UK staycation boom predicted
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Not the 12th, but if things don't start getting worse again we'll be heading off on the 14th.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Not all Park and Rides are financed just from local funds but sometimes from the Government's Local Growth Fund as is the case with the new Eynsham P&R in Oxfordshire. Now to me "Local Growth Fund", paid for by all, seems to suggest for the benefit beyond just the locals to encourage growth in tourism amongst other things? Park and Rides don't have to allow overnight parking but surely should be encouraged to allow the likes of motorhomes to park so their owners can visit the local city/town. P&R's have different charging systems. Some you pay to park and the bus is free, some are free to park but to pay the bus fares and some you pay for both. The purpose of a P&R is to limit the number of vehicles entering the town centres which gives a cleaner environment for all. Why motorhomes should be excluded is beyond me. Fortunately some Councils are more enlightened than others. Take Oxford as an example which has several P&R's at least one of them allows larger vehicles. Canterbury has even provided overnight parking in a P&R for which there is a reasonable fee. So it can be done, all it needs is a forward looking local authority.
David
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I think York has similar DK, with the link bus into the City Centre. Might be Designer Outlet P&R I think🤔
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Compared to other places maybe our house is 340ft above sea level ,
i got into trouble from the cardiologist ater she found out i had been taking Rosa for walks , as the hill round here were not suitable for my condition just after my procedure in hospital ,for at least 6months
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JV, we call East Yorkshire pancake flat due to its gentle undulations, I’m betting we have higher points than Hertfordshire which is basically a suburb of North London, a dormitory county🤷🏻♂️🙄
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JVB wrote "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"
I don't understand how emptying a cassette blocks a toilet. I empty mine in the toilet at home on occasions without issues and without mess. Not that I've had a need to do so in a public toilet I hasten to add, merely puzzled as to why it is problematic. Has something else been put down them? Sanitary towels/nappies. Is it Motorhomers/ Caravaners who are responsible for the blockage or a car owning parent of an incontinent toddler?
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Thanks SL👍🏻😎, my guesstimate was right then🤷🏻♂️-who knew eh😂😂
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It isn’t a P’ing contest AD it’s conversation, if you read the interaction you won’t find anyone of us JV or me crowing for bragging rights-although I’ve seen it on threads where-my overthere is great, your overhere is wet & crappy. . .Now that’s a P’ing contest & yes very childish🤷🏻♂️☹️
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It is not any good trying to make "excuses?" for the problem that was as could be seen by those who needed the P&R toilets at Whitby when the blue colour of the floors coming out from under the doors (TWO) in the mail toilets were quite obvious
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You don’t do humour-fact. I feel no malice to you whatsoever as I see your suffering re travel & I recognise misplaced anger when I see it. Some of us are stronger than attacking others to feel better. However-I forgive you👍🏻
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And equally what has yours PD? If you don't like OT posts why perpetuate them with such a reply?
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Why don't you ask a) about the private OT conversation between JVB & AD, and b) whether the OP finds it objectionable?
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There’s an added frisson to staying in this country this year. Will the person on the next pitch be enjoying themselves, having a good time (as usually found)?
Or will it be someone enduring the pain and hardship of taking up valuable space, there under duress, counting the shekels that could get them some much more over the water, staring grim faced at the queue for the loos (assuming they do open)?Its going to be a classic year for that time honoured holiday activity, people watching.......😉😂
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None.
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Good post, but according to many posters on here wasn't the GCNP (grumpy camper next pitch) always there, even before before the great staycation?
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Depends on the Site LLM. Proper campsites, with a good mix of outfits, mix of age groups, think they will be full. Club Sites? They might do ok, we use a lot that don’t have facilities and folks on these are used to doing their own sanitary arrangements, so they can and do get full. Those who have to use facilities, mobility issues, might not be in evidence as much. Depends on if they can compromise other ways, strip wash, serviced pitch? We did see a few toilet tents on some private sites last year.
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We met a lot of motorhomers last year who started up conversations with "we're normally in Spain just now." Strangely enough they seemed to be enjoying their stays here and we are good listeners.... (But a lot of them had far too much equipment with them!)
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Psssst, best ask your buddy AD, he started the issue. I finished it-you are most welcome👍🏻
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