Booking pitches
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The deposit was not enough to deter some from booking several sites enroute
How much was this deposit when it was dropped .... when was it dropped? The last time that I personally recall a deposit was 23 years ago but no idea when it was dropped as after that I did not tour with the caravan for a while. Couple of holidays abroad and then nursing my late wife after which I would phone and book and deposit waived as too close to arrival time fo snail mail when booking.
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Not been my experience - see my post up thread.
It would seem as if we all have differing tales to recount. I don't find the problems with the C&CC booking conditions that others find.
We can only reports as we found WTG.
(Minimum booking periods apply only to certain dates, types of pitches and certain sites. It’s not a blanket rule.)
It's a rule that seems to have encouraged many to use CC sites!
Just a query - how will all who dislike the C&CC deposit system react if the new booking system for CAMC sites involves deposits?
No idea. It will not affect my usage. It might alter bookings of some weekenders however.
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I wasn't sure how I felt about paying a deposit, when I joined the C&CC but thought it worth a year to try it out.
To be honest it has worked in my favour on many an occasion, as folk don't seem to make 'speculative' bookings which means I have managed to get into sites at the last minute
We are not in the camp of booking sites months ahead as we tend to avoid weekends, school and bank/public holidays as much as possible.
It matters not to me if I paid a deposit or not I would always phone the site if I had no intention of turning up, just bad manners not to.
Over the years we have been to sites with different approaches of allocating pitches. Some say 'go and find one and tell me later' others give you a map indicating which pitches are available. Recently we went to a site that took me around on a golf buggy showing me the pitches that were available over the time we wanted to stay, only after I had indicated which pitch I would like did they book us into the site. All different approaches as to how 'they' run 'their' sites.
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We rejoined this year and have used sites where we have called on the day to see if there is a pitch available as we only wanted one night and you cannot book one night in holidays and weekends or for a couple of nights where we did book ahead, however the main reason we rejoined was for the THS & local area meets as you can just turn up at these (call ahead normally though) and they offer us what we want (as well as CS sites) more than club sites.
On both sites we were shown to a pitch however at one as it was under a tree we objected as we had just picked up the new MH so did not want leaves and sap all over it, went down like a lead balloon but we did get a different pitch.
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All grass pitches are off the system usually from the end of September or October if that particular site only has grass pitches so over the winter H/S or All Weather pitches are all that's available & as the new season arrives grass pitches don't come back in until May or depending on the ground conditions & Wardens judgement earlier so you will only get a H/S All weather pitch over the winter.
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I don't think it does really, high season accounts for about a quarter of a real year, and far more of a caravan season 'year'? perhaps a third to a half?
Additionally that is when people want to be on site for school holiday and the best weather of course during the summer (hence it being called high season), so saying there is plenty of scope is rather misleading? Plenty of scope if you're retired maybe.
No a very restrictive, and it could be said, greedy practice in my view and not something to be happy about.
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HInfo here, scroll down
Some clever person will hopefully make it a link!
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Looking at the link the High Season is 77 days in England, and 70 in Scotland. So a good bit less than the 1/4 of the year that CS talks about.
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We re-joined C & CC a couple of years ago so that in the UK we could have more choice of pitch providers (CS’s included). IMHO both clubs operate differently in providing main site pitches with the C & CC systems more akin to private/commercial ways of working/running things.
For us location is our main priority & have at times found both Private/Commercial and C & CC sites set number of nights don’t always suit us. Like Tammygirl we have found C & CC sites vacancies more easily available at short notice (but not during school holidays) and also recall a golf buggy ride to view pitches on the SW coast of France.
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Indeed, and for we lucky retired people, we can have Easter in Scotland, and a few days before that in early April in England too, if we wish, without paying peak prices. Then we can go away in June and still get the over 60s discount, and head south to England and Wales for the hopefully nice weather in July before schools are out.
Mid August we can be away again in Scotland, and September in England, with the discount, and with no more peak prices till almost Christmas......not that you would find us away at Christmas!
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Indeed Kj, if you are prepared to do a little homework you can get the best out of the differences in regional holiday's with the C&CC
We did just that last year when going to Sunderland, mid July C&MC were charging 'peak' rate (because Scotland was on school holidays) but C&CC were not,(English schools not yet on holiday) at £9 a night difference between the 2 clubs we chose the C&CC one. We now prefer that site to the C&MC one we would have used.
Again 4 weeks ago we did the same with the Malvern sites,they are right next door to each other, C&MC still in 'peak' C&CC not + the OAP discount quite a difference.
As to the weekends and holidays having 'restrictions' with the C&CC, how many times do folk come on CT and complain that they have 2 weeks holiday and want to go to specific site but can't get a Saturday night. Then complain about folk going away for just 1 or 2 nights stopping others getting a longer brake. Maybe there is something to be said for 'restrictions' on some sites
Don't get me wrong there are times when we only want 1 night, so we just have to work round it.
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If there is space, sorry yes of course there always is, it's not a club site after all.
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yes absolutely, 0.21 is indeed mathematically a good bit less than 0.25
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Well even if the club were to adopt the two or three nights minimum stay how would that alleviate the problem of the full week stayers not getting a full week in due to weekends being full (with is the real complaint btw) not just a Saturday night?
If the minimum two night stay is brought in then now you will have Saturday nights taken as well? The problem has not been resolved?
Weekend get booked because people work even in high season.
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