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Does anyone know what the minimum distance should be between tents?  We went away to what would have been a lovely site this weekend but the owners cramped people in and because everyone had had to pay in advance for minimum three nights at £25 per night eveyone was stuck.  What's more the managers were nowhere to be seen!

The tents were touching each other in lots of places on the field and you could hardly move for guide ropes and cars.

If you do know please tell me!

Quote: Originally posted by therm0stat on 31/5/2006

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I hate this kind of thing. It puts me off sites for ever. I went to Scott’s Farm in Wittering (a place I will no longer go to for a couple of reasons) and tents were crammed in as far as the eye could see. There was no chance of getting your car out if you needed to and walking was impossible because tents were guy-rope to guy-rope. Tents were even sharing tent pegs they were so close.

Camping is riding a wave of popularity at the moment and too many site owners seem hell bent on making money while the sun is shining, so to say. These are sites that aren’t run by camping enthusiasts, but greedy people jumping on the camping bandwagon.

For me the quicker this camping fad ends the better.

Whoops, sorry about that. I don’t think I’ve had enough coffee this morning. Still, it really gets my goat.

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Completely agree with you

Hi

Im new to camping & am yet to go.....  So what is EHU?

Also is it better to join say the Camping & Caravaning Club & get a better site etc, or what do you all suggest.

My partner & I dont have kids & dont want a site with a club/pub etc on it, just to be able to get away & have some piece & quiet for a few days will be heaven, any suggestions, I live in Essex so dont want a long drive, as Ive got to get the hang of putting up my t/t......

Many thanks

Tina

Tina

EHU simply means electric hook up

Extremely interesting thread and as a mainly solo camper with small tent and scooter, I'm constantly thinking that in the high season I'm going to be put in the corner next to some huge vehicle!

I'm lucky this year that I have a lot of time to go camping.I've  been away a few time already  and have had no space problems.

I've just booked two weeks at the same site and just hope I'm a reasonable distance from my "neighbour".Trouble is having booked and arrived it's difficult  to do much about packed tents etc. I'd probably take pictures and post them on the web!

I've heard some members say that the main purpose in booking EHU is to get a decent pitch and the electrical benefits are secondary issues.

I can understand that, and if I was camping with a car I would book EHU every time.

Hi - can I suggest that everyone hwo has had this experience of this unsafe crowding please

a) name and shame that site on here and add a review to that site's listing too so that we can all be warned away

b) as already mentioned, report concerns to the local council who grant the site its licence.

Hitting these unscrupulous site owners in the pocket where it hurts is the only way to stop this. We know that collectively UKCS can be a powerful force, so lets use it!!

Thanks for all your opinions and advice!

Breezeblock and ianork what you say about EHU is dead interesting coz on this site there were non EHU tents actually pitched IN BETWEEN  the EHU pitches and so they were I think actually touching in places.

Funny thing is the owners were quick enough to get back to us when we were trying to book online but they can't seem to reply to my e-mail about where they were at the weekend and why it was so horribly overcrowded.