Arrival times
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I think the following is closer to the CAMC position.
How many Strict Baptists does it take to change a light bulb?
Change? Change!
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...but, correct me if I am wrong, I thought ET was saying that early van are allowed ON SITE not just parking in a convenient area...
these site have a much earlier, proper, arrival time.
my point was, why just these....? nothing to do with waiting places as the vans don't wait....they are admitted.....just at a much earlier time.
if these sites can do it, why not others?
do they also have an earlier departure time?...is there ever an overlap?
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It says in the site info earliest arrival time 9:00. Perhaps given the large arrivals area, easy turning and convienient parking nearby, they are prepared to take the risk of not having a pitch immediately available and having to have somebody waiting. After all you would have arrived, just not onto your pitch. Perhaps they find the incidence of this is low enough not to generally be an issue. You would have to ask the site.
What I do know having visited it several times, is the large arrivals area and ease of turning, plus the abundance of nearby parking. One, or all of these are often rare commodities at other sites we visit. Perhaps the reason not many have the facility.
Depature time by the way is by 12:00, unless you have been granted an extension.
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Well I'm truly sorry that you think I was "point scoring" David and I think that last sentence of yours might just be a little point scoring of your own! My posts to you have been a continued but obviously vain attempt to explain that I was asking solely about UK Sites and pointing out that the problems raised by the OP were pretty much UK wide and not uniquely club site problems. I assume, because you rarely use UK Sites, you felt unable to understand that point and so diverted the discussion to "over there".
So enjoy your touring wherever it takes place, but maybe accept that some of us are discussing what happens "over here" at the present time.
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There seems to be a definite lack of gravel.
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I think that's the third or fourth time you've posted that same picture, et, and it does indeed look idyllic. But It might give those of us who choose not to tour abroad a better impression of things if you'd used pictures of different sites each time.
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Just interested but why do some people choose not to tour abroad, is it the fear of driving on the right or just xenophobia. It can't be the distances involved as some on here seem to drive very long distances to the opposite ends of the country.
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When we were younger (and campers!) We toured Europe quite a bit, albeit only towing a little trailer.
Nowadays, we choose to tour Europe more comfortably, using hotels and either hiring a car or joining an organised tour.
I'm quite relaxed about folk choosing to tour extensively in Europe - just don't appreciate the oft given impression, possibly unintended, that those who do are somehow superior to those of us who choose to do our van touring in the UK.
Anyway, that's something probadly better discussed on a separate thread, n'est ce pas?
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As Steve said, Edinburgh has a large entrance area and the road outside is ok to queue on if necessary. The turnover on the site is probably quite large and, with a lot of non local visitors, people are often leaving earlier as they have a longer journey ahead.
Coniston also has a very large arrival area, even larger than Edinburgh, but a poor road outside, so you could not queue on the road, though with the space inside I would think it a problem that would never arise.
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But the staff have to be manning reception continuously from 9.00am perhaps to admit units, so do they employ extra staff to fulfill the duties required to run the site if reception is manned (or womanned if that is a word
)?... and if so, cannot this be done at more sites that have a larger turnover!
I'm not bothered either way, but would like to know why there is a variance.
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Touring with our dogs is the main reason we don't tour abroad. Not bothered about taking them, where we would choose to go would be too hot, (they overheat sometimes in Cornwall), we wouldn't take them on ferries either. So we are happy touring here, but will eventually either fly drive, cruise or do some train based tours, not just in Europe either.
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well for me
no - I actually have an Italian driving license
no - I even talk and chat to people from Scotland
For me 'over there' has to mean sun and lots of it and maybe because of the heat doing very little, it is a different way of holidaying from over here, usually sitting by a pool with an (all inclusive) pool bar. If we want to see a city or area it's usually done in cooler months from a hotel.
Either way I see no fun or advantage in driving two three days to get all that. I like to take a plane, sit read eat in more comfort than a car (either driving or as a passenger) and do it in the shortest time possible.
Travelling to places by driving abroad is lost time to me personally. I know there are people who think the journey is part of the holiday and that’s great for them, but it’s not for me and one motorway looks pretty much like another to me whatever the country.
But perhaps you have missed out another possible reason – cost?
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I have started another thread in Caravan and motorhome chat as suggested.
We also take foreign holidays by plane to exotic locations etc but these are typically of a 10 -20 day duration. We wouldn't want to spend 6 - 8 wks in a hotel, nor could we justify the costs, so I don't believe it is one or the other. Caravanning in the UK is nice but visiting previous destinations over and over again is not as exciting ( to us) as exploring a totally different area.
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Xenophobia could be the reason.
For years we used to cross to Europe from Scotland with the Motorhome. We really enjoyed discovering new places of interest, meeting locals and visitors from different countries and enjoying their company. --- I have yet to see any examples of the "Little Englander" attitude over there among caravanners or Motorhomers . ---Only time we ever saw examples of that attitude, was when UK Bus tours arrived at and disgorged their passengers at places of interest.
K
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Err, K, did you not see that Swifty has started another thread on this subject? It must be something else you've missed.
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Of course, people who don't live their all lives posting on forums, will not have time to read every bit of postings as they happen. For all those people like myself, who pop on for a couple of minutes occasionally just to see if there's anything interesting and mostly find nothing of interest so get on with our lives it's not a problem.
Others obviously spend all their waking hours on forums -- So will be aware of every post made and enjoy showing how much of their life they fritter away on forums.
K
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You crack me up, K. It was stated a mere two posts ahead of yours.
Pop in for a couple of minutes occasionally? That’s a hoot.
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Spare a thought for poor old, K, Tinny. He's probably still reeling from the shock of having been wrong about something yesterday!
And as only an occasional user of the forum, he may not realise that clicking on his avatar and looking at his profile shows just how much he packs in to those couple of minutes every now and again!
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I guess we should feel sorry for him, M.
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thanks to M I see that when you mean you pop on for a couple of minutes occasionally you mean that you personally pop on occasionally each hour! Five times between 2 and 3 pm today, or even six times in 62 minutes.
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