Site Directory and Map 2017/2018
Has anyone received theirs yet. Any idea when they will be sent out.
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Not until mid February I am afraid.???
Your 2017/18 Sites Directory and Handbook is coming soon
The 2017/18 edition of The Club’s Sites Directory and Handbook will be with you soon, but a little later than usual. We have a number of exciting projects and developments which will impact upon the content of the handbook,
so the latest edition will be with you in mid February.Rest assured that all site Club site and CL information is available and up to date on our website and UK Sites App.
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Is the delay in the availability of the handbook part of a cunning plan to push people towards the app?
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Is the delay in the availability of the handbook part of a cunning plan to push people towards the app?
The trouble is if you want to use the app on booking day to peruse site details, it is not available. However, I presume it will still be available, last download of info, off line. Unfortunately to do this, due to how the app is written, I have to switch
wifi off on my pad. If the app has access to the wifi it can see the app is not available and refuses to load. Turn wifi off and it loads straight away. Only found this out by accident when the app was down recently.0 -
I wouldn't be bothered if it didn't arrive at all. Not made use of it for years. I appreaciate that some people do which is fine. I do all my research and bookings online. I would like to see the CC introduce an online only membership option, with no handbook or magazine like the C&CC do, at a slightly reduced membership fee.
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Agree ET. They could happily ditch the magazine for me, stick a few (note the word few!) adverts in Handbook and let us have it annually. Would do CLs a favour as well, not having to wait two years to update.
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The handbook wins for me everytime, battery power has let me down!
And for us, and a decent map too is reqired. Can't always get signal when on some CLs so need book to seek follow-on sites, and use it for the directions to sites, as well.
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I wouldn't be bothered if it didn't arrive at all. Not made use of it for years. I appreaciate that some people do which is fine. I do all my research and bookings online. I would like to see the CC introduce an online only membership option, with no
handbook or magazine like the C&CC do, at a slightly reduced membership fee.Snap, the only time it is sometimes used is when approaching site for directions.This could also easily be made unnecessay by adding site directions to the email confirming a booking.
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I wouldn't be bothered if it didn't arrive at all. Not made use of it for years. I appreaciate that some people do which is fine. I do all my research and bookings online. I would like to see the CC introduce an online only membership option, with no handbook or magazine like the C&CC do, at a slightly reduced membership fee.
Snap, the only time it is sometimes used is when approaching site for directions.This could also easily be made unnecessay by adding site directions to the email confirming a booking.
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If you have a smartphone or a pad the directions are available on the app, even when you have no internet connection. We never take the book with us these days, although do refer to it occasionally at home. However, as you say it would be very easy to add them to the email, particularly the enjoy your holiday one, which has a little map, address and lat + long already. Perhaps they will take note.
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If you have a smartphone or a pad the directions are available on the app, even when you have no internet connection.
I had forgotten that Steve, even so my other half isn't that good with Apps and technology and I do need the directions read to me for the last few miles when I am driving even as a check to what I have programmed into the sat nav using waypoints.
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I wouldn't be bothered if it didn't arrive at all. Not made use of it for years. I appreaciate that some people do which is fine. I do all my research and bookings online. I would like to see the CC introduce an online only membership option, with no
handbook or magazine like the C&CC do, at a slightly reduced membership fee.Snap, the only time it is sometimes used is when approaching site for directions.This could also easily be made unnecessay by adding site directions to the email confirming a booking.
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Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
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and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.0 -
Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
), and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.A very small minority! They will be the ones who will eventually have to pay a higher subscription for a paper service.
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I hope this years map is easier to read than last effort. I think it poor as well that a new map and at least any site ammendments are not sent out annually instead of issuing the info every two years.
Site ammendments and map changes could be printed in the "magazine" on a special page that turned the printed bit into stickers to put on the map.
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Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
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and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.A very small minority! They will be the ones who will eventually have to pay a higher subscription for a paper service.
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The club have to be fair to all and I am not sure if giving a discount for an online service only is that. Personally I prefer to have the printed items as well as access to the web service and to me the discount is simply not big enough to change my mind
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Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
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and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.A very small minority! They will be the ones who will eventually have to pay a higher subscription for a paper service.
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Are you sure about that in both respects? Just because the C&CC does that, there's been no indication that the CC will follow suit. I would think that there's a lot more than you imagine who don't book through the internet. Don't forget that CT is certainly
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Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
),
and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.A very small minority! They will be the ones who will eventually have to pay a higher subscription for a paper service.
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Are you sure about that in both respects? Just because the C&CC does that, there's been no indication that the CC will follow suit. I would think that there's a lot more than you imagine who don't book through the internet. Don't forget that CT is certainly
not representative of the full membership.The numbers of the UK population using the internet is round about the 95 percent mark, the figure is even higher for those with mobile phones. Its about progress and cost savings.
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As we are now well into the 21st century and the internet is available to all, if they so choose, I would suggest that on - line documentation should be the default and if some people want to also have a printed version of the list of sites and a map they
should have the ability to request those items for an extra charge. Other camping organisations successfully use this method.Cheers............K
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Agree with Wildwood . Quote
" The club have to be fair to all and I am not sure if giving a discount for an online service only is that." Even if you have smartphone/tablet etc & choose to use WiFi/Interenet connections they can at times be problematic away from home.0 -
Maybe for some but there'll be many who don't have wifi on their phones, only use a laptop at home for their bookings & don't have a printer either ( or one that doesn't work, anyway
),
and others without any internet who rely soley on the site directory for site information & directions.A very small minority! They will be the ones who will eventually have to pay a higher subscription for a paper service.
peedee
Are you sure about that in both respects? Just because the C&CC does that, there's been no indication that the CC will follow suit. I would think that there's a lot more than you imagine who don't book through the internet. Don't forget that CT is certainly
not representative of the full membership.The numbers of the UK population using the internet is round about the 95 percent mark, the figure is even higher for those with mobile phones. Its about progress and cost savings.
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The numbers using internet might be 95% but I would venture a guess that those having access to mobile internet is significantly less.
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The numbers using internet might be 95% but I would venture a guess that those having access to mobile internet is significantly less.
Even the cheapest of phones have access to the internet these days. Even so what ever did we do before the advent of all this technology? What is wrong with using a public phone box or even asking the site manager/warden to book ahead for you if technology
fails you.peedee
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