the friendly club

[colin(bridgend)]

I have just joined the C&CC and am going to my first rally in Margam Park in a few days time. It is all new to us as we have never been a member of any club before - just used commercial sites and befriended other holidaymakers on the site, and so far very good frienship has been achieved. However as we are now both enjoying early retirement we thought we could make full use of the van and enjoy ourselves more frequently. What now bothers me is that I have read comments on this site of the unfriendly site wardens who tend to adopt a Hitler style of approach. I hope that this type of person is in the minority and that the majority of members and wardens are very friendly and sociable. Any comments would be very much appreciated before our first rally. Many thanks.

 

[rayc]

Colin, as you say you are going to a rally it will be stewarded by local volunteers and not by club employees. Please remember this when you are greeted by the steward as I have stewarded meets both large and small and not all club members are pleasant.As in all walks of life you meet all sorts of people. I rallied for many years with a local section and just like in most walks of life there are cliques (my British legion can be the same) but sometimes these are just groups of friends who to the outsider may appear cliquy. It is hard sometimes to get the balance right with a newcomer of appearing either pushy or aloof. I am sure if you just act natural you will be welcomed and join in if you wish.

 

[Wendy-Norfolk]

Hi,

We have been members of both clubs for a good few years now and can honestly we have only came upon this once in our many years of caravanning, and the was with the CC. On this occasion the warden was certainly wearing his jobs worth cap.

Of course you may get the odd one, but on the whole we have had mainly good experiences with both clubs.

 

[Chrissylizzie]

Hope all goes well Colin. Would be interested to hear your findings.

Chris

 

[MarkG.]

We have just come back from our holiday at a CC site in Pembrokeshire. Two days of the holiday was spent in the Local hospital with my son who broke his arm and had to have an operation the following day. Back at the campsite, she saw my son in plaster , asked what had happened and then proceeded to tell him off for riding his bike because he could have injured someone !!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the Caravan Club !!

She was also overhead saying she " Was going to kill someone" for a car following another under the barrier and not waiting for the barrier to come down again.

 

[colin(bridgend)]

We have just come back from our holiday at a CC site in Pembrokeshire. Two days of the holiday was spent in the Local hospital with my son who broke his arm and had to have an operation the following day. Back at the campsite, she saw my son in plaster , asked what had happened and then proceeded to tell him off for riding his bike because he could have injured someone !!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the Caravan Club !!

She was also overhead saying she " Was going to kill someone" for a car following another under the barrier and not waiting for the barrier to come down again.

Hi Mark - sorry to hear of your misfortunes whilst on holiday in Pembrokeshire. I hope your son is on the mend, know what he is going through as I also broke my arm when I was young. Great though for defending myself in school. As far as the unfriendly female warden, we are not all like that in south Wales I can assure you. Hope everything turns out OK and that you will return to this part of the country and enjoy a well deserved trouble free holiday.

 

[MarkG.]

Hi Mark - sorry to hear of your misfortunes whilst on holiday in Pembrokeshire. I hope your son is on the mend, know what he is going through as I also broke my arm when I was young. Great though for defending myself in school. As far as the unfriendly female warden, we are not all like that in south Wales I can assure you. Hope everything turns out OK and that you will return to this part of the country and enjoy a well deserved trouble free holiday.

Thanks for your concern Colin, my son is fine and on the mend.

I`ts the first time we have been to Wales and throughly enjopyed it, we will definately go back next year,EVEN to the same campsite!!!!!! Hopefully that particular warden would have moved on by then(Retired , do they retire ?). She was English and not Welsh and we fould all the Welsh to be lovely.

 

[colin(bridgend)]

Hi - just some feed back from our first rally with the C&CC at Margam Park. Started off very quiet, we arrived approx 2:00pm Friday. Weather not to bad and had a nice stroll through the park to Margam Castle. Grandchildren arrived later on Friday after school. They soon made friends with other children on the rally. To my amazement another member on the rally recognised me from school, virtually 46 odd years ago, so spent some time reccolecting our past school days. Late Saturday afternnon the skies opened up and the site turned into a quagmire. As the children could not go outside to play and the rain did not ease up we decided to come home on the Saturday evening rather than the following day. Met a very nice retired couple from Leicester who were passing through south Wales and decided to spend the weekend with us. I will be honest though that there was a lot of clickiness evident and we did feel a bit like outsiders. As the west Wales D.A. were also meeting at the park there were in total aprox. 60 units but they were not mixed. I asked why they were seperate from us and was told that if two areas were on the same site it was unusual for them to join as one for the rally. We would consider further rallies as this was our first and perhaps we should have made more of an effort to socialise a bit. However the weather did put a block on everything so heres to the next rally - it can only get better.

 

[Chrissylizzie]

Hi - just some feed back from our first rally with the C&CC at Margam Park. Started off very quiet, we arrived approx 2:00pm Friday. Weather not to bad and had a nice stroll through the park to Margam Castle. Grandchildren arrived later on Friday after school. They soon made friends with other children on the rally. To my amazement another member on the rally recognised me from school, virtually 46 odd years ago, so spent some time reccolecting our past school days. Late Saturday afternnon the skies opened up and the site turned into a quagmire. As the children could not go outside to play and the rain did not ease up we decided to come home on the Saturday evening rather than the following day. Met a very nice retired couple from Leicester who were passing through south Wales and decided to spend the weekend with us. I will be honest though that there was a lot of clickiness evident and we did feel a bit like outsiders. As the west Wales D.A. were also meeting at the park there were in total aprox. 60 units but they were not mixed. I asked why they were seperate from us and was told that if two areas were on the same site it was unusual for them to join as one for the rally. We would consider further rallies as this was our first and perhaps we should have made more of an effort to socialise a bit. However the weather did put a block on everything so heres to the next rally - it can only get better.

Hi Colin

Thanks for honest observations. Better luck next time.

Chris