Camping key card
Hi has anyone used camping key card ? the site we go to in France has stopped dealing with camping cheque and have recommended camping key as a possible alternative.
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They are quite different. Camping Key is an ID card, principally providing the site owner with insurance in case you damage his property. He may in return, or may not give you a tiny price reduction. Usually not in my experience.
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The Camping Key Card is quite useful when booking into a campsite as it has all the details of you name and address and passport number on it which saves trying to converse and explain UK addresses in a different language. If you are using ACSI campsites
they are usually more than happy to accept the ACSI Card in the same way. I always add an address label so they also have all my details if needed.David
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Do you get Camping Key Card when you take out Red Pennant these days, or have I imagined it? I know in years gone by you used to get a Camping Carnet.
David
Yes, camping key now not carnet, although you can get a carnet with Acsi.
I don't think that's what DSB meant; I think he was talking about the Camping Carnet, which is what the CC used to issue before the Camping Key card. In fact, the C&CC still issue the Camping Carnet. I think it's because the CC is no longer affiliated with the FICC, that they no longer issue it. But no doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong!
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There are two separate cards with acsi. The normal acsi card you show to get the discounted price, however, the acsi ID card is the one the site will retain in lieu of passport and provides the insurance cover mentioned above. The ID card costs extra unless
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There are two separate cards with acsi. The normal acsi card you show to get the discounted price, however, the acsi ID card is the one the site will retain in lieu of passport and provides the insurance cover mentioned above. The ID card costs extra unless
you are buying a bundled package.Thanks hitchglitch that's the one I meant, we just use that one, nobody seemed to want the camping Key when we have handed it over, might be differant this year as they are getting more widely known. In Spain they want to scan your passport anyway.
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What I was keen to know is whether the CC issue a Camping Key Card automatically (free of charge) when you take out Red Pennant. In years gone by the CC used to issue a Camping Carnet free with Red Pennant - if my memory serves me correctly.
David
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No one has been particularly bothered about seeing our ACSI ID in the past (we didn't bother getting one this year) and we've never been asked for a passport (not that I would leave that anywhere).
Is filling your name and address on a form (instead of waiting for them to copy the details from a card) a great hardship?
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No one has been particularly bothered about seeing our ACSI ID in the past (we didn't bother getting one this year) and we've never been asked for a passport (not that I would leave that anywhere).
Is filling your name and address on a form (instead of waiting for them to copy the details from a card) a great hardship?
IanH, we've never left our passports, they have a scanner type thing that they pass the passport through, then they hand it back to you. Only ever been asked for passport in Spain so far. France seems to be quite happy with the Acsi cards or CC's
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I think it is security against people staying for a while then driving away without paying. Certainly one of our regular sites in France keeps the ID card until we leave.
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No one has been particularly bothered about seeing our ACSI ID in the past (we didn't bother getting one this year) and we've never been asked for a passport (not that I would leave that anywhere).
Is filling your name and address on a form (instead of waiting for them to copy the details from a card) a great hardship?
Asking for passports is less common now but still does happen, we had to hand ours over in Croatia and get them back the next day.
..How many clones of AD are now in circulation
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My view is that a passport is a very important (and valuable) document and should never be allowed out of your possession.
Its not optional when its the law of the country.Do it or go elsewhere
It well be the law to collect information, David.....but let them take the details that they need and then hand back your passport.
No one has the right to take your passport from you.
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A few years ago near Pula in Croatia, on arrival at a site, we were asked to hand over our passport. We refused, and said they could take the necessary details, but we weren't leaving it with them. The lady was adamant we had to leave it, so we told her
we would go elsewhere and got back into our MH. Before we had even started the engine, she came running out from reception to stop us from going, and told us we didn't have to leave our passport with her, all she needed were a few details from it. So we
decided to stay. But there is no way we'd leave a passport with any site reception - I've seen the way some sites throw CCIs and other forms of ID in a basket, hardly a safe way of keeping them. I've also heard of someone being given the wrong CCI back.
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I have travelled all over the world and in many places you have to deposit your passport. It doesnt really worry me, you are hardly likely to get stranded in the EU.
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My view is that a passport is a very important (and valuable) document and should never be allowed out of your possession.
Its not optional when its the law of the country.Do it or go elsewhere
It well be the law to collect information, David.....but let them take the details that they need and then hand back your passport.
No one has the right to take your passport from you.
Write your comments here...take several photocopies of the details from your passport but NEVER NEVER let your passport out of your hands... especially in EASTERN bloc Countries. SG2
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My view is that a passport is a very important (and valuable) document and should never be allowed out of your possession.
Its not optional when its the law of the country.Do it or go elsewhere
It well be the law to collect information, David.....but let them take the details that they need and then hand back your passport.
No one has the right to take your passport from you.
Write your comments here...take several photocopies of the details from your passport but NEVER NEVER let your passport out of your hands... especially in EASTERN bloc Countries. SG2
Good luck with that. I visited Russia many times on business and passports were always kept overnight. In places like Sudan you surrender it to the hotel and don't see it again until you leave. Europe's a bit different of course and I am sure that you can
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Croatia and the UK are outside the Schengen area so still maintain strict passport controls, but 28 other countries of Western Europe are members of that zone and have abolished those checks and controls. I think that explains why some of you have found things stricter in Croatia.
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We dont volunteer to part with ours but I don't think its worth the fuss described here, maybe some small site might bend the rules to keep a client from walking but on a 1000 pitch site nearly full I dont think they would follow you to the car park and
plead with you. Apart from anything else I would have thought the market for passports of 70 year old white men is fairly small.Write your comments here...not by a single 70 year old woman it isn't.
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