayed on a farm in Wales. What we didn't know was they had a 200 plus herd of dairy cows and they had to start milking at 3 am to get them through for the tankers....guess where our pitch was?!Happy

  • N1805
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    edited July 2016 #14

    My OH regularly checks uk campsite & other site reviews says it helps her make choices. She says she looks for comments regarding facilities, things nearby, & being able to have a walk from the site. 

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2016 #15

    My OH regularly checks uk campsite & other site reviews says it helps her make choices. She says she looks for comments regarding facilities, things nearby, & being able to have a walk from the site. 

    Definitely the sort of things that I like to see & try to include in a review, but many don't have that sort of information unfortunately.

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