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  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2016 #32

    >> 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

    Thanks for the reply, some good points

  • IanH
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    edited July 2016 #33

    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? Wink

    Stranger things have happened.

    Anyway, I assume they would book two sites and then cancel the one that they didn't fancy going to?

  • young thomas
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    edited July 2016 #34

    ...perhaps in two differing goegrphical areas....hedging bets?Happy

  • cyberyacht
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    edited August 2016 #35

    Can you really go far enough in opposite directions for a weekend to get significantly different weather? It's not like a continental holiday where you can keep driving south until the sun comes out.

  • EasyT
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    edited August 2016 #36

    Can you really go far enough in opposite directions for a weekend to get significantly different weather? It's not like a continental holiday where you can keep driving south until the sun comes out.

    You can. If I went from here to Anglesey about 65 miles. To Holmes Chapel area about 40 miles so either 75 mins drive or 45 mins. So that is probably a seperation of 80 miles. When on hoiday in Scotland earlier this year we were able to miss bad weather
    by travelling 25 miles west on a day out instead of 15 miles east.

    Dout many do though

  • papgeno
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    edited August 2016 #37

    We spent a week on Anglesey a good many years ago and often found that driving from one side of the island to the other was enough to see a significant change in the weather.

  • IanH
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    edited August 2016 #38

    Can you really go far enough in opposite directions for a weekend to get significantly different weather? It's not like a continental holiday where you can keep driving south until the sun comes out.

    Opposite sides of the Pennines can have incredibly different weather.

    Fortunately, most of the rain falls on Lancashire before the clouds get over to Yorkshire Laughing

  • IanH
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    edited August 2016 #39

    The 2 coasts of Cornwall can also be very different.....

  • SteveL
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    edited August 2016 #40

    Can you really go far enough in opposite directions for a weekend to get significantly different weather? It's not like a continental holiday where you can keep driving south until the sun comes out.

    As Ian mentioned the Pennines are a significant divide. Forget about a weekend, you can vary where you go on a daily basis. We like Hawes, and simply by driving 12 / 15 miles you can experience two totally different types of weather. In May for instance, when thick cloud and mist has come in off the North Sea and traveled  up the dales, it can be horribly cold and damp In Hawes, but bright and sunny in Ingleton, no guesses for where we picked to walk on those days.

  • Wildwood
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    edited August 2016 #41

    You can get very different weather up here between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Only 35 miles apart but the hills between them do seem to make a difference.