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Set arrival time

We turned up at 12:00 after a 3 hour journey and was told by warden that we were early and couldn’t wait on site and would have to go off site and park up for an hour. This was our first visit to site and didn’t know area and when we asked where was a suitable local parking space for car and caravan told to visit a supermarket. Initially told we couldn’t access any area of site to wait until 1:00 but allowed to enter park to turn around before having to exit site for 1 hour. Noticed there were a few areas we could wait but didn’t want to disobey wardens orders so spent an hour having to go through Minehead’s narrow streets with caravan looking for a supermarket, trying to fill 1 hour before we could go back onto site. Accept there are office hours and wardens have other duties but think this was unreasonable . Warden informed us this was now CC policy and if they allowed discretion to one person they would have to allow it to everyone. Not come across this on any other site and have been a member for many years.

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Gilera replied on 12/07/2022 21:12

Posted on 12/07/2022 21:12

I have been made aware of the change to arrival times this year including the warden from Haycraft phoning to confirm that we were aware of this requirement.You can also look online prior to setting out to verify the correct arrival time.We were at Minehead last week and noticed several arrivals read the sign that the wardens had put out advising of the 13:00 arrival only for the outfits to pull around the sign and park up waiting for the office to open.I can only assume they feel the times do not apply to them.I fully agree with wardens comment that if they set a standard for some where does it stop.

carioca15 replied on 02/08/2022 16:15

Posted on 02/08/2022 16:15

This is not a lot to ask and can be easily achievable by stopping anywhere on route to arrive after 1pm. I rather think that some people feel they have to be 1st in the queue to get the best pitches available. I have even seen some people arrive and go to a pitch with a chair while the other half books in! Also noticed people speeding round to get to a pitch before another. Very sad to see!