Booking in advance for 2018

dmcv
dmcv Forum Participant Posts: 14
edited August 2017 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

I am planning a trip around France and Spain for February through to April 2018. Going through the tunnel and am booking that soon.  Unfortunately I cannot book the Club site near the tunnel yet.  Why not?

Surely "ferry pitches" for one night only should be available to book all year round?

Members planning trips usually book ferries and the tunnel well in advance to get best prices/ferry times.  Shouldn't the Club consider that they need to be sure about a ferry pitch the night before, especially if the member is travelling many UK miles to get to the ferry/tunnel

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  • EasyT
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    edited August 2017 #2

    So you will be able to book mid December. No problem really

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2017 #3

    I think the chance of not being able to book a "ferry pitch"on sites near ports is minimul ,so I would think the cost of altering the booking system would not be worth it, wink

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited August 2017 #4

    I also don't think you will have a problem getting a pitch in February. Why not ring the site just to see if they can help as Black Horse farm is a bit unusual in having so many ferry pitches.

    David 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited August 2017 #5

    Whilst I'd agree with anyone who says the current system of releasing all pitches for booking on December frenzy day is madness, this scenario is not really any different to needing to book a pitch for any other reason so I can't see why an exception should be made just for ferry catchers. 

    If you're really keen to book a pitch for next April now rather than waiting until December, dmcv, you could try a CL.

     

  • JVB66
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    edited August 2017 #6

    Missed you datessurprised you should be able to book the outward pitch later this month, as bookings up to March should be available then 

  • KjellNN
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    edited August 2017 #7

    I doubt BHF will be all booked up for February yet, we usually go out in April and have never found a problem booking that in December.

    Unless you are crossing at an unsociable hour, I would not book a "ferry pitch", just a normal pitch

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  • eurortraveller
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    edited August 2017 #9

    If I had a Motorhome I would by-pass BlackHorse Farm , cross in the evening to Calais, and stay at the newly built Aire in that town,  or one of the others down the way. 

    Although if I lived in Hampshire as the OP does  I would use one of the Portsmouth Ferries and cut 200 miles off the journey toSpain. 

  • young thomas
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    edited August 2017 #10

    i suspect at that time of the year you wont be dawdling through france, merely zipping on down to Spain for some sunsmile

    we did this trip in late January this year and i see you are (roughly) from the same part of the country as us.....

    if youre heading for spanish sun, my question would be why go to Dover?

    from hampshire, have you consodered Poole-Cherbourg? a cheap crossing at that time of year (we paid around £130 single) and ypu will save miles (fuel to Dover and then back westward in france) and hours of driving 'on the other side', especially if considering the Western Route (Nantes, Irun, Zaragosa, Valencia) as we did....

    plenty of aires to stop at on the route and some good easy roads, decide on as many (or as few) tolls as you wish.

    also, from Hapshire you can just pitch up at Poole port (after 10 or 10:30 from memory) and then catch the morning ferry, simple.

    good luck.

  • Firthster
    Firthster Forum Participant Posts: 1
    edited October 2017 #11

    Do you know the date they open for 2018 bookings .

    New to caravaning 

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2017 #12

    They are already available until end of March I think? After the end of March until New Year 2019 starts 8th December I think.

  • InaD
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    edited October 2017 #13

    I'm pretty sure it's the 6th of December.

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2017 #14

    I think you are right InaD as the 6th is a Wednesday and I think that booking start is mid week.

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