Booking myth?
My LPG Gas man came today also a Caravanner so we were chatting about the CC. He complained about the booking system announcing it unfair that people could book as many sites as they pleased for weekends. Surely the December bookings don't allow the same person to book several sites on the SAME date??? My understanding is that you can book 52 weekends but only one site each time? He was sure he was right and if so I would agree that isn't on! Am I right or is he?
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Thank you JayEss I will correct him when he returns with spare part. We can't have misinformed grumbles about the CC now can we?! I thought the system had stopped me once when I put a wrong date in when making two bookings one after the other. I suppose
if you had several membership numbers you could do it but that would be expensive!PS I have no idea where the as came from in the thread title!
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Of course if you wanted to book 52vweekends on booking opening day you could but as you are limited to 1bbooking then sent to the back of the queue even at 5 minutes each (logging in, booking etc.) it would take nearly 5 hours non stop you would have to be determined to do that!
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Doubt that it would take that long. I have booked around 22 sites this year. Not all wekends as I don't weekend but mainly 5 days per site and a couple of longer stays. 17 of them were CC. Took less than an hour (including making cofees) by which time booking speeded up. Could probably book 52 weekends in 2.5 hours.
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The statistics given by the Club on bookings suggest that very few people make bookings for every weekend, so whilst possible it's a bit of a myth that it actually happens a great deal.
David
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At least I can now tell the gas man that people can't book the same weekend on multiple sites and choose nearer the time - which is what he believed. Not good for the Club to have people believing the wrong thing I would say.
However they can book multiple CLs & 1 club site for the same w/e. Perhaps that's where he's got his misconception.
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Perhaps the reason weekends are so often booked up is because a lot of members want to camp at weekends.
Or is that just too simple?
I think you are totally right, some people just have to work Monday to Friday, and even those who don't may have children or grandchildren who attend school so can only be taken away at weekends
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i wonder how much money is lost by the club because a longer booking say, five or more days, is lost because the Saturday night bookings fill the site ?
rgds
A lot, I would think.
Unfortunately, their only answer to this is to keep increasing pitch prices.
It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself.
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Would it be worth the expense? Not to me.
Me neither.
But maybe it's worth it to some, to have two choices available for summer weekends?
I really don't think anyone would do that would they? £40+ just to have two chances to book and cancel just outside 72 hours?
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i wonder how much money is lost by the club because a longer booking say, five or more days, is lost because the Saturday night bookings fill the site ?
rgds
so are you saying that people just book for a Saturday night and therefore stopping other people having a longer break? Well firstly we all pay the same membership fee so are you saying that those that book longer stays should have more rights than others?
But in reality this one night Saturday booking is perhaps a myth. Saturday nights are popluar for a number of reasons:
For those that work on Friday and arrive on a Saturday for a long stay holiday
Those that have been staying on a long stay holiday will leave on a Sunday (for work on Monday perhaps?) rather than a Saturday.
Those that stay midweek to midweek
Those that just do a weekend
Add all those up and that is why Saturday nights are so popular.
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i wonder how much money is lost by the club because a longer booking say, five or more days, is lost because the Saturday night bookings fill the site ?
rgds
A lot, I would think.
Unfortunately, their only answer to this is to keep increasing pitch prices.
It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself.
It is not folly. The advantage of the club is that you can stay a few nights and move on. Not Friday to Friday etc
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"It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself."
Well, I've seen mention of 3 or 4 empty pitches, but empty SITES at peak period? Are you sure you've seen that reported, Ian?
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"It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself."
Well, I've seen mention of 3 or 4 empty pitches, but empty SITES at peak period? Are you sure you've seen that reported, Ian?
And if that were true (the empty sites) then there shouldn't be a problem getting a pitch on a Saturday night? One or the other really?
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"It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself."
Well, I've seen mention of 3 or 4 empty pitches, but empty SITES at peak period? Are you sure you've seen that reported, Ian?
Empty as in not full.......refer to the "Where is everyone" thread for numerous reports of loads of empty spaces on Club sites.
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Well I can't quite see that "not full" and "empty" are quite synonymous, but that's by the by. I don't suppose you also saw my post about "not full" sites (commercial ones) in the Perranporth area? Even Perran Sands (Haven) apparently has spaces and is "not full".
It's not just CC sites that are "not full" at the moment, both the private sites we stayed at on our recent tour had plenty of spare pitches too.
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"It would appear (from reports of empty sites at peak period) that the folly of this practise is starting to show itself."
Well, I've seen mention of 3 or 4 empty pitches, but empty SITES at peak period? Are you sure you've seen that reported, Ian?
Empty as in not full.......refer to the "Where is everyone" thread for numerous reports of loads of empty spaces on Club sites.
...Usual exaggeration of fact probably, learning to be in the media ?
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Empty means containing nothing, there is no other meaning! If a site has one outfit on it is not empty. An empty house, an empty train...
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>> Cornersteady
I was thinking aloud and not making any jibe a people who want a Saturday night away. We all need a break sometime.
The navigator and I are lucky enough to be flexible in arranging times to go away but tend to go from mid week to late midweek. Often I look for sites and find that the weekend is booked so cannot book through.
I have often thought about winging it and taking a chance on a no show, the odds against someone not turning up for some reason are fairly high, so we could fill the space. However there is a chance that we could be off the site. If returning after a night
in a lay-bys, this could lead to becoming embroiled in the 72 hour rule. Effectively tying any stay on a CC site to a minimum of 3 days.Rgds
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