DBK
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I know not many use the booking service you can get with Camping-Car Parks (CCP) not least because it costs getting on for €30 a year to be able to use the service. But we've used it occasionally and did at the start of this trip to make sure we could get on the aire at Cléder near Roscoff after arriving on the overnight ferry from Plymouth. The reason for making the booking is this is a popular aire at times and is sometimes full.
So what's this Thread about? The issue is when you book a CCP aire using their app the booking is shown as starting at 12:00 on the first day and ending at 12:00 on the last day. So what happens if you arrive before 12:00?
I had thought that your stay would simply start at your actual arrival time which of course means you must leave before the same time on your last day.
This is not what happened. We arrived at 10:00 on the first day and left on the last day just before 10:00. As you have to pay in advance when making a booking I assumed there would be no additional charge on my account but there was a charge made for €6.
Looking in the app at the list of stays revealed the €6 was the 5 hour stay charge. With CCP you can visit an aire for up to five hours and be charged a lower rate. Once you stay over 5 hours you are then charged the 24 hour rate.
What they did was was charge us at the 5 hour rate for the two hours between our arrival time at 10:00 and the start of the booking at 12:00.
This is not a complaint but I think it is worth knowing if you do make a CCP booking and arrive before 12:00 then expect to be charged at the 5 hour rate for the aire.
So what's this Thread about? The issue is when you book a CCP aire using their app the booking is shown as starting at 12:00 on the first day and ending at 12:00 on the last day. So what happens if you arrive before 12:00?
I had thought that your stay would simply start at your actual arrival time which of course means you must leave before the same time on your last day.
This is not what happened. We arrived at 10:00 on the first day and left on the last day just before 10:00. As you have to pay in advance when making a booking I assumed there would be no additional charge on my account but there was a charge made for €6.
Looking in the app at the list of stays revealed the €6 was the 5 hour stay charge. With CCP you can visit an aire for up to five hours and be charged a lower rate. Once you stay over 5 hours you are then charged the 24 hour rate.
What they did was was charge us at the 5 hour rate for the two hours between our arrival time at 10:00 and the start of the booking at 12:00.
This is not a complaint but I think it is worth knowing if you do make a CCP booking and arrive before 12:00 then expect to be charged at the 5 hour rate for the aire.