Proportion of Serviced v Standard Pitches
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Sweat?
.....drive onto pitch, handbrake on, turn off engine....
No sweat involved BB, as I had the cab air con on, OH was outside. 😀 However, it was not quite so straight forward at Incleboro last week. More or less all pitches have a reasonable gradient, so a certain amount of messing with ramps is required. Otherwise one might spill ones G&T.😂
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Curious! Can't actually remember sweating on arrival at any site! Break journey (if a long one) at a CL on the way, arrive, pay, select first suitable looking pitch (drives Mrs M up the wall but I really can't be bothered driving round and round looking for on which night be fractionally better!
), reverse on if room or use mover if not. 15 minutes tops to be sorted and sitting out with suitable refreshment! (Or in, if as at Putts Corner recently it'seems bucketing down!)Who says caravanning is difficult?
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If only it was a simple as you try to make out it is,, and if so then you could make some money adviseing the majority it seems of the motor caravaners who pitch up on sites on how it is possible
Ps in the UK it seems most take as long if not longer to get set up than towed c/vans and on this site it has been great entertainment at times
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So no awning then?
You travel with clothes in the caravan, hardly any? or are you a nudist?🤩😜
15 minutes, we used to do 25 minutes on our weekends away.
So I follow the mantra, heavy car light caravan.
This fortnight's holiday arrival, +4 hours drive, caravan onto nice level pitch, it can be done, this isnt the first time either. Front and back level, locks on, cordless drill the steady's. Handbrake on, movers off.
Faff with electric cable, waste hog and pipes, then my favourite 2 barrels of water, didnt have to walk too far either, master switch on, fridge on, Alde on, prime the water
Next 3 100 litre holdalls from car, 2 have, wait for it, clothes! The third towels, shoes, books, tech, into caravan front.
Full awning next, etc etc.
I set up the interior of the awning, Michelle packs away the holdalls.
About 100 minutes.
A level pitch please, not too hard is it, after all, arnt the CMC and the CCC in the business of touring sites?
No messing about with ramps wood or mechanical leveller.
I cant believe people put up with wonky pitches, forget asking for more service pitches, get the ones they already have, flat!
Do people get refund/discount for a pitch that requires user intervention to make it usable?
Why you all make excuses, its beyond me.
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We have been members for 50yrs + and apart from the odd couple of mishaps it has never made me break into a sweat when setting up, and only last year have had a motor mover fitted (orders from our sprogs and recommended by our GP)but then as it seems these days there are a lot of LV users who are not really cut out to be able to do anything for themselves, and/or incapable of having any sense of how to be organised ,to make their lives less "complicated"
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We have a sun canopy awning, sometimes use it sometimes not......only if more than a 3 night stay. We rarely stay more than 5 nights. Never felt the need for a full awning.
Everything we need initially is in the van, only outside furniture, Aquaroll, and awning go in the car, van has a large payload.
Most pitches we do find are level if a HS, a plank may be needed on CLs.
Locks go on when I feel like it, and awning will go up after lunch, and maybe a little snooze, we almost always arrive between 12 and 2.
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From what we've seen on many of the sites that appear to have level pitches is for M/H to require ramps to level their units because they are naturally nose down. Then it's back, forward, oops run off the end, back again and repeat process till finally level. Then they've realised that they've forgotten to fill up with water so the whole process has to be repeated after they've visited the water point, or it's a matter of half a dozen journey by one of the occupants with a large watering can.
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Arrive, select pitch, ( M, I choose pitch Mr TG follows until signal given
) reverse on, check level, if not use small yellow ramp, break on.Wind legs down, plug in ehu. Kettle on within 5 minutes.
No awning, no ground sheet, if under 3 nights no water barrel, no waste container (small bucket) no wheel lock or hitch lock when abroad ( they would split their sides laughing)
Chairs and small table out, sit down watch others
Clothes travel in the van, as does bedding, towels and shoes. Heavy items in the car.
To be honest I don't think it takes us any longer to set up the car/caravan as it did the MH and on some pitches it takes less time as levelling a caravan on an uneven pitch is much easier.
We share all jobs, we just go into autopilot without even talking about it.
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BTW NTH we have an onboard tank in our caravan but dont need to run about with watering cans as I pump the contents of a wheeled water carrier in about every other day
AD, I was talking about M/Hs who invariably don't carry an aquaroll or such like. I appreciate that a few do and use them to fill their onboard tanks that way, but the vast majority do not appear to do so.
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There’s a simple answer to that, Nellie. Just park the other way around so the nose is at the higher end of the pitch.👍🏻
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Steve, just responding to this from earlier...
"Who wants sweaty half hour after a long journey".......
i know it's no sweat for you
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no caravan as we have a MH...
no movers required on MHs...
no kids with us as they're all grown up long ago...
no dog as he died twelve years ago...
no awning as we don't need one, if its sunny we sit outside, if its wet we sit inside the van....
all our gears (bikes, tables, chairs etc) stores in the garage so don't need one for that either..
boring, possibly, simple and no clutter, certainly....
helps with a 'no sweat' set up
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Hang on, HANG ON, I mean just hang ON.
Which side would your habitation door be on?
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well, we manage to set up in 5 mins or so.....why wouldn't we as all we do is park on a pitch with no awning etc to sort out?
i don't need to turn the gas on to have a drink, but if you want to add ten seconds, feel free....
we usually travel with water so don't need that....anything else you can think of (as you obviously know our van/routine better than I do
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you're obviously curtain twitching the wrong vans, Nellie
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But they would then be looking into the wall/fence/hedge etc. and loose the view that they so desperately wanted when choosing that particular pitch.
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agree with TG, it's just as easy in a caravan as it is a MH if clothes, water etc is at the ready..
its awnings, barrels, drills, etc that take up the time...although I agree with AD that there's no hurry.....its just a plain fact that it takes no time for us to set up....remember, we spend half of our set ups on places that aren't sites, so we are used to not having loads of kit to organise...
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Depends which end they sit, I suppose. 🤣
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usually the sunny side (irrespective of others' position)....but taking into account the slope as TW says...
why, does it bother you?
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Hang on, yourself.
It makes no difference at all.👍🏻 Perhaps you're not up to date with pitching regs🤣
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As this thread it seems is a UK "problem?" And EHU is normally part of your pitch cost you will (your words in other post)be connected, after you have ensured your vehicle is level,and on a big percentage of UK sites will need some assistance,then of course one of you would already have "advised" the cc office of what pitch you have "landed"on
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Not so. The number of sites/pitches needing levelling wedges is very much in the minority. On our month away staying on 14 different pitches, we needed a ramp only once. On the fast majority of pitches it only needs the ability to read the ground and perhaps a shuffle of a few inches to achieve a level state.
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