I thought it may be useful to share the caravan clubs pandemic checking in process. We had booked our holiday last year and it just happened to coincide as the site opening dates. First of all I got a phone call from the site to pay by card, them I got asked if I had a preferred pitch as I was going for more than a week. I was then given a one hours window time slot to check in.

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We've got several CC sites booked for later in the year. One of them frustratingly, can only accommodate us, van only, for two days before the rest of the week a van and awning space becomes available ( can't remember which site). I wonder if that is now "all change"?
Presumably John, you only need to pay, by credit card, on the hour of your arrival?
Randa

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Quote: Randa france wrote in post #5

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Wow. That's a bit dodgy John. To the best of my knowledge the CC don't ask for advance payments do they?
The problem is that if you're on your travels when they ring, you either won't answer the call if it's a home phone (or your son/duaghter/granny won't have your card details), or if a mobile number then you're probably not in a position to deal with the transfer.
I feel a phone call coming on .................
Randa

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I also was waiting for things to get back to some normality before venturing out. But now that 'normality' may be along way off I may have to have a rethink.

I think they are doing their best in difficult circumstances - are they still all working from home?

We should have been in South Wales at the moment in a mix of C & M and C&CC sites. Our final booking was at Wrexham for a few nights to break the return journey up North. Our arrival was before they re-opened but went into the following week. We got an urgent message from them to let them know what we were doing for the final two nights. My geography is good enough for me to know that Wrexham is in Wales and therefore wouldn't be open yet anyway. I didn't want to make a fuss an this difficult time so simply cancelled, but it must be stressful time for them.

I agree with Colin about the problem of having a short time window to arrive if you are travelling a long way to a site.

Last night we booked a couple of sites for September & October each within a 2 hour drive. We hope by then that teething issues with the toilets will have been more or less sorted.

However yesterday we did practice getting the shower head from our Troll out of the side window in case we couldn't/or didn't want to use the communal facilities. It reached OK so we are thinking of using our original AL Porch Awning as a shower room pitched against the toilet window - think it should work.

We will see

MikeT

I am waiting for next year when hopefully we have learned as a society to behave in this situation. Places are not really open, they have reached minimum survival (business wise) levels and health wise, who knows? All too soon for me.

Stewart

Quote: Randa france wrote in post #5

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Wow. That's a bit dodgy John. To the best of my knowledge the CC don't ask for advance payments do they?

The problem is that if you're on your travels when they ring, you either won't answer the call if it's a home phone (or your son/daughter/granny won't have your card details), or if a mobile number then you're probably not in a position to deal with the transfer.

I feel a phone call coming on .................

Randa

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Heading for the CC site at Barnard Castle soon. At least we don't have to worry about complaints!

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Heading for the CC site at Barnard Castle soon. At least we don't have to worry about complaints!

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Don't think you'll be able to move in Barnard Castle high street for Dominic Cummings T-shirts & mugs and locals who claim to have seen him.

He should have gone last time we were there. it was pouring with rain & with really dark skies. We were sheltering in a pub when a contractor on the main street cut through the electric cable and the whole of the upper side lost power. They could no longer pull beer and had to get some candles out. It was incredibly dark inside Cummings and his family could have sat there all afternoon unnoticed and he wouldn't have had to do his Downing Street garden cabaret.!

MikeT