Surprising Late Availability
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I don't know about others but its not all about the prices (although I do think them expensive) we are not away just now because :
(a) its the main school holidays (too many children)
(b) its the time of year that we can get on with outdoor work
(c) we are planning our next trip
(d) we are expecting visits from our children and grandchildren
as we mainly tour 'over there' in the shoulder months, UK in the winter months (or a cruise) July and August is the only time that we can do jobs that need doing.
We used to caravan with our children from the age of 2 - 16 years of age, never in the UK as we lived in Germany at that time but I do know they would NOT have wanted to spend holidays on a club site.
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Geez JV, you pop at ‘Travelers’ or ‘young families’ every chance you get. Had you ever considered being a little positive now & again?🤔
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We used to caravan with our children from the age of 2 - 16 years of age, never in the UK as we lived in Germany at that time but I do know they would NOT have wanted to spend holidays on a club site.
My kids generally did not spend holidays on any site - the site was somewhere to return to for an evening meal.
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It just never seems appropriate in JV world☹️
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We have just had the Fathers? of two families racing their offspring? round the site roads on cycles and one had his? very young child in a child seat on his cycle and the child was screaming and not a happy scream ,and all this with toddlers on their little stableizer balanced cycles (several) on the same road, responsible parents?
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The previous CL that we were on was full apart from 1 pitch 1 night out of 5, and the current one is full and has been since Friday when we arrived and will be till Thursday at least, and this is in a quiet, distant part of the UK.
Our son was been able to book, just a couple of weeks ago, a cottage in Cornwall for the last week of the school holidays.....so not so busy in that area either.
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Well of course the site was somewhere to stay, however the sites we went to had lots of things going on for the children FOC, they wanted to be in the sea (warm) snorkelling, going out in their inflatable boat, visiting places that were interesting.
Playing on a beach that was so big it never felt crowded, no matter how many families were on it. Playing with children of all nationalities, basically having lots and lots of fun. Isn't that what holidays should be.
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I live in Mevagissey in Cornwall and the local commercial sites (and village) seem to be having a bumper year. On changeover Saturday and the night before there are caravans and motorhomes parked overnight all over the place and sites are full, I think the reason is a variety of sites giving people (presumably) the full range of what they want e.g. camping virtually on the beach with boat launch facilities and loads for kids to do even on wet days, adult only sites, sites adjacent to major attractions e.g. Lost Gardens of Heligan and motorhomes stopover in central car park. Add to that a number of local farm sites with good access to beaches and other attractions and there’s no reason why anybody would go out of their way to seek out a CAMC site which generally do not offer any ‘frills’. It’s also far enough away from the tourist ‘honeypots’ to enjoy without horrendous overcrowding and queues for everything. Interestingly, the volume of German visitors (motorhomes) locally increases every year, largely driven by a combination of interest in the novels of Rosamunde Pilcher which have been dramatised on German TV and a weak £.
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Unless Harry did or someone else did exactly the same count this time last year and the year before we have no idea if this late availability is average, bad or better? Who knows it could actually be a lot better, why are people so happy to think it's worse?
Normally the first two weeks of the school holidays are the most popular? When working most of the kids used to go off straight away. And package holiday prices are peak those first two weeks, or they were.
Also don't agree with club sites being designed for older people with dogs. They are designed for a caravan/MH to stay overnight. During school time they are filled with older retired member but in school holidays, over the nearly 20 years I've been using them, they are full of young families.
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one of the staff here has worked on a big comercial holiday site in Devon and I think they would ask where you get that idea from
