Early arrivals - my solution
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Ummmm!, hold my hand up to arriving early, not very familiar with club sites, but some non club sites that we do use only have single track entrance/exit with few if any passing places, and some of these frown on early arrival because an incoming unit can impede the outgoing unit resulting in some very dubious reversing, Bingham Grange which is now a club site was like this although i believe they now have passing places. reversing a MH no big shakes, caravan is another matter, yes i know how to reverse, have driven 90 seater coaches with a luggage trailer at the rear.
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as usual you've missed the point completely....
what I suggested was ensuring those sites with access issues (eg entrance directly onto a main road) allowing vans to come off that road and onto site rather than have them stand there causing issues....
i agree, with sites with a long single track entrance, timings need to be sorted and adhered to but this approach is definitely not necessary at sites without such access roads.
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what I suggested was ensuring those sites with access issues (eg entrance directly onto a main road) allowing vans to come off that road and onto site rather than have them stand there causing issues....
Any examples BB? It is a problem that I rarely see and have not done for over 5 years and probably longer (mind you I do arrive shortly after 12 as a rule) except at Berwick Seaview a few years ago where there was a one hour gap between arrival and departure; but maybe we travel at different times of the year
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I should have added that at Berwick Seaview the reason that the entry queue had only just cleared the carriageway was that some had arrived up to 40 mins ahead of time and a hand full for over 25 mins according to staff. I arrived at the bottom of the entrance at 12.58 and just cleared the carriageway and the wardens had already opened the entrance and were asking couples that one book in whilst the other drives to a pitch.
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that analogy doesn't really translate to an outfit and is nonsense to try
A customer for a hotel probably has a 1m square footprint and you and your luggage can easily be accommodated somewhere without causing any problems to other guests, there will even be a room for that purpose and a place to have a drink or snack.
What is the area of an outfit? where is that going to go? What about five outfits? You can't leave part of your MH and collect it later?
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You can't leave part of your MH and collect it later?
Well, if it is a proper trailer caraven - one can! But probably not want to.
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I am intrigued by this idea that there are hotels where, apparently, you can just turn up at any time and get straight into your room. Because, since retiring, we've toured extensively both in Europe and further afield and found that trips have been organised so as to arrive at hotels after an "earliest room available" time, often as late as 3pm. And when we've arrived earlier it's been a case of "leave your luggage at reception and use the bar/pool areas until your room is ready.
No great hardship, mind you, but can anyone give an example of a hotel where they've turned up at, say 9am and been welcomed with open arms?1 -
leave your luggage [caravan] at reception and use the bar/pool areas until your room [pitch] is ready
Now that sounds like the sort of caravan site I could really enjoy!
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I can’t really see the relevance in response to my last post 4 pages back, DD. 🤔
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can anyone give an example of a hotel where they've turned up at, say 9am and been welcomed with open arms?
Yes. After arriving at an airport and taking pre-arranged transport to hotels or apartments
No experience otherwise as when touring by car in Europe it has been a case of picking a hotel on spec at between 4pm and 6.30 normally and of course the rooms were ready
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Got to say on holiday trips and tax-payer paid ones (thanks btw
) in hotels big, small, worldwide chains there has always a set room ready time/check in, arrive before then it's leave your bags and come back after it. 0 -
Yes, but presumably, on business trips, those small hour arrivals are pre-arranged and you've paid for (or had paid for you), that night. (i. e. You're actually arriving "late"). So in effect, exactly the same as paying for a night in advance at a caravan site and then arriving "early" the following morning!
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But this is for business,but very different to most holiday hotels where you book in advance. Not really a good example. Unless you are saying you did this on holiday?
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not 9 o'clock, but certainly between 10:30 and 12....at several London travelodges....if they're not busy and the room ahas already been made up (presume they do the early leavers first?) then they don't usually have a problem.
perhaps it's like a cc site after all, you just need to ask?
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Aye, it’s the power of money. I’m shocked you find it so astounding, how very parochial😂😂
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I'm not really sure which "example" I gave was not fair or accurate, DD. The point I was trying to make was that business hotels maybe differ from holiday hotels in what they are willing to accept. I'm still curious, though, about how you can arrive in the small hours, check in, and not be charged for that (previous) day/night. In that sense you'd actually be arriving "late", so just like paying for a previous day/night on a caravan site and then arriving at 9 in the morning!
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