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06/5/2015 at 4:29pm
Location: Argyll Scotland Outfit: 1997 Bailey Ranger 470 4
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When we had an FC, it took so long to pack it up in the mornings that by the time we were driving off the site at noon, there were queues of caravans and motorhomes outside the gates waiting to get onto the site.
This being the case I guess that most arrivals come in before 5pm and it is only the odd van that arrives after that and so it is not worth their while manning reception after 5pm.
------------- Lobey.
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06/5/2015 at 4:33pm
Location: None Entered Outfit: None Entered
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As bill above if you have booked and know your pitch Number
there should be no problem.
Even if staff where there late you would still have to get on with it
you dont say in your post what you want them to do.
------------- alpiner
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07/5/2015 at 9:28am
Location: TEESSIDE Outfit: SWIFT FAIRWAY 530
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A lot of the club sites we use have reception open until 8.00pm or later, if arriving late you can inform them. Independent sites vary with some being staffed until much later in the evening, if you are told your pitch number, as others have stated, then you can proceed with your unit and set up without any assistance or a guide to show you around, all the facilities are usually close by, failing that your friendly neighbour will advise (hopefully).
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07/5/2015 at 8:16pm
Location: Outfit:
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Campsites don't employ shift workers...they all have families to go home to at the end of a very long day.
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07/5/2015 at 9:20pm
Location: Langport Somerset Outfit: park owner PLUS Swift Conqueror
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I think it depends on the site - family owned parks often keep reception times more flexible, but the clubs normally have set times. The big sites usually have someone around or information on what/where to go.
------------- Ang
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07/5/2015 at 10:30pm
Location: West Wales Outfit: Pili Pala Pod
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This varies from site to site surely?
We are open 24/7 technically we tend to ask customers eta and work around that, but we're a small site with just myself n husband owning and running it..
------------- If you can't beat em, join em, so we did! And then we sold it for a holiday let & Glamping pod instead 😁
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07/5/2015 at 11:18pm
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Would you be happy if site fees were increased to pay for staff to work longer hours?
------------- Bernie
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08/5/2015 at 12:51am
Location: Argyll Scotland Outfit: 1997 Bailey Ranger 470 4
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There is a remarkably easy answer to melrebnat's problem.
Hubby gets a job where he finishes work at lunchtime on a Friday and gives his family ample time to arrive on any site while the reception is still open.
That way only one person his to change his working practise rather than all the people that work in the receptions of all the sites they may wish to stay on.
Most of the sites we stay on have their own peculiar "down-sides", but these add to the variety that make up UK Caravanning. If they all worked to the same rules and standards, caravanning would be a very dull hobby.
------------- Lobey.
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08/5/2015 at 9:07am
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I would rather be left alone to get on with the job, if you are capable of unhitching and setting up yourself why do you need someone else.
You can either make mistakes or forget to do things such as tighten the jockey wheel when you are chatting away about your journey or the weather.
If we have arrived on a site when the staff are not available there is usually instructions what to do and sort everything out in the morning.
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08/5/2015 at 10:02am
Location: Luton (no jokes plea Outfit: Coachman and Hyundai
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What's reception? we mostly use CLs/CSs, sometimes the owners are all over you when you arrive (which we find irritating), sometimes you never see them and have to go looking to pay or ask any questions. Something in between the two is best for us.
Anne
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08/5/2015 at 10:51am
Location: Ayrshire Outfit: Auto2DSleeper+MHs
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If the site is run by managers / employees who don't live on site - 5 pm is reasonable, please put up a sign to say which pitches are free (if we're arriving unbooked as usual) or where our pitch is (if we have phoned ahead). But if they go at 5, then I'd expect the shop or office to be open the full working day. If the site is run by a manager who lives on site - most come to the door of the house / caravan if the office is closed, say "pay tomorrow" after discussing where to pitch, what the toilet code is etc. C&CC stay open to 8 pm, but the office / shop is shut during the day and there are 2 couples on a rota at busy C&CC sites. If the site is run by the owners (CLs, CSs and smaller independant sites) who will live on or near the site - we using common sense and courtesy as a guide: I'd never turn up at a friend's house too late unless something had happened and in that case I'd phone up to alert them. I have had a suspicion at some sites that a few folk turn up late and leave early - i.e. they don't pay, the owner doesn't know they were there.
------------- 2025=3 sites, 5 nights; 2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.
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