Site Occupancy

I 'sadly' watched the Virtual interviews by Matt Albright yesterday with Club Personnel where they spoke about the issues in this thread.....

Some interesting points were raised: Yes, due to the expectation of 'staycations' over the next few years the club are looking at adding pitches but this is always subject to planning & licensing so obviously not something they can do ad hoc....

Experience Freedom doesn't take away touring pitches, the units are invariably placed in areas of 'free' space but allows for multi-generation family holidays.....

The whole idea to be able to book so far in advance is a 'perk/benefit' for current members so as to not be disadvantaged by someone just joining the club...

+ don't forget some sites have 50% discount for mid-week dates so whether you work or not taking leave outside of school holidays can be of benefit....

"but we still find that if a site is showing full especially at weekend when a longer stay is wanted it a call to the site concernered has except on very few occasions been positive"

think you will have to call in more and more favours for this to happen now 

No favours needed  just common "it pays to talk" scenario

"The trick in my experience is patience. Keep checking and more often than not cancellations or further pitches being released means that the site magically becomes available for the dates you want."

and this is exactly my point, if when looking to book a particular site all pitches were taken, if there was then an option to join a "wait" list which, when pitches became available due to cxlation for example, a text message is sent to the head of the queue advising them of this, they could then accept or decline as the case maybe.

People who are working probably cannot spend hours per day checking the site in the hope that pitches may have become available. Not that i am too bothered as i seldom use club sites, and especially not this year

I would expect if that was a viable option, some of the very popular comercial sites  (as some say) would be already doing it

Nothing to stop the CAMC being the first, well there is, it would take some extensive IT /programming knowledge

some smaller sites do this if only as a courtesy call, so on some commercial sites, small, they have asked if they could contact me should a pitch become available.

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Yes, you have told us many times about your experiences over there, but unfortunately in the real world, many, would no doubt love to roam overthere and share your experiences, in reality they may still be working, get just 4 weeks holiday per annum, 2 weeks they have to take during July/August because the children are on school hols, so, if they want to go caravanning they have to make the best of what we have got over here.

Anyway, I have found the last 12 months of trying to get overthere, with ferry changes, not knowing which sites will be open when, and the possibility of having to have covid checks before you go, make sure you havent got any Danish bacon in your caravan because it is not allowed any more even though it came from Denmark originally, covid checks when you return, possible self isolation, and constantly watching the news to see if Mr Macron is about to close the borders or the ferry ports, just because he can, and there is more, doesnt sound exactly like a bed of roses trying to get overthere or stress free

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Even with the high staycations in the UK as you have posted there are plenty of pitches off peak ,as it seems the times you travel to your "reserved pitch"  so where do you get the new idea? of trying in this tiny island to find pitches