Cirencester Park access road

moulesy replied on 07/06/2020 16:26

moulesy

Posted on 07/06/2020 16:26

We were out walking near Cirencester today so thought we'd divert to wander past the club site to see how things looked.

Well, not sure if this is good news or bad, but the access road has been diverted..

So - good news - for anyone with a pothole aversion - it's been resurfaced and the tarmac is now billiard table smooth (apart from the inevitable speed humps!)

Not such good news - instead of a long straight road with plenty of wide stretches to allow for units to pass it is now very narrow and winding, with large boulders each side at the entrance and just a couple of small lay bys for passing, so heaven help you if you meet another unit coming in or out.

I can't see any practical alternative to the "off by 12 and no arrivals before 1" arrangement. We'll just have to wait and see - well, not us obviously!

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Navigateur replied on 30/06/2020 16:37

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Navigateur

Caravanner from Lanarkshire

Posted on 30/06/2020 16:37

A simple solution would be to have the length limit on this site reduced to four meters. That's about the length of a long wheelbase Land Rover, or the van from Tesco/Morrisons/Sainsbury/Waitrose that are now allowed to deliver to site.

Freddy55 replied on 30/06/2020 16:43

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Caravanner from Bath&NthEstSomerset

Posted on 30/06/2020 16:43

Some chap phoned yesterday, to arrange our ‘slot’ and pay up. We are due to arrive at around 10am. The B-I-L and his wife have a 2pm slot. The pitches have been allocated, which gave the opportunity to be pitched next to each other, which was nice. Our normal routine is to set up, and pop out to get provisions. Will now have to shop beforehand, which is a bit of a pain. We always forget something 🙄

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Posted on 30/06/2020 15:56 by moulesy

Many's the time we did that when we were both working. I would drive up on Thursday to get everything set up and stay overnight, go back to work on Friday morning, then we'd head up together with the dogs on Friday evening. Staying till after lunch on a Sunday made for a very pleasant long weekend (of course that would have been in early and late season with plenty of free pitches before anyone starts jumping up and down complaining about us "pitch squatting" )

Posted on 30/06/2020 16:46

I don't think I ever had a late stay 'freebie'. That was out of choice though and have not really done 'a weekend' for 37 years. When the wife and I had children we would often shove off on a Friday. Most of our regular weekend sites were within 1.5 hours. Often only just within 1.5 hrs. If the weather was decent then I would usually book the Sunday night but leave around 8pm. You could book for just one adult as nobody was staying the night. leaving at 2 or 3pm was neither fish nor fowl for me

The only other regular weekend break was when I was on my own and would use a site at Garstang where my caravan was stored free of charge. Every couple of weeks I would leave work at 11.45am and be on site (caravan ready sited for my arrival by the site owner) by about 1pm. I had stacks of leave available around 65 days with bank holidays. I would fish on the Fylde coast, River Wyre, canal and local trout fishery as well as a few small lakes on site.

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Posted on 30/06/2020 16:33 by Takethedogalong

Won’t bother us M, after the performance we had at Old Hartley a few years ago, we pick our Sites with care. 😂

Club Site on Roseland operated on a traffic light system I recall. Never been, but we did notice lights and signage.

Posted on 30/06/2020 16:51

Never had any problem at Old Hartley but with regard to traffic lights they work well at Bunree

SteveL replied on 30/06/2020 16:57

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Posted on 30/06/2020 16:43 by Freddy55

Some chap phoned yesterday, to arrange our ‘slot’ and pay up. We are due to arrive at around 10am. The B-I-L and his wife have a 2pm slot. The pitches have been allocated, which gave the opportunity to be pitched next to each other, which was nice. Our normal routine is to set up, and pop out to get provisions. Will now have to shop beforehand, which is a bit of a pain. We always forget something 🙄

Posted on 30/06/2020 16:57

It's a nice walk down through the park to Waitrose. Or there is a medium sized Tesco in the town centre. Weather permitting of course.

JVB66 replied on 30/06/2020 17:00

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Posted on 30/06/2020 15:39 by SteveL

I think they have only recently updated the website, it wasn't there the other day. It will unfortunately prevent those who want to stop an extra couple of hours from doing so. That option always seemed very popular on a Sunday. It would rarely be a problem as there was plenty of space in the week.

Posted on 30/06/2020 17:00

I would not think the up to 1600 hrs deps (space available) would be affected