Deliberately arriving early
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yes agree, I'll be doing the same in a few weeks.
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nice chap, any name?
remember Terry Scott in the Gnomes of Dulwich?
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A few points have been missed though, like the pitch won't have been paid for on the day and arriving the next day will put him in line for a 12 or 1 arrival.
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I see from the 'other forum' the OP is a fair weather camper:
I think the benefit to us will be the cancellations protocols.
It's not unusual for us to go somewhere different to plan due mainly to the weather
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what? I don't understand your last sentence, what practice?
Did you read my post in full David before jumping in?
I'l try and explain in simple terms. You have 100 pitches, 100 taken and paid for, that is 100% occupancy rate. Now 5 of those pitches, or outfits rather, go home early at say 5pm to 6pm - no refund.
Those pitches are resold to passing trade, usually I was told to foreign motor homes which have the 'abhorrent practice' of not booking, that means 105 pitches paid for out of 100, get it now?
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indeed. Then just scooter off somewhere else
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Dicey......😜
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Some folks don’t half complicate simple things. All for the sake of a couple of hours. I’d be more miffed at the shift changes. Classic case for using a friendly CL.
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indeed
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I suspect that not every member who books a seasonal pitch turns up on the first day of "season" to claim it, and also that a fair number of the occupiers of seasonal pitches take their caravans off site to go somewhere else for a few days. As they will have a barrier key/code/tab they will be able to come and go, with or without caravan, at any time of day or night and day they like.
So, perhaps booking a seasonal pitch will fulfil the OP's requirements.
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and you do?
at least the post rang a bell with you.....or is it a buzzer, I can never remember....
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Speaking for myself, I’d not doubt what a warden says. He’s the man/woman best placed to know.
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It must be too early in the day for me. Justification? Nope, don’t follow that at all.
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Morning
It does actually Ad, in my experience working coastal sites. EG, last July / August we had at least 20 European vans turn up on spec every day.
JK
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well there you go David, that is three posters who say it does happen including a current warden who said it happened every day in peak, and don't forgot the site I was talking about was the York city center site. Were you Ok with the maths btw?
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wow 20 vans per day! more than I would have thought. Thanks for the post
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indeed, especially in Scotland and the Edinburgh site had quite a few last Easter, and I've seen many in the Cotswolds too.
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So, to take a point from another thread, some at least of The Club's sites ARE in the "right place".
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Back when the children came with us for our Caravan Holidays in Cornwall, I used to drive all night and arrive in the vicinity of the site by dawn.....about 6.00am. Park up in an empty carpark and have a snooze.
Then by 10.00 or 11.00 drive to the site, by then a few will have left site and we would be allowed on to start our 2 weeks holiday (this was long before the 12.00 or 1.00 entry times). Very differant today of course.
But better ? Only perhaps with a LNA .
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