Booking crashed

svleafer
svleafer Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited December 2017 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

What a load of bull the booking system, got list prepared managed to get one site booked and then locked out, cannot get back in to book continuous holiday booking from the one I actually booked whilst touring a particular area, why couldn’t the system stop as it was last year. I have honored every booking made in 2017 which was quite a few. So they should charge a deposit for each booking. 

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  • v4steve
    v4steve Forum Participant Posts: 4
    edited December 2017 #2

    It does say in the header that you can only make one booking then wait for another slot same for everybody.

  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2017 #3

    The system is exactly as last year. One booking and you get thrown out. Then you have to get back in again to make a second. Then thrown out again and have to get back in to make a third etc.

    This means everyone gets a fair crack.

    Outside of booking day you can make as many sequential bookings as you like.

  • Lily Ann
    Lily Ann Forum Participant Posts: 1
    edited December 2017 #4

    I can't get in at all, since 8 

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2017 #5

    I have just been on as a trial and ended up booking two sites before time outlaughing

    Ps just booked a third sitesurprised

  • SteveL
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    edited December 2017 #6

    System worked correctly for us, one booking and thrown out. I suppose with any system there will be glitches.

  • stu192
    stu192 Forum Participant Posts: 19
    edited December 2017 #7

    I agree it can be a pain if you are booking a holiday and need several different sites - but I do think the way it has been done is fair to everyone a few years back you used to be able to book several sites in a time slot and people could never get on a site because it was full. Ive booked 1 today and that is in April at Rowntree I'm not booking anymore till later today

  • suzzie
    suzzie Forum Participant Posts: 6
    edited December 2017 #8

    I had no problems booked all the sites I wanted for 2018 easily all done in 20 minutes it is just a case of being patient.

  • KeefySher
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    edited December 2017 #9

    Just booked 3 sites this morning laughing That's the only fixed dates we wanted.

     

    Baltic Wharf for Easter. Bladon Chains for Countryfile Live weekend and Uttoxeter for a Bank Holiday weekend.

    All from the middle of the Bay of Biscay on board a cruise ship via a satellite connection. So the CAMC system works for me. laughing

  • Navigateur
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    edited December 2017 #10

    It would not be beyond the capabilities of a simple change in the booking system to allow a follow on booking to be made that would be continuous with the one already made.

     

  • Bri
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    edited December 2017 #11

    I only wanted to make one booking at York Rowntree Park and it was made in less than a minute after logging into the Club site. Some of the weekend where already full especially those with awnings.

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2017 #12

    Pops just booked a fourth siteembarassed

  • 63ellsbells
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    edited December 2017 #13

    No bull and no glitches at all. Worked exactly as it says on the tin.

    Made 6 bookings before 8.45, each time going back to the main page and being patient. Quite a simple system really, and like it or not, those are the rules wink

  • Schnauzer
    Schnauzer Forum Participant Posts: 16
    edited December 2017 #14

    Booked the 4 sites we wanted this year by 8.30am. Feel sorry for those Members who still work and are therefore not available to book sites on a Wednesday morning. 

  • 63ellsbells
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    edited December 2017 #15

    Make that 7....cool

  • 63ellsbells
    63ellsbells Forum Participant Posts: 138
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    edited December 2017 #16

    Site activity must be very light now, just booked 9th site surprised

  • compass362
    compass362 Forum Participant Posts: 619
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    edited December 2017 #17

    No problems loged on 9.05 booked  our  3 sites & off by 9.15 , the best its ever been .....god the web pages were quick , they must have put the turbo on .👍

    It also depends what device & browsers you have .😇

  • crown green bowler
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    edited December 2017 #18

    System works fine,    just sit it out and wait's your turn.

  • TomSue
    TomSue Forum Participant Posts: 76
    edited December 2017 #19

    Booking no problem. 3 bookings done by 8:35 & that was 2 at Chatsworth & Rookesbury Park. Thought we'd leave all other bookings for later. Decided we'd book Incleboro Fields as it's in the middle of the school's summer holidays. Logged in again at about 9:30 & got straight in to the bookings, no wait at all. Good system

  • EasyT
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    edited December 2017 #20

    Worked fine for everybody else. It can take four or five minutes to get back in to make a booking but that does not mean system down. Just takes a little patience to wait your turn

  • peedee
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    edited December 2017 #21

    I tried to get on a 45 seconds past eight but couldn't until 26 minutes later when it appeared as though there was no problem at all booking one site after another. I noted at 1030a.m. Rowntree has every weekend in 2018 booked!

    peedee

  • Carol58
    Carol58 Forum Participant Posts: 12
    edited December 2017 #22

    Roundtree may be more booked up though as Beechwood Grange is closed, I was going to book Beechwood and then fortunately managed to get Roundtree but no awning instead.

  • moulesy
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    edited December 2017 #23

    I do think using Rowntree Park as an argument that the system is wrong is a fallacy. Quite apart from its perennial popularity (for obvious reasons) the non availability of Beechwood Grange will have exaggregated the problem.

    (Not defending they system, by the way, I'd much prefer a rolling programme and having lived in York for 4 years, I'm quite happy to leave Rowntree to others,)

  • cyberyacht
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    edited December 2017 #24

    If KeefySher can book three sites from his complimentary hour's free wifi on the Queen Elizabeth halfway across the Bay of Biscay, there can't be an awful lot wrong with the operation of the system. That's not to say that a "Frenzy Day" is necessarily the best way to organise things.

  • harryb
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    edited December 2017 #25

    I gave up trying at 8.50. I only wanted the one site for New Year.

    Then tried by telephone, sometimes it connected and was put on hold but it never got answered and sometimes I was automatically disconnect.

    Oh well, c'est la vie

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2017 #26

    What site did you want ,as some sites Christmas  and New year pitches are not released until much later in the year

  • brue
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    edited December 2017 #27

    If KeeefySher had been in the half of our village that hasn't got fast broadband instead of a well equipped cruise ship with up to date communications the results might have been very different. Would it be better for some of us to join a cruise for next years booking day...? wink

  • harryb
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    edited December 2017 #28

    I wanted to book Castleton.

    I did try again after 5pm. Castleton full but I did manage to get booked in at Moreton in the Marsh which showed space for all pitches on all dates in Dec.

    Have had confirmation email.

  • harryb
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    edited December 2017 #29

    When looking before I looked at Seacroft, Norfolk. Something odd there. All dates from mid December for all pitches right through January were showing full.

  • moulesy
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    edited December 2017 #30

    Are you sure that was for 2017/18, Harry? I thought you could only book to 4 Jan for 2018/19. wink

    (Not suggesting you hadn't checked BTW! smile)

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited December 2017 #31

    Isn’t the site closed in January?

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