Caravan sites opening and safety measures feedback

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  • Metheven
    Metheven Club Member Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭
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    edited July 2020 #392

    This confusing one is it 'JVB'

    https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/reopening-our-campsites/

    Scroll down a bit then open the "Campsites now open in ............"

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #393

    So JK was not correct it seems with his blanket 1300 hr arrivals

    I did say 'if JK is correct'. wink

     

  • JVB66
    JVB66 Forum Participant Posts: 22,892
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    edited July 2020 #394

    It was not it seems  "updated earlier"surprised so "hot news!!wink

    The Text messages evidently were sent out for the w/end of the 13th july 

    Also it was stated that the situation is still ever changing ,so it may be we all keep an eye on the UK sites website?

  • Metheven
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    edited July 2020 #395

    It's still wrong and confusing though as there are still stated 12.00m arrival times. So no blanket 1.00pm times.

    A quick look at 'Baltic Wharf' and the site itself still says earliest arrival 12.00pm

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited July 2020 #396

    Also it was stated that the situation is still ever changing ,so it may be we all keep an eye on the UK sites website?

    Not for me thanks. If the club wants to make a change I will let them contact me

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #397

    Call me old fashioned then JVB but if I have a booking with any company I expect them to notify me directly should they wish to change their terms and conditions. That is what normally happens is it not? I don't keep looking at commercial sites to see if they have amended terms and conditions, would you? 

    This was in response to the reply from JVB which I presume he removed

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited July 2020 #398

    As it was an “ageist” comment, it’s possibly been zapped😉

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2020 #399

    I don't understand that last point - purely put of interest,   why would you not give the club your mobile phone number? If you tour for several weeks to a series of sites as you do, wouldn't that be the easiest way for them to contact you if unexpected circumstances arose?  undecided

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #400

    wouldn't that be the easiest way for them to contact you if unexpected circumstances arose?

    It would if I wished for them to contact me  on route. However I don't.  

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #401

    I did not remove, it but as it seems more often these days age, is also not permited as is not in the modern day" politically correct"speakundecided 

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #402

    So if a site you were booked into while on tour ,had a major issue ,  you would just turn up at the locked gates, where you could been made aware by a voice message on you answer phone ,

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #403

    Some of the threads have more holes in them than a Swiss emmental with all the Deleted User content

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  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #405

    Correct. However as my phone lives permanently in my RHS front trouser pocket and difficult to access when driving that is where it would remain until we arrived at site.  

    An e-mail advising of a cancelled booking would be useful but that would only reach me up until 9am on the day of departure.

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #406

    So how would you "like" to be adviesed ?surprised are you always on your own when travelling,?

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #407

    I am sure we are talking about the UKwink

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  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #409

    I would not try it at this time of year in England, as you can in the big wide world you travel inwink

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited July 2020 #410

    👋👋 Perfectly possible. Some of us even use our smart phones while on the road. It works even better if you leave a contact number for sites to call you back if you have to leave a message.😂

    ET is just practising inexorability. It’s very vogue at the moment, particularly in US. 👍

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #411

    But i think AD is not expecting to do the sensible way as per this country ,ithink he is talking just turn up,surprised

     

     

     

  • SteveL
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    edited July 2020 #412

    They have my mobile number but as we don't tend to answer unknown numbers they would have to leave a message. As my first thought would be that it was another cold or scam call, if we were on route we would probably be at the site before I got round to checking for a voice mail.

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #413

    My co driver would do that, but would have answered the phone and listened before  it went into answer phone wink

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #414

    e-mail is fine JVB. Usually when caravanning we are together when in the car. I don't use the phone whilst driving. Friends and family know that if I don't answer I am probably driving as it is unusual that the phone is off my person unless showering or in bed. They simply phone OH

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited July 2020 #415

    Do none of you have your phones linked hands free to your vehicles? It’s very useful. You can even do it with a cheap little in ear device......

    We did a tour of Devon and Cornwall, August couple of years ago. We simply rolled into sites. Only one was full, we went elsewhere. Last year we did Dales, including two Club Sites. Again we just rolled in, no problems. Wardens came to see if we wanted weekend, as that was filling up, we declined. 

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #416

    Hands free is no less dangerous but "legal"undecided

    Ps my phone is Hands free in the car but will  just listen if an incoming 

    pps pesent OHs phone number only  is on file at the clubwink

  • moulesy
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    edited July 2020 #417

    So if, heaven forbid, a site you were planning to visit (while away from home on tour) had to be locked down because of an occurrence of the virus, how would the club let you know?  undecided

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #418

    Do none of you have your phones linked hands free to your vehicles? It’s very useful. You can even do it with a cheap little in ear device......

    No hands free. It is not something that I would choose to use when I was working either. I find holding conversations when driving a distraction that I can do without. 

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited July 2020 #419

    For the 10 seconds it takes to say “I’m driving”, it’s rather useful. Unless of course your passenger chooses to take the call. 

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2020 #420

    Do as we have then just give OHs number to the clubwink,Oh has never had any other calls from the club except from a site to advise,  like she had to sdvise of lock down cancelations from some sites surprised

  • EasyT
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    edited July 2020 #421

    If a site was to cancel my booking then an e-mail would suffice. I am not at all concerned about the virus whilst on tour as we are not touring in the present or near future I suspect. If the site wished to contact me whilst driving then the chance is that they might provide an extra 90 mins warning by doing so but at the end of the day I am following a general route and my first choice would be to contact the next site (usually 70 to 100 miles further on) and ask if they had room. 

     

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