Haven ....never again
Comments
-
Does it matter which site and which year?
This is why I don't use club sites when grass pitches are in use.
Yes of course it does - we have had over 60 nights on grass this year and had no problems at all but this year has been dry (I would say) had it rained alot then of course grass can get slippy.
0 -
My point is that all grass pitches have the potential to end up like this at any time of the year
Potential maybe but on a well managed site it doesn't have to happen and some sites are very well drained so short of a monsoon there shouldn't be a problem - Dunnet Head CC for example appeared to be very well drained when we were there, others of course are not so well drained. The thing is not everyone wants to pitch on a car park and that is just what some sites look like on the other hand if the site is in a wet area on boggy clay then clearly more use of HS is needed. It's nice to have a mix.
I would also stick my neck out and say the the majority of caravanners (not motorhomes) would prefer to be on grass during the summer rather than HS.
0 -
My point is that all grass pitches have the potential to end up like this at any time of the year
Potential maybe but on a well managed site it doesn't have to happen and some sites are very well drained so short of a monsoon there shouldn't be a problem - Dunnet Head CC for example appeared to be very well drained when we were there, others of course
are not so well drained. The thing is not everyone wants to pitch on a car park and that is just what some sites look like on the other hand if the site is in a wet area on boggy clay then clearly more use of HS is needed. It's nice to have a mix.I would also stick my neck out and say the the majority of caravanners (not motorhomes) would prefer to be on grass during the summer rather than HS.
From my experience over a few years of peak season use on club sites I would disagree. On a CL maybe but on club sites the grass is the last to go and many move off grass as soon as a HS becomes free
What people say and what they do is different.
0 -
My point is that all grass pitches have the potential to end up like this at any time of the year
Potential maybe but on a well managed site it doesn't have to happen and some sites are very well drained so short of a monsoon there shouldn't be a problem - Dunnet Head CC for example appeared to be very well drained when we were there, others of course are not so well drained. The thing is not everyone wants to pitch on a car park and that is just what some sites look like on the other hand if the site is in a wet area on boggy clay then clearly more use of HS is needed. It's nice to have a mix.
I would also stick my neck out and say the the majority of caravanners (not motorhomes) would prefer to be on grass during the summer rather than HS.
From my experience over a few years of peak season use on club sites I would disagree. On a CL maybe but on club sites the grass is the last to go and many move off grass as soon as a HS becomes free
What people say and what they do is different.
We will have to agree to disagree on that one. Here is Daleacres CC at the end of July - the grass looks quite popular to me unlike the HS.
0 -
"Dunnet Head CC for example appeared to be very well drained when we were there,"
Dunnet Bay, like Godrevy Park and the Haven Perran Sands site, is on sand. They are all virtually on the dunes so drain very fast and aren't typical of grass sites.
0 -
My experience has certainly been that on most sites grass is the last to go even in good weather.
Good point about Daleacres. I wondered why so many on grass. Not usual IMO on most CC sites. There are 41 none serviced hard standings I reckon and 81 grass. With those odds it is one site I would normally avoid.
0 -
Probably an expensive bit of mud though!
0 -
Haven do mud sooo much cheaper
0 -
I had second thoughts about going to Seacroft. 1n early July. 25 non serviced HS and 53 grass. We got the last HS when we arrived about 12.15 on Thursday 7th July. If I had weighed up the site properly when I booked I would have paid the extra to gain serviced
hard standing. The standpipe would probably have been used once to fill aquaroll on arrival0 -
Haven do mud sooo much cheaper
Write your comments here... There's the old saying......you get what you pay for some members say they don't pay CC prices , & go elsewhere ..........then enjoy elsewhere standards
0 -
It's a Temporary Holiday Site run, usually, by local associations of C&CC, John.
Write your comments here...Thank you TW.
0 -
Haven do mud sooo much cheaper
Write your comments here... There's the old saying......you get what you pay for some members say they don't pay CC prices , & go elsewhere ..........then enjoy elsewhere standards
It can work either way, Compass. After leaving Haven in disgust we moved on to Wareham with 3 sites in mind. (4 if you include the unloved, by us, Hunters Moon.) We called in at Birchwood Tourist Park and stayed two nights on a fully serviced part paved HS pitch for a couple of ££ less than a standard pitch at Hunters Moon. The site is near HM but the other side of the road and the pitching area is well away from the road. No traffic noise and no scrap yard. We'll use Birchwood again rather than HM.
0 -
My experience has certainly been that on most sites grass is the last to go even in good weather.
Good point about Daleacres. I wondered why so many on grass. Not usual IMO on most CC sites. There are 41 none serviced hard standings I reckon and 81 grass. With those odds it is one site I would normally avoid.
No need to worry - it never rains here in Kent
0 -
My experience has certainly been that on most sites grass is the last to go even in good weather.
That's because you only go to sites where people don't like grass......touche !
0 -
Love a nice sward - look at this beauty
0 -
Where's that BB? The background looks a bit like Leither Meadow @ St Davids but the slope suggests otherwise.
TF
You are correct TF - good spot. May this year - absolute cracker of a site so long as you stay away from the Jackdaws ! (or were they Crows or Rooks can't remember)
0 -
Where's that BB? The background looks a bit like Leither Meadow @ St Davids but the slope suggests otherwise.
TF
You are correct TF - good spot. May this year - absolute cracker of a site so long as you stay away from the Jackdaws ! (or were they Crows or Rooks can't remember)
The last time we were there it was mud everywhere
0 -
Ha, ha! I think we'd probably all expect mud on a grass pitch in West Wales but not on a supposedly HS pitch at Haven.
0 -
We have not had mud on a HS but at our "bolt hole"site we have been under 3" of water,and also at Black Knowl this year in May
You need to try Haven for muddy HS.
0
