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Has anyone else ever arrived at a site to have no pitch?

We had booked and paid a desposit at the beginning of June for a caravan pitch with awning and EHU and arrived on Saturday to be offered a gap between two tents (not wide enough for a caravan) with access to electric or a place at the end of a row of caravans (less than 5ft away from the end one) with no electric!

Needless to say our only option was to return home.

I did get a refund but no apologies and the only comment made was 'it is Bank Holiday'.

After 12 years of camping/caravaning this is the first and I hope the last time this has happened.

Certainly will not be booking into Maustin Park again.

Hi Fiona, hows your Avante doing?

It must be some sort of initiation ceremony they carry as we have just returned from our first three weeks in Norfolk in ours, and despite having booked our pitch and paid a deposit several months ago, one CL owner had forgotten about us, and when we arrived on site, we spotted a reserved sign and took it that was ment for us as it was the last pitch left.

How wrong we were, he had booked a total of seven outfits onto a 5 van CL, resulting with us having only about a cars width from our front window onto the side of a Motorhome, and about the same at the rear, as they all crowded around the EHU bollard to use the splitter to give them a shared supply.

The CL itself was lovely, and quite a large well kept area, the problem was that we became a magnet for every unit that arrived over the bank holiday to head to our end of the field. It really needed the pitches to be more defined by number markers, and not just left for units to pick where they pitched, as long as their EHU cable would reach one of their 5 bollards.

Julia

Hi Fiona, appologies for hijacking this thread BTW, we are very please with ours too, we still have our little snagging list to get sorted by the dealer on the 19th Sept, our TV ariel is still not working, the twisted wardrobe door to replace, a vent ducting is off under the oven, and the shower hose has come away from the screw fixing on the handset and needs replacing, but otherwise ok.

Im suprised about your bathroom design problem though, we have a stack unit with shelving at the side of our bathroom sink, next to the round shower cubicle with about 4 compartments going down to the floor, ideal for bottles of toiletries and the spare loo roll, and a tumbler holder to stand toothbrushes in fixed to the side of the rear wardrobe, although its a good job this is plastic, as it does tend to jump out of its holder and into the sink whilst towing.

We are off upto Yorkshire with ours as soon as we get it back from its snagging work being done, then we have a que of grandchildren wanting to garden camp in it with my OH before we put it to bed for winter!

Julia