Not very family friendly club
We have been members for a number of years as is our son and his family. They live in Stockton on Tees and store their van at Whitewater Park which is only a few minutes from their home. As we live in Lincolnshire we often use Whitewater for family get togethers. Whitewater is a beautiful site with friendly and helpful wardens but......
When we visit we like to pitch together so that our grandchildren can move freely between their parents unit and our own. Sadly club rules make this a difficult exercise when the site is busy (as it usually is!) Not being allowed to book or reserve a particular pitch means that we have to try and arrange taking one van out of storage and arriving from Lincolnshire at exactly the same time. Not easy. So please please can the club look at having some arrangement whereby families who want to pitch together can be accommodated?
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PD beat me to it! If you want to be sure of pitching close together and particularly if you want to keep an eye on the children (you don't say what age they are) then have a look out for suitable CLs. Even on farm CLs the owners will often let children interact with the animals which might be another attraction.
If you have to use a club site it might be worth ringing the warden the day before you go to see if there are adjacent pitches available in less well used areas of the site - must be worth a try.
I agree with the many who have said before when this subject comes up that general prebooking of specific pitches is not something I'd be keen on.
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Hi Ludensian,
As with all of our sites it is a first come, first serve. If pitches are pre-booked it is unfair on others if they wanted that particular pitch and was on site first.
If you arrive for 12 noon you shouldn't have a problem getting 2 side by side unless it is extremely busy and only a few have departed that particular day.
Kind Regards
Tracy
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Its a difficult one this request.
While I agree with the first come rule, I certainly wouldn't want to be pitched in the middle of a family get together, bit like being in the middle of a rally, no thanks.
Cl's as mentioned are the best way or go to a private/commercial site who are usually happy to accommodate this kind of request.
I just thought it strange that the van is stored at White Water just a few minutes away from their home and they use that site for a get together. Why not go somewhere else for a few days.
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If the site is only "a few minutes from their home...." why don't you call them when you are nearby, meet up and both arrive together. A better chance of finding 2 pitches next to each other particularly if you arrive just after official arrival time.
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but then you would have to have this for friends too? Sorry but you are putting yourself over others who may want to pitch together? first come first served is the fairest way
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We sometimes meet friends on a site and travel from different directions. Either we are lucky and manage to get 2 adjacent pitches, or we're not, and pitch away from each other. No big deal for us and it certainly wouldn't enter my head that the club should think about changing the "first come, first served" rule. If it's that important to be next to each other, then perhaps a bit of initiative is needed, whereby a meeting point is arranged near the site, so enabling to arrive together.
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I think Tracy's put the case for fairness to all very well. Sums it up nicely.👍🏻
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Thankfully it's tip up and choose from what's available. Everyone has that equal chance then, nothing preferential and certainly no accusations of favouritism. If turning up at that earliest arrival time then generally there shouldn't be a problem in my experience, you just choose what suits your needs best from those pitches that are vacant. To me that's the friendliest and fairest way to do it.
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I see nothing wrong with the principle of "First Come first Served". It's the fairest method of allocating pitches.
If people want a chance to get pitches close together it's a simple matter to keeping in touch by phone while travelling and arrange to arrive at the site at the same time. ----- It's quite straightforward...
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If you are a friend of the Warder, ask him/her to keep the best two pitches on the site for you.
But that would be denying others and that wouldn't be fair. 
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Do as is often advised on here.------- Go Elsewhere.
K
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If there isn’t, then nothing's lost but the chances of success were increased.
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Ludensian, I sympathise with you, even though others don't.
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Didnt think that was allowed ? I have seen Wardens reserve spots near the loo's for disabled people, and that is fair enough, but I have also seen Caravanners park their car on an ajacent pitch (to reserve it) for friends who arrived a couple of hours later. That wouldnt work with me, because if we fancied that pitch, the 'motorist' would be asked to move, whilst my missus went for the gate fob to tell the Warden we had that pitch. Dislike people who try to cheat the system.
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Good for you, Ray! Although I'm not particularly fussy about particular pitches on club sites that sort of cheating the system does wrankle with me. I remember particularly one occasion at Cirencester Park when a motorhome pulled up opposite us (could just as easily have been a caravan by the way before anyone gets all angsty
) and the first thing they did, before any setting up themselves was to put table, chairs and a "MH using this pitch" sign on the neighbouring pitch! 0 -
That is really sneaky, using the 'Motorhome using this pitch' sign to reserve a pitch for a friend.
That sign is the only means we Motorhomers have to keep our pitches for us, whilst offsite. Its misuse is dangerous and should not happen.
In the end the Warden knows if a pitch is in use or not. If you are in doubt ask.
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It can get totally out of hand - it is easy to imaging a motor caravan driving around a site dumping a sign on one pitch, a table and chairs on another, a power cable and some other loose clobber on a third, and so on, until they decide which of their "reserved" pitches to actually occupy.
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