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Hi there - I'm currently planning our camping trips for next year. We have an Outwell Montana 6 tent and I was shocked to see one of the campsites we were planning to visit considers this to be a large tent and will charge us an additional £2.50 per night on top of the £20 it's already charging for a standard pitch with EHU. This will make it more expensive than taking a caravan on the site! We are relatively novice campers having only been a few times but I think this is a total rip off - am I being tight or is this how things are and I just have to live with it?!

Stay somewhere else that is not so expensive if that is the case.  Only you can justify what you wish to spend on site fees.

Cheers  Ratty

last months c&cc magazine states that a montana 6 will not be acceoted on a standard pitch if you erect the enclosed side porch, as this makes it too wide, this is a load of tosh, especially as the club had one of these tents on long term test.

the porch aparently makes the tent above 4.1 metres wide.

i wonder if the wardens enquire how wide your caravan awning is before you pitch, i cirtainly have not been asked this, when taking the caravan.

now,, my own montana 6 is a 2005 model and has'nt got the enclosed porch. so i should be ok, presumably!!

stu

Bordercaz - you've got my point exactly. Despite Scarletsfan's comments, I really dont think our tent is that big. In fact, when we have been away, our tent is usually one of the smaller ones! I didn't know about the new "porch" rule either (we have one) which is incredibly useful for dumping wet wellies etc.

Oh well, looks like we are going to have to put up and shut up.

At this rate, it's not going to be much more expensive to check into a travelodge for a few nights!

Site I've just been to classes anything over a 2 man tent as a large tent! Took the venure 600 which is 5m x 3m. Paid £17 p/n with electric and was pleased with that as the facilities were good.

I don't mind paying extra for a large tent if I get a larger pitch, but when I have done that we've been shown to an ordinary pitch, I told the warden and he found us a very large pitch which we were very happy with.

C&CC pitches are 11m wide, 6m of this is the fire gap which means that if your tent is over 5m wide it is too big to fit onto a standard pitch.

If your tent is larger than the std pitch and you encroch into another pitch why should you not pay extra? The tent manufacturers make these tents and sell them at cheaper prices and don't tell unsuspecting campers that they will have difficulty getting a pitch with them and paying additional costs. I have been on sites where they charge an additional pitch fee for larger tents which is fair enough but it actually deprives another family of a holiday in some cases if larger tents are taking up 2 pitches during busy periods.

From a business point of view it is better to sell a pitch to another family as this will be a higher prices that the £2.50 additional cost that you had to pay, that is not mentioning all of the maintenance etc that has already been pointed out earlier on in this thread!

I appreciate your comment about caravans but it is very often the width rather than the length of units which causes problems on sites. Caravans are pretty much a standard width in most cases.

julie-pooley where was that nicola? that sounds like a good price.

It was Pantglas farm in Tavernspite, nr Narbeth not too far away from Tenby.

Very nice owners and I chose there as I'd went on my own with the kids and my outlaws have a van overlooking the park. Built in babtsitters They also gave me a hand putting up the tent.

There's a bar and games room, showers etc and very nice. Ideal for site seeing too