Nigh on impossible to book late UK holiday
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“Dyed in the Wool” is all you’ve got at the moment. If you are fit and still breathing, be thankful for it.
We vary our wool, and the choice of dye. It works for us, we still tour properly hopping from Site to Site, area to area.
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Re your quote: Yes, it’s a fact. Demand for pitches outstrips supply in places at certain times. My oft used phrase is that vanning has become a victim of its own success.
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Maybe so, but some say there’s no hard data, some say the Club won’t provide any data, some make definitive statements like yours above? Who to believe in all this confusion?
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It’s a new lifestyle, confusion, obfuscation, uncertainty.........🤣
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We cannot assume everyone makes things up, SB. If the club say no shows have fallen dramatically since the demise of deposits, that's good enough for me. It's naive to expect data on every little facet of club life to be published.
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I'm looking at this from the outside now, having sold our van and decided to give up that style of touring at the end of last year. (But we managed to book a cottage on Exmoor for a full week in September only last Monday
).Anyway, here's the thing - how to rationalise a complaint about it being "impossible to book" with a wish to retain the "flexibility of touring". Surely one pretty much precludes the other as far as the purists are concerned?
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It's not impossible to book a late holiday at all - the very first site I just checked for you here in Cornwall has full week vacancies available in September.
How come? It's not a Club site - just a top quality, award winning, family owned site -and they charge a deposit.
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Rufs wrote " but i have a wee trolly..."
Do you have a separate one for the Number Two's ?
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I see Merrose Farm has 2 separate full weeks available too although one does start on a Thursday and the other starts on 30 Aug. Not bad in the circumstances I thought. 🤷🏻♂️
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if you can post some hard evidence from the club Bill that would be great? I don't think quoting a CCC site manager (have they gone back to wadrnds?) is relevant?
And that 'definitive statement' was from the club btw.
Does it matter about 'confusion' (and who is confused?) in the real world where people just go to sites and enjoy rather than on here?
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I don't understand your point and the how come?
Why club sites are full and this one has spaces? I mean there must be a reason(s) why club sites are so popular making booking nigh on impossible and this one you quote isn't?
If it was a good as you say (top quality, award wining...) the surely it should be full? Why aren't people going to it in the same numbers as club sites? Maybe the deposit puts them off? Maybe simply saying, or rather it saying it is top quality doesn't really do it?
Have you been btw?
Perhaps you can help?
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Would it help your understanding of the relevance if I’d used the term ‘site manager’ rather’ than ‘wadrnds’’? If so, I’m happy to tell you that it was a bloke who did a warden type job in the real world.
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C&CC have called them Site Managers for donkeys years.
Edit: Snap, M. 😄
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There are many reasons a pitch May become available for the weekends not just the late cancelations theory
but as said so many times on here "it pays to talk"
it could also be a cancelation that occured for the week it does not show up midweek amonngst the other vacant pitches did you know that if you hover over midweek vacancies if there are less than five it will show up
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Maybe it’s because folks book CMC sites because they’ve paid a subscription and want something in return?
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IJ
I don't think its a case of being in the minority but I suspect we have been here many times before and discussed and argued around this topic almost ad infinitum, granted that it's different people raising the subject each time but it is nonetheless the same topic!
I think we would all like the see the statistics you ask for but they have rarely been made available. Even when they do the Club are not very good at it or perhaps present them in a way that it is difficult to build a case against, which is no doubt what they want. They love giving us percentages without any base figures so often they are not very helpful. Having said that I think if the Club see a real problem developing they will act and probably explain afterwards!
David
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You may be thrilled and fascinated to learn that some of them are even called ‘Assistant Site Managers’!
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On a two couple site they used to have the Site Manager, Assistant site Manager, Deputy Site Manager and Deputy Assistant Site Manager. I think they found the name badges were getting too big.😀
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Just looking at Treamble Valley. On a with awning pitch you could have 31/8 to 6/9 or 10/9 to 16/9 or 22/9 to at least the end of October. All dates are inclusive, so plenty of reasonable length stays. Interestingly all but one of the dates shown full are midweek.
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You mentioned this before and I just don't get it at all. Did someone force them to buy a membership?
They are getting something in return, £12 per night I believe is it? But as there are cheaper non club sites out there why bother to join? It doesn't make sense? Pay £54 to join to pay even more for sites? No.
Personally I think, and a wild guess here, is that people want to join the club and go to their sites as they are good and exactly what people want to spend their money on. I know wild eh?
Also as many have said like me, membership has cost me nothing.
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I have no idea why you missed it, if you are you a member of the CCC I am sure they would have tried to tell you somehow?
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There is no incentive for the Club to change, yet... while members are prepared to keep checking for cancelations and the vacancies resulting from last minute changes of mind keep being taken up.
It will only start to hurt when the bottom line is effected.
peedee
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I shall be revealing all when when get back from our tour. So far, we are hoping to dispel the myth that there are no nice overnight halts in UK, that it’s impossible to tour in UK this year, that you have to book months in advance to get a pitch, that we are likely to run out of gas, and that everywhere worth visiting is full of litter louts, fools in Covid denial and caravanning virgins towing twin axles. At least fore warned is fore armed.........😁
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