Pitch up and stay together!
We know you've already being discussing this but we wanted to give you some more information about pitching together when staying with family and friends.
If you want to pitch together simply arrive and speak to our site staff. You can then choose your pitch and mark two more close by for friends and family who are arriving later that day!
We welcome suggestions and feedback from members. We’re proud to represent all of our members and do our best to provide you with the services, products, offers and facilities that you want and need.
This year, we’re trialling new pitching options across our UK Club campsite network, including adult-only and dog-free zones. You have also told us that many of you love to stay on Club campsites with friends and family so we’re trialling this across all our Club campsites to give you more flexibility and help you make unforgettable memories with your loved ones.
Please note, availability may vary at busy times and in popular areas of the campsites.
For more information visit Club News
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It’s zones, not sites @Hja .
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Absolutely stupid idea, if you want to pitch together turn up together,
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Looks to me like another desperate measure to get members to use club sites instead of alternatives.
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I don’t see that statement as meaning all sites have dog free zones any more than it means all sites will be AO😁.
@Hja, you need to ask CAMC as I know no more than you.
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I can't think of one site I've been to (and that's a lot) that has a dog free zone? Or even ever heard of dog free club site which I can't ever see that happening myself? Maybe some interior spaces are dog free but that's it?
Another desperate measure - what are the others?
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I feel that all sites should have at least “pit stop” areas, which are great, but ideally dog walks on site. Ferry Meadows is a shocker for this! We see a high number of people have dogs on site, many have multiple dogs. This is no doubt what’s driven the idea of dog free zones, which I totally understand. We watch them casually strolling around site waiting for them to toilet on/alongside pitches. People with small dogs seem to feel it’s ok to even toilet them at the back of their pitch. There is no way of knowing how the pitch (especially on grass) has been used prior to arrival. We toured Scotland earlier this year and from memory, I think it was only Strathclyde that had a dog walk. The other 10 club sites did not. Just to clarify, we have a dog and do go to designated areas even when they are outside the site entrance and I know for the select number that wouldn’t inconvenience themselves walking to a dog walk even when they are supplied, the majority of respectful dogs owners do.
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"We toured Scotland earlier this year and from memory, I think it was only Strathclyde that had a dog walk. The other 10 club sites did not."
You must have missed sites like Banchory and Culloden Moor. To be fair, there are a number of Scottish club sites where a dog walk is unnecessary as they have beaches/parks adjoining the site - even closer than that at the Ferry Meadows site. I’m thinking of Balbirnie Park, Brora, Dunnet Bay, New England Bay to name a few.
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for your comments and feedback so far. We would like to confirm that this is a trial period of this new initiative and we welcome suggestions and feedback from our members.
We will have more information soon to share with you on which Club Campsites will have the adult-only and dog-free zones and how to book these.1 -
We will have more information soon to share with you on which Club Campsites will have the adult-only and dog-free zones and how to book these.
@Rowena Presumably this will mean that if you have already booked there will be a whole section of pitches you won’t have access to. Unless of course you cancel and re-book, which will often cost more due to dynamic pricing.
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This will be an interesting set of trials. Some Club Sites will lend themselves reasonably well to be zoned dog free and dog friendly, like wise with some AO areas, but others might be more difficult given size and layout.
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So I assume there will be another tier of pitch types to book, standard with awning with dogs, standard with awnings without dogs…
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They can have as many options on pitches as they like, the real hope is that it doesn’t impact prices like being able to choose between grass or gravel did! Gravel ended up being £1 per night more expensive.
Reminds me of the Woofers and Tweeters sketch from Not the Nine O Clock News🤭
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Or grass ended up being £1 cheaper as an incentive to use it? Depends upon your perspective - grass could be free and I still wouldn't pitch on it.
Perosnally I think grass should cost more as it takes more looking after and perhaps expense and I've often seen grass pitches taken out of use due to damage and a loss of income. As HS can be used year round and so more income.
But back on topic, if a difference in price, which everway, between dog and no dog zones then that's a way for charging for dogs. I am sure that there are members (I'm not one) who would pay more for a non dog area.
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I wonder if someone will place the dog free zones near the dog walk……😀🐶
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I don't like either move particularly and see them as unnecessary. The introduction of dog free zones means pitch choice will be reduced for users whether with or without a dog /dogs. Better to have dog free sites in my view. There must be some sites unfavorable for dogs or sites in close proximity where one could be dog free.
peedee
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The one thing I am certain about is that it won’t please everyone🤭
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Rowena
If you can reserve a pitch for two friends or family on arrival, can your friends or family also reserve pitches when they arrive?
If so, person A reserves pitches for persons B & C. Person B for D & E and person C for F & G, making 9 pitches, in one area, reserved for one group of family and friends.
That would create quite an exclusive zone in the site.
If the reservations include service pitches, that would be almost all of them in many sites, leaving non family and friends with no or limited choice.
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this is another scenario they won’t have thought of and they will just carry on with the stupid idea and ignore the comments on here and their Facebook page
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It’s always at the warden's discretion so I think that would be a very unlikely scenario.
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How does this new policy square with another policy which seems to be contradictory? Thus:
Recently I was driven to a site by our daughter in her car. My husband was following in our motorhome and needed to take a longer route on the last part of the journey. I went into the office to book in and the Warden asked me, “Where is your outfit?”
“En route; taking the longer way around,” was my response.
That being the case, I wasn’t allowed to book in until he arrived as they needed to “see” the outfit to ensure it is suitable. (Despite its being declared as a pretty bog standard model; and having stayed at the site just 2 weeks previously in the same outfit: all on the membership profile.)
So if you are reserving for friends, who may arrive up until 8pm, after the office is closed, when does the “seeing” to ensure suitability of the unit happen?2 -
There is a vast difference between reserving a pitch for someone and booking in a unit not yet arrived on site so I really can’t see what point you’re trying to make, NGG.
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I could probably think up a thousand “what if?” scenarios if I really felt like it. Uphill struggle for Club to try any innovation/ change around an entrenched mindset from some of the Membership. As pointed out, it will be at site staff discretion (heaven help them🥴) not every pitch, not every site, and possibly only when it’s feasible. It might just all work out very well if given a chance………..
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