Maragowan

If I turned up in a camper at present I would have a toilet tent as I did when using a trailer camper. 

When I go for a shower I normally go about 6.30am (or shortly before).. 

The envisaged queuing system for the showers that the OP has speculated about, that is the total length of time for everyone to have a shower, is far fetched.

There will be many members who, in order to protect themselves, will use their own facilities. I shall not be using the Sanitary block of any CAMC site that I stay on.

Most outfits have their own. Leave the toilets and showers to those who cannot use an alternative. 

We were on the site in July/August and folk were booking the same early slots day after day ie having their shower going back to the whiteboard and changing the date giving others no chance of a shower in the morning. Consequently the 12:00 wipe off was to enable others to have access to an early slot.

Wouldn't it have been easier to just make the site non facilities in the first place rather than this hap hazard way of going about it.

We've been on 12 sites so far since lockdown was eased. Some were none facility some not, the ones that operated a band system (Culloden & Old Hartley) worked well, both different systems but it worked. On the C&CC sites we've been on that facilities are open, they just lock the doors of the cubicles they don't want used and put a notice on the door. Hand sanitizer on entrance to building, no queues at any we've been to, there are a lot more camper vans and tents on C&CC sites than CMC ones but it works fine.

We booked two nights on this site and then read the reviews about the system for the facilities, totally ridiculous, so we cancelled within 5 minutes. We would be out all day and therefore never get the chance to get a morning slot. The band system works really well on other sites.

I am old enough to remember when Club sites didn’t have any facilities at all. Since then caravans have improved and almost all have sufficient facilities, so why not use them? We have and have noticed when using sites without any facilities how much cheaper they are. Perhaps it is time to get back to basics!

There were no facilities before the Club moved site from Falls of Dochart to Maragowan.

They don’t want the facilities to be used. The club suggests you use your own facilities but still charge the price for a full facility site. We are happy to use our own facilities however the club need to look at pricing if they can’t offer the full set up on sites.  We stayed on a great little CL in Swindon as a stop off driving home from Cornwall , no facilities but electric hook up included for £18 a night. 

I don’t usually post reviews or comments on Caravan Club sites as they are of a similar configuration, maintained to good standards with friendly and helpful wardens. The same could be said for the Maragowan site.

However if any option that the Club gave their sites to adopt to maintain Covid safety standards then the one at Maragowan certainly needs revisiting. Since lockdown was eased we have visited a number of both Caravan Club and other sites and all with the exception of Maragowan have adopted more or less the same procedures.

When we visited in mid September the two shower/toilet blocks were unisex with access for shower or washroom use available but having to be booked in 20 minute slots via a board on the wall. Thankfully the disabled toilet is available “for emergencies”.

The closure for cleaning both blocks is ruled through at the same 2 hour period despite the desegregation of the blocks which is difficult to understand.

It was also difficult to understand why a pitch adjacent to the bin/water and Chemical emptying facility was blocked off and yellow painted with queuing distance lines; something I’ve not seen on other CC sites and given the demand in the UK for pitches was it really necessary.

Like no doubt many others we had great difficulty in booking pitches at various sites once lockdown was eased having to check the availability so it was a tad disappointing to see a site full notice going up on the 14th September where late into the evening and first thing in the morning there were at least 10 spare pitches.

As the site was really nice and the wardens friendly perhaps Head Office should look at the necessity for the option that the Maragowan site adopted.

 Interesting that with what seems quite a few negative posts about Maragowen site, there is no mention as to what was the site staffs response  ,when asked why this sites system to try to contain Covid has caused more problems it seems than other sites?

Reading the reveiws it seems that most of the problems are being caused by the site users