D Day approaching
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What's the date and time to start the bookings for 2018?
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I suppose it will never be possible to categorically know, as the CAMC are unlikely to release such information, even if they have it available. So it is always going to be just my opinion.
However, I feel I can safely say it does not happen at the honey pots such as Chatsworth, or at least not with any regularity. The weekends at Chatsworth are rapidly snapped up in the prime months. As you are only allowed to make one booking before being thrown out, and from experience it can take ages to get the booking page again, it is unlikely anyone could make many bookings, before the weekends are sold out.
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Every year on this forum we read posters claiming that greedy selfish people overbook on Frenzy day denying other customers the opportunity to get access to pitches on their desired sites. ----I don't believe that this alleged overbooking is done by CMC customers.---- The CMC retail business would soon recognize if this was happening. Their fantastic software would flag it and allow their ever vigilant CMC staff to limit any cheating.
Absolutely nothing to get all animated about.. Chill out
K
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You do make me chuckle K! Fantastic soft ware and ever vigilant staff!
I can't believe I am even contemplating sitting over a computer on Frenzy Day! The £15 option is definitely looking more attractive, especially as we know York very well. Lots of buses, lots of taxis, and we could even cycle in at a push! Given the size of our MH, we will probably get shoved onto a tiny pitch as well at RP, so it's not looking as attractive either.
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Use CherrytreeCottage and get the bus in.
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WTG, just did a googlemaps 'cycle' route from there into York city centre, looks OK, far nice than the frantice one from Beechwood.
id also be looking at Cherry tree if we ever make it all the way to York again....
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You know how we operate Nellie! That is indeed looking the best option. If we struggle at all, we shall just go from home, 45 minutes max. But we fancy having a couple of nights to do the village around the Rose Theatre as well.
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Which play have are you going to see?
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Richard III. Last time we saw it at Crucible in Sheffield, with Kenneth Branagh as Richard, very good. Should be an interesting visit, as the theatre is the one used in Shakespeare In Love, and has a themed village around it, hence we want a couple of days in York.
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Sounds great. Hope that you get a pitch somewhere.
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Begs the question why the Club continues to stoke the fire, so to speak, talking up the frenzy that will result on the morning of December 6th...
I for one would support a move to a rolling monthly release - yes, there will still be peaks in demand but significantly less than a single annual release.
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Cannot see that chatsworth is seen as honey pot site, two day there and you are done,once is enough and if they ever lock that gate..it would close for lack of use
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why do you say that? the lack of use part
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Yes, wasn't it actually Chatworth that someone said all the weekends were booked up this month and started a thread about it?
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maybe it wants to gauge it's success to the re brand, or to see how popular the club is? or just to give an idea of possible future income.
Would make good business sense to know these things?
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As a new member this year next Wednesday will be my 1st frenzy day. I will be joining in but I only want 3 weekends throughout the year the rest of my trips will be booked as and when.
I do think the club should introduce deposits for weekends at the honeypot sites of Baltic Wharf, Rowntree Park & Chatsworth. Overall though I am against deposits, we are both semi retired and we do have some predictability with our work schedule but even we have had to cancel Club bookings made in advance because of changes to our work patterns.
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so would deposits have had any impact on your cancelling? I assume you mean refundable deposits?
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If people cancel a honeypot then perhaps the Club should not give a cash refund but a credit note towards future bookings. This would mean that genuine cancelations would not be punished, but members who block book only to cancel when at a later date would be deterred.
I have just come back from RP and booked all 3 nights through cancelations just 4 days prior to our travel date. All through October & November RP was showing full for our dates. I think people booked a while ago not sure if they'd go or not & then cancelled. Deposits with only a credit note refund would deter some block bookers whilst not overly punishing genuine cancellations.
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As you will see if you look at the number of booked up days after frenzy day, a lot of folk don't agree with you.
I would tend to agree re the gate. It is the reason we like the site so much. Go for a week and we can walk from the site somewhere different (apart from the first bit) every day. Two days is certainly not enough. The car need only move to go and restock with food.
If the gate were closed, you would either have to walk the entrance road or use the car.
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If people cancel a honeypot then perhaps the Club should not give a cash refund but a credit note towards future bookings. This would mean that genuine cancelations would not be punished, but members who block book only to cancel when at a later date would be deterred.
If you are talking of block bookings weekends at honeypots, this just won't happen. You will see next Wednesday how difficult it is to make a booking within the first hour. Once you have made one you get thrown out. To make more than 2 or 3 weekend bookings before they are gone, would be difficult.
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Also apart from the cost of introducing a system for taking deposits, the club has stated that the number who actually block book, or make a number of bookings is low and most of these who go on to cancel actually take make another booking to replace that one, so again a credit note would not help here?
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Would have thought the best way to deal with block bookings is to limit the amount of sites that a member could book say 6 bookings & then none until they had been on their first stay then they could only book one at a time thereafter.
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