Just booked our site for this year
It is a small site with super pitches so we will use our own facilities.It is in a quiet area with a good pub with plenty of open air seating (weather permitting) and a café ditto.We shall take plenty of hand wipes/jell/soap and disinfectant wipes for inside the caravan and the outside door opener.It will not take five minutes to wipe all surfaces at least once daily.I think, with a little care,we will be perfectly safe.Looking forward to it. The site is hoping to open in July.If not we get our money back or to move the booking on.
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We're not vanning any more, but had a couple of cottage breaks booked for this month and next - these have both been rolled forward to next year now. Hope to get down to the static in Cornwall (sorry, TW
) as soon as it's allowed.We've pretty much assumed our overseas holiday at the end of September will go, especially in light of the suggested 14 day quarantine on return, so we've started looking at more cottages in Yorkshire and the Lakes. But not going to actually book anything until things become clearer.
It is a pleasant diversion from the current situation to have a look at what's out there.
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No problem once it's allowed, M. You'll be very welcome to share the delights of Cornwall 🙂
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We have 2 club sites booked: River Breamish end of July and Englethwaite for end of August. We have a CL site booked for mid September near Penrith.
It will be our first experience of club sites and I'm considering buying some of the discounted vouchers as the total cost for both is around £260; but I'll wait until end of month and reassess the situation then.
It's quite an appealing thing to be able to book those sites without a deposit and know that if we don't feel safe travelling by then we can cancel. I have paid a £20 deposit to the cl but that can be transferred if things haven't improved by September.
It's also a mental boost just being able to book something. I can look forward to it but if nearer the time we have to cancel then I can just book for October and November.
I'm desperate to get out walking in the countryside, but after staying put for this long I think it will actually be a bit nerve wracking to venture out again!
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No sites booked but have a winter cruise booked with the opportunity to transfer to a later cruise if it looks too risky. It is all about assessing the risks and that is what I will be doing before any decisions are made or changed. As far as I am concerned it is a little too early to be making these.
peedee
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We had been thinking about another cruise, at least a river cruise, for next year, but to be honest, that is probably our least favourite option now, given the inevitable confinement and proximity to fellow travellers. I think it's going to be extremely difficult for the cruise industry to survIve this situation and not just for health reasons as "ports of call" come to realise that visitors from cruise ships actually bring relatively little income to local economies.
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I'm desperate to get out walking in the countryside, but after staying put for this long I think it will actually be a bit nerve wracking to venture out again!
Same here, thebells. I long for the day where we can go out like we used to and walk up hill and down dale, but even when we can, it'll also be scary!
Got a couple of sites booked October and November, which were already booked pre-Coronavirus. Hoping to be able to go obviously, but taking nothing for granted. But it's nice to be able to (half-) look forward to going away again.
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Well we haven’t actually got a unit yet😂which does help when we are eventually allowed to go away.We sold our Motorhome about 18months ago to enable us to finish off a project in the Philippines.But now we are finished and are ready to get back on the road this time with a Caravan .We have seen the one we want to buy and are just waiting for the lock down restrictions to be eased. We are just about to start looking for a couple of sites to book for later in the year .It also helps to stop you going stir crazy and will give us something to look forward to.
Brian & Jo
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CL sites, that can only take 5 vans are probably an ideal place for your first few trips out when lockdown ends.
As there are 2,000+ CL sites across the UK, you can choose one that's local to you and you won't be sharing it with many others!
CLs are
- Local to you
- Only have 5 vans on site
- The average cost is £14/night. Very few cost more than £20..
Find a local CL to suit you here on the club site.
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/uk-holidays/uk-search-and-book/certificated-locations/
If you'd like to get a flavour of what CLs are all about take a look at how CLs celebrated VE Day in style in this You Tube Video
We suggest you put the SOUND ON.
We all look forward to meeting you again to share our homes and farms with you.
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like TG above, no specific plans to do anything in the uk, bit will be impromtu based on how the restrictions are and what we feel like..
we would also like to 'get away in mid/late Sept across the Channel, again if possible.
we will watch, listen and evaluate....and then go
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We have a cruise booked for June 2021 and have made the decision to cancel. After all that's gone off the cruise experience will now be non-existent. How do you social distance on a cruise ship. It's impossible.
We have a ferry to hook of Holland in late Aug. Will be cancelling that too
What we all need to hope for to take up our pastime again safely is a vaccine. Until then no-one is safe.
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I have booked a few days at The Sandringham site from 1st July. Only 1hr from us. We will see how it goes until then. If the site is open but the toilet/shower blocks are closed I will cancel and hope to find a CL instead. £29 a night is a tad expensive otherwise.
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As a matter of fact that is what we are aiming to do.I want super pitches at the moment and have found a couple of lovely little CLs with super pitches little more than an hour from home.Would not normally have thought of that but this may change our caravanning habits a bit.Who knows.
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There's also the hire of multiple coaches locally plus berthing fees, reprovisioning. They do have quite an effect on the local economy. Saw a couple of tempting cruises advertised in the weekend supplement for autumn 2021. We'll have to wait and see.
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Do you think CL's will be opening now, after the announcement last night? It is possible to social distance at CL's.
We are now permitted to "drive further ", we are in a motorhome so always use our own facilities. It would just be "fluids in and out "services we require...
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I doubt it, ALL sites and CLs are closed until the 30th of June. Didn't hear BoJo make any mention of campsites/holidays, only being able to drive further for exercise, not for a holiday.
Besides, travelling and staying in a holiday area such as, say, Cornwall, where the infection rate is low, wouldn't make you popular with the local people, to say the least. It's far too soon for that.
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No, I do not.
We are allowed to drive for exercise, not for non-essential holidays. The hospitality industry might start to re-open in July. It's not only what you might do on a CL that matters but the fact that you could be transmitting the disease to another area and bringing it back with you.
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No.
Its a bit of a stretch to interpret last night statement in such a way as holidays of any kind are now acceptable!
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We live in rural Cheshire and have the added delights of numerous walks on our doorstep, their is no need to be alarmed every time we went for a walk over the last 2 months everybody heeded the 2 metre distancing rule. After reading this mornings release it states you can drive to local parks beaches national parks keeping the social distancing recommendations all over England, to me there's no added danger than what we had before as long has we heed what's been stated. Now waiting for the club to make decision on how it will implement the new guidelines. We have four sites booked at the moment, Sandringham, New forest Centenary site, may change to Bridlington, Black Knowl and York Rowntree. May yet book something in August has we always stay clear of that month. l for one can't wait to get back on the road, we will still be self isolating in the MH, keeping the social distancing rule so l cannot for the life of me see how it will change from the last 2 months.
Here's back to normality
Heethers
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What changes, or needs to change, are the infection and death rates overall.
It's not just about us as individuals sitting at home or out in our MHs but about the collective actions and activities of the population in preventing the spread of the disease.
You're waiting to hear how the club will implement the new guidelines. They won't, it doesn't apply. Nothing will happen in the hospitality industry until July at best. I know you're very eager to get back out there, Heethers, but you'll have to be patient like the rest of us.
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