Pitch Anomalies

nelliethehooker
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edited March 2019 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

Could someone please explain why the CC's Buxton site has a total of 118 pitches and of those 134 are Hard Standing!!wink

Taken for the club's web site:- Total pitches:118 (134 hardstanding)

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  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2019 #2

    That'll be the extra pitches they’ve conjured up to create nighthalts😉

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited March 2019 #3

    Duplicate post Deleted User. Yes, they still happen.🙄

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #4

    I know I've just had the same problem in General Chat.yell

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2019 #5

    Presumably an error. Not unusual unfortunately.☹️ The site plan shows 118 hardstanding pitches. Although the numbers go to 127, several are missing and there are 5 grass tent pitches. Seems odd they didn't number them sequentially when they refurbished the site and created several new pitches. The site page also shows 0 for tent pitches, despite them  being on the plan and that a book a tent pitch button is available.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2019 #6

    yes, I've found a few errors too,and on the site plans as well

  • EmilysDad
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    edited March 2019 #7

    I thought the club was always right ... 🤔

  • JVB66
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    edited March 2019 #8

    I think it is like a lot of things ,it proves by noting the incorrect information that the information is being readwink

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2019 #9

    did you? Good for you MM, good to have people like you who support the club no matter what

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2019 #10

    Nothing surprises me. Attention to documentation detail and proof reading of a lot of articles, information etc..... is definitely in the one star league with this Club. I can recall CL owners having incorrect location shown on map, along with lots of other first class bloopers. It’s up there with most newspapers in terms of its geographical knowledge of this country.........😂

  • Oneputt
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    edited March 2019 #11

    Perhaps they are stealth overnight pitches cos the clubs been following the ‘what did the club ever do for MH’ threadsurprisedwink

  • EmilysDad
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    edited March 2019 #12

    Oh! The irony .... 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited March 2019 #13

    it was more sarcasm actually, I thought irony would be lost on yousmile

    I have posted many times about the poor wifi, the numerous errors on site plans and the website, also the 'from price' and agreed with genuine (not made up ones on unknown sites) complaints.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2019 #14

    Funnily enough we stayed on one of the "Ghost" pitches last year. Number 121¾. Still had to pay full price though.

  • SteveL
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    edited March 2019 #15

    Did you have to reverse quickly towards it.😂

  • cyberyacht
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    edited March 2019 #16

    You'll be telling me next that Club sites have a quidditch field.

  • Wherenext
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    edited March 2019 #17

    There was a Mr.Potter on the next pitch. He made a great job of reversing. He was a wiz.

  • ATDel
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    edited March 2019 #18

    Not any more, they have been magiced into short term overnight stays just to please the few Motorhomes who don’t want to pay full price! 😉

  • JollyKernow
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    edited March 2019 #19

    Steady on Kev, head teach will be on soon and put you in the naughty cornerwinkyell

    JK

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #20

    It just gets better, or should I say worse. Have just been looking on line at the Clachan site and it states there are 32 touring pitches for caravans and M/Hs, with no tents or pods, then it shows under Total Pitches 42 (22 hardstanding). I know my maths are not that good but even I know that these figures don't tally.

  • brue
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    edited March 2019 #21

    Just had a thought Nellie, reading your post about Clachan and looking at the site plan. I would think the ten seasonal pitches reduce the 42 available down to 32 touring?

  • brue
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    edited March 2019 #22

    Using a process of elimination I get Buxton to equal 127 pitches, minus 5 grass and 22 seasonal which should leave 100 touring hardstandings.

    And that is the end of my Inspector Clouseau demonstration. laughing

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #23

    You could well be right brue, but why don't they (HO) list them on the web site. 

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #24

    That certainly doesn't tie in with what's printed on the web site.

  • brue
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    edited March 2019 #25

    CAMC "write" in mysterious ways Nellie. wink

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2019 #26

    Isn't the case that seasonal pitches are reviewed annually and would be increased or reduced in numbers depending on booking demand. The higher the demand the lower the number of seasonals. The important figure is the number of pitches shown on the site plan. Errors will creep in and I think the best thing would be to just email the Club to point out where the error exits which I am sure they would be grateful for. At the end of the day providing you get the pitch you booked that is really all that matters?

    David

  • brue
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    edited March 2019 #27

    My error by the way at Buxton the 22 pitches are serviced not seasonal and grass ones are for tents. But that points to all hardstandings for touring pitches whether the numbers are right or wrong?

     

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #28

    You can say that again. Have just looked at a CL in Fife and for places of interest nearby two of them are given Welsh addresses :-

    RSPB Loch Leven Centre, Vane Farm Reserve, Powys, Wales,

    Mud Mayhem -Perth, Glenfarg, Powys, Wales,

    There was another Scottish CL in Perth & Kinross had the nearest port as  "Folkstone (Eurotunnel) (30 miles)"

    Doesn't anyone at HO check what it is that they enter on the website, or is it that their geography is just truly awful!!

    I don't doubt that there are many more glaring mistakes, but I just don't have the time to search them all out.

  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited March 2019 #29

    I suppose you could use the same excuse as the reason that they don't enter the actual number/type of pitches in the Site Directory. But how often do the actual number/type of pitches change on the club's sites over a 2 year period, very few I would guess, and this could well be noted in the site update either in the magazine/web site or the interim supplement, surely.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited March 2019 #30

    I was always fascinated by “nearest Club Site”. Seem to recall one year closest to Minehead was one of the Welsh Sites, possibly on Gower. Fine if you were a crow, otherwise it was one heck of a drive over River Severn!😂😂😂

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited March 2019 #31

    Nellie

    At the end of the day it is a minor error which is best dealt with by contacting the Club directly. It has no bearing on whether someone gets a pitch on that site or not which I imagine is the most important thing. I was basing my previous comment on seasonal pitches on previous information which has since been corrected so it is very easy for such things to happen? Has this site not had a recent update? If so perhaps they have done something to the site to reduce the overall number of pitches, perhaps creating more serviced pitches? I just don't see that this requires a discussion on Club Together!

    David

     

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