New Forest campsites: Rent deferral offer to reopen

[Molly A]

Just so I am clear, are you saying that locals becoming members of local committees and councils to champion local opinion is wrong?

Yes, how very dare we?!!!

 

[Rosemary1]

I can't remember whether it was the first time or the second time we went to Setthorns.....there was a woman and two young kids in VW camper behind us checking in but her unit didn't have a bathroom and she was actually quite nasty to the wardens who were trying their best to find some way to help her. They offered to hire her a portaloo ("Do you have an awning to put it in?" "No!"), they offered to phone one of the other campsites with facilities and have her reservation transferred there (apparently that wasn't acceptable because her husband would be joining them later and he had no way of contacting him to tell him they'd be on a different campsite (really???). The poor wardens couldn't win no matter what they suggested.....apparently it was their fault that she and her husband had booked a campsite where they needed their own loo "no-one told us we needed our own facilities"

I'm really disappointed the CITF sites won't be opening this year and I think that overall the C&CC haven't handled the Covid situation very well (wasn't it the C&CC that basically chucked everyone off the campsites and didn't care whether they had somewhere to go?). We're only members because of their virtual monopoly on the New Forest sites, otherwise I'd not bother renewing our membership.

Yes we were on a CC&C site when lockdown happened and were told to leave immediately. More or less begged the wardens to be allowed to stay for up to a week to enable us to sort local family and ourselves out which they agreed to (which I believe from listening to their phone calls to Head Office they actually stuck ther necks out for us and not sure if they got official permission).

CC&C didn’t seem to treat their wardens very well, one mentioned he had just moved onto the site and was told that his summer contract was cancelled and the other couple were worried that they were not going to get paid, and by the time we left they seem to have disappeared too.