Proper Site Reviews

It would be very dull to read reviews that fitted a formula. Bouquets and Brickbats are going to happen. It's good if people can say what they want even if you might disagree? 

There are people who write very good and useful reviews because they understand what is helpful to others. Then there are folk who seem not to understand the purpose of a review and write something that would be better posted on the forum, written as a story, or addressed to head office as a complaint. 

With the best will in the world, I don’t think we can insist people write ‘proper’ reviews and it’s down to the reader to ignore the chaff. 

 

I’m not a fan of being told what to read and write so I will carry on in my sweet old way

Yes indeed TW, like other reviews sites you have to take the overall view

I do wish we could have more informative threads on this forum instead of people moaning and whingeing about people moaning and whingeing, particularly when reviewing sites. We've had threads on people cutting across pitches, not picking up after their dogs, wardens driving mini tractors too fast. Where's it all going to end? 

Can't people just start threads about happy topics, like, um...? And, um...?

Right, yep, I agree with the OP. Write proper reviews you lot.

Surely it's entirely up to the writer what they write? If there are enough reviews its easy enough to form a view of what the site is like. As a motorhomer I likely to look for different information to a caravanner  although the bulk of the information will be useful to both methods of touring. If members have a moan in a review its obviously important to them and the rest of us can make up our own minds. Sometimes that moan can flag something up to the Club so it can be useful. 

Having said that there is nothing like leading by example.

David

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I’m a suck it & see type. Yes I read good, bad, moaning too but they’re just a guide. If it’s an area I want to be in I’ll give it a go & make my own mind up👍🏻, I must be easy to please as not much has let me down.

It is a fact of life that some happen to be better at writing objective reviews than others. It is also clear that what attracts some members to some sites will equally put others off. For us, the trick is to be able to get a "flavour" of a site from the posted reviews to see if it will suit what we ( or you ) like, and perhaps pick up a few ideas of things to see and do in the area along the way. I have to admit, however, that we do sometimes chuckle at how opening remarks say that the wardens are friendly and helpful..... I'm afraid we presume that should always be the case all the time and we have rarely been disappointed.....  

Exactly what I think although I do hope CAMC are casting an eye over what is being written, just as much as the rest of us might do when considering a site.