UK staycation boom predicted
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Not us, OH has second jab 1st May and we will be off on the 4th May to a site we have used a few times in Dorset, should be moderately quiet as the site has quite a big tenting area and i expect most of that will be closed, unless of course more people are buying porta toilet tents
. Off to read the Sunday paper in the caravan and listen to the radio, glorious day so like to use the caravan as much as we can even if it is not turning a wheel then out on the bike for an hour followed by a family Zoom, feels like my staycation has already started 
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I should say all beach side car parks in Stubbington are FOC, there are moves a foot to start charging but these have been fiercley fought against.
Try parking in Spains hotspots late June, July, August, lots of unofficial car parks set up where they rip you off to park on what would pass as a bad building site anywhere else, and if you dont want to pay you spend ages touring the streets to find a vacant space, and then have to hump your beach gear miles to the beach, and then horror of horror you forget where you have parked.
In Tarragona you have to pay to visit Mercadona
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We will! (All being well being an important proviso!) We will head down to our van in Cornwall as soon as allowed. Won't be doing any socialising though, for a change! And certainly nowhere near the beaches.
Our 2nd jabs aren't due until the start of May and plans further ahead will depend on that but hopefully we'll also be able to take up our cottage booking in the Peak District at the start of the month. Can't wait!
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I have been advised of three places (not LA fitted) local to us that they have had to be removed as inacurate registrations have resulted in expensive disputes with vehicle owners
I have never had a problem with them both at the channel tunnel and my local hospital car parks which are all fitted with them. Same with the Aires that use them. The ones at our hospitals are equipped with intercoms and you can speak to security should you have a problem.
peedee
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That is up the owners to decide how they recoup their costs. Canterbury charges are moderate because they want to encourage motor caravan owners to park out of town and the pub opposite is very grateful for the income it gets from the overnighters.
peedee
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Me!
Booked Thursaston on the Wirral from the 11th for 3 nights. Had to cancel the first night when it was announced the sites wouldn’t open until the Monday but that’s fine. Can’t do more than 2/3 nights because of caring responsibilities.We have also booked for the following couple of weekends Sunday - Tuesday. Don’t get our second jabs until the end of April but as we tend to camp carefully and can easily maintain social distancing then I have no concerns.
Hoping to get down to see our daughter in Bristol in May, camping in their drive as we usually do, so will hold off any further bookings until later.
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TDA, For the life of me I cannot see why it is a choice of one or the other?
Your quiet and peaceful may seem dull and boring to other people, including those who never go 'over there', but as long as you like it that's all that matters surely?
Can say we have ever chosen a site just for the site-who would go location that did not appeal, but the site was nice?
Our main reasons for going over there are the weather and the difference.
The weather may be a pain from time to time, we love the Italian lakes but they are green for a reason, but you cannot see those lakes, the Swiss mountains, the seemingly endless views across open country in France etc without going, so we do.
But we also love our time in the UK and after a holiday 'over there' we are always happy to be back home, as we love it here, and will be looking forward to the next good time wherever it is.
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The question is could it work here? Can you see the current practices changing? Could you say how that would happen?
It is happening now, perhaps not for free but it is happening with LAs in tourist areas very worried about the volumns of staycations likely to descend upon them. The news this morning must have certainly convinced the dithers that a staycation will be a wise thing to do. I personally hope the Government makes it very difficult for foreign holidays to be achieved. At the very least impose quaranteen, at their own expense, on those returning.
While some of the measure planned by LAs may be temporary it could well lead to permancy if they and businesses see there is money to be made..
peedee
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I'm confused, first you say there are no costs now there are? No matter.
I do wonder however how you know the pub opposite is very grateful? You know the owners? You know how much money the overnighters bring in?
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personally hope the Government makes it very difficult for foreign holidays to be achieved. At the very least impose quaranteen, at their own expense, on those
I actually fully agree with you there PD, I would personally like the UK to be like NZ with closed borders to tourist travel until at least our vaccination programme has most people protected and we at least can have some return to normality no matter what is happening elsewhere. A very parochial view perhaps.
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Have a look at your previous post PD, it's there in black and white, but as I said no matter.
I have been to many pubs PD but I do not know who their main customers are or who they are very grateful to, or details about their income?
You made a very specific statement:
and the pub opposite is very grateful for the income it gets from the overnighters.
I just wondered how you knew that specific amount of information about the income and how you obtained it? It appears to suggest it is quite substantial? Was it just a comment from the owners to a MH to keep you on side (if so not very reliable) or do you have more accurate information in some way? That's all.
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I cant see where TDA said it was or the other, only that all those who complain (sometimes endlessly) about touring over here and how much better things are abroad to do just that and leave the place to those who enjoy it?
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Sadly for some, their choice (and nothing wrong with it) has currently been removed one way or another. All I meant was that there are far too many folks having to stay in UK this year, that usually spend a good few weeks, months elsewhere. It means that those of us who usually don’t book anything are having to be a bit more organised😁
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So the hospital ones can have problems? which is fine if a local "intercom is so fitted ,i thought you were inimating it could be rolled out in most parking areas ,cannot see an "intercom"working in areas remote from such a system, hence whats happened here
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A Lake District Farm, and WGC🤔 I am just not seeing that similarity at the moment somehow.........🤣 With or without the viaduct🤣🤣
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Organised..............mmmmm, may have to revise my “why do today what you can put off till tomorrow” approach!
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I was under the impression that P&R were to encourage visitors to a town but preventing a clog up of traffic. The installation of height barriers would seem discriminatory unless they wish to encourage motorhomes into towns but not cars. Unlikely, I think. I don't want preferential treatment, merely be treated equally rather than be regarded as a pariah. Adopt a "Flying Dutchman" approach and motorhomes will find their own solutions which is what , apparently, is exercising people's ire on here. Make them welcome and you go a long way to solving your problem.
P.S. I'm on a real campsite next month btw.
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Until you have been to the less wet, but the still rolling hills of Hertfordshire,where we live with , as many have said , all the facilities as well ,it is not at all similar ,but then as we have got older we have, as our neighbours who moved from rural Lancashire a couple of years ago to be nearer their children , would visit oop north but not live there again
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I think? the majority P&Rs have height barriers with access for motor caravans when open with staff on duty to "assist"
The one we used at Whitby a couple of years ago no height barrier,,had some of the toilets out of use "waiting arrention" to clear the mess made by some low life who had messed them up by "emptying?" their toilet cassette
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No ire here, CY. See my earlier post. It's my choice to drive an awkward size vehicle which makes me unwelcome - nobody forces me to.
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There could be other reasons? P&R for cars maybe not as a cheap place to camp up and stay for the day or more? Cars probably won't stay overnight but MH might be tempted? perhaps they expect people to use a P&R as it is supposed to be used not as a cheap campsite?
The thing height barrier are installed by the people who own the car park/P&R, one has to ask why is this? And perhaps whose fault is it?
It is not discrimination at all. You choose to have a MH, it wasn't forced on you? You can't claim discrimination as you are not a car? You have a motorhome. I choose a caravan but don't complain or claim discrimination that I can't get my outfit onto a car park? I don't expect any special treatment, perhaps neither should you?
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