Easter booking madness

richharry193 replied on 19/10/2021 22:03

Posted on 19/10/2021 22:03

We’ve been in the club for about 12 years and we’ve gone on tonight with our autistic son who gets obsessed about where we go on holiday to try anext book for Easter thinking we were booking early to find that loads of the sites are already booked up!! 7 months in advance and lots of the main sites we can’t book for Easter weekend. This is madness! 

my question is simply how many of these will be double booked as people can’t make their minds up, book multiple sites and then will then cancel leaving people who just want to book one holiday at a time out of luck.

we’ve had this a few times with last minute cancellations and sudden availability when we couldn’t book before.

it would be interesting if the club made a one site only booking rule what the scene would look like then - it can surely easily be done

i know this post may drive the madness further but I’ve never known it like this before!!

obbernockle replied on 24/10/2021 22:22

Posted on 19/10/2021 22:03 by richharry193

We’ve been in the club for about 12 years and we’ve gone on tonight with our autistic son who gets obsessed about where we go on holiday to try anext book for Easter thinking we were booking early to find that loads of the sites are already booked up!! 7 months in advance and lots of the main sites we can’t book for Easter weekend. This is madness! 

my question is simply how many of these will be double booked as people can’t make their minds up, book multiple sites and then will then cancel leaving people who just want to book one holiday at a time out of luck.

we’ve had this a few times with last minute cancellations and sudden availability when we couldn’t book before.

it would be interesting if the club made a one site only booking rule what the scene would look like then - it can surely easily be done

i know this post may drive the madness further but I’ve never known it like this before!!

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:22

You haven't mentioned where you want to go. Region/County or some clue even.

There are plenty of club sites with free pitches for Easter (Easter Sunday 17th April weekend may be a bit busier but a week around that is not too difficult). There are many more commercial sites too, not to mention CL's.

replied on 24/10/2021 22:34

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:22 by obbernockle

You haven't mentioned where you want to go. Region/County or some clue even.

There are plenty of club sites with free pitches for Easter (Easter Sunday 17th April weekend may be a bit busier but a week around that is not too difficult). There are many more commercial sites too, not to mention CL's.

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:34

it would be interesting if the club made a one site only booking rule what the scene would look like then - it can surely easily be done

The scene would have plenty of vacancies as many members who tour rather than sit on one site would bot use CMC

Takethedogalong replied on 24/10/2021 22:47

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:47

OP is talking about being able to book more than one Club site for the same dates I think. Why this myth persists I do not know🤷‍♀️ All you have to do is try to do it.........impossible. But no, some seem to think it is.

You might be able to book a Club Site and an AS Site, but that’s different.

Wherenext replied on 24/10/2021 23:02

Posted on 24/10/2021 23:02

We're not going to know where he wants to go unless he can be bothered to reply, which at the moment doesn't seem likely.

replied on 25/10/2021 08:54

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:47 by Takethedogalong

OP is talking about being able to book more than one Club site for the same dates I think. Why this myth persists I do not know🤷‍♀️ All you have to do is try to do it.........impossible. But no, some seem to think it is.

You might be able to book a Club Site and an AS Site, but that’s different.

Posted on 25/10/2021 08:54

Anybody with an iota of common sense should realise the impossibility with a single membership

replied on 25/10/2021 09:21

Posted on 24/10/2021 22:34 by

it would be interesting if the club made a one site only booking rule what the scene would look like then - it can surely easily be done

The scene would have plenty of vacancies as many members who tour rather than sit on one site would bot use CMC

Posted on 25/10/2021 09:21

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moulesy replied on 25/10/2021 10:44

Posted on 25/10/2021 08:54 by

Anybody with an iota of common sense should realise the impossibility with a single membership

Posted on 25/10/2021 10:44

And yet the myth of multiple bookings for the same date gets peddled time and time again on here! frown

To the OP - as others have said,  give us a clue as to what area (s) you might be interested in and you're likely to get any number of suggestions,  club, CL or others.

Tinwheeler replied on 25/10/2021 11:03

Posted on 25/10/2021 10:44 by moulesy

And yet the myth of multiple bookings for the same date gets peddled time and time again on here! frown

To the OP - as others have said,  give us a clue as to what area (s) you might be interested in and you're likely to get any number of suggestions,  club, CL or others.

Posted on 25/10/2021 11:03

M, looking at a few of the responses on here, I'm not surprised the OP hasn't returned🙁. 

As for the myth about double booking, I can understand newbies not knowing the truth and decent people wouldn't even think of trying it to check.

Tinwheeler replied on 25/10/2021 11:12

Posted on 25/10/2021 11:08 by JVB66

The Op has according to his /her Op.  been a member for 12yrs?

Posted on 25/10/2021 11:12

I stand corrected but anyone who doesn't use the forum, or who hasn't come across a difficulty with booking before, probably would not be aware.

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