Motorhome Blocking views

[Lorraine_5040934]

Just wondered whether motorhome owners fully realise quite how tall and sometime overbearing the size of these vehicles can be. Recently met an elderly couple of caravaners who had taken all day to set up on site with awning etc, only to be totally boxed in by large motorhomes - they didn't have the energy to take awning down and move caravan again! As the caravan club still seems to require caravans to reverse up to peg marker this leaves the caravans all "lined up" in a neat row with tow bars and front windows all in alignment, its only when a great big motorhome pulls in that it blocks everyones view, great for the motorhome owners towering over the caravans, but it does start to look a bit like a motorway service area with caravans squashed inbetween articulated lorries! Anyone got any ideas how to keep everyone happy?

 

[RogerL]

I've long felt that CC club sites look like car parks.

Officially units can pitch any way round (subject to 3m clear between outfits and 6m between facing walls of accomodation units) but many wardens still insist on car, caravan facing out and then awning - some lined up offside to peg, some centred on the peg.

CC club sites look worse with hardstandings - just like a motorway service area.

 

[VIP640]

We recently stayed at the CC Club Blackpool South, one of the areas which has all hardstanding has up to 15 vans on either side which certainly looks like a car park.

 

[tigger2]

When possible we like to have our van longways to peg, with awning to front.

Choose grass pitches too moterhomes tend to prefer the hardstandings.

 

[rob_jax]

Lorraine,

Imagine you owned a caravan site with 30 emplacements:

You could either operate it as the CC do - first to arrive chooses their pitch until all the places fill up - and that's the situation your acquaintances found themselves in.

Or maybe you would segregate the camp site into 10 pitches for motorhomes, 10 for caravans and 10 for tents. And maybe that's what your acquaintances were expecting - except what happens if one motorhomer and 15 caravans arrive? Do the owners turn away paying customers even though there's still spaces to be had - but they're in the "wrong" section?

Roger

I know what you mean - we recently stayed at Old Oaks (Glastonbury), Dornafield (Newton Abbott) and Crossways (Dorchester).

And Dornafield (excellent in many respects) really does feel like a car-park - long linear lines of vans in the lower (grass pitches) area... But the other two sites don't look like a Tesco car park...

And I do love owning an Eriba - after the usual "pitch your caravan to the peg..." I love saying we've got an Eriba so the awning is on the continental side - this either defeats the warden when they try to image something "different" - or they say "do what you like then"

Robert

 

[michael_5111967]

Lorraine,

I posted a thread saying exactly this yonks ago when I returned from a CC site where there were 2 RV's built like coaches, all very nice with sides extending out electronicly, they were parked on hardstanding but the overhang was also taking up the grass pitch behind so no-one could get on them not that i had of wanted to,there has been a lot of caravaners complaining about having to share service area's with lorries & that's where you may as well be when on some club sites as motorhomes seem to be getting bigger, no dis-respect to their owners but when I pay for a pitch I would rather not be overshaddowed by a lorry/coach i can park on motorway services and get the same veiw! My question is how comes the caravan club will not reserve pitches but motorhomes nearly always get on a hardstanding?

 

[Alan Partridge]

Simple really - the wardens know what's booked in so reserve hardstandings for motorhomes when the ground is wet. This happened to us recently at two different CC sites when we would have preferred a hardstanding ourselves to boggy ground.

Quite understandable as the motorhomes would make a real mess, but annoying when half the reserved pitches are empty due to no-shows.