Your favourite places to visit on a rainy day?
If you're staying in your caravan and it's a rainy day, where are your favourite places to visit across the UK and are there any good places near our Club Campsites or CLs you would recommend to other members?
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We tend to go for a drive, explore any nice churches or museums around where we are staying. We have found some very nice little niche museums, often free or a tiny fee to visit. Historic railways are also good, you can usually get tickets on the day outside of school holidays. Historic houses, castles, etc………
One of best wet days we have ever done was a pre Christmas holiday in North Wales. We were staying at the bottom of Snowdon, so we did the full circuit round the mountain, taking in Beddgelert, Llanberis Pass, Nantgwynant. Fabulous, the scenery was just stunning with all the waterfalls, rivers in full spate. We also had a long visit to the National slate Museum in Llanberis another damp day.
Llanberis Pass
Looking up Snowdon
Llanberis Pass again
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Several times in persistent rain (I recall Scarborough, Mid Wales and somewhere in Scotland) with four children fed up, all our clothes wet, and all their clothes wet, and no drying facilities on campsites, we just packed up and went home.
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We try and find a forest or, like today, a riverside path, where we are sheltered from the rain by the trees, as we have to make Flyte out regardless of the weather. It very seldom rains all day so other alternatives are a visit to a historic property where we will go round the house when it is raining and have a walk in the garden or grounds when it stops, as it usually does.
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Love these ideas! We've had many a rainy day on our camping adventures and sometimes I just like to be snug in the awning with a good book or a game on the go (uno being a family favourite).
When we stayed at the Norfolk Broads Club Campsite we visited Wroxham Miniature Worlds.
We also love Globalls at Brighton Marina, it's in the Great Savings Guide with 10% off for members, and Beaulieu when staying at the New Forest Centenary Club Site, also in the Great Savings Guide with 25% off for members.
We've often used the Great Savings Guide when we've been camping on rainy day. It comes in very handy, both rain and shine!
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Like @Hja we have done tourist buses if it’s raining, you can usually hop on and off at various places, and we get a nice coffee and a sandwich to enjoy. Edinburgh is very good like this, and of course London has lots of options. River boat cruises are good as well, I did the one on the Ouse last time at YRP. Used to do it as a child with my Mum and Dad, so lovely memories.
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Depends where we are staying. If a CL we'll probably don waterproof clothing and go for a walk and if still raining at lunchtime find a pub/cafe for lunch. Maybe if we're close to an interesting building or church we'll head indoors. We've also headed into cities like Liverpool with their multiple free museums, Cathedrals, shops etc.
And let's not forget the decadent choice of doing nothing but staying indoors and reading/drawing/cuddling etc. Can't beat it when you are stressed and the weather provides the perfect opportunity to relax.
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………..oh yes, I always take at least two craft projects with me……. I have gloves and other things I have knitted or beaded in various locations. Ultimate drop on one very rainy weekend was a couple of nights on Wincanton Racecourse Site when the South West Bead Fair was on🤩 OH got to take the dogs out🤭, I got to do the Bead Show all day…..my kind of heaven.
@Rowena we have used the Great Days Out offers as well on rainy days. Quite a while ago though, we did Eden Camp and North York Moors Railway. Don’t think either are included now.
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We toured the UK with caravans for 25 years, and what bugged me above everything was the need to book in advance, predict how long we would stay at any given site, and pay in advance for that. So the rain would set in, a storm would break out - and yet they had our money because we had paid to stay.
So we went overseas instead - where we never needed to say how long we would stay, and were never asked to pay in advance. And when it rained in Brittany and looked to be set in for a week we went to the campsite office and said we are leaving in the morning, what do we owe you. And off we went to the sun.
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@eurortraveller Obviously your stays were not on club sites then?, as up to a few years ago, and well within your 25 years, you only have to give 24 hours notice and you would get your money back on the unused days. Even now it is only three days.
Back to the OP, we do exactly what we would have planned to do anyway, only wearing our waterproof gear. Or it's quite nice to be in the caravan warm and dry just watching the rain.
In the Lakes Honister slate mine is a good wet weather go to place. The mine tours are obviously underground and last about one and a half hours.
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@Cornersteady Do you only "get your money back" if you go onto another Club site or would you also also get you money back if you went home?0
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@MikeyB I see you're not a club member 🤨 so to help you:
Providing you give the three days notice then you get your money back for those night after that but may lose some portion of your deposit, this is regardless of where you go after leaving Arthur.
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I think you may be getting confused with cancelling or rather amending a booking within 21 days to go to another club site? In this case you do not lose your deposit (and/or any payments - but most people pay on arrival or the night before) you may have made.
Before 21 days you would get all of your deposit and any (unlikely) payment made back. Excellent compared to other providers where you could lose all you have paid.
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You were doing it wrong 25 years ago EuroT😁 Forty year ago, we just rolled in at all sorts of sites, paid for what we thought we needed, added to the nights if we decided to stay longer, or simply moved on somewhere else. Even 40 years ago local weather predictions were good for 4-5 days in advance. (Granted, Michael Fish got the hurricane in October wrong🤭)
My OH and a work friend decided to go mountain walking/climbing in Spain one June. They got the plane tickets, hired the car (both paid for in advance), sorted accommodation and set off. They got 3/4 of the way up a really big mountain in Spain, and then had to spend the night in their emergency tents as it started to snow. Next morning they climbed all the way down, and the weather stayed bad for the rest of the week. Worst weather Spain had seen for a very long time. But they made the most of it, toured the Alhambra, lot of lower slopes walking. So going overseas isn’t a given, otherwise folks wouldn’t get caught in Monsoons, Hurricanes, and ice storms.
We have never ever abandoned any kind of holiday because of the weather, even as children. Good wet weather gear, lots of creativity and interests, and just getting on with it………. Home or abroad. Mind, the Earthquake in Greece, thankfully mild, was…..interesting😕1 -
+1 @Takethedogalong . The only time we didn't travel was due to an extreme weather warning which made towing dangerous but once there we carry on.
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