Sites with Fully Serviced Pitches - a Discussion

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2017 #32

    An interesting post ET, like Steve I always use service pitches whenever possible and I consider the extra payment quite worth it to have a more enjoyable holiday. They are popular and  difficult to book nowadays, and I suppose if you want one or really need one you really have to get them early. Are you suggesting keeping some back as 'disabled pitches' (for want of a better description)

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2017 #33

    That would be nice Corners. However sadly I think that there would then be an explosion in members claiming to have a disability. 

    It does seem that, as you remark, they are not easy to book at some locations. If they are really popular (I don't know just how popular but have noticed that on some sites they are taken early) then one answer is to increase there number but to what degree? If the CC went to the extent of making 50% of the site serviced pitches then there would be the scenario of those that do not require them either having to pay the extra or  go to a non CC site during much of the peak season.

    I do not see an easy solution.

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  • The Ovaltineys
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    edited February 2017 #35

    Can't believe able bodied men willing to pay almost £28 per week for 10 mins work a day.

     

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2017 #36

    Some can well afford it and choose to do so. As we will use site facilities when available we can normally last 5 days although I might add a 10 litre top up if we have spent more time at the caravan

  • huskydog
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    edited February 2017 #37

    Exactly, that's why I take my wife innocent

  • The Ovaltineys
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    edited February 2017 #38

    I can well afford it but choose not to!

    Sorry edited too late - I do take the wife otherwise I would have thought I'd gone deaf   laughing

  • SteveL
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    edited February 2017 #39

    I can't understand folk spending hundreds of pounds to strap a tent ( awning) to the side of their van and spend ages doing it. However, I do appreciate that some find it makes for a more enjoyable holiday. We like to have a service pitch for similar reasons.

    It is not really surprising that we all have different priorities. In fact it would be more surprising if we all wanted the same thing.

     

  • The Ovaltineys
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    edited February 2017 #40

    Interested to know how you spend the 10 mins you've saved?smile

  • SteveL
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    edited February 2017 #41

    I can't speak for anyone else. However, in our case time saving is only a very minor part of the equation. I don't think any particular justification is required, you are either prepared to pay the premium, or you aren't.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2017 #42

    Likewise for us. I don't have to worry about running out of water at any time, I can enjoy the holiday more, one less thing to think about, I can be lazy. I know that might well be shocking for some to have a lazy holiday but there you go. 

  • Mr H
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    edited February 2017 #43

    As I stated earlier we now use fully serviced pitches for health reasons, however, there are benefits. The main one is that we do not use the toilet block. Previously, we would get dressed in the morning to go to the shower, and then get undressed again to shower and then get dressed again afterwards. We don't do that now. Perhaps that is why the outside toilets in homes became redundant along with the newspaper on a nailwink

  • keithfiddy
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    edited February 2017 #44

    There are no FULLY serviced pitches on our Club network as Black waste still has to go to a C.E.P  ONLY.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2017 #45

    speaking of which, what happened to Izal?

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2017 #46

    ...or Bronco

  • SteveL
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    edited February 2017 #47

    Not quite sure of your point. Even when we hired an RV in the US with a non removable black waste tank, this still had to be dumped. There was no facility for a direct connection to the sewer, as you get with a static van. Chatworth does have CDP's on each pitch. Which in our case with the cassette on the rear of the van, reduces the emptying distance to about 1 metre. Probably about as good as you are going to get.

  • DSB
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    edited February 2017 #48

    Hi everyone.  I want you to bear with me for a short time. 

    I appreciate that there are those who want a list of Serviced Pitches to be readily available and updated, and I am also aware that there are those who wish to discuss Serviced Pitches.  This thread has moved towards the latter so I am in the process or re-organising this a little.  A discussion such as we are developing here should not really be a sticky, but I appreciate that a list of Serviced Pitches will be useful as a sticky.

    What I propose to do is to rename this thread  'Sites with Fully Serviced Pitches - a discussion' which will revert to a 'floating/discussion' thread and to start a new 'sticky' thread which will be for information only, called 'List of Club and Affiliated Sited with (Full) Serviced Pitches'.  This will enable us to keep the information in a readily accessible form, while allowing folk to continue the current discussion.

    I will also use the term 'Serviced Pitches' and for clarity put the word 'Full' in brackets in the new thread.  The Club calls them 'Serviced Pitches' in the site details, but I know many folk use the word 'Full'. 

    Hope this all makes sense.

    Regards,

    David

  • DSB
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    edited February 2017 #49

    I am continuing to 'Follow' this thread, so and errors/ additions to my original list will be picked up and I will update the 'sticky' thread accordingly.

    David

  • Mr H
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    edited March 2017 #50

    David, the site at Broadway has fully serviced.

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #51

    Thanks for the info MrH.  I'll add it to the main list.

    Best wishes 

    David 

  • DSB
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    edited March 2017 #52

    Edit to the main list Done.

    Please don't forget to continue to let me know if the list needs updating folks!

    David smile

  • Navigateur
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    edited June 2017 #53

    The new Affiliated Love2Stay site at Shrewsbury has all pitches fully serviced, including chemical waste. From observing what happens when the two seperate drain points are used, they appear to go into the same pipe. So perhaps more sites have that facility and just don't know it.

    So if pitches with electricity, fresh water, grey drain and black drain are "fully serviced" what do we call those with only the first three?

  • DSB
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    edited June 2017 #54

    Thank you for your post Navigateur.  I'll check the sticky with the list of full serviced pitches and I'll add Love2Stay, if it's not already there.

    Regards

    David 

  • DSB
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    edited June 2017 #55

    I've now checked, Navigateur and Love2Stay is already listed in the sticky.  Do keep any other additions and amendments coming.

    Best wishes 

    David 

  • Surfer
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    edited June 2017 #56

    What I cannot understand is people who pay the extra for the serviced pitch and then still use the Aquaroll and wastemaster? 

  • SteveL
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    edited June 2017 #57

    I think this has been covered fairly well here and elsewhere. There are several reasons. We just used a waste hose and filled the aquaroll, when we first started. Just to try it out and see if it was worth the expense of going for the full set up. It is obviously a lot easier to empty waste and fill the aquaroll on a service pitch, so the person might have just fancied a break. It might have been the only type of pitch they could get.

    Plus a bit less common, but if it is likely to freeze on the last night, I detackle and go back onto the standard system. Having once spent hours getting a frozen system disconnected. Never again.☹️

    It is of course all down to personal choice, and it is their money.😀

  • JVB66
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    edited July 2017 #58

    Broadway?

  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2017 #59

    thanks for your efforts, a useful list smile

  • DSB
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    edited July 2017 #60

    The up-to-date list is now here: https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/sites-touring/uk-sites-touring/list-of-club-sites-with-full-serviced-pitches/ 

    It does included the Broadway site, but if you do find any other errors or omissions, please post them here and I will update the 'sticky' list.

    Many thanks 

    David 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2017 #61

    thanks david

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