Last minute escapes
Wherever you are, or wherever you want to go, we have some great sites still with availability, ideal for a last minute getaway, including:
Coniston Park Coppice Bourton-on-the-Water Looe Trewethett Farm Ferry Meadows Grafham Water Clumber Park Durham Grange High Onn Brora Dunnet Bay Battle Normanhurst Court Fairlight Wood Ilminster Cae Mawr Bolton Abbey Shawsmead
So whether you want to go walking or cycling, enjoy lakes or the sea, visit castles or climb mountains, or just simply relax, don't forget to check our Late Availability on the Club's website and read our Site reviews for ideas and inspiration.
I will be keeping you regularly updated on late availability for the remainder of the summer season so check back on this discussion if you ever want a last minute escape.
Finally, don't forget to also check our CL Site late availability discussion. 
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Rowena.....many of us do not do last minute.....we need to plan ahead.
Even we retired people have commitments......grandchildren, voluntary work, children on holiday meaning we need to look after their houses.
I don't know about anyone else, but we plan ahead and do not do "last minute"
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We don't do last minute either. Although there are advantages. We booked ahead for Bridlington in October and the club decided to close the site.☹️
Also just hiding the duplicate thread has done nothing. Depending how you try and go into it, you end up in the hidden thread. What the club need to do is sort the problem. It has only been going on for months. However, breweries and a few other phrases come to mind.😱
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To be honest Ro, I have had two other last minute bookings in the last 10 years. On both occasions we decided not to come home, on each occasion the site we would have chosen to extend were showing full and checked later to find space, left site we were on early and had 5 nights before going home.
I would not think of looking at this thread however if I wanted a last minute as I would simply check website
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One may wonder why there are pitches available for last minute breaks........
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...yes, i wondered why CC has to promote pitch sales when sites are 'always full'....
i seem to be different to most of the other posters so far in that we dont do planning......other than to note we 'really must' get 'away' (properly)....not long now.....
we are off to Crealy on Monday, with GD, for 5 days....did book this a few weeks back (as daughter off on excessively long Spanish hen trip
) but, other than this, weve been away every other week recently but without any idea where we will be going....its been quite refreshing actually0 -
One may wonder why there are pitches available for last minute breaks.....
Price!!
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I don't wonder at all. When I have had things that would have stopped me travelling on 4 occasions in the past two years I have not been about to go on holiday. If I had I would have had to cancel. I have however cancelled an arrival to a site 7 times in 5 years.
1. F in L taken into hospital and cancelled a week break. WE had not gone on our usual April May tour because of his health problem but as he seemed to be recovering booked a week away only to have to cancel a day prior.
2. Cancelled a day or two of bookings on next site to stay on the site that we were on due to car problem.
3. On at least 3 occasions left a site early due to deciding to stay longer on another site or add another site to our holiday.
4. Left a site a day early as heavy storms for a few days were forecast and our next stop was home
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Oh, really? Fancy that!
See posts elsewhere
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Have you no structure to your life BB?
Jesting aside......you lot down south have way more opportunities than we up here, Even if not using Club sites, which are few and far between up here, you have way more choice of places to visit on a whim than we do.
Plus you are much nearer "over there"
Summer for us is time to tend the house and garden, the rest of the year we use for travel, allowing some time for family too.
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I beg to differ. We are close to the tail end of the country whereas you 'lot', Kj, can travel several hundred miles in at least two directions.
I have no desire to visit 'over there' but, if I did, it would hardly serve as a break of a few days.
I think you forget what is in your own back yard.
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I agree with you KJ, the only reason I would like to live down South is the greater choice and the weather of course.
Scotland is lovely Tinwheeler but it does suffer from terrible weather at times. When you live up here your back yard is the last place you want to spend your holiday
We do go away on short notice at times but not in July/August when sites are expensive and full of families. We prefer quieter less expensive sites.
So like KJ we catch up with jobs around the house and garden then go away for a couple of months at the end of August safe in the knowledge that everything is ok at home.
Off across the water very soon and can't wait, open spaces, quieter roads, even quieter sites and cheaper too.
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I've a fair bit of experience of your weather, TG, although not much in winter, but that doesn't alter the fact that you have easy access to many more miles of the UK than we have down here.
We don't go away at peak time either, mainly because our area is jam packed with tourists, thus restricting even further the choices we have.
