Proportion of Serviced v Standard Pitches

if I was having three showers a day (apart from the wrinkled appearance) I'd certainly not be traipsing around with barrels...

surely a site shower would be better in those circumstances...?

arent site showers one of the club's 'best' features....and loads of water 'on tap'

I know folk on here love a toilet block, seems a deal breaker for some.

But I dont think we are that unusual in not using site facilities, well apart from making a deposit, and that's early, well before anyone else.

The worst type are those showers with the waste water from the whole section running in a trough along the floor.Yellow water, and that's not from soap on a rope 🤮.

No thanking you, stick to my caravan and humping barrels.

Peedee

I don't quite understand why you would come to that conclusion?

Ok David just remove the word "considerably" from the sentance stating

" I am sure even on serviced pitches members use nothing like that but it is, I think, indicative they may well be using considerable more than those on standard pitches..".

Just my own thoughts that if I was on a serviced pitch I would probably stand under the shower longer. Even so I doubt any increase in water consumption on a serviced pitch justifies the current premium.

peedee

Choice is a great thing and each to their own way of doing things.  Some folk on here seem far too exercised about why other folk do what they do?

But since we are in that line of thought, I'm curious to know why, when there are so many excellent CLs around with "serviced pitches" (i.e. a tap and drain), anyone would choose to pay top dollar for a site and not use its facilities? We stayed on one such CL earlier this year for £14 a night - why stump up more?

I would love a CL, 

Problem for me is access, the roads into.

We've been out walking St Austell area, widely, seen a couple of CL's, only way to get there is by helicopter!

Maybe the search function or owners description.

When it comes to the money aspect, I dont mind paying provided I dont feel like I'm being ripped off. I keep banging on about Sandringham in February, but as an example, right royally overcharged. 

On a CL now, not serviced, other than waste into hedge, though there is also a disposal point, but there is a toilet.  £10 per night.

In the 24 hours since we arrived we have used roughly 35 litres for 2 showers and 3 washing ups etc, we have a 40 litre on board tank so I can judge it to within 5 litres.  Plus toilet flush.

As I am fetching the water, we are fairly frugal with the dishwashing water, but you must have a very small bowl BB as a litre or so of water would barely cover the base of ours.  We do give things a very quick rinse in hot water, with a dribble from the tap, as we do at home, they dry much better.

Sounds like we are doing a bit more complicated cooking as we will usually have at least one pot to wash.

On a serviced pitch we would certainly take advantage of the unlimited water when washing up, and would probably take longer showers.

For me M, choice is usually dictated firstly on location and access, price is usually the last thing I think about but is obviously a consideration. Facilities are hardly a consideration but If a site is where I want to be and costs an arm and a leg, I will pay it even if, for what ever reason, we don't use the facilities during our stay.

peedee

Yes, I understand that, PD. Location is, I'd guess the primary factor for most of us. My point really was to wonder why some folk make such a big thing of, for example, club site prices (though in my view they're about the median for UK sites) but will then pay up the same amount or more when there are perfectly good and more econnomical alternatives in the same location. Not a criticism, just musing over things brought up in the thread. 

Our 60L tank will probably last three days with me having a shower and OH doing the TG/OH method of washing (remind self not to show my OH as he will be suitably impressed and ask why I can't do it too? ) We tend to top up as we go along with a water container which is pumped up into the van. OH is happy to use site facilities for showers, I'm not so keen as I think some of the facility blocks need a good overhaul and I just don't like them, fussy or what you will no doubt be thinking but black mould is on my list of inspection failures (that's another story!)  From OH's point of view a serviced pitch or at least a tap and drain does make the chore of keeping the shower going a lot easier. Why we do all this in the name of "camping" eludes me but there you go we must like some bits.  

No thanking you, stick to my caravan and" humping barrels"

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