Surprising Late Availability
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Not sure yet M.
We bravely and sadly had to let our little dog go very recently. ☹
Short illness, thankfully.
She was the reason we started with the caravan, Michelle has allergies to cats and dogs, but not with our little one.
So we now find ourselves with the option of going back to holiday cottages, pet free.
Still too early to say, but thanks for the advice re the other club.🙂
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Evening
So, sounds like you were berated for letting your dog foul the arrival area. The biggest form of complaint on club sites is dogs and fouling and around half of them are about new arrivals "letting the dog stretch it's legs". I guess those commercial sites have some sort of anti dog pee smell type of plants or air fresheners in place then?
JK
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You're right there PD, hanging off the cliff me!
JK
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I hope the attitude of the ccc Sandringham staff changes if you join and go later this or next year, before your award winning?oh books you in
Ps we have visited the cc site three times so far this year ,two more to go,and they have been nothing but friendly and help full even when as noted on one occasion confronted by an obnoxious member having a go about some thing that was self inflicted
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Not far from the new bridge, I guess.😉
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But seriously, do give the other club a go -
I did and they are no better nor worse than this one.
The main benefit being the provision of sites in slightly different or more convenient areas.
But ,of course, it means two lots of annual subs.
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I was just responding to another poster who said they were considering joining, R. And I did say "every bit as good as" which is pretty much the same as you're saying!
And of course, for us anyway, the age discount is an added advantage.
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Have you seriously replied like this?
It seems you want me to reply?
Is this correct?
You wont like it.
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To help you out britdaz
- Yes
- Your choice
- No idea
- As long as it complies with CT guidelines it will be fine.
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4. It might give us a good laugh. 🤣
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It would!
Corners I'm 54 next week, I hate the daz, I'm too old now.
If it helps I'll have a look when I'm home from work changing my name to Britters, quite like that.
Can either of you see in my post anything that qualifies that reply?
inaccurate
Presumptions
Sarcastic
Projecting.
A 500 word reply shot into my head as soon as I read that, vintage style.
Kinda proves my point
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Yeah, impressive structure TW, money well spent imho. Should open on Sunday if the weather gives way. Only here for a short season this year, ready for pastures new
We're at the start of a good battering, just been out on a site walk (21.30) and luckily people have taken advice and taken awnings down. It's gusting at 45 mph now and due to increase to 65 by Saturday pm. Lots of folk left today rather than tow in the wind so we have around twenty spaces for the hardy campers among us. Thing is we have three hardy campers here in tents, they've been here two weeks, are well prepared and put us lightweight caravanners to shame. Funny when you get tenters taking the mick out of caravanners for leaving due to the weather eh?
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Today’s breed of vanners are mostly amateurs JK, first touch of “Cornish foul” and zip....they’re gone! We’ve done three/four weeks at a time in a tent, we used to use back of Land Rover with canvas tilt on as our camp kitchen and dining table! Fine as long as you got wind direction sorted..... shame we aren’t closer as would love to see new bridge. It was closed last time we were down in October of last year. It’s a touch damp still up here on Dartmoor, but the rain is coming straight down, so not that bad🤣🤣🤣
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You’ll have the first batterings up there. We’re more sheltered on the S Coast but have had rain and increasing winds this PM. Had the lights on by 7pm as it was so dark.
Take care, all up there.
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The quoted post seems to be hidden at times. Very odd.
That's better. It’s now appeared. Not that there’s anything I want to say in reply.
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You know looking on other forums, the C&CC is hardly mentioned by posters.
I think everyone would agree location is everything, perhaps that's another CMC issue with what the OP states.
The CMC long time members dont mind returning, plenty of posts to indicate that. The up and coming members, be scared, thats me, just dont see some/most of the CMC locations as desirable!
In my total membership years, I honestly and I genuinely dont have a CMC site that I hold dear.
Suggestions welcome.
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I suggest you use sites/companies that are desirable to your ,what seems unusually blinkered outlook , as to what the type of site you want to stay on as it seems the growing membership of both main clubs are quite capable of finding the large variety of sites they have,very agreable ,with the amount of all types (single,couples,and families)that use the network and do return visits to numerous sites/areas
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The CMC long time members dont mind returning, plenty of posts to indicate that. The up and coming members, be scared, thats me, just dont see some/most of the CMC locations as desirable!
