Caravan sites opening and safety measures feedback

We shouldn’t be surprised. The early arrivals are exactly what you’d expect. There were plenty parked up in lay-bys last night waiting to pounce. I had my first encounter yesterday afternoon behind a 4x4 towing a twin axle caravan. He slowed to crawling pace at every lay-by (holding up traffic on each occasion) to check it out between St Austell & Mevagissey, rejecting them all until almost reaching the point of maximum mayhem, then executing a 10 point turn on a narrow, busy road and repeated the process in the other direction!

A significant minority will continue to behave inconsiderately for the entirety of their stay, whether it will be ignoring parking restrictions, encroaching on others at busy beaches or ignoring social distancing in queues. Most locals aren’t anti tourist, the ‘silly season’ is an annual event and what it brings good & bad goes with the territory. This year the difference is a lot of people are genuinely frightened.

"Some things don't change though, there's 2 outfits outside the gate now (6.15)Happy Days."

Well, there's no excuse for that whatsoever - we travelled down the M5/A30 this morning (not towing!) arrived 9am and the traffic was barely busier than a normal day. Lots of vans and MHs parked up in the lay bys, many clearly overnighting, but there was space in every one of them for anyone ahead of time to park up and wait!

I think you have had a lucky journey M (experience counts!). Cornwall Live is reporting very heavy traffic now, and sadly Air Ambulance has been active for an accident on A38. 

Dont know Cheshire that well AD, but the traffic always seems very busy to us, more so than other places we have been. We tend to come across going to Wales, so suppose we are using a popular route.

You should try coming to Cornwall for a holiday, David! 

Take my word for it, all along the A30, at regular intervals, are large lay bys, set back from the road (with a wide grassy area between you and the road) with ample parking space for at least half a dozen outfits. No excuse for arriving 3 hours early to any site in Cornwall, even on a day such as today when one might have expected considerably more traffic than there was.