New Site Booking System

I preferred the thread as it was TDA👍🏻, I was having a dose of Billy Butlins nostalgia, now it’s bitty & jarring🤷🏻‍♂️🙄. I was watching a YouTube channel re the Filey BB site with its own train line there were that many guests arriving & departing. Judging by the views of the Vid a lot of others like reminiscing too😊

I don’t see a bit of drift does any harm either and as you say a done deal well chewed over. Although just like the name change there is a lot more chewing to come, once they announce it properly and the vast majority of the membership find out. From my point of view, whilst I would prefer the old system to carry on, I’ve had the one contentious question answered over what will happen re pitch surfaces on existing bookings. So it will just be like making a C&CC booking, except for the price.🤔 

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It was suggested that my comment on the difficulty of putting a clamping tour together was based on assumption rather than experience. True but if booking sites/CLs over the past couple of years is anything to go by then it's not going to be easy.

An EV plus a tent has been suggested and a possible way to continue touring. In the short to medium term that will present charging issues. Many on here use their LVs all year. Hands up, who wants to be under canvas in the UK in January/February.

As for clamping accommodation, what happened to the "I like my own bed" brigade?

Just had a thought with reference to the booking system.  We were told by a very good source that it was not a new system but a "pre-loved" one.  I wonder if it is the Camping Club system?  That would fit very neatly with my theory that the two organisations are on a course to merge.

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Ooh I do like a conspiracy theory Nav....but just think, as the C&CC have lost all their "my bookings" at present I just see total chaos!  

 

TT I advise you and any new readers to read the thread up to the point it changes to a discussion on data transfer most of the points have been covered at that point if you have a comment or question jump in from one of the comments there, it's drifted off subject so much now you wouldn't know it was the same thread.

Don’t worry about availability, some of the higher end run into £thousands for a large family/2 families. I’ve done the research. They are a bargain out of season & good value, in season?, not so much. I think the camping/tenting with trailers was not aimed at the less adventurous/less interested. I went back to camping for the solitude & stress free break, this year we will be glamping for a family of 8 in season & the house is up for sale😂😂.

I don't think the C&CC can teach the CMC anything about IT from my observations!!!!!  I got the impression the system came from a major holiday booking organisation, not sure I would view either Club as "major"? I would have thought there are quite a lot of advantages in buying in a system that is known to work rather than trying to write a bespoke system that will no doubt have a lot of initial gremlins. This is going to be such a major change its got to work first time otherwise you are going to have a lot of upset customers. 

Whether in the future the two Clubs merge I suspect will be down to how the hobby goes in the post ICE era and whether market share can be maintain, pods or no pods!

David