Beginner's Guide to Motorhome Etiquette

Our dog would never go in the garden and would only go on the grass verge as close to the road as possible.
 
Ginam said:
Can someone please explain to me how I can stop my dog from doing a poo in areas where people will be walking etc. I always pick up of course I do but when they want to go you can't stop them or can you? I suppose I could tie one of the dogs to a tree and then stand with a bag at my dogs a"""e and catch it as it falls or carry wet wipes and wipe the ground after :unsure: :giggle:

Gina
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Carry it to the dog walking area, then only other dog owners will be effected! :LOL:
 
Jim another thing missed was, closing ones grey water tap when leaving a site or travelling.

Leaving a site with waste water pouring out is dis-respectful of the site owners/workers and the people parked near the roadside.
(We would complain if ones next door camper poured their washing up water down by the side of ones van. What's the difference?)

While travelling, who wants ones nice clean & polished M/H, or car, sprayed with waste water while travelling behind?
It's also dangerous to motorcyclists etc.

Both these thing do not show Motorhomers in a good light to the general car owning public.
 
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Widge said:
Not motorhoming, but when I was younger and camped a lot, i would arrive at a site and pitch my tent at the furthest point from all the other tents, go for a meal at the local pub, come back, and there would be a second tent pitched so close you had to step over guy ropes to pass between them. Why!!!!
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Happens with motorhomes too. Recently at a very large campsite that was only 1/4 full. I found a pitch that was well away from all the others. A couple of hours later, 4 other units pitched either side of me and beyond them - nothing! Not really complaining but I couldn't help but think - why?
 
Also, why oh why does someone have to use the shower right next to me when there are twenty other cubicles :rolleyes:

Gina.

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Ginam said:
Also, why oh why does someone have to use the shower right next to me when there are twenty other cubicles :rolleyes:

Gina.
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Just be thankful that it's only another woman using it....or is it?
 
steve69 said:
Happens with motorhomes too. Recently at a very large campsite that was only 1/4 full. I found a pitch that was well away from all the others. A couple of hours later, 4 other units pitched either side of me and beyond them - nothing! Not really complaining but I couldn't help but think - why?
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Because they want to be your new friends. After all, a stranger is just a motorhomer I haven't made friends with yet.

:sicker:
 
L' Hobo said:
Jim another thing missed was, closing ones grey water tap when leaving a site or travelling.

Leaving a site with waste water pouring out is dis-respectful of the site owners/workers and the people parked near the roadside.
(We would complain if ones next door camper poured their washing up water down by the side of ones van. What's the difference?)

While travelling, who wants ones nice clean & polished M/H, or car, sprayed with waste water while travelling behind?
It's also dangerous to motorcyclists etc.

Both these thing do not show Motorhomers in a good light to the general car owning public.
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During this years drought I was actually asked by a couple of campsite wardens to leave the grey waste tap open to try and get some water to the nearby vegetation (as long as it was only soapy water).
 
Ginam said:
Also, why oh why does someone have to use the shower right next to me when there are twenty other cubicles :rolleyes:

Gina.
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Not me. I always use the shower closest to the hot water pipes. That way you nick it all and Gina at the other end gets that sudden cold deluge.
 
DDJC said:
Because they want to be your new friends. After all, a stranger is just a motorhomer I haven't made friends with yet.

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Nice to think that way but they didn't exactly introduce themselves. Just seemed ever-so-slightly creepy.

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steve69 said:
During this years drought I was actually asked by a couple of campsite wardens to leave the grey waste tap open to try and get some water to the nearby vegetation (as long as it was only soapy water).
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I have no problem with this (A) because it is on ones own pitch and (B) you know what is going down your plughole.
It's when, leaving a site, behind a number of M/H's, there is a small, smelly, stream of water along the roadway.

Bad enough if your in a M/H sited near that roadway but spare a thought to someone in a tent that may be pitched there in the near future?
 
On the Norwich c&cc site yesterday someone had emptied their grey water down a rainwater grid. I mentioned it to the assistant warden who I was talking to anyway. He said he was pretty sure who did it. May just be ignorance. I did it myself many years ago at home, there was a grid right next to where I parked my motorhome. I regretted it later as the stink in a hot summer was not good.
 
Are some of the problems encountered, got something to do with camp site designs. Making it easier to offend. Most Good sites I find abroad have individual pitches with hedges between giving privacy. No dogs to foul a pitch, no one walking past your door or when sitting outside.

Those without have no privacy whatsoever, this I think is where the problems arise. Club sites here are all open and therefore susceptible to all kind of obnoxious behaviour from others. I remember one time a woman walking through our sun awning when we were sitting outside on an open pitch site as a short cut to some steps to a lower level. This was in Greece not the UK. I did object and she never did it again but walked a little further to get to the same place.
 
Ever been in a empty car park and the Dutch turn up and park skin to skin
Bill
 
Sorry but I disagree on the waving, it's weird and I'm not doing it, get over it.
Especially across 4 lanes of traffic and a central reservation at 60-70mph. Weird and distracting.
Call me grumpy if you like but I'll happy say hello on site.
If I was in the middle of nowhere and it was unusual to see another motorhome/pvc then fine I would probably wave, but context is everything otherwise it is weird.(imo)...(and my wife's) :winky:

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nickq said:
Sorry but I disagree on the waving, it's weird and I'm not doing it, get over it.
Especially across 4 lanes of traffic and a central reservation at 60-70mph. Weird and distracting.
Call me grumpy if you like but I'll happy say hello on site.
If I was in the middle of nowhere and it was unusual to see another motorhome/pvc then fine I would probably wave, but context is everything otherwise it is weird.(imo)...(and my wife's) :winky:
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Absolutely agree, I never wave on a motorway. Pretty stupid to take concentration off driving i that situation. Otherwise I am a waver on slower roads or stuck in traffic.
 
Kannon Fodda said:
Would someone explain the finer points of etiquette to the New Forest ponies and donkeys that don't respect pitch boundaries, that braying (equivalent if the loud good morning greeting) at 6:30am, and of course having a dump next to your van isn't good form ::bigsmile:
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Im training them to back up so they can get it on the extended step :moon2:
 
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CumbriaPaul said:
If you pass me and I don't wave, please bear in mind that I use hand controls to drive so I either have to take my hand off the steering wheel or off the accelerator and brake to do so, not sensible with our size bus. My partner will though, and as it's LHD you'll probably think it was the driver!
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Is this Paul from Woodend holiday cottages?

You used to store your motorhome on the garage site I bought in Eskdale, small world eh!

That’s if it is you🤔😂
 

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