Where are THS listed on the website?
Aargh! I've hunted high and low on this glacially slow, virtually unusable website; poking nettles in my eyes would be less painful. No other websites which I use are so dreadfully slow.
I've searched under 'UK Holidays' and with the main and 'Discussion' Search facilities using every permutation of words from 'THS' to 'Temporary Holiday Sites' (2,433 irrelevant results) but not a trace of a link to THS's at all.
After 30 minutes of getting nowhere I need a break to recover from the PTSD.
Little wonder I've hitherto done 95% of my touring abroad. 
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Thanks, but I lose the will to live just searching for regular sites by map, area or name. It's a trial by exasperation and that's before arriving at the site's page for details and availability and trying to book.
(And I'm a retired European business information and economics researcher and consultant, competent in plain text searching and using Boolean terms so not exactly computer illiterate in searching/using websites).
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Come on, Spriddler, how can you get the wrong club?😂😂😂😂
Happy hunting!
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Trying to book a site on here is like queuing for toilet rolls and finding when you eventually get to the end they've sold out or they only have ones you can use next Tuesday and the following Sunday. Grrrrr!
As you may have realised, I'm not having a good day.
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Well, in seven years I've only stayed on a club site for about 6 nights, one night at a time, just to attend some particular event. It's the first time I've tried to book a few consecutive nights and had heard about THS's so thought I'd try one of those. And I renewed my membership last week. Sigh.
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Hi Spriddler, as TW has hinted at THS are a C&CC thing but you may have more luck than try to find rally info on the clubs website!
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Or why not look in your site directory, supplied all members every 2 years, and search for a CL in the area you wish to visit. If you are not familiar with them they are small 5 van sites that offer facilities ranging from just water and a toilet emptying point through to all that a club site offer, and there are over 2200 of them spread through the British Isles.
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I have tried that but as the CLs are mostly 'hobby' sites I've often had to leave messages and wait for a call back to know whether or not there' s space which makes for very laborious trip planning as one needs to know before planning a route and booking the next stop. It's alien to me to have to go where pitches are available rather than wander along and stop somewhere I want to be.
Having toured almost exclusively abroad by motorbike with a tent or by m/home for the past 40+ years I'm just not accustomed to, nor enjoy, having to pre-determine my route and overnight stops and the rigmarole of having to book ahead. I usually just get off the ferry and follow my nose, stopping on a whim (or an aire) or wherever looks interesting, maybe after just 10 miles or perhaps 150 miles. I've never yet failed to find an overnight stop of one sort or another.
Thanks for your replies. I appreciate that the U.K. is densely populated and that I have entered a steep learning curve.
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CCC members who have "paper membership" receive each month with their magazine a separate magazine called "Out and About" which has full details of every THS due to operate throughout the UK for the next few months/rest of the year as well as details of rallies and weekend meets throughout the country scheduled for the next calendar month. The information is easy to use as the venues are grouped into specific geographical areas.
I understand that regions of The Caravan Club used to organise temporary sites or weekend meets. (I don't know if they still do.) When I tried to find out more it was region by region and only publicised in the region's own booklet. In order to obtain a copy one had to contact the region directly. At that time there was no central information source as to what was available throughout the UK.
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Spriddler, if you're happy with apps, the one you need is outandabout works a treat. See you on a THS sometime soon.👍
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If you're happy with apps, the one you need is outandabout as in top left of this screenshot...
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