Unconfirmed all sites arrival times to be 1300 hrs
Not yet confirmed but I'm reading that, with effect from 10th March, arrival time on all sites changed to 1300 hrs. It's not yet on the website but it seems 'site staff are being lenient' to anybody arriving before 1300 hrs'.
If nobody tells me differently, then I arrive as per my booking form and the information currently on the website.
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13:00? Think yourself lucky, Jill! We recently had an email to say that the (twice postponed) cottage we're coming to stay in near you in Pendleton has changed its arrival time to 5pm (and departure by 9am) to allow for "enhanced cleaning due to Covid". The email arrived the day after we'd paid our balance!
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Nothing surprises me any more about this club. Is it just me or does anyone else think CAMC is looking less and less attractive these days?
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Nice to hear from you, Husky.
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12.00 on some sites, 13.00 on others, apparently gets confusing. I guess it will even more confusing to those that turn up at 9.00 in the morning
Yes it is going to be 13.00 across all sites.
JK
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The most annoying part is not the change of time, the club can decide what it wants. The annoying part that keeps on happening is that we find out last.
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Just did a quick check on some sites that were 12:00 arrivals in the 21/22 SD and found only 2 that are showing 12:00 arrival time, Altnaharra and Lidallia and the latter is an AS site. However the others could well have been 13:00 from the start of 2022.
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JK
Is there any reasoning behind this that can be shared?
David
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Nellie, we stayed at Wagtail Country Park and Fields End Water this month, both being AS sites and they were both 12.00 arrival times and both times are correct. I'm sure AS sites can determine their own arrival and departure times so if anyone going to one might want to check if it's important to them.
We did see a PVC pull up into the arrivals area at Wirral CP last week at 10.30. Still sat there when we got back to site just gone 12.00. Don't know why you would want to waste time like that when you are in a motorhome. Plenty of free parking on the front West Kirby, just a few miles up the coast. "Nowt as weird as folk", as the new woke saying goes.
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WN, it isn’t a woke saying-it’s been around since the early 1900’s, you are reading something into it that has never been there🤷🏻♂️
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For those in a caravan (or indeed a MH) who like to arrive and get set up before going out to explore, they are going to fine very little daylight in which to do this on day one once check in and even basic set up are sorted.
£35-50 for a pitch in those circumstances seems a lot of dosh to (effectively) just park.
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In winter when sites aren't full, why can't arrivals come much earlier? No doubt there were loads of empty pitches that could have been used.
the club just cannot do flexible.
as mentioned in the leccy increase thread, the current staffing model prevents the way many commercial/continental sites work.
the bedrock of CAMC processes is the limiting of any fundamental change due to the fixed staffing routines.
while this is in place no other advances in customer service can be accommodated, we remain in the last century.
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WN wrote " Don't know why you would want to waste time like that when you are in a motorhome. Plenty of free parking on the front West Kirby, just a few miles up the coast. "Nowt as weird as folk", as the new woke saying goes."
A motorhome having the temerity to park on a seafront? Gasp, shock, horror! That could precipitate the collapse of civilisation, if some local councils are to be believed.
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very little daylight in...
Really? Yes in the deep midwinter maybe but even now up here (just past the equinox) it's 'daylight' officially till 18.29 and of course this time next week it will be a hour later. As most sites (club or not) don't open till about now plenty of time?
Even with an awning I can get set fully up in less than a hour leaving quite a lot of daylight even now and in summer it will more than a quarter of a day?
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Ok thanks Muscles you’ve been around since the early 1900’s so I’ll bow to your superior ‘boots on the ground’ knowledge😂😂
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Folk tour all year round and use sites which are open all year. In winter time someone might get on a pitch by 1:30 and it's getting by 3:30, even someone as speedy as you won't see much daylight to explore.
we had a guy on the next pitch to us in Spain and he took a full day just to put up his enormous awning and fill it with all the kit they used.
when they left, it took a day and a half to empty it, load the car and then take down the awning and fit that into the caravan.
glad you've got it down to a fine art😉
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Indeed they do but you didn't make that clear it was just referring to winter touring but now you have. And in Spain too.
Btw you often say that Concierge Camping is your gold standard site which the club should aspire to?
Well their checkout is 11am and earliest stated arrival is 2pm making the club hours look rather good and of course its lowest price is in the £30, so it's not just the club that very little daylight in...to explore.
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It matters not what time a sites arrival time is people will turn up earlier and the plead ignorance of what the arrival time is
Where we are the arrival time has been 1300 for two years and it is shown in several places but some still arrive at before. 1200
And because of the layout of the extra security barrier (to deter some )early arrivals if not allowed in block the lane outside the site,
The staff try to delay booking them in, but they have to open up about half an hour early as the the arrivals area gets full and those on site who have been out get tangled up in the queue
Meantime those waiting to book in have already been round the site and "chosen their pitch "
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If I am travelling a fair distance to a site, say 100 miles plus the 1.00pm arrival does not particularly impact on me. Where it can be a pain is when you are going to a local site, say 50 miles away, which means to have to hang around before leaving home. Likewise its a issue when moving sites which can sometimes be less than 50 miles apart. We will just have to plan longer stops en route!
David
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I don't mind a 1300 hrs arrival time across the network as it would probably work better than 1200 departures trying to get out when folks are arriving but I do think the club is out of order by not publishing this information.
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I certainly didn’t like the 1pm arrival time at Chatsworth back when we had a caravan. Most others were 12:00 in those days. As it was less than 40 miles from home, it was one we visited in the dark months when we didn’t want to tow far. By the time we had got stuck in the 1pm queue, it was often 2 pm before we got onto a pitch and starting to go dark by the time we had set up.☹️
Now from a personal standpoint I’m not bothered, we can be set up in a few minutes and as I put above, we often stop off on route to resupply if moving between sites. However, with the caravan I much preferred 12:00, whatever time of year.
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