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  • nelliethehooker
    nelliethehooker Club Member Posts: 13,647 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 2019 #32

    I can fully understand why working folk go away over the Easter holiday period, we used to do the same, but nowadays, as it's the busiest Bank Holiday of the year in our opinion, we keep off the roads and don't add to the melee.

  • Watersideranger
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    edited April 2019 #33

    I'm of the opinion the 12 month in advance booking is a bad thing and members book simply to get a pitch option. If there is a poor weather forecast watch for cancellations, Easter is about as late as it can be this year.  If 12 month booking stays, suspect it will, I think a deposit system will help.  You certainly have to take a deep breath when you see the cost of your holiday. We are at Strathclyde Park at Easter celebrating our 57 wedding anniversary, married at Bellshill Baptist Church April 21st 1962 so it all fits nicely.

  • EasyT
    EasyT Forum Participant Posts: 16,194
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    edited April 2019 #34

    A happy couple

  • rayjsj
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    edited April 2019 #35

    Would normally agree Nellie, but to visit the Grandchildren we dont have much choice.So Easter it is, managed to book an affiliated site, then away for a short tour. Most sites are ok after Easter is over.

     

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited April 2019 #36

    We have been lucky enough to dodge busy periods most of our working lives, although I did use to take three weeks in July/August when I was managing a community sports centre. Six full weeks of caring for other folks children wouldn’t have been good for my blood pressure. However, there wasn’t the huge hike in pitch prices like there is now. 

    The upside of holiday periods is that most places are in full swing, the downside is definitely getting fleeced at every opportunity. I don’t begrudge individual small businesses of making the most of what might be seasonal, but big corporates are just plain greedy.

  • brue
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    edited April 2019 #37

    We have taken a lot of holidays in Cornwall at Easter, the sites were always fairly busy over the Easter weekend and then people left on Monday for work the following day. So unless you're in an area which is near for easy travel I don't think a holiday over Easter is going to be overpopulated but you'd need to have the weekend lined up in advance.

    To Watersideranger, hope you are having a lovely break, congratulations!  I remember the old Bellshill, I think it's changed quite a bit now? smile

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