Camper van parking etiquette
can anyone advise if there are rules regarding the parking of camper vans inward or outward facing on pitch. Some of the foreign made vans have awnings and living quarter doors on the offside. Consequently when these are reversed onto a pitch they end up
facing directly into their neighbours pitch. This is a situation I am currently having to accept with about eight feet between my awning entrance and my 'neighbours sun loungers ??. No use speaking to staff - this pitch was reserved for the occupants arrival
and it is clear from the hugs and kisses on arrival that they are good friends.
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I assume you are on a club site, then you can park whichever way you wish, nose in or reverse, as along as you are to the peg. Some sites like Chatsworth do have set rules but I'm not even sure if they apply to MH
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So are you saying as a caravaner I can pitch nose first if I choose too ?
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Never am sure which side the car goes on non awning pitches (can be pitch dependant it seems) but if the hab. door of motorcaravan opens onto where the car would have been I see no problem. Similarly if the hab. door opens on the other side next to where the neighbours car would be then I see no problem either as long as fire breaks are intact all should be well. When two carless motorcaravans are adjacent to each other all should be well either way.
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So there MAY be a rule depending on which site / wardens views /own rules
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If memory serves me right it was publicised many years ago just after the dinosaurs left, that it had to be "hitch out" so that 'vans could be moved if there was a fire. (presumably to avoid news stories that would embarrass the site owners.) It would be
speciaal fire there, of course, that would jump the 6m that gives protection elsewhere in the country. Now with hitch locks, wheel locks, chains through wheels, etc there seems no point in the "rule".0 -
"Our Friends" some years ago when working on a one couple site,were only given a couple of days off a month(before the WTD)the couple who covered them were of the really old school,and on arrival back on site were met by said relief warden,who wanted to know whether a report needed giving to EGH as a caravan had pitched nose in to get a view and would not turn it round to park it as it "should be"
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... they end up facing directly into their neighbours pitch. This is a situation I am currently having to accept with about eight feet between my awning entrance and my 'neighbours sun loungers ??. ....
Have you tied talking to your neighbours? They might e really nice & you both get on like a house on fire
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We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received.
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We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received.
Such an approach from a neighbour would not upset me My response would (in nicely couched wording) be 'tough whatsits fella'.
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We are practically semi-detached! However I don't think however nicely or tactfully I approached the subject - it's not likely to be well received.
Such an approach from a neighbour would not upset me My response would (in nicely couched wording) be 'tough whatsits fella'.
Just live and let live. Unless they are a proper nuisance of course.
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Provided you have the 3m gap between your awning and their canopy then that is all that is required. If you have a grass strip between you then that can be a problem with facing awnings as you both may want to sit on the grass.
We have a M/H and it depends on the view/ slope of pitch which way round we park.
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Once someone very nicely asked if I minded them going in front first so their door was facing our van. I replied that we were only there one night, but that I had no problem with it at all, and could not see that it should present a problem to anyone else.
Looks like I might have been wrong from the OP.??0 -
It seems "main site" caravanning is not the right type of caravanning/motorhoming if one is hung-up at being overlooked.
It is not for me either but not really for that reason, its simply all too cramped however one or ones neighbours are pitched. A big field,open view CL/CS is far more our thing.
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how do you think your neighbours feel about you looking at them....?
were they on their pitch before you arrived?
perhaps you would like to go nose in and then all would be well in your world?
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how do you think your neighbours feel about you looking at them....?
were they on their pitch before you arrived?
perhaps you would like to go nose in and then all would be well in your world?
But BB, what's on the pitch on the other side? Could be a UK unit, nose out, then it would still be the same problem.
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True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?
merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....
answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....
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I do feel that if you mind someone facing you like that on a campsite caravaning/MH isn't really for you
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True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?
merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....
answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....
Of course not BB; it was said tongue in cheek, but I forgot to add the relevant emoticon
Agree with you, it's not important, there are far more serious things to worry about in life; but...everyone is different I s'pose.
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True, Ina...but we're not suggesting that Conti vehicles must 'tow the line' and blend in with others are we?
merely that those who find themselves on site, may find themselves on site next to a 'wrong way rounder'....
answer, just get in with enjoying your holiday....
Of course not BB; it was said tongue in cheek, but I forgot to add the relevant emoticon
Agree with you, it's not important, there are far more serious things to worry about in life; but...everyone is different I s'pose.
Haha, perhaps I should have added one or two myself....
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As long as you can still park right-way-up all will be fine!
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I think good order, neatness and symmetry should be maintained. It always was so on Club sites in the past and it's a sign of the times that standards have fallen.
PS I am over on the mainland where no one gives a damn what you guys on the island choose to do.
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, there is more to this motorhoming lark than i first thought