Recommendations for sites with seasonal pitches

granttillyer

Can anyone recommend sites which have seasonal pitches and storage onsite.

I'm hoping to find one where I can store and then have it pulled out onto a pitch where we can visit anytime in the season. (Paying annual cost)

Within 2 /2,5 hr drive of London. E.g. Dorset, Sussex 

I've tried searching but haven't found anything, I'm fairly new to caravanning so am looking for some guidance on what to search for. Are they called seasonal pitches?

IanH

I've seen that done in a slightly different way on a couple of sites - 

Pentewan Sands in Cornwall and

Woolacombe Sands in Devon.

A bit beyond the range that you gave, but I'm sure there will be others that offer this. They position the caravan on a pitch before you arrive and take it away after you leave.

Quite a good arrangement if you like the site and have problems with towing / storage. I believe they charge an annual rate for storage and then charge maybe £10 - £20 for moving the caravan. The site fees are as with anywhere else - you simply pay for a pitch for the time you are there..

Heethers

Shouldn't really tell you this but the caravan and camping club offer this service on some of their sites, l know for fact that Scarborough do so should be some near London

holmesonwheels24

Hello, if you contact the camc ( caravan club ) they have an information leaflet regarding seasonal and storage sites. Some are all year sites others offer storage when the site is open.The site at Battle near Hastings has seasonal and storage the same at Black Horse farm near Folkestone ,the camping and caravan club have a site at Crowborough that do seasonal and storage during the season . I have no idea if any of the sites listed have any availability at present .

brue

You could also look on ukcampsite, they have lists of all types of sites. Look for seasonal and storage sites as some do both.

Dickdastardly1

Modbury club site has seasonal pitches available until October, there is no storage facility, however, once pitched on grass, your caravan stays on that pitch until the specified end date. Maybe be a bit to far but it is a lovely site and the road infra structure is great.

holmesonwheels24

So were any of the suggestions any good ? 

granttillyer

Yes thanks all. I think I will need to just go round to a few sites and see what they are like.

ValDa

Just to throw in a 'curved ball', (and a bit tongue in cheek) we store our caravan on a site within a couple of hours of London, BUT you'd have to fly there because it's in France.  It costs us just 180 euros a year, plus a nightly fee for whatever nights we spend on site.  This month we paid 16 euros per night including electricity for the nights we spent there.  In high season it's approximately twice that.

There are Ryanair flights from London Luton and London Stansted - and even in August you can fly out for £19.99 each way on some flights (I've just checked).  The site has a bar and restaurant, a heated pool, heated sanitary blocks in low season, access to a river for canoeing/messing about it, and good size shady pitches.

The caravan is stored in a secure compound next to the campsite, and we simply ring up (they speak English) and they tow it to a pitch of our choice (from whatever is available - not always the same pitch) and put it in position on the pitch, so when we arrive we simply wind down the legs, and hook-up (they would do that for us if required).  

The site is in a lovely area for tourists - the Ardeche region of southern France.  OK, on top of flight costs, you'd need to hire a car, and you probably wouldn't pop over there every week, but I thought it might give you food for thought!!