Pitch etiquette

Gromett said:
This is why I only ever used CL's...

But I have had to stay on a campsite now and again. One springs to mind that was excellent.
Each pitch had a section of gravel to park on and a section of grass. Each pitch was surround on 3 sides by a small 2-3 foot high hawthorn hedge.
Each pitch had a grey waste drain, a fresh water tap and an electric hook up.

I thought it was brilliantly laid out and solved so many issues.
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Ah, France or Spain then!
 
Miggs said:
Unfortunately the lumpenproletariat moved into caravans and motorhomes at the start of Covid and consideration for others is very often the least of peoples concerns. (Sounds a bit snobbish but can't argue with reality)
Do yourself a favour and avoid club sites and choose CL's & CS's.
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Definitely agree on that one.
 
It’s so refreshing to read that there are many others like me and the wife who get so fed up with the lazy, selfish sods who seem to think they can go anywhere they want at any time of the day/night. It’s a pity though that more people don’t say something to them, if you’re the only one who does they then consider YOU to be the culprit! Maybe we should follow them back to their pitches and take a walk around, see how they like it?
We’ve been caravanning and motorhoming for almost 40 years and it’s got worse as the years go by. I might add, it’s just as bad in European sites too.

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dazandandrea said:
It always really pisses me off when people walk right past our van as a short cut to the bogs and showers.
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I try to avoid pitches that are on possible shortcuts, preferably around the edges of site, which annoys Swmbo as she likes the van pointing north so that sun on hab side.
Gromett said:
This is why I only ever used CL's...

But I have had to stay on a campsite now and again. One springs to mind that was excellent.
Each pitch had a section of gravel to park on and a section of grass. Each pitch was surround on 3 sides by a small 2-3 foot high hawthorn hedge.
Each pitch had a grey waste drain, a fresh water tap and an electric hook up.

I thought it was brilliantly laid out and solved so many issues.
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Which one was that.?
A S R said:
Well my pitch etiquette went a little when I yelled at a couple last weekend! :giggle: My exact words were “ if you don’t shut that f#cking dog up I’ll come over there and stamp on its f#cking head”! The bastard thing never shut up for at least an hour until my “advice”. Bark bark bark bark yap yap yap yap bark bark bark yap yap yap!:mad: They said they’d report me to the warden, I replied carry on then and we will see who gets thrown off first! Shall I go and get them for you? They didn’t and strangely the dog was a lot quieter after that.:giggle: I did get a round of applause from other pitch occupants who had obviously also had enough of its non stop noise!
Just to clarify I obviously wouldn’t have stamped on it but was trying to get my point across to the ignorant owners.
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Stamp on the owners head instead.
 
It’s one of the reasons, like yourself that for 40 years we’ve caravanned and Motorhomed 95% of the time on CLs.
 
uzsnowdrop said:
Ah, France or Spain then!
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Currently enjoying breakfast in a nice municipal site on the French coast. Etiquette good. Children are being seen and not heard.

Previous sites in more touristy areas not so good. Cutting across the pitch seemed to be the norm. Children running around and riding cycles (pitch limits not observed) until all hours. These are mainly Dutch and German.

So far hardly any UK campers about and generally old gits like me.

After over 40 years of tent camping, usually with a motorcycle, I, like many other prols, joined this superior elitist band of motorhome owners.

When am I able to look down on the "lumpenproletariat"? Is there a timescale?
 
This post and replies has really triggered me, I seem to get wound up on sites by other peoples behaviour. Groups, I hate groups of families who park near me and seem to walk across our pitch to see their friends, then sit out all morning talking loudly over coffee, then all afternoon over tea, followed by a BBQ until who knows when. And I hate people who park their big cars so its not really on their pitch but on the road making getting our motorhome off our pitch opposite them difficult. It drives me to drink !!! Happy to be grumpy !!!
 
A S R said:
Well my pitch etiquette went a little when I yelled at a couple last weekend! :giggle: My exact words were “ if you don’t shut that f#cking dog up I’ll come over there and stamp on its f#cking head”! The bastard thing never shut up for at least an hour until my “advice”. Bark bark bark bark yap yap yap yap bark bark bark yap yap yap!:mad: They said they’d report me to the warden, I replied carry on then and we will see who gets thrown off first! Shall I go and get them for you? They didn’t and strangely the dog was a lot quieter after that.:giggle: I did get a round of applause from other pitch occupants who had obviously also had enough of its non stop noise!
Just to clarify I obviously wouldn’t have stamped on it but was trying to get my point across to the ignorant owners.
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I'd have like that post better if you threatened to stamp on the blokes head, after all its his fault!
 
