Caravanner of the Year on BBC this April!
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Very Sad! Not a good, or true representation of the Caravan Club....... In fact, Shambolic.
Write your comments here...do you mean this Forum or the programme?
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Well, I think the great British Caravanning fraternity have expressed what they think - me included and although posts may have been removed, I think the message re bafoonary will have reached EG Towers and there will be a little unease in the hallowed corridors!
Thanks to CT for at least bearing with us while we ranted! Time to move on.0 -
Well, I think the great British Caravanning fraternity have expressed what they think - me included and although posts may have been removed, I think the message re bafoonary will have reached EG Towers and there will be a little unease in the hallowed corridors!
Thanks to CT for at least bearing with us while we ranted! Time to move on.Well at least until next week
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Sadly the club have shot themselves in the foot getting involved in this fiasco. The Chairman has made himself look a complete prune and done damage to the reputation of the club.
He has proved that although it takes yeasr to build up a reputation as being a sensible and responsible organisation, it takes only one idiotic action to destroy it. The TV company involved must be rubbing their hands together in delight at succeeding in
persuading a (previously thought of) eminent person to play the clown for the general public's entertainment.Suspecting how difficult it will be to unseat him, I call upon him to resign for bringing the club into disrepute. His actions were a disgrace.
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Well, I think the great British Caravanning fraternity have expressed what they think - me included and although posts may have been removed, I think the message re bafoonary will have reached EG Towers and there will be a little unease in the hallowed corridors! Thanks to CT for at least bearing with us while we ranted! Time to move on.
I reckon there will be loads of spare Sites Directories available for next year Merve !! How many can you handle
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Clearly someone is removing posts they don't agree with. Grow a pair and let us mere members know your playing at......If your complicit be prepared to justify yourselves. ?....you cannot censor all social media.....this is only going to get worse....just remember your not as big as Tesco or Vw.....bigger names have disappeared from the world than the CC who ignore what's staring them in the face.
Tj
And posts as rude as this will get the thread closed down
Write your comments here...there is nothing rude about the post of which you complain. It is merely stating facts, if in slightly colourful language. The attempt to censor member's views on their own forum only makes matters worse.
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I did not enjoy the programme because I couldn't decide if it was meant to be serious or a comedy. I am disappointed that the club appeared to be taking it seriously.
In my relatively short membership and use of club sites this was not a reflection of the people we have met. It will not stop us from caravanning or using club sites but I did suffer in the staffroom today! Luckily the jokes do not bother me.
I do question the judgement of the chairman in tackling the slope with his van and allowing the footage to be shown. It is in my opinion a missed opportunity on the clubs part to promote caravanning but in the long term I doubt it will do permanent damage.
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Not sure who raised but you are right CC have closed their Facebook page. Do they not realise this only makes it worse. Someone in the CC has cocked up (and I think we all know who) so just accept it, and do the honourable thing. Do you think he will have
his membership cancelled?Write your comments here... Was me! The page is totally blank. So I think that's a measure of how bad the response is.
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Clearly someone is removing posts they don't agree with. Grow a pair and let us mere members know WTF your playing at......If your complicit be prepared to justify yourselves. ?....you cannot censor all social media.....this is only going to get worse....just
remember your not as big as Tesco or Vw.....bigger names have disappeared from the world than the CC who ignore what's staring them in the face.Tj
And posts as rude as this will get the thread closed down
Write your comments here...there is nothing rude about the post of which you complain. It is merely stating facts, if in slightly colourful language. The attempt to censor member's views on their own forum only makes matters worse.
Clearly we have different standards, please don't "try and sensor" my opinion!!!
Kev
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Please spare a thought for the good hearted but clearly inexperienced competitors. On face value they had no idea of what they were going to be asked to do. As members if we see people struggling we would offer help would'nt we and not humiliate them. So
yes this programme made caravanners look inexperienced but anyone with half a brain cell would know that we are not all like that. The competitors had guts to join in and the CC should be ashamed of themselves for their part in their humiliation.0 -
I reckon most people, posting on here would fail the reversing test.
No sense of proportion.
the reversing part done inside the barn is the same as the dvla reversing part of the towing test.
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I had a phone call from a night lorry driver yesterday early evening. Three fellow CC members told him about the program so had recorded it. This was the first chance he had had to veiw it after a 14 hour shift. His comment was below!
