Steamer Quay refurb removal of non EHU pitches
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Maybe so but none of that means they are still the Caravan Club at heart which is what you posted before. 🤷🏻♂️
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Good Afternoon
Just out of interest, I've just spent a week at Seacroft club site. Having a brew with the staff the chat got around to the motorhome / caravan balance and pitch use. Over the Christmas week (this one) 80% of the serviced pitches are booked by motorhomers.
Regarding Steamer Quay, someone has mentioned the refurb spoiling the character of the place. Yes it has charm but it also has a very high water table. The bottom of the site quickly becomes unusable in bad weather. Part of the agreement from the council is that the site is open all year so that obviously means hardstanding pitches and electric hookup. Don't quote me but in my opinion metering would make sense as everything will be new?
I personally don't need electric or water on a pitch but that won't stop me visiting there. For me it's always location first. I've stayed at Steamer before when the van lifer travellers were staying at Longmarsh car park. Mmmmmm, no thanks.
JK
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It's only hardstandings open in December DD.
As for installing electric at SQ, I believe there's a simple sentence in answer to that. It's what people want.
JK
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Yeah sort of back peedee, we're working next month so I thought I'd look in and join in. We've tried to keep away mentally and physically from work for a bit, head needed clearing
JK
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Agreed, probably the last 'extra' we need on a site....🤷🏻♂️
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Welcome back, JK.
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Not debating with you DD but there are empty standard pitches on that site this week, the serviced pitches are full. Go figure.
A popular topic of conversation on site this year has been electric. I always make a note if someone has the opinion that a choice to have it or not should be offered. So on my site alone (I talk to everybody) over six and a half months, 4 people desired that option, 3 of them were caravanners. Many would like metering.
More interesting to me is when chatting with folk, I've mentioned that we'll be getting a new motorhome service point installed over winter. It was surprising the amount of motorhome owners enquired about serviced pitches.
Hobsons Choice made me laugh. There was a pub in Cambridge with that name back in the 80's, always a punch up on a Friday night or a Sunday lunchtime!!
JK
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Could it be that there are less SP than standard pitches, so they would fill up quicker.
I've never (and likely never will) book a SP with either caravan or MH I just don't need or want one so why pay extra for something I don't want.
I have no issue in sites having them however I do believe in choice. Choice of H/S, choice of awning against non awning, choice of ehu, choice of non facility sites.
That's what I look for, we are all different, we holiday in different ways. Some like going walking, some visit galleries and museums, some just enjoy being in a different place. So why should we all like the same things on site, choice is everything when choosing a site (see what I did there
)Its a personal thing but I don't believe £5 a night for SP is VFM. I'd prefer £5 deduction for no ehu or at least the choice.
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Seacroft does have grass pitches but at this time year they are not in use and therefore the site is effectively all HS so anyone choosing a SP is doing so out of choice.
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...and this is a valid point...as a parallel, the C&CC THS sites are hugely popular and there are no toilets or EHU...
the main drivers are location (towns...sports and school grounds) and cost (£10 ish) ....in my experience, folk seem to love 'em.
id also love SQ, with no EHU for £20....but without choice and effectively a mandatory summer price of probably £50, I'll leave it to others...
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Been a long while since a pitch at SQ was £20 YT
JK
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This does mirror exactly my own experiences on the last (different) seven sites I've been to. And to be clear these were sites that are all hardstanding (with no grass pitches closed) to start with so people are choosing SP by choice and also not because of that is all that is left to choose from.
Equally quite a few times MH have outnumbered caravans on SP as I posted. Last site there was a German (yellow) MH pitched next to us. Actually I've counted four times this year I've seen an EU MH on a club site and twice on SP.
The club will no doubt have its own data to listen to which I suspect mirrors all this and base its decisions on them?
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