8' wide caravans on club pitches

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  • GTP
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    edited September 2019 #92

    One thing is for sure....whoever takes one of these 8' wide (2.438m) caravans through the arch to reach the Bolton Abbey Estate Site....given its 'restricted' width of 2.8m....had better have a good eye for lining up their approach..

    Of course...the various colours of paint on the side walls of the arch are a reminder of what's behind you as you pass through and keep you focused !!! As you can see, I had no trouble wink 

    PS...don't forget to retract any protruding mirrors.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKCmPeGiHg

  • rayjsj
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    edited September 2019 #93

     Touring with an 8ft wide Caravan will need a very steady pair of hands and an even bigger set of 'gozonga's'.  If the approach roads to Cheddar, Putts Corner and Trewethett CMC sites are anything to go by. OK as semi-static vans but as tourers with towcars being fitted with smaller and less powerful engines.....very hard to justify or even understand.?

     

     

     

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  • JVB66
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    edited September 2019 #95

    Small ? reallyundecided i think you need to use more sites in the UKwink

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2019 #96

    Most travellers vans are 8ft wide and more and they have no trouble "parking"wink

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2019 #98

    Perhaps that just happens on the very small amount or sites that you go to? What did you post, a few visits a year to one or two sites?

    On every site I've on on there is ample room for car caravan and awning and still have room to walk around on gravel and fully open the cars doors neatest the caravan.

    Funny how you reopened this thread after nearly a month?

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  • EmilysDad
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    edited September 2019 #100

    You must have a smaller outfit than mine as I struggle ... and I certainly have to be careful opening the door nearest the caravan. 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2019 #101

    or perhaps you choose different sites? we are talking club sites here, thought you posted just the other day you didn't use them, just CL's?

  • SteveL
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    edited September 2019 #103

    Certainly not the case on many pitches at Moreton in Marsh CS. At others there would be if it wasn't for peg drift to maintain the 6 metre spacing, which often means either the car or the awning space is to small, whilst the other side is oversized.

  • JVB66
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    edited September 2019 #104

    On some sites that are in the "ancient" part of the cc portfolio it is possible to find some pitches that just have enough space to be awning pitches, MIM being one as is Cirencester in the past it was quite common to park in front of the c/van

  • Cornersteady
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    edited September 2019 #105

    Yes I am sure there are sites like that but I can only say what I've experienced, maybe I only see SP and all HS sites and they are either on newer sites or recently refurbishment and therefore sized to a better standard?

  • rayjsj
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    edited September 2019 #106

    Another limitation will be access to some sites, many approach roads (Devon, Somerset Cornwall) are pretty tight even with standard size caravans, even tighter with 8' caravans. And vehicles to tow them ? We should all be looking for lighter smaller vehicles NOT larger more unwieldy ones ? or am I missing something ?

    Evidently sites on the continent are even smaller according to some posters on here, so no good for there either. 

  • rayjsj
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    edited September 2019 #107

    if your parked car had been on Pitch I had chosen to stay on, my camper would have backed onto it until you were boxed in......move it or else next time i'll back into it. Unless of course you had paid for 2 pitches.

     

     

     

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  • mickysf
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    edited October 2019 #109

    'see one C&MC site and one has seen them all.'

    Having been on quite a few C&MC sites, I'm sure others have far more experience, this really is not the case. There are those which are totally non awning, those with no non awnings, those formally laid out, those informally so, those all grass, those no grass. etc, etc.  

    Yes, some sites have more usable pitch space, believe it or not but this can include non awning pitches too in my experience. It's not the pitch size that always determines usable space or whether it's a non awning or not, it's the spaces between pitches. At the end of the day what happens should be determined by those fire breaks alone in my view but the trouble is that some of us either don't understand these or we wish to ignore them for our own personal purposes and wants.

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2019 #110

    On every site I've on on there is ample room for car caravan and awning and still have room to walk around on gravel and fully open the cars doors neatest the caravan.

    I can't say that I agree with that statement on many sites CS but maybe you have smaller front doors on your car. 

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2019 #111

    I expect that the reason CS uses CC sites (probably as first option) is because, like me and many others, the sites are of a standard that we like David rather than all being the same as they are not all the same in many ways. 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited October 2019 #112

    Mmm, Kendal, Dunnet Bay, Morn Hill, Moreton - all exactly the same. Pull the other one, David🤣🤣🤣

  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2019 #113

    I prefer CLs but do use club sites if I have to

  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2019 #114

    If the warden was happy with it I don't need to ask you .... 

  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2019 #115

    There are always the exception to prove the rule, but by and large Another David is correct, club sites consist of rows & rows of caravans parked as close together as the rules allow with one way 'roads' in between.

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2019 #116

    Your post just proves what a narrow view that the few who do not or vary rarely use club sites have of the real world , that is enjoyed by the thousands  of members who seem to have more open ideasundecided 

  • JVB66
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    edited October 2019 #117

    But in earlier posts in the past you "advised you tended to use CLs to give your children more "freedom?" so how is that "well qualified?" as your experiance was even in years past not really any qualificationwink

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited October 2019 #118

    We’ll have to differ on that one, MM, as I say you and David are both incorrect. 

    I’ve not quoted exceptions and couldn’t think of one single site that has rows and rows of jammed in pitches, although they probably exist somewhere. 

  • Cornersteady
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    edited October 2019 #119

    +1

     

  • EmilysDad
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    edited October 2019 #120

    It appears that EasyT is also incorrect .... 

     

    and 'jammed in' is your choice of words ... I didn't say that

  • EasyT
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    edited October 2019 #121

    Not sure why? 

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