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Most of our weekends are on meets with C&CC so generally its a case of picking your pitch making sure you keep to the recommended distance from those around you.

If you want to stick with commercial sites I don't see why you can't express your wish to be tucked away somewhere - we use a CS & still have the pitch which we always had with the folding camper, in the tent field. Sometimes people look as if to say "what are you doing there" but they soon realise we're quite friendly & don't bite!!

CL is certified location, CS is certified site. They are normally licensed for a maximum of 5 oufits.

We used one of our vans for a week on a CL, it was in summer so we did not use the lights much, last night I think we did connect it to the car.

We've had two trips of 4 nights/5days using just battery & gas and still had enough power for the motor mover when we got back to storage.  We use just one light at night, the toilet is manual flush, showers are just long enough to do the necessary and we only watch a film on a portable DVD player during the evening. Yes I think the battery is used to ignite the gas for the fridge, cooker & water heater. We had a new battery in the caravan & we take our old one from the camper as backup (mainly to make sure we have power for the motor mover)

A friend has recommended a briefcase solar panel wjich we used at the weekend & that gave us plenty of power to watch a bit of TV too I didn't think it was really necessary to have solar but I noticed loads of people had similar on our last meet & it keeps hubby happy!

Quote: Originally posted by Benski on 26/7/2011

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Sorry to ask but what does CL and CS stand for? I think the battery might last even longer than 3 or 4 days. We could use battery lights. I guess it's just needed for the lights and water pump. Does the fridge need the battery to ignite on gas?

Benski X

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CL is a Caravan Club members only 5 van location.

CS is a Camping and Caravan Club 5-van location + many take tents if they have room.

The rules state you need to show your membership card to use the sites.

Quote: Originally posted by Benski on 26/7/2011

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So is the £9.99 solar briefcase useless then?

I think camping without EHU is the way forward for us. The pitches are much much better. I don't like seeing rows and rows of caravans on top of each other.

Benski X

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