CLs and more!

Haven't kept records,  but nowhere near your numbers Nellie,  well done! 🙂

What fascinates me is seeing so many new places over the years but you must have covered more than most or have you some gaps still to be filled?!

Brue, we have stayed in every English and Scottish county,  but not on a CL in each, yet!😁 To my list can be added a number of sites from touring Sweden and Norway, and Rallies, with various centres, but they were so long ago I can't remember them all, or find the rally plaques. Hope a few more new sites this year, all being well.

Tda, had we had a M/H, like yourself, instead of a caravan we would have visited even more, staying for shorter than the normal 4 or more.

What's your stand out best 3 CLs?

WN, I don't think I can pick them, as they vary so much, having different "best" features. There are some that we have used frequently because of location, although the facilities may not be as good as others that we have stayed on, but they suit us for what we want to do. I think ones that we would call favourites would not feature on others lists so really don't want to put them out there. That's not to say that I would not recommended particular sites but would have to know what features prospective visitors require.

Well done DK, quite a number. Ad thanks, Helen, I'm sure you must have a fair list of CLs that you have used.

Nellie's OP made me think about my own records that I have kept ever since we started caravanning back in 1988. In the early days it was just a log-book of our holidays and, in those days, time away was rather limited due to work and also I had to borrow my parent's caravan. 

In those early days we only went to two or three sites each year and these were almost exclusively club sites. In the first 10 years we only used CLs on 8 occasions out of the total of 67 sites used, most of these CL occasions being an overnight stop near Dover when we went across to France. 

Over the years, particularly in the last 10, we have used CLs much more frequently. Out of the 94 sites used during that period, 46 were CLs and the number of club sites down to 18.  The last 3 years we used 15 CLs exclusively and for all our 32 nights away booked for this year all are on CLs except for one overnight stop at Cadeside on our way to Cornwall.

The records that I keep are now on an Excel spreadsheet to which I keep adding extra columns. Amongst other details the sheet shows site name, location, cost per night, distance from home and a brief note about the site. For many sites I have included the GPS coordinates and the road atlas page number/grid, particularly for France. For French sites I have colour coded the sites, green cell fill means good, amber means OK but with some reservations, and red means don't use the site again. Thankfully there are only 7 that are red. I have also set it up to automatically record the number of nights away in any particular year and the total cost of the sites for that year. 

It's surprising how many times we refer to the spreadsheet, usually to check when we went to a particular site . 

I also have a spreadsheet of stops since we started again 11 years ago. Tally so far 142, with only a few being return visits. 13 of those were CAMC sites although none of those have been in the past three years.