Please tell me which site this is?

Boff
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edited January 2018 in UK Campsites & Touring #1

Can anyone tell me which club site this picture was taken on it looks idyllic

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  • KjellNN
    KjellNN Club Member Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭
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    edited January 2018 #2

    Somehow, I doubt it is a Club site.

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2018 #4

    why do you think it's a club site and where did you get it from? That might help?

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  • Randomcamper
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    edited January 2018 #6

    Here

    https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/membership/

    Obviously a "southern" site.....

    The grass is too dry for up North ...wink

  • Metheven
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    edited January 2018 #7

    It's not a Club site, it is a random photo by a North American photographer Jennifer Bogle, and more than likely purchased off 'Shutterstock' <HERE> where its for sale , so probably a place across the water.

    Strange the club should use it on their site to attract newcomers "Be part of the Club", yet the photo is of a place so far away <HERE>

  • KjellNN
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    edited January 2018 #8

    The presence of the big potted whatever by the door and the pile of bricks or blocks, plus the fact it looks like an American RV, does kind of give it away!

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #9

    The lakeside photo on the "be part of the club" looks distinctly North American with big holiday homes in the woods.

  • Boff
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    edited January 2018 #10

    Obviously, not enough hints for those responsible for these things.   The main hint being it isn't hardstanding

    I could call it grossly misleading but in reality it's just sloppy, lazy and incompetent.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2018 #11

    Thanks AD

  • Cornersteady
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    edited January 2018 #12

    good post,

    so the club paid a min of $249??? Not cheaper to buy an Kodak instamatic for a warden?smile

    This one perhaps?

     

     

  • Boff
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    edited January 2018 #13

    To be fair, the club didn’t use all of the picture, perhaps they negotiated a discount.  The instamatic looks good value for money but you haven’t factored in the cost of the flight to the USA for the Warden so that they could take the snap.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2018 #14

    It just goes to show you should take everything you see with a pinch of salt where this club is concerned. 

    Party in a brewery again.

  • EasyT
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    edited January 2018 #15

    Just a bit more of the recent hype following the name change. Pure unrefined, BS

  • compass362
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    edited January 2018 #17

    It could be a seasonal pitch on the C&CC  Mendip hills site , when the Priddy folk music festival is on .....usually July time .

    In other words I don't  really have a clue......😇

     

  • compass362
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    edited January 2018 #18

    I've just done a image search on TinyEye.com  with 18 results its 99% certain from the USA & is Motorhome dealers/ manufacturer origin . 👍

     I can't read the writing ....can anyone tell us .

  • Boff
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    edited January 2018 #19

    This link tells you all you need to know and more!  Looks like they booked a seasonal pitch which narrows the search down a bit.

     

    https://tinyhomedream.squarespace.com/home/2016/9/12/faq

  • JollyKernow
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    edited January 2018 #20

    First class only please!!

    We send in stacks of site photos during the year, where they go????????????????????????

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2018 #21

    You would think the club would ask its' own members first and foremost to send them their photos of sites visited. What planet are these people at Grimstead Towers living on?

     

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2018 #22

    Wonder how much and who paid those at EG to include this photo.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2018 #23

    I may be wrong but I have a vague recollection of Rowena asking us to do exactly that some time back.

  • Metheven
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    edited January 2018 #24

    I remember last year where the Club asked members to send in their photos, I believe it was quite wide ranging themes but nearly every post was moaning about copyright, and the other few were quite happy just to have theirs published.

    I sent one in but never came to anything.

    Apologies Tw, I was still (slowly) typing laughing

  • KenofKent
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    edited January 2018 #25

    Nellie, We paid them, and we also paid for this internet site that I believe they bought off the shelf in America. The terms and conditions have ‘funny’ spellings. I think that’s why they can’t alter it.

    Ken

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #26

    As said previously that particular photo came from a blog site in Washington, USA, who is it that edits and passes these promotions? It's hard to believe the club aren't visually promoting the UK. I tried to find something similar on the C&CC web pages but they seem well grounded in promoting their ethos and sites in the UK.

  • Boff
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    edited January 2018 #27

    This one appears to be from Halifax, not Yorkshire but Nova Scotia

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2018 #28

    Wonder what Visit England think about it.wink

  • brue
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    edited January 2018 #29

    I did wonder whether the N Americans might consider using photos of our local fishponds to promote the Great Lakes....wink

  • DSB
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    edited January 2018 #30

    I have reported this thread with the hope that someone from the Club will respond.

    David 

  • Navigateur
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    edited January 2018 #31

    As has been suggested many times before, those running the business have never been caravanners of any type and these picture just show what they "think" it might all look like.

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