Booking Fees for the Honeypots

Talk about throwing a hurdle up for the sake of it.

Ok then, open up a week at a time, or a fortnight at a time - or allow any continuous booking as long as it starts on the day that you open the system. i.e. give it some decent thought, propose it to the membership, then if it is agreed, run a pilot test at a limited number of sites to iron out any unexpected issues.

Seems like you just want to rubbish any other idea because it threatens the system that favours you today.

But nobody would be that selfish, right?

OK one more pitch 

As far as I can see what you propose is something that suits you better, not something that is necessarily fairer for all. You are never going to please all the people all of the time. Even when we worked we managed to sort things out and secured the bookings we wanted. Yes occasionally there would have to be compromises but that is just life. In my opinion the majority who moan that they can't get this that and the other, are simply not prepared to try.

As the saying goes "you can please the Majority of people all the time but cannot please every one all the time" and the majority of people will plan their lives and including leisure time

Petertr, the CC treats us all the same. We are all equal. Can you not see that it is your personal circumstances which are causing you a problem? 

What you want CC to do is to change the system to suit you at this time. When your circumstances change, as they surely will one day, will you want CC to again change to something that suits you better?

Have you tried booking earlier?

Outside school hols there are normally pitches available. However at school holiday tomes these are more limited and advance booking becomes necessary - same for everybody.

If you want time during August school holidays at a particular site then now is not too early to book

Peter- we've all been there in the past - even us retired old fogeys worked at one time. But instead of throwing in the towel we worked round the system, and, yes, if that meant not getting our first choice of CC sites we'd look for an alternative.

But there are a lot of willing helpers on here; if you could give us some idea of where and when you want to go (but apparently are unable to at the moment) I bet we could come up with any number of alternative suggestions for you. Seems a bit "cutting off your nose to spite your face" if you're leaving the club simply because you can't get one particular booking.

Maybe it was passed on and they thought it to be a bad idea as indeed I do.

No matter how we tinker with the possibilities a site which appears full all the time will remain thus!

Even the drip feed of say a week or two or even a month does not work if you want to book from one period into the next. Basically you would have to book as far as the system would let you go and then hope you could then get the rest of the booking when the next period was released. The shorter you make the period between releases the worse the problem becomes.

As an example if the release period was a month and you wanted the last week in July and the first in August you would book the first week in July and then have to hope you beat the rest to the August dates.

There is simply no answer to this problem that will suit everyone or possibly even the majority.

Maybe if there is a problem with people booking several weekends on the first day, that day could be limited to one booking per site on the first day and then the free for all on the next.