At Ty Cerig CL stands for Crowded Location. Arriving expecting 2 pitches for ourselves and friends, only 1 pitch was available as there were then 8 vans then on site. We were given effectively one pitch in the corner with our friends pitched at a significant angle making awning erection difficult and our awning guy ropes overlapping. Pitching so close together was not an issue for us but from a CAMC Health and Safety perspective; the fire risk is not in keeping with their ethos.
Having been on site for 3 hours we approached the owners as we had no electricity and a freezer full of food; the nearest point to us already had 3 cables plugged in having had a splitter plugged into one of the points allowing 2 caravans to be plugged into one port and our friends plugged into the other. Myfanwy’s first suggestion was to wait until the caravan beside us left the next day to plug in which wasn’t acceptable, she then suggested that I unplug the caravan next to us which again wasn’t acceptable, so she unplugged them and fetched another splitter so that we also could plug into the same port as the caravan beside us.
Online information states good tv reception, a tap per pitch and WIFI, again none of this is correct, we could not use the tap adjacent to us as somebody else, believing the online information had plumbed their van into that tap so 4 vans ended up using the one tap. There is no tv reception whatsoever however the owners provide you with a box to plug into a Satellite dish, although they only have 5 boxes (which would be correct if only 5 vans were on site). We were initially offered one box between 2 vans however the lead was too short to connect as we were all on one pitch and just a little too far away and wouldn’t work for all, as the connections needed are HDMI and SCART that not everyone has; none of this was in the online information. There is no WIFI however there is a good 4G signal. No disrespect to Myfanwy but she could not comprehend any of the above as issues and didn’t apologise believing she was doing everything to help; her only advice was to find another site, which we certainly will do in future.
One morning there were just 5 vans on site but back up to 7 by that afternoon and the gentlemen in the van next to us told us that he’d rung at the last minute to book to be told, ‘well I shouldn’t, but I can squeeze you in’, thus proving the point that the owners knew they were breaking the CAMC CL rules. This is also against a background of increased social distancing requirements presently.
Finally, the chemical waste point was a Health and Safety hazard with a 2 foot diameter pipe in the ground, covered with an incinerator lid which exposed an 8 foot drop directly into a sewer system and was wide another for someone to slip into and the approach to which was on a mown grass slope which was constituted a serious hazard especially when wet. Therefore perhaps CL actually also stands for Catastrophic Latrine.