I don't value the CC for a favourite site. I value it for its standard and its network of sites. We don't go to any site from any provider as a 'destination site'. We choose to have three tours with 5 night stays.
over the last 5 years we have visited 110 sites on tours. 65 of them have been CC sites and, in that period we have not visited the same site twice with two exceptions one of which happened to be a commercial site and the other a CC site. They were where where our chosen route from a previous year's tour crossed the path of another a few years earlier. All the sites that we use are chosen for their location on our tours.
We do however have a site that we do stay on for a lengthier stay, usually 15 nights, and that is for a Winter chillout in December including the Christmas weekend. The site itself is purely for its location and as we are out from 9.30 until 2.30 or 3pm we see little of it.
The reasons for choosing the CC has not changed for me since I joined. I joined for its standards that suit me and its network including its CLs. I have used few CLs in the last 20 years but used many in the previous 18 years. We joined the C&CC club for the last two seasons to also make use of its network. If I looked back over the last 10 years there would be very few sites of any provider that I have visited twice in that period.
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You to ask where these up and coming members are now?
Well some of them are on site now as children having a great time and some may well want to do the same or not.
But where did all these (as I look with my rose colored glasses on this site) youngish parents come from? Maybe like me it was a case of wanting the maximum amount of family holiday time in a year for a set amount of money. Whatever outfit you have it is not cheap but you can either have two weeks abroad or many weeks touring.
Like I have said before this 'where will newer members come from' has been going on for all the time I've been a member, certainly before all these younger parents were actually parents, yet here they are and the club keeps growing.
Maybe this is the (unsubstantiated) downturn but I doubt it.
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I suspect the either/or situation to be finance based for many people, David, rather than due to the amount of annual leave they have.
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Good for you David that you could manage that but I suspect many can't.
I never said they were mutually exclusive but there are also weekends which by the same token you have excluded?
Why you keep bringing in teaching to everything is intriguing though.
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I have the same option at work, the ability for blocs of 3 weeks leave, as does Michelle.
I choose to holiday in the UK, 3 x 1 week holidays and 1 x 2 weeks (summer in Cornwall) spread evenly as possibly over the year.
Upon retirement our plan is European long breaks, if we still caravan, one site 3 months plus, we hope, and continue our walking holidays and National Trust visits for our UK better weather holidays. Fingers crossed it happens.
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Im very interested in the Ops comments and some, the more thought out, responses.
The vast majority of our site visits whilst being caravan owners over the years have been to commercial ones. Quiet ones in the main.
I genuinely find the CMC experience very very different to those sites we are used to. Now I know some may think I'm overly critical but I'm not, I'm just surprised at how different things are when we compare. Even a member of staff has taken my breath away.
Some folk here want that difference, which is fine, whilst at the same time I've met CMC members, a pair only this July as it happens who choose not to go.
There has to be some validity to the OPs observations surely?
Corners do you have a favourite CMC site? I wont comment about it, promise.
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Troutbeck head and Melrose are our joint favourites.
Further afield is Norfolk Broads
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Thank you.
It's a shame Sandringham was run as it was in February, that would have been ours for that time of year.
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"In my total membership years, I honestly and I genuinely dont have a CMC site that I hold dear.
Suggestions welcome."
You should come down and try Cirencester Park out of high season. Great choice of HS or grass pitches, excellent facilities and great walking direct from the site, either up through the park to Sapperton and beyond or through the town on the Monarch's Way riverside up to North Cerney (good pubs in both locations). Or a stroll into town with all its shops and history on offer. Or just a short drive away to any of the Cotswold attractions. And the best thing for us is that it's only a 40 minutes tow from home. So when Mrs M's hectic social schedule gets too much I just hitch up and head there for a few days respite!
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Thanks M.
Upside, if I can compile a list for next years hols, I may rejoin.
Downside, I'll still be on here! 🤭🛵👍
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Club Sites for us are far nicer in the early/late season. We don’t particularly enjoy big sites, either Club or commercial. We like to be one of a half dozen or so on a site (not good news for the Club, admittedly). Yellowcraig and Bolton Abbey are bliss when like this, wonderful locations both of them. We’ve contrived to be the last off Garlieston one Autumn, and next to last off Notgrove last Autumn. They take on a whole different charm, with the wildlife much bolder and more obvious, and the whole place a lot more peaceful.
Aside from the obvious hard work and time constraints re-opening a site for the season, I bet Wardens enjoy the brief period of being alone on sites, barring contractors of course.
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but age discount on the other club is help full and even more discounts this year in the peak time
