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PersonTidburyboy
15/9/2018 at 6:01pm
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We have been camping for quite a while, and it's possible this might have passed me by....but...

How many times have you set up on a site where the layout is Car/Caravan/Awning?

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Personjaiash
15/9/2018 at 6:17pm
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Caravan Club Sites are the only places I've been subjected to that set up.

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PersonHacksaw Bob
15/9/2018 at 8:59pm
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Only once that I can recall (on a C&CC THS) but I've done very little caravanning, and most of that didn't involve using an awning!

Seems to be a convention adopted by both major clubs (and many commercial sites) which I've always considered counter-intuitive and downright inconvenient.


Personuniblue
15/9/2018 at 10:10pm
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Both of my last two sites have been car,caravan,awning.
One site was in Somerset and the other one in Lincolnshire. Personally I do not have a problem with this set up.uniblue


PersonPixie_Hez
15/9/2018 at 10:31pm
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Almost always on caravan club sites with the exception of those with narrow pitches which make you do caravan and awning side by side and car across the front.

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PersonOctavia4x4
16/9/2018 at 8:30am
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No problem which ever way I an told to pitch, always plenty of room on THS's, caravan ,awning, car.



If you fit into the marked pitch area, car at the back does, why block the views?




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PersonLlaniDavis
16/9/2018 at 3:02pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Hacksaw Bob on 15/9/2018
Seems to be a convention adopted by both major clubs (and many commercial sites) which I've always considered counter-intuitive and downright inconvenient.


One of the reasons is that is a lot easy to get a car moved, making a gap between awning and next caravan if there is a fire.


PersonTidburyboy
16/9/2018 at 5:46pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Octavia4x4 on 16/9/2018
No problem which ever way I an told to pitch, always plenty of room on THS's, caravan ,awning, car.

If you fit into the marked pitch area, car at the back does, why block the views?




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PersonTidburyboy
16/9/2018 at 5:50pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Hacksaw Bob on 15/9/2018
Only once that I can recall (on a C&CC THS) but I've done very little caravanning, and most of that didn't involve using an awning!

Seems to be a convention adopted by both major clubs (and many commercial sites) which I've always considered counter-intuitive and downright inconvenient.


I thought it was a bit odd too. So far, we have always pitched: Caravan/Awning/Car


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PersonTidburyboy
16/9/2018 at 6:00pm
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Quote: Originally posted by LlaniDavis on 16/9/2018

One of the reasons is that is a lot easy to get a car moved, making a gap between awning and next caravan if there is a fire.


That makes no sense. You'd still have the same gap with a car being moved from either side (or am I being a bit thick here )


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PersonColin21
16/9/2018 at 6:03pm
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I have been on sites where this was the norm, and on others where the norm was car/awning/caravan. Personally I am not bothered either way. I have also been on sites where I have been able to pitch however I wanted, which I prefer.

I don't like regimented sites with caravans all in neat rows side by side anyway, and avoid them if at all possible. I much prefer sites like the C&CC ones at Hertford and Sandringham, where the pitches are random and at all angles, or CSs where you are just told to pitch "somewhere over there". I went on such a CS last year, and was told "pitch wherever you like as long as your EHU lead reaches. That's the sort of site I like.

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PersonHacksaw Bob
16/9/2018 at 6:20pm
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Quote: Originally posted by LlaniDavis on 16/9/2018
Quote: Originally posted by Hacksaw Bob on 15/9/2018
Seems to be a convention adopted by both major clubs (and many commercial sites) which I've always considered counter-intuitive and downright inconvenient.


One of the reasons is that is a lot easy to get a car moved, making a gap between awning and next caravan if there is a fire.




Sorry, Llani, I'm not convinced!

Surely if a car needs moving because of fire or whatever, it would be quicker to reach it from the caravan if the driver's door were three metres from the door of one's awning rather than on the opposite side of the 'van, as well as reducing the potential risk of injury from hitch or towball?


Personvodkachaser
23/9/2018 at 2:41pm
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Love these sorts of discussions. Still looking for my first van and I’d not even dreamt this would be an issue. Brilliant ......


PersonColin21
23/9/2018 at 4:52pm
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Well we've just got back from a lovely small site in Oxfordshire, called Diamond Farm. We were told on arrival what pitch number we were allocated but nothing about how we should pitch. As it happened we had already decided not to bother with an awning as it was only for 3 nights, but looking around at the few others that were there, they seemed to be pitched all ways. Just how we like it.

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PersonSamP
08/10/2018 at 1:13am
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When it's Gale Force 8 or above, put the car upwind of the van & awning - hang the rulles!

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Personcheckley1973
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We’ve nearly always been car caravan awning. No idea what difference it makes other than it helps the site make their book of rules that little bit longer and we know they are all in competition with each other to have the longest set.



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