Club sites in lockdown areas.
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Yes, I agree with that, though common sense seems to have been a vanishingly rare commodity since the lifting of the first lockdown in July. We're booked to go to a cottage on Exmoor on Friday for a week - fortunately the South West seems to be relatively easy at the moment. But we've already decided that if a second lockdown, however unlikely, is declared and we were there, we'd come straight home.
As far as sites are concerned I'd have thought they would also close with the possible exception, as before, of full timers.
But who knows what to expect in the increasingly inept handling of this situation from our Lords and masters?
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Will be Government mandated across holiday provision sector I suspect. Therefore unlikely to happen. Will be reliant upon individuals making their own decisions about whether or not to go. (England)
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Must admit i was very apprehensive about taking the caravan out, but we took the plunge, have been on site in Devon for 3 weeks, if the proverbial hits the fan will be off home, but what has been an eye opener are the masses flocking to visitor attractions such as Tintagel, Polperro , Looe. These places are just heaving with people crammed on to narrow pavements so not SD, and some people smoking whilst walking along or stuffing their faces with oggies and not caring about social distancing at all.
Not for us was in Tintagel for the whole of 30 mins before leaving very quickly. Brought most of what we needed with us so most shopping done at local farm shops etc, and 3 nights per week a local food van is on site for 3 hours in the evening, also local chinesee in Tavistock does delivery take aways so no real problems.
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If the lockdown is as the current ones in South Wales and the one a while back in Leicester, I don't see how a site could stay open for touring. The lockdowns prohibited non essential travel. Although it might be essential to leave to go home, which we would as soon as it was announced, it certainly couldn't be regarded as essential to arrive for a holiday.
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There are travel bans in certain Welsh areas, the situation is essential or essential worker travel only and no holiday travel so I assume that means both in and out of the area. People who have to cancel can ask for refunds due to the legal ban on travel. (taken from the official web site.)
We're heading for an area in the north where restrictions have been introduced but it's not at the total lock down level. If this changes we'll have to rearrange things. If lockdown is imposed we'd leave immediately. I've reduced our stay to 3 nights already, we're not in the worst affected area and won't be visiting any places, eating out etc. I'm hoping we can briefly see our family in the open air, Just five of us on the cliff tops...
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I'm setting off to Yorkshire tomorrow from East Lancashire. Our local restrictions aren't connected to travel, other than using public transport and, once set up on site, I don't propose to go into any pubs or restaurants or use site facilities; just enjoy a change of scenery and some lovely walking and relaxing.
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It's been reported in the press that the Government, at some time in the next month, could introduce a two week countrywide lockdown, I imagine similar to the first one. If that were to become the case more than certainly it would involve campsites? Obviously they will be watching the daily case count before putting it in place.
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You've discovered why many of us in this area were very worried about the influx of visitors, Rufs. Small villages, beaches, narrow streets - we knew what to expect☹️
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What seems these days is that an ever increasing number of people are so used to being " spoon fed" that they are when situations such as we are now in occurs unable to use what in the past was called "common sense" and are now unable to make any decision for them selves
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I think it’s more a case of unclear instructions and muddled thinking being passed to us.
We are all capable of making our own decisions, even those who choose to ignore the rules, but there are so many different sets of rules for different areas of the UK that I can understand why people question what they should do in certain circumstances.
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I found this, and while this is a serious subject I found the first few seconds very funny - sorry if that offends anyone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-tyne-54219675
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We have been out and about in the caravan/MH ever since we in Scotland were released from 'lockdown' back in July.
We have just returned from 3 weeks away, we have visited places that were not in 'lockdown' but were very near to Birmingham when their new restrictions came into play.
Our last 2 days away were in the Lakes, we stayed at Kendal and took a trip to Windermere. The streets were crammed with folk, round where the boats are it was unbelievable how many folk were out and about. Now while this is good for tourism and the local area, we did not feel like getting out of the car and joining the mad crush. So we drove over to Grange and had a very nice socially distanced lunch, then a lovely walk. Grange was busy but not crushed with folk and everyone was behaving.
I would hope that we won't go back into a full 'lockdown' apart from the fact that I don't think the economy could stand it, I don't think it would be right to 'lockdown' everywhere when some places are not seeing the rise that others are seeing.
As to campsites closing then I would think they might if an area has travel restrictions placed on it. How would that work though for those that have rented a cottage for a couple of weeks, surely they would be allowed to stay and enjoy their time away as long as they don't leave the area.
At the moment it appears that what the Gov is trying to do is keep everyone happy by keeping things open but 'asking' folk to be sensible. It didn't work when in June everyone flocked to the coast, why would it work now when Universities are going back and the young folk no longer have their parents watching what they do.
Will it stop us from going away? only if the sites close. We have felt safe on the sites we have been on, we haven't been in crowded places and apart from twice being in a pub/restaurant setting we have not been close to other people. Just walking and cycling in the countryside.
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We think the same TG. If you choose your areas wisely, your sites with care, and keep away from places that are bound to be busy, it’s possible to have a sensible, controlled change of scenery. It might not be exactly what you want to do, for example we won’t be eating out anywhere, shopping or doing lots of historic site visiting, but just getting away, being sensible and mitigating the risks is very cathartic. We have thought about as many circumstances that might arise as possible, and tried to cover all those bases as well. It’s still about doing your own risk assessments. Got all details through for our cottage yesterday, and spoke directly with the very nice and caring sounding owner. There’s an awful lot of effort going into trying to minimise risk, keeping visitors and cleaning staff safe.
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I would expect the same but then as it seems that it is different instrutions are issued on a daily basis, it is going to be difficult for anybody in the leisure industry to be able to advise any of their customers what is just round the corner
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The current restrictions in the North East allow for you to go on holiday so long as it's with people from within your household. Absolutely no reason that the club should currently consider closing it's North East sites. I've been to 3 sites in the area since reopening and the arrangements have been excellent in all of them.
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