Arrival Times
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The big difference with all of this is that with a commercial site (every one that I have been to) you can pre book a Hardstanding or grass pitch, whichever suits you....
Many (most?) will also let you pre book either the actual pitch you want or at least pick from a general pitching area....
I suspect that the wish to arrive super early at a club site is driven by the desire to get a "good" pitch.....
So allow the prebooking of pitch types (or even pitches) and the problem of early arrivals will probably disappear.....
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You ask about commercial sites.
Friends are at Polmanter, St Ives at the moment. They drove down to Cornwall after work and pulled into the site holding area about 1 a.m and went to sleep. By 8 am. when others had left the site a member of staff came to the holding area to say Come on in, there's a pitch ready for you. That's common practice here in Cornwall, many other sites do that - and I believe the Club site at Treamble Valley does too.
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But if that's remotely correct then the club can let those of us who wish to choose a H/S pitch do so and give the ropey old grass pitches away to the likes of you cheaply....
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I think that must be the site we use around 7 years ago. Long access road and outfits pulled up on the side of it.
Not many hard standings and grass area approaches looking like a tank training ground. Warden was pitching caravans. We selected a pitch that few wanted as no TV reception and ground saturated but not cut up. Having a 4x4 warden was happy for me to pitch myself. 25m EHU would not reach bollard and borrowed one off the warden to extend.
Swore never to visit again. Maybe more hard stands now?
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nail, head, TT
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If a site has a holding area, as in those mentioned, then clearly the system can work. However, I would suggest that would apply to relatively few club sites. As already mentioned a few club sites already operate it. So if it could be introduced without extra costs, such as more wardens, I am sure they would introduce at others if practical to do so.
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I have arrived at 09:30 once because I had to attend a meeting (I was using the MH as a base). I simply rang the site and asked if they would mind, they replied that as they weren't busy it was fine and were expecting me when I got there.
A quick polite phone call often works wonders I find.
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Many (most?) will also let you pre book either the actual pitch you want or at least pick from a general pitching area....
At a price.. i.e. Sandy Balls allow you do to but there is a charge of £5 or £10. I am sure many others do as well bu there will be some that do not.
At one site in France we had to be off the pitch by 10:00 but they did provide a parking area so you could use the facilities and beach until 6.
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Michael.....not the 'F' word
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Why is it that some cannot and will not abide by a simple rule? It's all down to the sellfish attitudes running right throughout this Country, it's all about me, me, me and me again. There are numerous occasions when we have been on a CC site to witness outfits turning up before reception has even opened. There are two ways to prevent this. Do not let them in (no excuses) until 12 or 1pm. Once this rule is enforced, and people are made to wait, which they should be, word will quickly get around. You cannot get into a hotel room or static caravan until the time specified, so why should you expect to on a CC site. Secondly, if people are still turning up before the specified time, just in case the "friendly" warden will let them in, then charge them a full night's fee, and I don't just mean the pitch fee, but the full fee. Only when it starts to hit them in the pocket, will they change their sellfish ways.
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It is because they are selfish and thick,I am with you and they should be told to clear off until the allotted time, it will be the same people who drag their feet on leaving, why this so called club tolerates such behaviour is beyond me, I would boot the persistent offenders out.
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interesting approach to (paying) customer service
the thing is, some customers recognise that a blanket rule across the sites network isnt as necessary in places where there are no access issues....on these sites, theres really no problem with letting vacant pitches be taken up by early arrivals if it removes the inevitible bow wave at 12:00.
i realise that some will see this as deliberate 'rule breaking' rather than clever site management and treating your paying customers like, well, customers.
id much rather have one van at a time looking for a spare pitch than five or six....
however, rules is rules so obey we do......
and no, i dont arrive early, i just think its an archaic across the board rule that could be made better, in some places.
...but, as the club thinks its customers have difficulty with understanding the difference between a grass pitch and a hardstanding, they arent going to let us loose on something truly radical like telling the time, if different sites had different arrival rules.
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Yes, I feel the same about the verbally abusive knuckleheads the C&MC allow on their forum, but hey-ho what can you do
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I did not see you as that,hope you steady on.
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the question remains, why do sites like Coniston and Edinburgh (earlier examples upthread) have the sort of early/anytime arrivals that are seen 'elsewhere'?
if these sites dont crumble in such trying circumstances, why should many others.
perhaps the club could tell us what advantages this brings to these sites and any others that are 'early'?
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So we have already got Club Sites with arrival times listed as 9am, 10am.,12 noon, and 1pm. It should be easy enough to change a few of the others, but inertia is a powerful force, and Club members' resistance to change is legendary.
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