What is it with people....
Just come back from a one night away. Although we had a pitch on our own, observing our surroundings brought home to just how close the pitches are to each other. The lack of separation is emphasised by the lack of screening between them. The site was about 80% empty with no shortage of pitches. Unless you were there to met them , why would you park in a pitch next to another van? When we arrived there was a motorhome parked near the motorhome service point and no one within 50 yards of them. Late afternoon another motorhome arrived at the service point and a little bit later I noticed they had parked in the pitch directly next to the original van. Why?
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Maybe they were friends. I've never found sites that close to each other, they all have a 3m gap between units.
Folk are strange some like to be close while others, like us prefer to be away in a corner on our own but only if there is sun there
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Did it cause you a problem, Prescot? I'd not think it worthy of comment really.🤷🏻♂️
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Some folks have no idea of space. Happens to us on the most remote of beaches. You walk miles, you settle down in splendid isolation, then the next person along walks all the way towards you and sits down yards away!🤷♀️ Three dogs are useful to keep a few at bay if others ventured too close. Friendly of course, but prone to snaffling sandwiches......😂
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If you like a bit of space at the moment I can thoroughly recommend the old Braithwaite Fold site now run by the C&CC, during Covid visitors have to use alternate pitches and the sense of space is great on this normally crowded site.
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We normally tour with two cables. We lurve space. Last time we were at Bolton Abbey, we had the whole of the bottom level to ourselves, marvellous😁
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We all have our own perception of a 'good pitch'. I guess some folk may not like the idea of pitching away from others. There may be other issues like the closeness/ distance from the toilet block (or even the CDP, children's play area, entrance barrier etc) - some like to be near, some like distance. Personally, I like to keep a distance from overhanging trees. I guess it's not a simple one size fits all... 😃
David
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It is amazing isn't it?
Today, as usual I visited our local estate for our daily dog walk. Freezing fog, incredibly mucky underfoot and a lot less visitors as the shops are open and kids at school. They've not been and parking has been crowded. Not so today.
Lovely 2 hour meander back to the car with mucky pup and myself. I'd parked as usual, if I can, on the edge to allow good door opening for dog. Notice a car parked beside me and 3 empty spaces beside it. Lots and lots more all around. Let the dog in passenger side, dry feet etc. Round to get in myself. 😱😱😱 car sooooo close I have trouble getting down between the cars, let alone opening the door, can't get in!! Look at getting in the passenger side, quite possible but the scrabble across to the drivers seat not easy especially as drivers seat close to steering wheel to accommodate my short legs....... try that be too hard. Remove coat, and other clothing until I can squeeze, only just, and wriggle my way in. Boy what a challenge and how inconsiderate?
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I had a similar experience, this morning Bakers. The car park on the cliff tops at home has room for about 50 or 60 vehicles. This morning when setting off for my usual dog walk on the beach, there were about 3 cars in the car park.
When I came back, there was one car just behind and to one side of me and as I was putting Meg in the back and into her cage, another car pulled up behind me and sat there with his engine running, waiting for me to move, just so he could pull into the space directly behind me.
Why??? He had at least another 45 spaces to choose from!
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And have you noticed it happens more the newer your car is?
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Err - no! Folk still park far too close to my rusty old Land Rover. Fortunately, I have full length side steps and can usually slide along to get into the driver door.
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Yes it can be a right pain, literally. I occasionally get problems with my back, I can walk fine but have Problems getting out of the car unless I can open the door wide. In these circumstances I always park well away from anyone at the far end of the huge supermarket car park. Invariably there will be someone parked alongside when I come back. The only way round it is to put the drivers door at the end of a row.
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When we parked our MH at the back of Tesco Catterick car park in September, on returning to the van we noticed signs saying the car park was monitored and parking out of spaces would attract a £50 fine. ( it was raining when we arrived so we rushed in) I have not noticed them at any other Tesco car parks and it might be because this one was shared by other outlets. Not very likely to encourage MH's to shop. Fortunately we never recieved a fine. As we had spent £80 stocking up, I would have been rather peeved.
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I always park as fair as I can away from supermarket front doors or any other shop for that matter, I really must be a poor reverse parker as I always seem to land up in two spaces? (not much better going nose in)
£50 fine? I rather pay that than paying to have a door or other part of my car repaired!
(On my old car I had a crease put in the outer edge of my drivers door by a "poor parker", could not be repaired and would need a door replacement, did not bother as I did not want to pay the excess on my insurance and I sold the car a while after anyway)
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I know just what you mean Prescot46... this summer we stayed on a couple of CLs in Lincolnshire.
On the first site, we'd taken care to pitch as you'd need to on a Club site, so that if you park your car on the other side of your pitch, you can have a small 'private' seating area outside your door - it also ensures space between vans for fire regulations etc.
We came back from a day out to find someone had pitched with her door opening right onto the edge of her pitch, almost within touching distance of our caravan... she couldn't have got closer if she'd tried! I was inwardly furious and ignored her for a day or two. I even took a photo of her inconsiderate pitching (when she'd gone out for the day!), fully intending to publicise it on forums such as this one. The next day I couldn't avoid bumping into her at the water tap. We ended up chatting for half an hour, she was the nicest lady you could wish to meet. Needless to say I didn't mention her inconsiderate pitching, and haven't published the photo anywhere!
On the second site, we arrived to find a huge empty field with wonderful views. The owner was laid-back and told us to pitch where we liked. Just as we'd finished setting up and were about to admire the views, another caravan arrived and pitched right next to us... half an hour later another caravan arrived and pitched right next to them... a huge field to accommodate five vans, with three of them parked right next to each other. Fortunately the other two vans only stayed a couple of nights, we had the whole site to ourselves for the rest of the week!
Not that we're unsociable or anything, but as you say, what is it with people....
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Ask, It's a shame you didn’t mention to the nice lady that she had parked too close for safety. She doesn’t seem the type to take offence and it's my guess she didn’t realise she was endangering herself and you in the event of a fire by pitching so close. Now, she'll still not know😕
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There are on sale yellow fold flat signs bearing the legend "Motor Caravan Using This Pitch". I wonder if a couple of these might be deployed on CLs to avoid the close neighbour problem.
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Mmm, good idea - not. Imagine the CL owner's reaction😲🤣🤣
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I would hope that on a well managed CL the owner would not be allowing the over-close siting of caravans, and there would be no need for any of the users to be concerned.
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about two car widths away
