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wedgy
wedgy Club Member Posts: 429 ✭✭✭
edited April 2018 in Club Membership #1

According to info given here :- . early in April 2018 the Club will put on sale pitches for April 2019; early in May 2018 the Club will put on sale May 2019 and so on. I have been in touch with HQ today to be informed that emails will be sent tomorrow stating that booking for nex April will be available on 11th April, not exactly early in the month. I hope that given the new system a definite date will apply for the forthcoming months otherwise for people who like to book in advance it will be an absolute nightmare and in no way an improvement over the old system IMO 

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  • crown green bowler
    crown green bowler Forum Participant Posts: 407
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    edited April 2018 #2

    Anything must be better than trying to book at 7am in December. Thank goodness we are slowly catching up with private sites.

  • wedgy
    wedgy Club Member Posts: 429 ✭✭✭
    edited April 2018 #3

    Personally the old system worked fine for us, 12 months of bookings all done on one day 👍

  • SteveL
    SteveL Club Member Posts: 12,302 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2018 #4

    Agreed. The new system certainly isn't going to be an improvement if the date varies. Paticularly for those who have booked some days at the end of a month and want to be sure of getting a few more at the beginning of the next. 

  • young thomas
    young thomas Forum Participant Posts: 11,356
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    edited April 2018 #5

    ...but this also happened under the 'old' system....

    the club decided on an arbitrary date to release chunks of availability and chose (goodness knows why) the 3rd January as one break point.

    so all folk who were looking for the New Year week at a particular site (surely not an unusual thing to want to do) had to wait until the second tranche of availability (sometime in October/Nov??) to try and book the rest of the holiday....

    why not the end of Jan....or mid Feb or.....but bang in the middle of new year week....you really couldn't make it up....undecided

     

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited April 2018 #6

    Did you ever have a problem booking the rest of the break? Were the sites fully booked? I doubt it

  • Cornersteady
    Cornersteady Club Member Posts: 14,426 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2018 #7

    or one could have found another non club site that allowed you to book as you wish. Or are club sites so much better for you?

  • slap
    slap Forum Participant Posts: 1
    edited June 2018 #8

    Ive been informed by the club that not all sites will be on the new system as they can opt out ?

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited June 2018 #9

    I expect that All Club sites will be in the system but, obviously, not affiliated sites necessarily. The only exception for CC sites that I would expect are those where improvement works are scheduled to close the site for a period

    Also racecourse sites may not be available until race days are known

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited June 2018 #10

    Posted by Keefysher on another thread:

    Some sites may be opening slightly later than usual due to redevelopments or for other reasons. At present the following sites are planned to open later than usual in 2019:

    Cadeside
    Cambridge Cherry Hinton
    Camelford
    Chatsworth Park
    Commons Wood
    Illfracombe
    Merrose Farm
    Modbury
    Northbrook Farm
    Penrhos
    Plymouth Sound
    Scarborough West Ayton
    Sutton-on-Sea
    Tewkesbury Abbey
    Tredegar House
    Racecourse sites
    Pitches at the below racecourse sites for 2019 will be put on sale in due course once we know the dates of specific race day events.

    Exeter
    Thirsk
    Warwick
    Great Yarmouth
    Uttoxeter
    Cheltenham

  • KeefySher
    KeefySher Forum Participant Posts: 1,128
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    edited June 2018 #11

    The full web page is here:

    https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/whats-on/caravan-club-news/Get-ahead-of-the-game-and-book-early-for-2019/

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