So what did the Club ever do for Motorcaravanners?
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One big thing they could do, which would not discriminate between caravan and MH owners, is introduce pitch type booking.
Wouldn't that disadvantage all the free spirited motorhomers who don't want to plan ahead and just move on whim? All hardstands will be booked
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what amuses me the most is that it's nowhere near Bath
I guess Bishop Sutton Chew Valley Caravan Park doent have quite the same cachet?
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here's one of the largest commercial organisations more than matching it (providing thousands of free spaces all over Europe) and is exactly the type of stopover facility that has been suggested many times by some MHers on CT as the perfect way to combine their type of touring with a fair price....no EHU reqd...
yes they'll be far too close for CC regs but often 3 or 4 vans have the whole carpark to themselves.
perhaps, out of hours (7 pm to 10 am?) the visitors car parks could be spaced a bit better and turned over to fast turnaround MH (or caravan) one nighters for a sensible fee....£10 ish?
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I don’t where the idea that caravanners were being asked to subsidise (or even to approve) a proposal that would primarily benefit motorhomers came from because my thinking was always that there would need to be a business plan and the new Nightstops would have to pay their way, even if some initial investment was required. I’m simply pointing out that there is a potentially worthwhile (and profitable) opportunity for development and I hope that the Club’s Director of Development (or whatever her or she is called) is taking a businesslike look at it, just as they should always be looking to the future. Nothing ever stays the same in business and if the Club doesn’t plan for the future it would, sooner or later, be doomed.
The Club is a Membership organisation and it is shamefully bad at keeping Members informed about future plans - the decision to change the Club name being an example of something which was simply dropped on Members out of the blue and delivered as a fait accompli when it should have been the subject of consultation and perhaps even a vote. I can understand the inclination to avoid the sort of fuss which some Members would have made if there had been a consultation but that is no excuse for running the Club like a secretive self-perpetuating oligarchy, which is what actually happens.
There may well be some plans which are commercially sensitive and need to be kept under wraps but the general approach should be openness and honesty with the Membership, including discussion of strategic planning.
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thank goodness for that
more space for the rest of us who value the efforts made by any organisation to provide such scarce city facilities...
well done Canterbury
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.....but if the club took the trouble to look at many of the French sites, it would see that just one site can cater for both (all) types of requirement.
a full fat campsite with an aire section on the front with smaller, less 'landscaped' pitches....I've posted a picture before of a site nr Angoulême that we've stayed at a few years back...on the aire for €6-7 a night but the posher site pitches, with water etc, were around €18 ACSI rate.
ALL customers were welcome to use ALL facilities (pool, bar, showers, restaurant, etc) and neither group gave a hoot about what the other paid or what they got for their money...
there was even a third group who didn't stay at the site at all, but made use of the waste/water services for about €3....again, no one interested in the slightest...
everyone happy.....just can't seem the same non interest in each other group in the uk.....far too 'interested" in 'how much'....
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well, I must have had the same teacher as WTG.....
it was perfectly clear to me that it was being expressed that, after 'but I' the next clause referred to the same person......
of course I don't speak Cornish
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Maybe not but you speak a lot of things, BB.
Nyns yw unn yeth lowr
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If that’s the standard you like, you’re very welcome to it, BB. I’ll stick to the excellent C&CC site just out of town.👍🏻
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there's a Lidl clue on the blooming great Welcome notice hoarding
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Alan, it's a Protuguese Lidl car park....but it could have been in the UK.....the point is that it's really that easy (a pot of blue paint and the right managerial approach) to provide half a dozen spaces that would be used by many passing MHers
no transport required as all the Lidl outlets are in prime town locations...job done.
and they'd need to be cheap as TW wouldnt stay on one if you paid him
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Canterbury is just an example, not every town has a campsite as close as many would like, hence the convenience of Aires...
its obvious you don't 'get' the system, but thousands do and make good use of them, many wishing a similar facility was available at home.
no one would ever wish and Aire on you, or you on an Aire but don't belittle a terrific system just because you're not interested.
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Nyns yw unn yeth lowr
yes, I speak many
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