Gazebos

Did you or your friends also have an awning up?

David

Rule 5(a) of Club site rules seems relevant

Hi, yes we had a small porch awning. Not really big enough or suitable for outdoor cooking and eating. Used more to keeping outdoor gear and chairs etc dry. Regarding rule 5a, this would suggest that we should have been ok with the gazebo perhaps? After all, it doesn't explicitly say you can't use a gazebo. Again, I'm all for respecting your neighbours etc so wouldn't want to do anything to upset however I think a small gazebo should be ok - even on a temporary basis when the heavens open.

Andy.

Hi Andy, I mentioned Rule 5(a) because it does clearly say that you can put up a kitchen tent as well as having an awning, so I sympathise with you. 

It looks as though it should be OK as long as it fits within your pitch. Maybe someone from the Club could clarify.?

Oh dear, what a shame you couldn't enjoy it. We've been on sites where people had gazebos. And you are probably members who keep all the rules. We thought the new image of the new club this year was for members to enjoy the outdoors and to feel the spirit of adventure. We are presently on a beautiful site in France and are certainly feeling the sense of adventure and freedom here. A lovely welcome when we arrived and no list of rules and threats of having to move if we were to pitch cms away from the peg. In fact a huge pitch and you can park on it anywhere you like. It took us ages to decide where to pitch, we're so accustomed to parking on the peg! The toilet blocks never close and they are very clean.Although we think rules are necessary, the club seems to be stifling the sense of adventure & freedom. What a shame! No list of rules here and yet it is tidy, not one piece of litter, very peaceful, everyone enjoying themselves while being mindful of others.

Great to see that the wardens there are doing their job and are enforcing the rules.

Well done them!

As a non-member it is not my place to comment on the various and often complex 'rules'.

However, it is certainly a factor when I consider whether or not I might wish to join this 'Club'.

We heard a warden tell someone to take their gazebo down at a site, he told them it was because they werent secured to anything and they had had them blowing off in the past and causing damage.

Tying down a gazebo seems to me to be a crutial part of erecting it properly. Apart from blowing over/away there is a danger of it being knocked and collapsing, especially if it is one of the early ones with the 80 tubes in the frame. It is just as flamable as a tent/awning if not more so.

I use one in my garden and have found tent pegs to be useless as the gazebo pulls upwards on them and they come out.  I use four old curling stones, but I dont think anyone would be wanting to carry them around when camping.