Motorhome sign
Just arrived at camp on our maiden journey, hooked up and happy. One question, if we leave the pitch unoccupied we need to leave our motorhome sign on display. What do we need? 
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Welcome to Club Together John. I think you answered your own question there.
A sign of some kind just saying "Motorhome occupying
this pitch" and/or anything of low value, i.e. storage box.As this is a question relates to being on site, I've moved it into the UK Sites and Touring Section.
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Hi, John. You can buy small green signs on Club sites but we made our own which shows the registration number as we thought that removed any ambiguity. We usually leave the EHU cable behind - unplugged from the bollard - as it's simpler than coiling it up
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I have an old registration plate which I plan to use. Just trying to work out how to fix it into the ground - perhaps a long spike or tent peg and strap the plate to the peg? Any other suggestions?
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Let us know which sites you're going to Tinners......we need a new electric cable......
I like the signs with a little picture of the actual motorhome......
You wouldn't want my ropey old thing when you can take your pick of nice nearly new ones left on pitches on any site you care to name.
I know the signs you mean. They have names on them as well as the MH pic - 'Ian and XYZ pitched here'. The commercial magazines carry adverts for them.
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I have an old registration plate which I plan to use. Just trying to work out how to fix it into the ground - perhaps a long spike or tent peg and strap the plate to the peg? Any other suggestions?
That's the basis of ours, HG. A metal frame behind the number plate with two hinged spikes which fold for storing.
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Hitchg,
I use a painted wood board with the vehicle reg'n number stuck along the top above the one of the older style C . C. "M/H using this pitch" . to this I have bolted two angled steel tent pegs. the numbers are B & Qs best yellow stick ons with black number/letter.. Its lasted me thro' at least three m/vans I reckon, and with the occasional. scrub & spray of varnish it should outlast me !!
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We have one like an A that has 'Reserved for' in 3 languages on each side, a picture of the motorhome and the registration number. It folds flat when not in use and can be weighted with a filled 2 litre water bottle if required.
When we changed the motorhome we just got new self adhesive labels.
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Designed ours, picture of a motorhome (Bailey) with the Reg number typed across the body of the M/H, printed it off then laminated it, OH then fixed it to a piece of board and screwed a spike of angle iron on it. Goes into H/S and grass.
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Thanks for the helpful comments; I just need to find a couple of large pegs or some angle iron. Actually my reg. plate is off of an old car. When you think about it, it doesn't really matter which registration you use - nobody is going to check it!
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Most sites in UK and on the continent like to make a note of your pitch number. So, if you are staying it really doesn't matter and the purpose is just to indicate that
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hitchglitch, there are some folk that are not as nice as we would like them to be, despite giving your reg number to the office and leaving a sign, some folk will just pitch up on your empty pitch and then go out
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you come back there is little you can do about it but find another pitch. Mind you if anyone does that to me they had better be ready for some grief
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hitchglitch, there are some folk that are not as nice as we would like them to be, despite giving your reg number to the office and leaving a sign, some folk will just pitch up on your empty pitch and then go out
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you come back there is little you can do about it but find another pitch. Mind you if anyone does that to me they had better be ready for some griefWrite your comments here...Never known that happen in 40 years of caravanning. Where did that happen then on a CC site?.
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hitchglitch, there are some folk that are not as nice as we would like them to be, despite giving your reg number to the office and leaving a sign, some folk will just pitch up on your empty pitch and then go out
when
you come back there is little you can do about it but find another pitch. Mind you if anyone does that to me they had better be ready for some griefWrite your comments here...Never known that happen in 40 years of caravanning. Where did that happen then on a CC site?.
According to several members on CT yes this does happen, there was another thread running awhile ago discussing the same thing. It was suprising how many said it had happened to them, and yes at least one was on a CC site. Its never happened to us, but we
were nearly guilty of it in France as we didn't see the EHU cable. We had been driving round trying to get a flat pitch in the sun, found one drove on and started to setup thankfully the EHU is something we always do first, the occupier of the pitch had wound
his cable up and dropped it by the post, if the sockets hadn't been numbered we wouldn't have known. Its easily done by mistake, but it would appear from the other thread that sometimes its done deliberate.
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Happened to us when we hired an"RV" in America. Chose a pitch and went out exploring, came back to find a humungus van, minus its occupants where we had been pitched. There were several other empty pitches, so, after checking this was OK with reception we moved to another pitch. Only problem was, being a small van(only 28feet) by comparison to most others, we had some difficulty making our hoses/ cables reach all the connections at once! A ' this is our spot' sign was not one of the many things on board, and not something we'd have thought of, as we usually tow a caravan.
Sorry, not in UK, but thought it illustrated the point being made
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