Caravan sites opening and safety measures feedback

Separation would not be reduced. In hot weather we usually pitch facing North as no windows in the back to let in the heat of the southern sun. Come back to pitch at 3 or 4pm and car parked on nearside of van and our chairs etc in shade on the offside

And why, on a rare occasion, I agreed with you.

Gawd this site moves like a hot knife through very thick syrup!!

Just experienced the Covid 19 safety measures on two sites, CAMC & C&CC. Good measures in place but people having trouble sticking to them so we'll carry on using our own facs till further notice.

C&CC site had entrance doors and windows open in facility block so that looked better than people fumbling with keys and bands at CAMC block. Both clubs had hand sanitisers placed at entrances, not always in use from our observations.

Overall experience good as long as we keep well over next two weeks? 

Were we glad to have a break, yes! Sites were busy but local areas much quieter than usual.

I saw the tear drop leave .... very cute but not for us ... not enough room 

Just got back from 4 nights at Members only Henley Four Oaks Club site, Thurs – Mon. This very pleasant and green site was full at around 75 vans. The wardens were very, friendly, helpful and engaging keeping the site and the sole toilet block clean and sanitised during this current Coronavirus pandemic. This was very reassuring and we felt safe throughout our stay.

For those interested in how the site toilet block worked I'll first describe the building so you get an understanding. One door in to each section. In the gents there are 4 toilet cubicles with only 2 being used to keep a 2m distance. This meant that only 2 showers and 2 privacy cubicles were open as well as 1 urinal. The ladies had 5 or 6 toilet cubicles so this allowed for 3 to be in use and hence 3 showers and privacy cubicles.

The correct number of rubber wrist bands were in a small pot outside the door filled with Milton fluid & you collected the band when entering and replaced when leaving. So only 2 in the gents and 3 in the ladies, although I am certain on occasions some additional members entered to use the toilets in both blocks when they were available as those inside with the wrist bands were in the shower. There were clear instructions and hand sanitizing gel outside as well as distance spacing markers on the ground. Although we didn't use the laundry or pot washing area there was only 1 person/van allowed inside each at any one time. They were cleaned twice a day at 1030 and I think 1630.

I felt that it was used by many more members than I had anticipated, but I only ever queued twice for about 10 minutes on 2 occasions at 0730 time each day. My wife's experience was similar. I did see larger queues of around 6 deep a little later on in the morning but these went down quickly with the majority going to the toilet. One member I met returned and showered in his caravan after finding a large queue on morning. I also found  two young brothers in there one morning, using the two bands, but one was just waiting for the other to finish rather than coming outside despite me being there queuing.

Given the restrictions, beyond the Warden’s control, it seemed to work pretty well. There are no serviced pitches here so that may have added to the numbers using the facilities but all aspects of the facilities were being used by some members and larger families washing the pots etc. Some members were using it just like they normally would such as going across to brush their teeth etc.

At the end of the day everyone is different and all have the right to use the facilities as they wished to. Overall we were very pleased for our first outing after the lockdown being eased and we never heard any grumbling. 

Hope this assists those that wanted to know exactly what was happening. I know I was keen to find out, hence my visiting the forum for the first time on this topic in about 2 years. The forum is important for such things so long as they don't get kidnapped

This page has been updated since last week when Buxton and the Wirral (which we are due to visit next week) were not showing the 1pm arrival, so at least that error has now been corrected. Both sites still show 12:00 arrival on the CAMC site app (Android version). I did mention this to the warden when we checked in when I apologized and explained why we were all early but they didn't seem very interested.

Thanks that's very useful.

It's strange that the club appear to have different processes across different sites. At Buxton, the system seemed to be that every member was given a rubber wristband for each person. We were given a red one and a blue one. When you went into the toilet block you were supposed to leave your band on one of the three hooks just outside. so if the hooks were occupied, you waited. Fair enough.

The only slight concern with this is that on leaving, you could pick up the wrong wristband with a risk that it could have been placed by someone with the virus.

I have just received our booking reminder for the Wirral for next week which states 13:00 so that is good to see. I probably wouldn't normally think to check elsewhere.

We went to St Agnes site on the first weeek of opening, and to be honest were a bit disappointed in the safety measures.  The booking in process was good, we didnt have to leave our car, but after that it was practically non existent. St Agnes doesn't have toilets or showers, so that didn't come into the equation. What really surprised me was the total lack of hand sanitiser at the service points, in fact the only hand sanitiser available was at the entrance to the laundry, the only place with hot water. I commented on this to a person at the water tap, and his stuffy reply was, " they expect you to use your common sense and wash your hands when you get back to your caravan ". Well yes, but supposing the person before me was infected,  after I had used the tap and before I had the opportunity to wash my hands I would have touched my water hog, the pump, the door handle of my van, and maybe the zip of my awning,  the thresh hold around the door, and maybe other items. To get over this I used my own sanitiser before and after I touched any service point equipment. 

In contrast we spent our second week at a small private site that had sanitiser at all water points, the chemical emptying point, and even at the gate to the entrance of the site. They closed  the toilet block ,and were only taking bookings from those who were self sufficient regarding toilet and showers.

Just got back at the weekend from a 3 week holiday in our caravan, the first week being at Godrevy Park in Hayle.

I haven't read through the 500+ posts in this thread but expect that there will be lots of both positive and negative comments, however, I have nothing but praise for the staff at Godrevy on the opening day. I can't comment on the facilities as we chose to use the ones in our caravan during the week we were there, partially to reduce the risk to us and partially because we knew the facilities at the site would be reduced and people in camper vans without facilities would have a reduced wait at busy times if people are able to use their own facilities on board .

We got a phone call a few days before the 4th from the site about our arrival and not only did we get an excellent choice of arrival slots, all 1 hour long, but they also knew what pitches we had been on in previous visits and asked if we would like to stay on one of them if free or we had the option of going to any other pitch not already allocated. We chose our pitch and arrival time from 11.00 - 12.00 and were asked to phone if running late, or park up in a lay-by if running early. We wanted a stop anyway for a late breakfast and were just about to set off from our lay-by for the last 25 miles at 10.45 when we got another call from the site to ask how we were doing and to say that the previous hour's arrivals were all there and we could arrive early if we wanted. We arrived on site at 11.15, were booked in without getting out of the car and escorted to our pitch. I think the process was brilliantly organised, well done the Godrevy Staff!!!

The service points seemed to be emptied, cleaned and disinfected at frequent intervals throughout the week we were there and we had absolutely no worries about our stay there.

We hope to be back next year once again.

Peter

We stayed on two separate CMC sites on our way to the Eurotunnel earlier this week. One has no loo/shower facilities in “Normal” times and the other has Full facilities open, albeit restricted number access via the armband system. I thought the staff were managing the system extremely well and have clearly had some training on Covid19 hazards etc. I was on holiday and not in the habit of monitoring the activities of my fellow campers but one “incident” put a smile on my face. I was walking towards a facilities block on my way back from reception when a lady ran towards me in a state of some panic. She told me there was a mouse in the female loos and asked me if I would remove it. My immediate thought was ‘this is a windup’ but she was clearly serious. I pointed out to her that under even normal circumstances I’d be reluctant to enter the ladies loos and that the chances of catching the animal was minimal anyway.  I think I reassured her that the creature would be far more scared of her than the other way round and that if it did see her whist she was on the loo it’s unlikely it would tell anyone and so she eventually went inside. We need a bit of humour in these present times and she clearly doesn’t live in a 300 year old house like we do. I hope she was OK after all the excitement.