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Cayton Bay was very quiet when we were there (apart from us🤣) The worst noise we encountered was a TV on too loud in a caravan, and the 7am building works adjacent to the site. Mind, it was November, and there was 100 metres between each of the dozen or so outfits on the site……

At least this was not done by changing all the signage (again) to something like "The Caravan and Motorhome and Neither Club".

Not sure if any of you are watching the Robson Green series on BBC 2 called Robson Green's Weekend Escapes? I am not so keen on the second series but he does seem to end up at a lot of "Glamping Sites" for his accommodation. I hadn't realised that it seems to be a big business. I think it makes sense for the Club to diversify into this type of thing. From what I have seen so far it doesn't seem to imping on the touring side. The trouble is none of us know how our hobby will develop and change over the next ten to twenty years and perhaps by then pure touring with conventional campsites will be changed out of all recognition?

David

Quiet time on our sites is from 22.00 Hja. I don't need instruction from anyone to deal with unnecessary noise after that time from whoever it may be. Experience gives you that feeling for late night party people be they campers or glampers when they arrive.

Not looked at the t's & c's but who does?!

JK

Glamping isn't that new now David but it's certainly big business. The majority of EF accommodation on our sites uses land that would be unsuitable for van pitches, or where the maximum pitch allocation has already been met so why not utilise that. As you say we don't know what the future holds with vanning in general but I'm guessing in 20 years campsites as we know them won't be there (most of us probably won't be anyway). It will be glamping pods and charging points and a central bbq/ social area, just like they do over there.

JK 

Agree with JK, glamping and alternative accommodation has been around for quite a while now, and was given a huge boost by COVID and lots of folks wanting to look after themselves in different types of units, but without committing huge outlay on a van or MH.

We used to use Forestry Commission Sites like Beddgelert and Cropton Forest in the late 1990’s, early 2000’s, they opted to move over to less basic pitches due in part to the very boggy ground at times, and anyone who uses CLs, CS and small independent sites will be able to relate to just how many have added something other than just pitches to their portfolio’s.

Like it or not, the Club in this respect is merely moving with the times, and recognising that there is a lot of change going on. Airbnb is full of quirky glamping units, it’s very big business. 

 I wonder how many members realise the extent of what is in the "sitemap", as with most web sites it contains very limited information, most of it about the development of web site itself, or so I have found.

As far as I’ve seen, absolutely everything is in the Site Map, Nellie. There's so much there that, inevitably, it’s not always easy to find what you want.

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The RG programme has highlighted some fabulous examples of really innovative glamping options. He was in a tree house in last night’s programme, a world away from Club type offerings. There’s a re purposed helicopter done out as a glamping unit somewhere on Airbnb, and we have seen some fantastic ex railway carriages.  We had a few days on a nice CL not far from Forde Abbey a few years ago, the owner there was busy building a couple of Shepherd’s Huts to put in his orchard. 

Cayton Bay has competition………https://www.pinewoodpark.co.uk/helicopter-glamping-breaks

🤣🤣🤣 Fabulous👍