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Agree with Platty they only asked a question, surely it can be answered without all the sarcasium?! I've noticed there's a fair bit of that on here, it can be kinda off putting you know!!

When you phone up to book a pitch, you want the campsite owner to promise to reserve a pitch for you.  The campsite owner wants you to promise to turn up and pay for the pitch.

Some campsites will insist on full payment as a guarantee, but more often campsites will only need a deposit.  If the deposit was refundable there would be absolutely no point in taking it in the first place.

If you don't want to pay, and risk losing, a deposit then you have to take your chance on finding a pitch available at your chosen campsite.

Personally, I don't book ahead so don't pay deposits.  If a site is full, I will just keep trying until I find one that isn't.

I would say that losing a deposit if you don't turn up is the norm, not just on campsites, but everywhere.

Quote: Originally posted by hikamper on 07/7/2008

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i didnt expect to get into an argument about the deposit-i only wanted to know if that is the norm,and if so no problem.however i have spoken to a friend of mine who paid £63 for 3 nights with ehu on a camp site last year and had to cancel because his son was ill.he was told he had to forfeit all the money paid.surely this is not the norm and is unfair.have we the right to only pay a deposit and not the full amount when booking

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