Electric fence a good idea ! What about a trip wire just as a back up ! Worst I had was when the people on opposite pitch dragged their bull dog over onto our pitch to empty it's bowel on our pitch !
Beggars belief she saw me looking and just shouted sorry ! I mean what's that all about disgusting
 
OutTheOffice said:
This post and replies has really triggered me, I seem to get wound up on sites by other peoples behaviour. Groups, I hate groups of families who park near me and seem to walk across our pitch to see their friends, then sit out all morning talking loudly over coffee, then all afternoon over tea, followed by a BBQ until who knows when. And I hate people who park their big cars so its not really on their pitch but on the road making getting our motorhome off our pitch opposite them difficult. It drives me to drink !!! Happy to be grumpy !!!
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We came back from a walk once and found a car parked right across the front of our pitch and front of our motorhome. We were not moving until the following day so didn’t do anything. Next morning still there! We spoke to the farmer site owner who came and had a look and scratched his head, off he goes and gets his tractor and drags it away - a long way away - didnt return for half an hour to apologise (well, call the car driver a stupid t*at)

We stopped for one night on the way back and asked him what happened and he said that a couple of days later a young happy turned up and said that a family member had said he could park in front of his motorhome and had described it so the chap had decided ours fitted the description and parked up and buggered off for a few days with his girlfriend!

I asked was he mad when he realised his car had gone and the farmer said he probably would be when he found it And walked off smirking!

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Friends of ours, who we were out in Spain with, had 2 GSDs and were on a pitch that backed onto the road where there was a toilet/shower block. People walked through their pitch to get to the facilities and everytime set the dogs off. Didnt matter how many times they were told. In the end someone complained about the dogs barking and as a result the site asked them to move pitch, which entailed moving an air awning and everything else involved in a long term set up.
Just because people are selfish and lazy.
People are like water, always take the path of least resistance.
 
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Not just campers/motorhomers/caravanners. My son just returned from a 10 day break in Santa Ponza (Majorka for those that don't know) and stated that the sun beds were snapped up at the crack of dawn even though signs up to say towels would be behind reception if placed before 8am. Needless to say never enforced. Had one couple "reserved" their sunbeds, complete with brolly and used it from 3 till 4 in the pm. Son "borrowed" the brolly as he has 3 kids and the couple cast snide remarks their way for the hour they were there.
Seems people in general are just uncaring nowadays.
 
TheBig1 said:
The worst of the lot was a guy walking his dog past the back of vans and stood and waited as the dog did a dump one one pitch then took a piss up another awning, then wandered on as if it was normal behaviour
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Let's start with I like dogs, I don't have one as I would not be fair to it, they need plenty of exercise, and not be left alone, in saying that I have asked dog owners not to let dogs per on my hedge , s--t on the grass and said train them to do it on the road gutter, some owners laugh some verbal, as for walking over pitches, peeing and shi---ng over awnings or pitches it the Owners that want training as well
 
We found the same on sites in France. All quiet until Friday afternoon when 25 children turned up with 9 adults, having rented a few of the statics. Turned out to be 2 football teams, adults stayed up most of the night drinking and at 7am Saturday morning, they started getting ready for a tournament by having a kick about, hitting all vans, caravans and cars - adults just shrugged.
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Here's a funny one, not on a site, but a club rally. We were out from the van for a bit and returned to find a couple sat in our chairs outside our van enjoying a drink. Apparently they were thinking of buying new chairs and ours looked comfortable, so they decided a test drive was in order :rofl:

Cheeky buggers, but we all had a good laugh about it
 
TheBig1 said:
Here's a funny one, not on a site, but a club rally. We were out from the van for a bit and returned to find a couple sat in our chairs outside our van enjoying a drink. Apparently they were thinking of buying new chairs and ours looked comfortable, so they decided a test drive was in order :rofl:

Cheeky buggers, but we all had a good laugh about it
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Not your booze too was it?

Couldn't have been, as you were laughing about it. :LOL:
 
Gave up with this last year at Park Dean after we ended up on the first pitch at the entrance to the campsite . Constantly had people walking so close to the front cab area that they were physically brushing up against the van .
I bravely tried to defend our pitch and even deployed the windbreak which was promptly stolen 😄.
I then remembered I was on holiday , stopped being so grumpy and got drunk .

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