Are CL users becoming 2nd Class?
We've just returned from a week on a CL in Wales that couldn't really, generally, be faulted. The CL is incorporated within what is a small commercial site including tent campers. Talking to another club member on site who had visited previously he told me that the CL part of the site has been moved from the front to the back. Although this may give a bit more 'privacy' it is also a more shaded part of the site with almost no sun on the pitches and it also has far less extensive or interesting views from the pitches. I suppose it is a chicken and egg situation, which came first when the site was originally opened, the CL or the commercial site. Whatever the answer, why move the CL pitches?
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Did you not ask the site owner, John? There could be numerous reasons.
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I think the owner has to be your starting point, John.
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What you have been told is quite likely to be "tittle-tattle". The only thing that should matter to you is whether you enjoyed the CL or not. These days, we use Google Earth to try and avoid shady CL's, as well as site reviews published by commercial websites.
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If you prefer the commercial section of the site then stay there next time. Why be tied to a CL?
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Not sure why you think it is quite likely 'tittle-tattle'. It was just a comment from my neighbour that the CL used to be on the other side of a hedge/trees. I do use Google Earth but it would have been impossible to tell that the pitches on one side of the hedge got little or no sunshine. The photographs on the CaMC website also 'suggest' that the pitches shown are the CL pitches. They may well have been when the photograph was taken. I could have asked to move but as the site was full, apart from 2 pitches on the CL, that wasn't an option. Yes, we did enjoy our stay but with some slight envy of the others on the other side of the hedge/trees enjoying the sun and the views.
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We quite frequently use CLs that have both a CL area, and a private site area. We usually have a look at both areas, and decide which we like best. We are unlikely to know those pitched up next to us, so we aren’t concerned if they are Members or not, so that aspect never worries us. Never feel first or second class on either to be honest, just happily enjoy what has been provided.
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I may be wrong, but I suspect the CL concerned may be one we stayed on a few years back (near Builth Wells?)
There were certainly two distinct areas then, in front of and behind a high hedge, together with a camping field.
If so, it was one of our favourite CLs, but we certainly wouldn't have wanted to be "behind the hedge"!
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I must say I have always been a bit baffled by the concept of a campsite also running a CL alongside? Having said that we did stay at Overwater Marina earlier in the year which does the same. I assume the reasoning is to tap into the Club membership who might not otherwise use a private site but would a CL? Can't offer any explanation for the move of the CL but would imagine that the site makes more money from the campsite customers so perhaps the driver was financial?
David
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I can't really compare the prices between the CL and the commercial part of the site, (if there is a difference) as I'm sure prices have changed by now. I booked the CL in mid January before there was a war in Europe and before energy and fuel prices started to rocket. It may well be a purely financial consideration.
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We're booked into the same CL next month David but I didn't give it much thought, we've used another similar CL this year with two sites in use. It might be that the CL bit opened up the possibility of expansion but each part has to be run separately. Much like other places that also offer rally fields alongside CLs or even two CLs.
But it pays to check via Google earth and reviews how things are actually run and where each bit is sited.
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