Servicing calls at CLs for Motorcaravans

 ... I, personally, have no desire for the club to provide these facilities for those choosing to stay where there are non. Whilst I do not directly condemn those doing so I see no reason for CMC to promote it.

why? .... you say you're never on the site through the day so they'd have little or no impact on you 

The percentage of motor caravaners that took the survey out of those on that are now registered in this country  was?

And as with all surveys the answers as any marketing dept will do will depend on the way the questions are formated

I think we are now back to where we were when BM (OP) posted her original thread on a similar vein a few months ago.

There is a need for someone, be it a group of entrepreneurs, local councils, part of the landowning/farming community, etc.... to provide safe, simple, value for money overnight stops for those who like to tour, but don’t want more than a couple of nights in the same place. Space, firm under wheel, fill up tap, empty point, CDP point, secure book and pay system. In reality, a coach park plus. 

It won’t come via this Club, at least not until Motorhomes vastly outnumber caravans, and the Membership is more new to touring, rather than switching from a caravan to a motorhome. It has no reason to change its provision, which is based upon the majority of users pitching up for a longer period, wanting a full range of services, and happily paying for that provision. The Club thrives on long stayers, two weeks or more, even if it is split over two, three Club Sites. That’s it’s primary/preferred Site model. Fill as many pitches as possible, preferably as long as possible. Same with a lot of CLs, (and why some will be putting a minimum nights stay on their website no doubt, which I don’t blame them for, to a certain extent.) The basic CLs, with a lot less in terms of overheads to cover, perhaps merely enhancing another major income string, will remain truer to the original touring around provision.

The Club will only look to change this model, and possibly provide something it currently doesn’t, if it starts to hit the Membership fees drastically. It could put a toe in the water, and try a bit of this if it wanted, but it simply doesn’t need too at the moment. Money is being used in a different way, into glamping, because the rewards are greater. 

But I suspect,  admittedly with no evidence, that the majority of folk would want to use the facility either early in the morning or in the evening. It's certainly what I would do in that position,  no point breaking into the middle of a day out walking/touring to do this. In which case it wouldn't be folk out during the day who were affected.

I see no reason for CMC to promote it. is the answer.

I did not think that I had said quite that about tie on site. If the temperatures are hitting 30c I am likely to return around 3pm to seek shade depending on where I have been and in such conditions I am likely to have the odd chill out day- probably one in ten. However regardless of that I will reinforce my first sentence.

It won’t come via this Club, at least not until Motorhomes vastly outnumber caravans, and the Membership is more new to touring, rather than switching from a caravan to a motorhome. 

Many stay for a shorter time on a site. I stay 5 nights to see the area. I often see others doing similar. 

Yes I know you do, as do lots of others, and indeed ourselves. But we also do one and two night stops, and whilst the Club doesn’t penalise us in any way for this, it does charge us, at times and at certain locations, a substantial amount of money for a single 14 hour park up. Hurn Lane cost us £30 for arriving at nearly 8pm, off again at 10am, and a dog walk unfit for a tiny chihuahua let alone a Labrador in terms of size and space. It remains my single most badly planned one night stop of the last 30 years. Even the Warden (very nice) apologised at the price! Our chosen stop over had an event on close by, and we got caught out, just in case anyone is wondering.......

Five nights in one place is a long time if we are touring. You are a caravanner, you visit things like a Hobbit, there and back again to your pitched up bed, until you move on. We go look at something, might be 30 miles away, so we find somewhere on the route, as our bed goes with us. We like our van for long stopovers, but the MH tends to tour. Slightly different.

With reference to your  second paragraph...

If 50 hired vans were passing my door on the NC 500 every day, some UK first timers and others overseas visitors , it would strike me that running a CL just for 5 CMC members was a bit of a loser.  

It needs someone with more of a business brain. 

That’s possibly why there aren’t that many CLs up there EuroT👍Interestingly, there don’t appear to be many Britstop opportunities either. 
It’s a strange one really. Fabulous marketing has seen an unbelievable surge in folks desperate to do the route, but it doesn’t appear that the current infrastructure can cope. To me, it’s very appeal was in its unspoilt remoteness, the fact that you could travel all day, and hardly see a soul. That’s what my Sister said it was liked when she lived in Lairg. Doubt it’s like that now.

Five nights in one place is a long time if we are touring. You are a caravanner, you visit things like a Hobbit, there and back again to your pitched up bed, until you move on. We go look at something, might be 30 miles away. 

I am not sure that your comparison with Hobbits stands up too well. It is over 45 years since I read  Tolkien's trilogy. From  my memory The Hobbits were generally unlike Bilbo and Sam and rarely left The Shire. Bilbo and Sam seemed to travel very much rather than staying in one spot after leaving home. It is a while ago though.

It is rare that we would travel 30 miles and return. Generally on daily trips 20 miles would be tops to a destination and usually less, therefore, most days. Usually we would make circular trips to visit 2, or occasionally 3 locations. 

CMC sites are expensive if you do not require the daily facilities, but it does not concern us. We don't need the washroom, toilet or showers but we pay for them on many sites.