'I have just wasted an hour of my life watching this sh*t, what the hell were the Caravan Club thinking? Who the hell was the idiot trying to drive up that hill? He needs his brains tested'!
Another CC member who is leaving as he also said ' they look after my money, God help us'!
I have ti agree!
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I have watched the programme. I don't have a problem with any of the competitors on the show. There are a wide range of people who use caravans and motorhomes. My problem is purely with the chairman of the caravan club. Never has a chairman done more damage
to a corporation since Gerald Ratner described their jewellery as crap. He came across as totally anal. It is going to take a lot of hard work from the marketing team to recover the image of the club.0 -
Will "a thousand quids worth of Wedgewood" have taken the weight over MTPLM and give the insurers a reason to reject any claim?
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Will "a thousand quids worth of Wedgewood" have taken the weight over MTPLM and give the insurers a reason to reject any claim?
Regardless, fifty quids worth of melamine and clear plastic does the job just as well and doesn't mark one down as a pretentious fool (watch this post get swiftly removed
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Oh dear, dear, dear…..as a caravaner for near 40 years, and all enjoyable. A club member for near 30 years, I feel compelled to add comment like so many others after watching Caravaner Of The Year! What an utter disgrace that our Senior representatives and
the Caravan Club managed to get this so wrong! Such an opportunity missed to promote our club and the benefits that caravanning has to offer, and the professional way in which the organisation is run.This was a complete comedy farce, NO...not even funny, what ever do the clubs P.R. department do? Do we have one? did no-one even think, preview or think what the effects of such a poorly produced piece of TV would have on the Caravan Club??
I do believe rather than organising future “Grand Annual Events” and “Glitzy Get Togethers” our senior club representatives should be out at sites meeting club members / wardens and getting back to grass roots of what its all about and what members want.
I do believe they have got “To Big For There Boots”! It resembles a club for the elite at senior level. If I had produced such a piece of work for my current employers, I would be hugely embarrassed never mind the impact and perception that would have on the
company!Remember what happened to Fred Goodwin, he was getting to big for his boots also!
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Remember what happened to Fred Goodwin, ...
He rode off into the sunset with a fistful of dollars..... Lesser mortals just get a P45.
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I do believe rather than organising future “Grand Annual Events” and “Glitzy Get Togethers” our senior club representatives should be out at sites meeting club members / wardens and getting back to grass roots of what its all about and what members want.
I do believe they have got “To Big For There Boots”! It resembles a club for the elite at senior level. If I had produced such a piece of work for my current employers, I would be hugely embarrassed never mind the impact and perception that would have on the
company! Remember what happened to Fred Goodwin, he was getting to big for his boots also!I agree !
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I’ve started an alternative thread. It is an invitation to all to turn your considerable talents to the positive side and tell CC Ltd what we would like to see and how it should be portrayed.
Write your comments here...and the title of the thread is..........
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I have read than many of you are going to cancell your bookings and also cancel your membership, how many have already done so, and will it mean that many sites will now have empty pitches on the weekend that the rest of us can now book, or have you calmed
down and changed your minds. Just asking because we can all do and say what we think is a good idea only to regret it later.0 -
Schoolboy jokes about erections, boasting about a £1000 of Wedgewood, Gin and Tonic not level, damaging a caravan by irresponsible behaviour ( no doubt claiming it on Caravan Club Insurance) with all that so called experience not, as a judge, pointing out
it is impossible to reverse a very small trailer. More and more. This unfortunately to me demonstrates the remote world that the people who run our club, sorry their business, live in. Very sad that they let this happen and allowed this portrayal of our hobby.
Facebook page shut, and posts removed. What is going on. You can't blame the TV programme makers from showing what the Club set up. PS I thought you couldn't reserve pitches together on a Club Site?0 -
I have read than many of you are going to cancell your bookings and also cancel your membership, how many have already done so, and will it mean that many sites will now have empty pitches on the weekend that the rest of us can now book, or have you calmed
down and changed your minds. Just asking because we can all do and say what we think is a good idea only to regret it later.There is defintely a free pitch at Tewkesbury this weekend if anyone wants it, I have gone to Blackmore (CCC) instead.
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