Writing Reviews (particularly for CLs)

Know what Bakers? All these years and I've never seen the VIEW SITE button!

Mrs WN doesn't seem the little bit surprised. I forgot the waste bucket on a quick 3 night trip last month. The thing is, I moved the thing out of the way in the garage to look for it! Couldn't see it, then got called away on another matter and completely forgot about it! You couldn't make it up.

That's why we need a virtual brochure like the one on the UK Campsite website☺....Every time you view a site you like the sound of you can save it to the brochure and come back at a later date to view all of your saved sites. It is such a useful tool and I would have thought a basic element to have on this website? On most websites there is a facility to save items in your shopping basket or wishlist, so I struggle to understand why our club can't create one!

I often come across a site that I'd saved and forgotten about until I'm looking for sites in a particular area and I discover a couple of possibilities I'd noted for future reference. 

I agree with the fact that we've discussed this in the past, and since than I've tried to post the site's name before adding a comment then completing the review. However I don't know where to find the "latest activity" listings....I guess that I'm just dumb... and so must be missing a lot of reviews of CLs that might well be of interest to us. All I do is search out those in the area we wish to visit then read through each site's reviews. The suggestion for a listing of favourite/favourable sites looks a good one to me.

This damn network I've lost this post again and had to rewrite it.

It would greatly help if all CL's were allocated a reference number that remained the same instead of changing with each new handbook.

I post reviews on the relevant site/CL page on the CAMC website, not latest activity. The review tool gives a compulsory 'title' box to infillI, hence the commonality of words in titles I suspect, due to the review being of that particular site/CL  I also copy a review to the far better resource UKcampsites.co.uk

When looking for prospective sites google maps is a useful tool where 'nearby' with keywords such as 'certificated location', 'caravan site' will bring up listings with google reviews and images.

Unfortunately the least useful tool is the CL search on the CAMC website.

"I post reviews on the relevant site/CL page on the CAMC website, not latest activity."

But your review, as with all posts, appears on the latest activity log on the CT home page which is where I start from.  

“Unfortunately the least useful tool is the CL search on the CAMC website.”

If only the search function was that good.   We recently stayed just for one night on a CL called Elgar’s view.   Lovely site had all the facilties you could possibly wish for  A tap and a CDP.   However if you place the  term Elgar’s view into the search box   It returns 2,760 results!  It seems to pick up every  single ‘s   

I have just tried your search Boff and Elgar's View came up no problem using Firefox version 67.0 and W7.

I find the Android App useful for searching for sites and especially for creating a list of favorites.

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I tried to find my last site review from 28/05/2019 using the method you employ via the latest activity log. I gave up after 45 minutes of constantly clicking to expand the log. It would have been easier to go to the site page ie Black Knowl.

The default is 5 latest records. Would I need to be constantly logged on with that page open to see every record as it appears??

Ive screenshotted and attached as images that using the method of 'latest activity', then 'latest reviews' as you open 'view this review' at the top is a directory that has the CL / Site name in the file tree.

In this example the CL is 'Bunkers Hill Farm' with a title of the review 'Lovely and quiet'.

If you click on the 'Bunkers Hill Farm' in the file tree the page opens giving a 'View Site' green button that opens site page.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess

You misunderstand what I was saying, KS. Yes, if I want details of a particular site or even a site in a particular area I'll go to that site/area - I don't go scouring back through the latest activities to find it.

I'm perfectly aware of how to use the view site button.

But what I meant was that,  when I go onto CT, the first thing I look at is the latest activity. It is there that the plethora of reviews with vague, though complimentary, titles is time consuming. I was meaning, in my OP, that a title such as "Bunkers Hill (location) - lovely and quiet" would be more helpful than just those 3 words.