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09/7/2014 at 5:04pm
Location: Staithes
Outfit: Vantage Neo
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09/7/2014 at 6:24pm
Location: Luton (no jokes plea
Outfit: Coachman and Hyundai
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We would always have a caravan, one reason being is that you are stuck if your motorhome breaks down; if your car breaks down then you always have the caravan whilst the car is (hopefully) being repaired. Stay near a bus route for this reason.
I don't think you can take caravans into car parks, but sites will often let you stay later if they are not busy, and if you ask of course.
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09/7/2014 at 6:28pm
Location: Northants
Outfit: Avondale Dart Caravan
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we use to tent camp when the children were small and over the years we now caravan as we are retired we only have a small caravan and find it will fit on services car parks when breaking the journey we never take it to car parks and most sites will let you leave it on the side packed up on day of leaving if they have room
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09/7/2014 at 7:27pm
Location: Teesside
Outfit: Mitsubishi ASX4
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Would never consider leaving the caravan unattended in a car park (or motorway services), even though it is securely locked. A theft waiting to happen.
However, as has been said above, most campsites are not too bothered and if you ask them nicely they will let you stay longer if they are not full. Also consider you have less to pack and are not bothered about trying to get the outfit packed up dry.
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09/7/2014 at 7:34pm
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Always like to get home once we have packed the van up. If we wanted to 'explore further', we would stop for longer to start with.
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10/7/2014 at 2:09pm
Location: Cheshire
Outfit: Coachman VIP 460 2
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We're new to caravanning, but have always been able to leave the van on site until late afternoon on leaving day to be able to make the most of the break. Some sites levy a small charge - others don't charge if they aren't busy
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10/7/2014 at 2:23pm
Location: Lincs
Outfit: Skoda Yeti and Coach
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We have been away in our van twice in a month first time left the cl at 5pm and second time another cl at 4.30pm so we go straight home as we are usually about hour and half from home. We arrived Friday evening paid for 2 nights left late Sunday afternoon all ih all great weekends.
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10/7/2014 at 2:37pm
Location: Leeds
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A caravan has it's own facilities (toilet, shower, etc), so you don't need sites with facilities - join one of the Clubs (or both!) and make use of their weekend meets. I've not attended CC weekend meets, but I spent many years camping/caravanning at C&CC DA, Region and Group weekend meets - great fun, other children for your small to play with, adults for you to socialise with (or not as the fancy takes you). The meets are usually open until about 4pm on Sunday, so there's no need to rush your breakfast or dash off early - and they are relatively cheap too!
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10/7/2014 at 10:16pm
Location: Derbyshire
Outfit: ElddisAvante462 Honda CRV SE2.2 i-Dtec
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Just be careful to choose CLs with larger field areas if you wish to stay later, and be prepared to vacate your pitch by about 12 noon and park your caravan on a non pitch part of the field. Sometimes during busy times they have other caravanners wanting to get onto your pitch to start their break, and some can get very unhappy if they arrive to an occupied pitch, as happened to us last week end when we were delayed in packing away by a torrential thunderstorm, this woman would not give us any peace and banged on our van door to move at the height of the storm, and it was onlya few mins past midday.
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10/7/2014 at 10:51pm
Location: Lincs
Outfit: Skoda Yeti and Coach
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Never every had that on a cl in 40 years of caravaning. We use cl because you dont have to be off by 12 noon.
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