Ferry Meadows_Sad Demise
Been here for many years, some wardens have been better than others. Just arrived for our 1st visit of 2017, how sad. Bank Holiday Monday always a hectic change over day, even a rally. 11.40am just one warden in the office shouting for support into her radio with little response, queues out the door. Caravans queuing out of the large waiting area, all a shambles so sad.
The site looks tired, lots of overgrown trees in need of a good cut back, grass uncut and generally the site looks sad. WARDENS well 1 still riding on the tractor rather than managing the caravans coming and going, it was manic come miďday with significant number if units moving in and out. Come 1.30 when all the demand had subsided a Warden decides to control/manage the entrance but all a bit late.
Worst year in memory for what was a quality site just been to 2 Morris sites in west England far better, standards so much higher. Seems the CC are more intent on name changes than on ensuring the sites are well managed.
Ferry Meadows a sad representation of what it has been. About time the area manager got a grip, well after the name changes that is.
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Hi W & J - always interesting to hear from you. You do seem to have been unlucky with your choice of club sites lately ( well, in fact it's been like that for some time hasn't it?!!
)Hold up - 11:40? Isn't the earliest arrival at Ferry Meadows midday? Naughty, naughty!
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Is this another duplicate thread? I could swear I've read it before.
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Apart from starting this thread have you left a review to this affect? Have you emailed HO? One would hope that these things are picked up in reviews and possibly CT threads. But it cannot be addressed by HO if they haven't had it pointed out to them - that way there's nothing to hide behind 😉
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Pity that some menbers are supportive of any standard. If we dont press for quality what hope is there and at £30 a night is quality management unreasonable. Sorry the CC is not the local scout movement on a weekend trip, they are a commercial operation
Get real some of you.
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Will do give us a mo!!! But given the CC attitude to never acknowledging any thread comments why would one think this is any different, a middle of the road commercial operation with over paid Directors who don't really give a dam.
Just out of interest when did the club last add pitches/sites to the network, get the point perhaps
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For goodness sake, W&J, if you have a complaint take it up in the right quarter. Your constant whinging on here about wardens is very wearing.
Try getting real yourself by looking for some positives in your caravanning exploits. Have a nice day now.
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Not "supportive of any standard" at all, W & J. I might be a bit more sympathetic if there was the least sign that you were being a bit more proactive in overcoming your apparent dislike of club sites and wardens. We've only used 2 club sites this year - Moorhampton and Chatsworth - and been delighted by both.
But some of us have already "got real" and started using CLs and other sites. The answer, if you're so consistently dissatisfied is surely in your own hands.
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I think the problem is that CAMC warden staff had it instilled in them at their induction at the start of the year not to say 'No' to people on their site.
It seems, from this thread and the one by BMB elsewhere, that some of them might be taking this far too literally.
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I think that some members should wake up and smell the coffee, the CMC is not what it used to be in terms of service it's only saving grace is that you can book cost free as many nights as like cost free, oh and don't have to pay for dogs,but you have to pay for awnings and leccy even if you do not want them, heaven forbid if you require a hard standing, there are better operators out there for a lot less and giving more choice, but I remember something about horse's and water.
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Too true. perhaps the Club should take a leaf out of the C&CC, put a sign up and say no admittance before 12pm (or 1pm as in the case of the C&CC.) By the way "queues out of the door" meant all those early arrivals were expecting preferential treatment....why not close the office til the correct time? (Make the W & Js wait...
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What puzzles me is why some folks stay as members. If I had as many complaints and moans about an institution as W&J seem to have, then I would not remain a member.
Conversely, if I was a private club taking fees, I would be asking W&J to "move along" and declining renewal of membership! Sometimes, there are just some folks that are more trouble than what they pay in!
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Sometimes you cannot help but build up a mental picture of individuals......
Warden bashing on a constant basis. Not nice, says more about the OP than it does about the sites, the Wardens, the Club. All there on their profile page, moan, moan, whinge, whinge......
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Indeed commercial and CL sites are starting to offer better and cheaper facilities than the CC but of course we all still support the brand leader. A bit like supermarkets.
Why should we accept poor management and pretty standard services from the CC when others provide better standards. It is one thing for paranoid members to defend the club, Why is unknown but more importantly these paraniond members need to start pressing for higher standards. Do we really accept poor management, poor landscape management at £30 a night, come on get real this is a commercial business so why do members accept second hand rubbish.
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Does the Club still accept member couples to act as unpaid volunteer wardens? It would be a good opportunity for people to show just how good THEY are at running a site.
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If that is true,then it reflects in the service,amateurish
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Yes they do, but the the ones we've met are very pleasant and certainly don't moan about their work, as would appear to be the case should W&J ever become volunteer wardens.
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Wrong again, hooker. On all the sites that we've visited that have been run by volunteers are run as well or possibly even better than those run by full time wardens.
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We were at Ferry Meadows just the other week. We never saw any of things that W&J complained about. We chose the half of the site on the other side of the road from the warden's office to avoid the infernal hardstandings, grass was being cut as we arrived (on a Wed) but probably not for a few days as the site got fairly full over the following weekend. I saw nothing that would deter me from going again.
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This is a review from another caravanning forum, from May 2017, which gives the site 10 out of 10.
Easy access from A1, mostly hard standing, toilet block large and spotless, very green and treey.
Wardens helpful and smiley, they seemed to enjoy their jobs.
The three previous reviews give it 10, 9 and 10 out of 10.
On this website (still apparently The Caravan Club on the URL) there are one or two reviews from April which reflect some of what the OP says - busy wardens, untidy site............. but in the main the reviews are positive.
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