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How do you work that out, easy access to many more miles of the UK than we have down here.
Surely the roads run both ways
the way we think is that for us to travel down to the South of England we are just as well going over the water, we do sometimes stop off on our journey North again weather permitting. Winter up here is not the season that frustrates me, its the supposed Summer that is depressing. When all the news and weather channels keep going on about how hot and sunny it is, how great a spring/summer we are having. What they really mean is 'its lovely here innit' not oh! I see Scotland have rain again.
Anyway we digress from the OP so apologies.
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TW.......when you have seen all of Scotland, which we pretty much have in the last 30+ years, then the only way is south!
Like us, you are a bit out on a limb. I thInk we can agree that the lucky people in holiday terms are those who live more centrally in UK, and also those who have easy access to he rest of Europe.
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Ha, nice one Kjell....
.....actually far more structure this past year as we have been babysitting one day a week since daughter has gone back to work and GD (now a year old, doesnt time fly?) has been able to go to nursery.....
daughter now doing 3 days a week and GD is with us overnight and through the day one day a week and at nursery the other two, so we are 'structured'.....
also have son at home following split with partner and having to give up fab apartment in Clifton......
however, his new build is complete and 'should' move in end of next week.....
so, more of our time (since 9 weeks in Spain in tne Spring) has been spent in the UK this year but it hasnt stopped us going away every other week or so, usually for 5 days at a time.
what we dont do (its a personal thing) is plan in advance where we want those trips to be.
we are far more comfortable, looking out of the window (to decide if we will bother at all) and, if we are, having a chat about locations etc.
with the CCC THS system there is no booking or commitment and this has been a great way of getting away as there is an extensive diary of these events.
yes, we are going to France (and possbly Italy at the end of this month but, of course, apart from a week's Owners Club meet in the Dordogne, we dont know where we will be visiting, nothing booked
) so other arrangements will have to be made.....so, structured?.....to a degree, yes.....but not in the way that means sitting at a computer in December.....
and as im not one that agrees with cancelling booked trips, i wont book that far in advance (other spontaneous events will always get in the way....) ....anyway, i prefer the spontenaiety of deciding a day or so before, where we are going.
no doubt, this will horrify the Frenzy Day contingent......
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How do I work that out? Easy - look at a map. You can go north and south as well as crossing Scotland. We cannot go south. Ergo, you have much more country to choose from. We are talking geography, not weather.
The same applies to Kjell, the area exists whether or not you've been there before. If you lived 50 miles from John O'Groats you would appreciate my meaning but you both live many, many miles south of there so have much beautiful country to enjoy in more than one direction.
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I like the idea of just dropping everything and going. The only real structure we have (now retired) is when we book our foreign hols - either by plane or with the van. Otherwise we do as we please and can get off at a day or twos notice. After all, everything we need except clothes is already in the van. Its usually a case of raid the wardrobe, raid the fridge and off!
Yes, Scotland...tried several times and it is truly beautiful in places but the weather and the damned wee beasties spoil the place.
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I don't consider it a trek and I'm not complaining. The journey is part of the holiday in my view.
I'm merely striving to explain to Kjell and TG that they have a greater area to choose from that those of us living in the SW. Whether they want to go there is another matter entirely.
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and as im not one that agrees with cancelling booked trips, i wont book that far in advance (other spontaneous events will always get in the way....) ....anyway, i prefer the spontenaiety of deciding a day or so before, where we are going.
no doubt, this will horrify the Frenzy Day contingent......
Not sure why BB, what ever makes one happy. We prefer to plan ahead. Just as well really as if we all decided we wanted to go for these THS's at the last minute, you might struggle to get in.☹️
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no doubt, this will horrify the Frenzy Day contingent......
I only do 'fenzy day' as it is convenient. Whether I started booking in December or ens of Feb would normally make little difference. I would however book for the year.
The only time that might differ is if going away over a late Easter as I have no great idea as to how popular a site is. Made a point of booking Cadeside first on a trip a couple of years ago. That was simply because only 17 pitches and a storage area.
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Our last minute escapes usually involve ringing a few pubs on the search for sites web site and arranging a few stopovers. Cheaper than the club sites all you have to do is have a couple of drinks or a meal which we would be doing any way. Had some great times
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