Posting a review
Would like to post reviews of the sites visited on recent trip, for inclusion in Clubs Site Guide and on website for sites booked via the club, but can't find a way to do it. Ideally this should be really easy to encourage members to post reviews. Maybe I'm missing something?!
Moderator Edit:
Can I check that you are referring to overseas sites that you've visited to be sure this is in the correct section.
Many Thanks.
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You're right, it's far from clear.
Go to the web page of the site in question and open 'See more reviews'. You should then see a button 'Review this site'. That's if they've not changed it since I last looked.
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I don't know if I would call some of the reviews, actual reviews of a site but more a review of their likes and dislikes. One about the Buxton site recently was ludicrous as the reviewer didn't appear to have read anything at all about the site or looked at the photos of the site, before they booked it and was simply a list of why THEY didn't like it!
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That could be because little prominence is given to the guidelines for writing reviews so people don't read them and have no idea that it's not an avenue for complaint or, as in some cases, that they actually need to stay on the site.
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Lesandang have actually written some reviews for overseas sites, although not for quite a while. They might just need a reminder of where the not so easy to find “write a review” link button is located. Tinny has indicated where.
I agree with your post above Tinny. Some guidance and structure about how to comment would be useful for some folks. Far too many folks (talking generally here, not about the OP) use the review feature as something to complain through, which isn’t always helpful for those who use reviews to help choose a Site. 🙂
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Some reviews give me facts and some reviews give me opinions. I can usually find the facts somewhere else, so I like to read opinions.
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Opinions are useful, but you have to be like minded to enjoy what is on offer. I know that some of the CLs we love, others would not like for various reasons, but that’s where individual likes and dislikes come in.
Hardest reviews I find to complete are the ones for Club Sites. They are on the whole, a known quantity, so it’s the location, layout, access to places of interest that catch me.
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But this is the overseas section - and although there are a couple of hundred campsites there which I visited there is nowhere for me to review them on here - so all my reviews are in other places - and in other names !
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Yes, lots of overseas reviews. No idea if they are Sites with some sort of recommend or affiliation to Club, or simply random reviews.
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So, thank you, I can now review sites that feature in this year's brochure but I feel that the clubs foreign touring guide is getting slimmer. I have a 2017 copy and the 2020 volume. The 2020 has less campsites. There are dots on the map and no site in the book. I know that there are review forms in the book but it would be good to be able to post a quick update on line and I can't find a way to do that. I believe that a site is removed if there are no reviews after a period of time. All we need to be able to do is say "been there, all good!" or otherwise!
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Just a suggestion lesandang, why not ask Club if you can start a review “sticky” thread for any sites not in overseas list, much like they let me do with Small private sites in UK section? Helpful for those overseas visitors doing tours and linking sites together, if there is a gap.
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Go to European Holidays and then Brochures and Guides.
Scroll down and you will find links to complete a short form for either a previously reviewed site in the clubs overseas guide where the site hasn't changed much or the information just need updating or this form can be used to get the site started if a new one and then you can add a review when it's up and running.
Or you can complete the long form to alter details if you find the information completely out of date.
I have used these recently following our trip to the Netherlands.
I also tend to complete them in UKcampsite website both for new sites to that website or just update them and review them as normal.
Hope this helps.
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Les
As you have discovered you can only review sites featured in what used to be called the Advanced Booking Service for overseas sites. Most of those sites are very well known and there are probably thousands of reviews on them out there on the internet. If you are referring to the Continental Site Guides (are they still called that?) if my past experience is anything to go by you can only contribute information which to my mind led to some very confusing comments like "quiet site" and in the same reference "noisy site" if you see what I mean. Like others I would suggest you add proper reviews where you can but for sites not listed in the ABS I would be inclined to use UKCampsites as has already been suggested.
The Club would offer an invaluable service if the put the Continental Site Guides online where you could add sites as well as adding reviews of existing ones. I fear we are being overtaken by events as many people now shun conventional means of leaving reviews and now rely of the likes of Facebook or Trip Advisor.
Whilst I agree that having more precise instructions as a moderator I often find that even with proper instructions people still post in the wrong place, the Story Section being a good example!
David
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