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Personcarrie123
19/2/2014 at 12:04pm
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Just looking at booking 2 weeks away in devon just wondered if we should go for hardstanding knowing what lovely british summers are like!

Does anyone prefer hardstanding to grass any thoughts greatly appreciated.


Personveema
19/2/2014 at 2:05pm
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We always chose grass with the FC...don't know why...


PersonPaddy01
19/2/2014 at 3:26pm
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Grass, every time, hard work braying pegs in hard standing plus they can sometimes easily pull out

Best regards,

To y


PersonMiserly
19/2/2014 at 3:57pm
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Grass with us whenever possible,hard standings can be a real pain,and vary from a concrete pad to a bucket of gravel thrown onto the mud. Generally much easier to peg on grass,and more secure once pegged.

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19/2/2014 at 5:16pm
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We've used hard standing but pitched right on the edge so that the awning is on the grass - best of both worlds - however, not all sites allow you to pitch that way so I would check first.


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Personjohnwils
20/2/2014 at 9:55am
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Prefer grass. Last hard standing we went on the small stones were quite sharp and pierced through a thick pvc groundsheet. The weather was rubbish and we were on a slope so the rain water came up through the holes. Really cross as decent ground sheets are expensive.

Helen


PersonAlan Chilestone
20/2/2014 at 11:14am
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Prefer Grass in the summer, but use HS early and late season. Usually on a C&CC club site, where the gravel is more than just "thrown down", May 2011 had a grass pitch on a very wet Bank Holiday weekend, definitely wished we had been on a HS as we got stuck, and I ended up sat in the mud trying to get the unit off the pitch on to the site road. We could not tow it with the car, too muddy. I think the whole site heard my exclamation when I sat down.

Luckily several other campers, seeing our plight came and helped!

This May we are booked on an HS (just in case)

Yes the pegs take a little extra work, but on an FC there is only the bed skirts. We only use the awning on a long holiday in the Summer and that is always grass. Perhaps if we were using awning in May we might think again.

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