Dornafield Touring Park
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That was my first thought as well. It’s a nice location in some ways, edge of Dartmoor, not far from Devon Riviera, couple of nice towns close in Newton Abbot and Totnes. But high Summer traffic is usually horrendous, and getting onto Dartmoor with anything larger than our MH would be a challenge, unless you drive off and get on from somewhere further South or North.
Best potential for it would be to go the whole holiday camp route, shove more on-site facilities on, such as an all weather pool, indoor play space for children, cycle hire etc……. Along with pods and lodges. Go for the family market. We won’t be tempted, much prefer Exeter Racecourse or Stover. More our kind of place. And Price.0 -
What an amazing extrapolation YT. Just because it's written on CT it must apply for all club members? Is that what you're saying?
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That did cross my mind.
After the inrtoduction of deposits shall i leave shall I stay swung in favour of staying but purchases like this are absolutely of no use to a motorhome owner. What am I paying my membership for? This year only 14 percent of my nights away have used Club sites. The swing ometer has started to head towards the shall I leave direction again. If that happened I would give my membership fee to CAMpRA. They are doing for motorhome owners than ever the Clubs are!
peedee
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The proof of the pudding of course will be in the pitching, not what is posted on here. Will people use it? Who knows but it will be interesting to see when it's possible to see the booking pages, I assume as an AS it had its own booking system?
Was it well used?
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Deleted User by me, duplicate post.
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'In my experience'....and in only one day of announcing it, the vast majority of comments I've seen have not been gushing with praise or excitement.
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I've only stayed at Dornafield once and enjoyed my stay - I was allocated a pitch which I'm not keen on, but it was in a nice position so I was happy.
The Blackrock Copse section's layout is less regimented than the majority of CMC sites, so I hope it stays that way and they don't try and cram in more pitches. I also prefer that Club sites allow you to choose your pitch rather then have it allocated.
Perhaps the Club had no choice but to either lose the site or buy it if the current owners wanted out?
John
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Certainly not for the ones who've already posted here. What will the CAMC banner bring that this site hasn't already got?
- a new one way road system
- The usual less than useless drive over waste...this should not be the case as this site has acres of space where a decent one (not on the main circuit) could be installed, near the exit.
- an office that's open less than now
- Toilets/showers closed to a strict regime
yes, it will be 'clubified' in the usual way, I'm sure it'll be lovely👍
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Yes but only on here, on CT, but you're trying to apply that to all the membership with your earlier post when you talk about the club:
As most of the comments on this thread already are negative, perhaps the club could have spent this money on meters for the sites they already own?😉
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FM MC West side waste point is terrible that may hopefully be replaced over the winter period? as the stream of waste water shows as motor caravans leave the site in stead of joining the queues ,which we have also noticed even at Seacroft that has two drive over waste points and one is beyond the exit barrier
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We have used this site a number of times. Excellent site and I hope it stays that way. As said previously the access lane is a bit tight, and will cause problems for those who tend to ignore arrival times - I for one won't be doing any reversing on that lane.
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But this is CT whose posters are not given to praising CAMC. What else would you expect? 😄😄
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I’d be prepared to give the access a go, at least out of season. However, the fact there are no footpaths close to the site and the narrow access has to be walked to get to the bus stop, makes it an uninviting site for us. I suspect they will get very few MH’s visiting
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One of the reasons all types of van users like public transport in places like Torbay is the lack of parking at peak times and the expense of parking. There are often queues at the Hillhead bus stops in both directions because bus passes can be used to get to all sorts of places and day tickets are available for families etc. Battling through the holiday traffic can be hard work. This is why I made a comment about lack of transport at Dornafield, I think this applies to Modbury too?
I presume seasonal pitches will be on offer and they offer good alternatives to people who don't live too far away.
I have noticed that the facilities on offer at some of the Club's bigger sites are getting hard to maintain, cafe and bar opening hours reduced, shops closing, lack of staff etc. I do hope the club will be able to maintain what it offers.
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This Dornafield - is it near Torquay ? I must confess I have lived in different parts of Devon and Cornwall for 48 years and have only been to Torquay once, so I can’t help with any inside information about the caravan site. I wasn’t too keen on Torquay on the day we did go there. Has it improved?
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, any site that has decent disabled facilties in the area we are going to will now be on our lists, with our go to most places campervan 
