Leaving club
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Could be very true ,and not helped by the way staycations in LVs have been promoted by many areas of the media , without giving, as many of us know that this island is short of pitches in popular areas normally without the situation we are now in
I do have some sympathy for those who have to book at short notice "late bookers" who find it difficult to get a pitch in the area they want. ,but then as others say there plenty of alternatives out there, but then the reason both major pitch suppliers get booked is because people do not like the unknown so stick with a known good quality
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If you need a particular site at a particular time e.g. annual holiday, presumably you will need to book the time off work
Certainly that was the case for us when we were both working, and limited to school holidays.
If we were booking a gite or a static caravan, we would book in January for the July/August. If we were wanting to go away at half terms again we would book early.
When we toured in Europe we booked no sites at all, stayed for as long or as little time as we wanted. We miss that facility here.
Now, we do book much later, and if we cant get in where we want, if there is no other suitable site, we put that "place" on the list for another time and go somewhere else. That to us is the beauty of flexibility.
We almost always try and avoid weekends. We have a good idea which sites get booked up quickly, so if we want those, we book early.
There have been occasions when we have had to cancel, usually due to illness. We value the lack of deposit and ease of booking at Club sites, even though we probably use more CLs. It is the Club's USP. I would hope this will not change without a great deal of though, and data. I would hope that the data would be made available to us all, but certainly to those who are more involved in the Club. I would hate to think decisions were made on the basis of a few complaints. People who are happy with the system are unlikely to say so, it is those who are unhappy who comment.
And we need to remember that the vast majority of Members do not take any part in this forum.
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I seem to remember that in the bad old days, when the date came for releasing bookings for the next year, the clubs web site crashed.
You then had a lot of people squealing that it was unfair as they could not get on the internet until 03..00 in the morning or later, and their favourite site was by then fully booked.
This led to a rolling 1 year booking facility.
Is this not better than a free for all at midnight on a specific date?
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Since changing my motorhome and setting it up for operation without EHU, I have had greater flexibility in choice of sites/pitches and my recent month long tour to Scotland incorporated only a couple of fixed bookings, the others being done within 24 hours of arrival. Last year arranging my stops prior to departure was a bit of a nightmare entailing numerous phone calls and Emails.
If you absolutely have to have fully serviced, hard standing, EHU, toilet block etc. then, like Eton, you will have to put your name down at birth.
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If you absolutely have to have fully serviced, hard standing, EHU, toilet block etc. then, like Eton, you will have to put your name down at birth
Maybe before conception as my son and DIL found when they wanted grandson, 3 months old today, wanted to use a forest pre school..it would need to have been several months pre conception 😱🤣
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its difficult to 'avoid weekends' if you want to tour for longer than 5 days..
when putting a tour together, even a 'short for us' one month tour, you will span several weekends.
a combination of cc/CL and commercial worked ok for us...
we did do one 'site swap' within CC so could transfer booking without penalty and that was fine, too..
having said that, we (and pals) booked a commercial for later in the year and they had to make a change....this was done without issue in the office, so commercials 'can' be just as flexible if sufficient notice.
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If the expected permanent rise in U.K. camping holidays becomes a thing, a booking system that actively penalises working age people is rather short sighted.
a refusal to move with the times will just leave the ‘club’ as what is perceived as a retirement club and the mainstream custom simply won’t come.
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Out of school holidays there are certainly plenty of retired folk to be seen mid week. Go and catch the bus at the nearby stop and very few if any pay for a ticket.😀 However, come the weekend a large proportion leave to be replace by much younger weekenders, often family groups. These seem to manage fine to get the weekends they require. Perhaps they are just more organised than those who constantly moan the system isn’t fair.
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Yes, during the week I'm one of the youngest, at weekends I'm one of the oldest.
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Bad time?
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