Hardstanding

MartinGillott1969
MartinGillott1969 Forum Participant Posts: 5
edited April 2012 in Your stories #1

We have just returned from Seacroft at Cromer after having a lovely long Easter weekend away. This is the first time that we have been to this site as many people have said how good it is, thankfully we were second in the queue on check in day and was luky to get a hard standing pitch. There are vertually no level grass pitches on this site so if you don't have any levelling blocks you could really struggle especially if you intend using a full awning. I'm not sure if it has been a bad winter around Cromer but we really struggled to get our awning pegs to stay in the hard standing, they just kept pulling out of the ground and on asking some other people with awnings they said that they were also struggling.

 

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  • GTP
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    edited April 2012 #2

    Ooops....we are going there this coming Sunday for a week ....should we cancel and go elsewhere!!!  Incidentally if you go to our sister clubs 'newish' site at Conkers...you will experience a similar problem with awning pegs.  

  • MartinGillott1969
    MartinGillott1969 Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited April 2012 #3

    I wouldn't say cancel but I would definately aim to arive on site by 11am if you can to try and get to the front of the queue.

    We only started caravaning in July last year and couldn't understand why people went for the hard standing pitches first but after the second trip and getting up to a very damp awning we now understand why hard standings are busy.

  • debnjon
    debnjon Forum Participant Posts: 7
    edited July 2012 #4

    hardstandings are not without flooding problems , we pitched on number thirteen at willingcott , now i`m not suspicious as I was born on the thirteenth , in fact the warden and myself had a giggle about me picking that number I tend to pick the pitch and
    jon will reverse onto it with a bit of flapping arm directions , all went well , full awning up , filled with the usual , that night the heavens opened , the awning was flapping about in the wind !! I woke Jon up and told him I was going to repeg the awning
    down . He thought I was mad as it was 3am , but I couldnt rest so out I went , as I stepped into the awning the water came over my ankle bones !!! I was wide awake then , couldnt help but see the funny side even though the water was freezing , repegged the
    awning but we moved pitch the next day , having to take the awning down then erect it again , the wardens who were running the site for the first time that year were shocked, but some regulars were well aware that number thirteen always floods . Perhaps these
    sort of problems should be past on to new wardens , who I have to say were lovely , so it isnt always the grass pitches that get completely flooded folks !!

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