Saving a pitch as you are booking in
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Or it could be that leaving your outfit parked near or on the arrivals lanes right next to the barrier or entrance might block someone coming and parking right behind while you take your time in walking around? And then someone behind them perhaps? Even if one outfit parks right next to yours as people do it might difficult to get around you and/or reverse.
After all 4.30 and onwards in the UK isn't that late at all and for working people it could probably be a popular arrival time?
In any case no one can know when someone will arrive behind you. It could lead to someone not being able to move around you and not really fair to keep everyone waiting I would say and hence the idea of driving around?
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Agreed! But it’s been mention many times Arch, it’s about staff site management. If you are the last in, on a day with few arrivals spread evenly throughout the day then their many be windows of opportunity when doing as you suggest, opportunities which allow without causing any conflict whatsoever with fellow members. In times when queues are likely and logjams are likely to occur at reception it’s an absolute recipe for potential conflict. Let the staff manage this, don’t expect to do it all the time, they will decide, not us when and if allow. Furthermore, there are sites which cannot allow and some which demand certain procedures for arrivals similar to your description determined by nature of their layout.
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Yes agree fully, on the sites I can think of three caravan-outfits will probably fill the new arrivals lane. Even on larger sites with two arrival lanes then it's still three in any one lane. If one of the front outfits doesn't move as soon as they have booked in then it can cause a jam so it's best to keep things keep moving.
But as you say the wardens will know or can judge if it can be allowed or not at a specific time or day.
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With the introduction of deposits and pre arrival payment....surely the club could progress to the next step and offer pitch selection or pitch allocation of the type one chooses when booking...together with the introduction of ANP at barriers, this would make a much more efficient arrival/checking in experience.
This has been my experience at a few commercial sites including the one we are visiting this weekend...an email received yesterday informed me of my pitch number (it was the one I had asked for) and asked me too check my vehicle registration number against the one I gave when booking, as the ANP will not give you access to the site...as I had prepaid for my stay, a couple of days ago, there is no need to visit reception unless I required other assistance. There is also a link to a page which gives information on the site facilities, how to pitch, local attractions, etc...
All very civilised....
Edit...there is also a site map on the link..
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Was told by wardens at Trewethett a couple of years back that someone should stay on pitch if not you would lose it, this we did, Wife was subjected to some serious intimidation.
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That’s the norm at Trewethett because the layout, like Cherry Hinton, doesn’t lend itself to driving around but there is room to park up and walk the site.
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More than a couple of years ago Frank, I worked there in 2019 and you were supplied with a piece of brown pipe to put over your desired pitch marker, then report the number to reception where you’re issued with the barrier card. Works well and no intimidation involved.
JK
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I can see the queues at B&Q tomorrow with people buying up brown pipe!
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All these issues are artificial, being created by the vast majority of UK campsites, including CAMC, having an "earliest" arrival time. Far easier to adopt an "if there's a pitch empty you can come in" policy.
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And how do you get on the majority of sites that these days have security barriers? When staff are out on site or doing the many other jobs that site running requires
It is the same with the ccc ,as we have found and when speaking to their site staff
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I don’t care what that club does or this club does - Long years of travelling have taught me that private owners of sites do it better, kindlier, and friendlier.
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This is a club and site managers issue ,not enforcing their own rules against those that ignore the rules ,to the disadvantage of those that respect the rules
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Surely this is a storm in a tea cup - (provided you have got on pitch, got the water, boiled the kettle and made a brew)?
My usual experience is - whilst booking in - 'this, that and the other pitch are still unoccupied which do you prefer', or, 'come back when you found one as there are plenty available'.
In 25 yrs. or so I can only recall one occasion when I was dis-satisfied with pitch selection because someone stood on it whilst her other half was in the queue behind me and that was the pitch I wanted.
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So you, too, have been the victim of a queue jumper and experienced the unfairness of it, RF, yet you call it a storm in a teacup. I bet you didn't think that at the time😆
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Just book in, park on a vacant pitch and enjoy yourself without consulting ‘the rules’!
This is the road to Anarchy!
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Good point. Could this have been the case as described in the OP?
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Hi the unit behind us was a caravan, I can see the reason if a motorhome places a sign on whilst filling up etc but in this case it was a caravan.
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The driver may have been disabled and the warden pointed out a suitable easily accessible pitch during check in to the passenger.
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I find that unlikely.
All the serviced pitches to be look pretty similar to access.
Also, if a disabled member wants to be near the facilities, the correct thing to do is to ring the site ahead of the booking and make the request.
Then there is the fact that the OP booked in ahead of the "pitch reserver", and had also booked a serviced pitch so the warden would not know which pitch they had taken and which was left.
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Not overly unlikely, her indoors has no hesitation conducting a reconnaissance in force while I check in.
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So, we turn up at a busy cafe and I get in the queue to buy the coffee whilst my wife goes and bags a table. Same thing? Same problem? When touring abroad OH has wandered off to look at pitches whilst I check in. Seems normal practice to me.
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Last site I went to the lady in the office walked with me and talked with me in pouring rain to show me to a dryish pitch, asked me how far we had come and what the traffic was like.,noticed we had no mover on the caravan so waved to some other residents to help us unhitch and shove the Eriba back into place. Some sites and their staff are so much more civilised and customer friendly than others.
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