Not very family friendly club
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After all it's not so different than myself paying for a service pitch, they are in effect reserved for those who have paid for them.
Quite a bit different Steve in that you have not reserved a particular pitch any more than I have when booking a pitch type. All are able to choose a pitch from those of the type that they have booked and long may that be the case.
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True it's not a particular pitch. However, it is often one of a small block. At Hawes for instance, it's a small site in its own right, away from the standard pitches. My point was more that by paying a suppliment I am getting something that others don't.
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It might work if it was just two families wanting to be next to each other but on a busy weekend there are likely to be more than just two families that want to do the same. So whilst making an exception for two pitches together it would soon become a bit more chaotic if the were half a dozen double pitches required and of course it would soon impact on other members trying to find a pitch. Surely the simple way to do things is to co-ordinate your arrival by finding somewhere nearby to wait for the other so that you can arrive together. This might be more difficult if coming from different directions of course.
David
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Well, we have done several family get togethers on campsites with grandparents, children and grandchildren meeting up - and site owners and managers were always most obliging in putting us together. This Club will do it for rallies but can't or won't do it for families - but other campsites can - so that's where we went.
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Yes, I can see that that might work as long as there was no attempt to coerce the wardens into finding adjacent pitches in a particular area. That would bring us back to the argument about prebooking specific pitches. The wardens know which areas of a site are likely to be least used and could I suppose allocate adjacent pitches in those areas.
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I agree in part with Ludensian, it would be nice to be able to pitch with family if they are visiting the same site in order to catch up and have quality time with their extended family. However Tracy's post just enhances the view that the CMC are not family friendly. Her advice is fine if you are retired or not working, but the majority of families with children and who are more likely to be working cannot arrive at 12 noon to ensure that they can secure pitches together. More likely to be a rushed arrival after 6pm.
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Tracy’s post explains how the club treats everyone equally and fairly.
Let’s take the scenario of a club site completely full with two units booked in on Wednesday who wish to be placed side by side and two units are leaving on Wednesday so there will be pitches available for the incomers. However, the departers will leave from pitches 7 and 29. How is the warden to arrange things? Should he have coned off pitch 8 to keep it vacant for a few days and thus turned away someone just so the incoming pair could be accommodated, or should he have instructed the occupant of pitch 29 to take number 8 on arrival (assuming it was vacant at that time).
Both instances would have disrupted other people and removed freedom of choice simply to allow 2 units to pitch side by side. It may be a different case when sites are quiet but at busy times it can become complicated.
It’s nothing to do with being family friendly or not but a matter of logistics and causing the least inconvenience to the greatest number of people.
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A party of two units, one wants to be close to toilets, the other a pitch with a satellite 'view' and both want those sunny pitches together. Where do we stop? I know, tip up and pick from those vacant like every other fellow member!
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You’ve got it, Micky. How about first come, first served and no special treatment other than for the less able? Err, that sounds familiar. 😀
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Yep! Likewise, no objection to pitches being allocated by warden for the very genuinely 'needy'! After all, they then take what they are. 'given' or if they don't like that, choose like everyone else.
I can only think of a couple of sites where even if party members were unlucky enough to be at either end of the site that it would make for much more than a reasonable short stroll in the park.
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But as we all know pitches are coned off and reserved on Club sites for rallies. The District Association officers and rally stewards can have reserved pitches and can allocate the other pitches as they see fit to their group. I recall an earlier post where a member had a choice of just three pitches when he arrived because 40 were marked as reserved. So it isn't first come, first served,and families are told they must all arrive together for the 1pm.relay run.
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Not saying it doesn't happen, but I've only encountered rallies on two occasions in all my years. One on a rally field and the other on the darkest area furthest from the facilities. For this reason I don't think the rally organisers choose the pitches, I'd guess that is done to them! Let's not forget that the practice of rallying is also as old as the club itself and although rare events these days on club sites, part and parcel of that old traditional notion of membership.
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Perhaps what the OP needs to do to satisfy their own requirements over those of others is to form a group and book for a rally on the chosen site. AFAIK, there is no minimum requirement for numbers in a rally.
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Some family groups can be like a small rally!
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