Dear Luke
Following my recent e-mail I have now received clarification from Forest Holidays regarding their policies with relation to pitch sizes.
Size is approx 6 x 5 metres, but as they do not mark out pitches this is a guide, they say up to a 6 man tent with up to 6 persons, any bigger than 6 man requires you to book 2 pitches.
Their policies are very different to CCC ones. Ie no credit account, cancellation of a pitch £30 up to 3 days before arrival, no refund after that.
If you have any further queries with regards to Forest Holidays please feel free to e-mail them at info at forestholidays.co.uk.
I hope this clarifies your original query, Kind Regards
Narelle Stokes
Customer Service Officer
The Camping and Caravanning Club
Greenfields House
Westwood Way
Coventry, CV4 8JH
So it would seem that as far as C&C Club sites are concerned the only criteria is the units footprint - as long as it is whithin 8x5 m's you should have no problems - if you do you should refer the site back the above contacts at the club.
The situation with Forset Holidays is different.If units over 6X5m pitch and/or with a capacity of over 6 people then the site can charge for two pitches. As daft as this seems this appears to be their rules (although they can't use the excuse that they are just following C&C Club policy!).
Now that I have Forest Holiday's email address I might start badgering them to explain their size policy ( - if enough tent owners complain they may well change their stance).
In the meantime, I guess that the moral of the story is that if you have an average sized family tent (and I wouldn't consider a SV8 to be anything more than average sized) you either avoid Forest Holiday's sites altogether or you don't mention it's size and hope that no one checks when you pitch it.
Not ideal!
Topic: Sun Valley 8
