Excellent good old fashioned Wardens
Here at Sandringham the Wardens are out "walking" the site many times a day. Integrating with members they are a rare credit to the CMC. Sadly this is the only site out of many that we have experienced such interaction.
Lets hope it catches on as it also means members have to park correctly and even perhaps helps reduce the lunertics who don't understand 5 miles an hour when travelling on site.
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Yes we stayed at sandringham recently and fully agree, the wardens are a great bunch and constantly interact. Can't comment on reducing the speeding as we didn't see much, if at all, maybe they'd been told? We were almost at the far end.
We have also seen similar interaction with great wardens on other sites especially Great Yarmouth. And certainly at Ferry Meadows in previous years as well as this year.
Enjoy your stay. Water heating was playing up during our stay 😉but plenty of alternatives
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Excellent post the complete opposite to our experience at Woodstock last 2 weeks, what with no grass cutting to do never have we seen such an untidy site. Occupants visitors allowed to bring cars up to pitches along with site speed advisory notices being disregarded.
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I’m glad you found a good set up, W&J👍🏻
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Yes I'm glad too
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It’s very refreshing to read.
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yes and has said sites are full at weekends
But I have to say what W&J describe is the norm on the sites I have been on, wardens are usually out of the office doing the various jobs that need doing all day, how else would the site be kept tidy? From solely my point of view it does not need to catch on, it has been done since I started using club sites.
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Things must be looking up saw a warden tell a member walking his dog on an empty grass pitch to stop and take his dog off site to excise it, the dreaded extending lead again the more the wardens speak up the better.
Just in case I am a dog owner myself !
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Things must definitely be looking up. ---. That's good !! --- Just shows that Head Office takes heed of the examples posted on this forum of site rules being flaunted and are encouraging their site staff to get out more and see for themselves what is going on. ---- All good stuff
K
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Ah! The weekend banter - how refreshing!
I'm just glad that when I'm away in the van on a site, that I'm able to find enough things to keep me occupied rather than post trivial tripe on here. Life in Lincolnshire must be so dull and not much better north of Hadrian's Wall.
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And we've been so polite to W&J until now😕
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"Excellent, good old fashioned wardens" ..... military types were they? Officer class ?
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Just back from 4 nights at Cirencester, 5 nights at Warwick Racecourse and two nights on a non-club site.
Both teams of site managers, Cirencester and Warwick racecourse, were excellent and went out of their way to be helpful.
Sadly at the non-club site, only half the washroom facilities worked, basins with broken/ non-working taps were the majority, the verges were overgrown and when I went to leave I could find no one to leave my barrier dongle with - and get my £5 deposit back.
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I must agree the old fashioned wardens are the best the wardens at Worthing northbrook farm are just that always walking around and having a chat and keeping site in great order some of the wardens these day seem to think the only way to get around in on there tractor some seem to lost the way to communicate with others its a shame
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How long have you got to be in the Club to recognise an "old fashioned warden"? I have been here 38 years and the expression is not really meaningful to me. In all those years I have spoken to wardens when I book in, occasionally when I have had a question, sometimes passed the time of day at the waste point. Last year I was particularly grateful to the wardens at the Brecon Beacons site for showing concern for Margaret when she was taken to A&E. Beyond that I am not sure that wardens figure that highly in my stay on a Club site and I am happy in normal circumstances for that to be the case.
David
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Only stay on a couple of club sites a year and only had good experiences with wardens for me. But then I try to be friendly and treat them with the respect. They are happy to give me info on wildlife on their site and POI's of interest not commonly published in the usual blurb.
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Hi
I try not to consider myself old fashioned, not quite sure of the difference between "old fashioned" wardens and the present day ones? I'm guessing the point of this thread is that the op has actually seen wardens out and about and chatting to folk? I'm posting now because a friend lent me one of those fit bit things for a couple of days. If anyone knows my site, it's only 6 1/2 acres so not that big. Last Saturday I did a 14 hour shift and walked the site a distance of 17 miles. I had 30 arrivals that day and 30 departures. You get to engage with a lot of folk doing this job. All sites run differently, with differing staff levels too, sometimes there just isn't the time to do all that "engaging", other times and sites that becomes a big part of your day.
JK
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and a big thank you to you and your fellow wardens for all that
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