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Have you ever done this? You want to arrive at a site so that you can have a choice of pitches. So you set off early so you can arrive when you are supposed to.You are nearly there, glance at your watch and realise you are going to be much too early so you pull into a layby and while away the time.Then you arrive at a site dead on time, when you should do and find that the wardens have been letting in caravans for the past hour or so.We did this at weekend as we wanted to be near the doggy walk as our little doggy wasn't too well.(upset tum). We arrived dead on time, after loitering on the way,and were told most of the top pitches(near doggy walk) had been taken earlier.They had been letting caravans on over an hour early.Do we all have to ring the wardens of the site before we set off to see if we can go on early? We did this once and were told rather abruptly that the arrival time was stated clearly  in the book.Haven't done it since. Anyway if any of you are going to Bridlington don't go by the arrival time in the book if you want a choice of pitches.

Bridlington is a beautiful site, friendly, helpful wardens, big pitches and a fantastic doggy walk.

I'm with you all on this one too - we always time our journey so that we don't arrive before 12 only to find others have obviously come in earlier. Also whilst on site, seeing people come in early!

If a 12 o'clock rule for arrivals is stated then it should be adhered to by all sites and the sites that do stick to it shouldn't be labelled 'jobs worth' - they have jobs to do during the morning before allowing new arrivals onto site. 

Many people obviously think that they do not have to obey rules. Its beyond me why they think this!

We find the midday arrival can be frustrating as we will often go to a site about 50 miles from home which means we are hanging around delaying our departure. However the rules are there for a purpose because at busy times you can't have people arriving as other are departing. There will be days when that is not the case. We all know what the rules are so members and wardens should apply them. I think it a bit disingenuous to call a warden a 'jobsworth' when they are applying those rules. There may be good reasons why they apply the rules to the letter. If it were to get around that the rule is ignored on certain sites I would bet that people would start chancing their arm by deliberately arriving early. I suspect its a no win situation for all concerned.

David

Quote: Originally posted by Lassie on 08/8/2012

I'm with you all on this one too - we always time our journey so that we don't arrive before 12 only to find others have obviously come in earlier. Also whilst on site, seeing people come in early!

If a 12 o'clock rule for arrivals is stated then it should be adhered to by all sites and the sites that do stick to it shouldn't be labelled 'jobs worth' - they have jobs to do during the morning before allowing new arrivals onto site. 

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Quote: Originally posted by Janx on 09/8/2012

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Quote: Originally posted by Lassie on 08/8/2012

I'm with you all on this one too - we always time our journey so that we don't arrive before 12 only to find others have obviously come in earlier. Also whilst on site, seeing people come in early!

If a 12 o'clock rule for arrivals is stated then it should be adhered to by all sites and the sites that do stick to it shouldn't be labelled 'jobs worth' - they have jobs to do during the morning before allowing new arrivals onto site. 

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I also think it should be adhered to too so that it's fair to everyone....if it's 12 oclock rule then 12 oclock it should be for everyone. .......it's an age old problem you would think they would have had it sorted by now........

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How do you suggest 'they' sort it?

If they let people on early they get critisised and if they make people wait until noon thay are labelled as 'jobsworths'.

Like Dvaid says, it's a no win situation for the wardens.