Arrival times
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I can’t see the problem. Leave one site at 10.30, arrive at the other 13.00🤷🏻♂️
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As I said "my longest drive", not typical drive. I get up about 6.30 on holiday. Breakfast is done by 8am. easily ready to hitch up by just after 8.30. Would usually not leave until 9am and so remaining time after that is waiting to leave. Usual journey times are 1.5 to 2 hours. and so with a 12 arrival we are usually killing an hour to 1 hour 30mln already. Really prefer not to extend this. I prefer to travel around 70 to 110 miles. I have arthritis in spine, shoulder and neck. I suffer discomfort frequently through the day. The longer I drive over the first hour to hour and a half then the more discomfort I get. Yes I do take ibuprofen which helps but rarely do so. If travel over 2 hours I am likely to need to lie down for half an hour with a large dose of Ibuprofen.
If you don't see a problem then that is fine. For me the problem is waiting. We are all different TW.
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+ 1 👍🏻
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As I put above, nor am I, you just work around it. However, the ease of stopping on route does depend on your outfit. We find it very easy now, and would just use the time replenishing food stocks. Not quite so easy when we had a 12 metre long car / caravan.
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If you have so much discomfort driving i cant understand why you use so many sites on just one trip 4 or 5 i believe ?, why not just use a couple and stay longer on one site ?
Less driving , less winding of steadies, hitching up/un hitching, win win 
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Understood but for those of us who have had to manage staff rotas things like staffing levels, breaks and the WTD etc. do make for interesting constraints when formulating a working timetable. Sometimes medical needs of employees can also impact upon this. Not that any of the above is of interest, vague or otherwise, to some members mind.
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If the cottage had not been occupied for a few days and had already been cleaned, would you still expect an arrival time of 3.00pm?
Similarly, if a site is only 20% occupied with no facility block, why could arrival time not be say 10.00am.
I realise the CAMC loves the "one size fits all " approach but it doesn't help the paying guest.
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We use all sorts of Sites, with all sorts of outfits present, and all sorts of arrival/departure times.
Away from Club Sites, it’s predominantly caravans and tents arrive as early as possible, unhitch, do all the setting up stuff, then get on with their day. The campers and MH’s roll in later, they are out doing their stuff already until later (much later in our case). Slightly different on Club Sites, as some MHs are pitched and left like caravans, so you will find more of these queuing as well. Not a criticism, just an observation.
Arrival/departure times are one of the factors why we tend to use CLs more. Greater flexibility, especially if one politely enquires. Not possible at a Club Site, even if Wardens feel they can accommodate, some eagle eyed other would find offence, cry havoc...........
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No discomfort driving shorter distances generally. Our shorter 35 day trips would use 7 sites and our longest about 10 or often 11 sites. We go away on most tours to visit areas rather than to stop at one location and chill out locally. We find that a 4 or 5 days stay is enough for that.
By driving after a stop of 5 nights we obviously are able to cover more areas and distance.
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See my post above Mikey. We quite frequently get into cottages early, or stay later, depending upon bookings. Done via a polite enquiry, and no offence taken if it doesn’t happen. But there’s generally not a hundred other pairs of eyes around to take umbrage at the thought of someone else getting a tiny bit more than you have. It’s the old “do it for one, do it for all”. Now known as the Cummings Conundrum.😉
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The only inconvenience I experience from the 13.00pm arrival time is if its a site under a 100 miles from home or if I am moving a relatively short distance between sites. Take Cherry HInton as an example which is 57 miles from home. I can't really leave home much before 11.30am in order not to get there too early. So to me I have to hang around a bit before leaving home which is not ideal. I fully understand why that site has a later arrival time so I have to accept that I have to alter my normal way of doing things. We do seem to visit Seacroft quite regularly but because that is getting on for a three hour journey it does not make a difference that the arrival time is 13.00pm. As far as leaving times are concerned we could manage with them being a bit earlier as we are nearly always away from a site by 10.00am but I appreciate that might not suit everyone.
David
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I did not know that we were just talking about the present situation where the extra hour between arrivals and departure offered more time for cleaning which I can understand. Not that I would be using much in the way of facilities beyond empty, fill and tip rubbish
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There is no fixed arrival times you can arrive any time after 1200/1300 depending on site up until 2000 hrs
On many sites when can the staff get other work done? as the WTD will mean that there could will be only one couple on duty
Our chemist opens at 0900 Mon to Sat but there is nearly always some out side before that in a queue
It is the same with our Co op that opens at 0700 ,there is always some waiting for it to open to get their newspapers
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Mikey, comparing a supermarket queue, in the middle of a pandemic, during the third lockdown, in a cold, dismal English Winter, to a Caravan Club Site, operating relatively normally, (the new normal, I grant you) in the future, isn’t thinking outside the box. It’s akin to hailing from another planet.
Boldly going where others..........never even considered😁
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I like a man who knows his customers👍😂
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We usually phone to check what's going on (we normally go for privately owned places rather than company ones.) But we accept when booking that we have been told when the arrival time is. So we might stop off for a leisurely lunch before arriving or ask if it's possible to park at the cottage (safer with a fully packed car) and take the dogs for a walk before getting in. And I accept that's easier with just a car than with a van attached! Either way, we wouldn't expect conditions to be changed solely because it benefits us.
Incidentally, Mikey, I think you've been on the forum long enough to know that, when this discussion has occurred in the past I've long advocated for more flexible arrival/ departure arrangements. Arrive early and you penalise yourself by having a smaller choice of pitches, not that we ever thought that was a significant factor on club sites.
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Away from Club Sites, it’s predominantly caravans and tents arrive as early as possible, unhitch, do all the setting up stuff, then get on with their day. The campers and MH’s roll in later, they are out doing their stuff already until later (much later in our case).
Even when we can arrive when we want we normally aim for either just before or after lunch. Once in the area of our tour our journeys are rarely more than 3 hours and we get going soon after 9:00. We much prefer to plonk the van on a site and use foot or public transport. Moving on every few days.
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Yes but my olfactory capabilities are a bit inferior to those of my OH. Was no big deal.
NB. Just realised you said Septic emptying point, not CDP, so no, not that I noticed.
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Thats your choice, what suits you and I respect it Steve👍
Mikey, you did indeed say normal. But you aren’t comparing like for like. A 1000 pitch Site overseas is never going to have a queue, don’t they wish. But 100-150 pitches in UK, a slightly different model. Lot more caravans as well in UK I am guessing........
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It’s well known that the Brits love a queue. Best place to have a good old moan to person next to you about something or other😂
Russians used to queue as well, back in Communist days. It usually meant something worth having might just be at the front of it! 🤔
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