Right or wrong ?

[Barriesimpson]

Not on wet grass with a front wheel drive vehicle as some Funsters have found out.

In reverse, all the weight is thrown over the front drive wheels + it's easier to hook a chain over a rear towball instead of trying to find the towing eye and fitting it!

We've no wet grass here....

 

[L' Hobo]

We've no wet grass here....

We've no wet grass here in East Anglia, only a bit of overnight dew + the sun has just started to shine again and it's a Bank Holiday, how good is that?

 

[L' Hobo]

I really don't understand UK sites and their stupid rules.
Any other country you pay for a pitch and park how you like.
You have paid for the space it's up to you how you pitch anyone telling you how to pitch can sod off.

How could you understand, I thought you didn't use UK sites, so how could it effect you?

 

[Jerrywh]

Bit surprised .. never, ever been told which way round to park. Which way round I park is usually to do with where the sun is and/or the slope of the ground.
German built La Strada, RHD with hab door on the left, near side..

 

[delia]

Some CAMC sites, such as York Rowntree Park ( maximum length 8.5m), allocate pitches for those over 7.5m to ensure that there will be a pitch available for you. Many of the pitches are not nearly long enough for our 8+m motorhome so if we arrived late it is likely that the last few short pitches left would result in us blocking the access road. I personally don't have a problem with this policy, it seems to be the most effective solution to the problem.

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[Captain Birdseye]

In the past month we have stayed at two CAMC sites where we have been allocated a pitch rather than being given the option to choose . No problem with that except on both occasions the adjoining pitch has been occupied by vehicles converted on the continent with the habitation door on the right hand side . The first was a Carthago and the second a Giottivan [ I hadn't heard of that make before ] . Both vehicles were right hand drive so I would have expected the habitation door to open kerbside . I know we could have turned our van around but from pitch 49 at Wyatts Covert that would have given us a view of the Elsan disposal point . I realise sites give limited privacy but I really prefer not to have access doors and wind out awnings facing one and other . Is there a reason why a right hand drive van would have not the habitation door kerbside ?

We back our continental motorhome in, or not depending on our mood.

 

[Apacheman]

Pulled into an aire in Spain. German van door on right, space, Spanish van door on left. Both nose in so drove nose in too meaning we were door to door with the Germans rather than the Spanish. After a while the German lady came to sit outside wearing the skimpiest bikini. A bit later the guy came out and offered me a beer. Their English was limited and my German is pretty non existent but it didn’t take long to realise they were into partner swapping and the fact that we’d parked door to door somehow gave them the signal we were too. When it didn’t happen the lady went back into the van and was banging about big style.

 

[Jerrywh]

Pulled into an aire in Spain. German van door on right, space, Spanish van door on left. Both nose in so drove nose in too meaning we were door to door with the Germans rather than the Spanish. After a while the German lady came to sit outside wearing the skimpiest bikini. A bit later the guy came out and offered me a beer. Their English was limited and my German is pretty non existent but it didn’t take long to realise they were into partner swapping and the fact that we’d parked door to door somehow gave them the signal we were too. When it didn’t happen the lady went back into the van and was banging about big style.

But, when in Rome ...

 

[roxburd]

Some sites (not CMC) specify that you should reverse into your spot... so it's easier to winch you out if you get stuck...
We've sat and watched a winching operation - quite entertaining in a glad-its-not-me kind of way ;-)

 

[Notts Archer]

A few years ago we booked into a Swiss site with a UK number plate so the receptionist ask what side the Hab door was on as all vehicles had reverse in to park. When I told him it was on the left, he immediately put us on a plot with an empty one on our left. Last year we stopped off at the same site again but this time we could park in the allocated plot how we wanted as the site had a mixture of left and right hab doors throughout the site. Nobody appeared to mind.

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[Katie'n'Debbie]

We have a 2009 Adria Twin, our friends have a much newer 2020+ year not sure which year. Both RHD, ours has the door on the right and theirs is on the left. I think we have only been asked once to park a certain way and it suited us as we had great views from our door.

 

[Hymerboy]

On a small site in Torrox last year the owner directed us reverse into the space which meant our hab door was facing a French one, the French woman went ballistic waving her hands about and shouting indicating that I should turn round which would mean I would be facing a wall instead of the sea , I waved back and shouted neither of us actually understood each other but the intention was clear they ended up moving to the other side of us. No way was I moving.

 

[cyberyacht]

You weren’t a Traffic Warden by any chance, were you?

Rule 1: Thou shalt not malign another Funster

We've no wet grass here....

Do you have ANY grass?

 

[B+W vanman]

Rule 1: Thou shalt not malign another Funster

Do you have ANY grass?

Malign?
Complimenting someone on their public service?
How rude!

 

[Barriesimpson]

Rule 1: Thou shalt not malign another Funster

Do you have ANY grass?

The hotels do.

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[vanfan]

I really don't understand UK sites and their stupid rules.
Any other country you pay for a pitch and park how you like.
You have paid for the space it's up to you how you pitch anyone telling you how to pitch can sod off.

Agree
We are in Spain currently and also notice they manage to keep loos and showers open all day and for the most part very clean or spotless.
None of this closed between 10.00-12.00 nonsense!

 

[Alli46]

Been on many many CMC sites and never been allocated a pitch .. except when I had when I had a 36ft USRV and due to size they would advise best pitch..

the club says ...


did you question why you were allocated a pitch .. perhaps the site was full and no other pitches available .. ?


you can pitch nose in or nose or tail in ... but on arrival I always ask

We go allocated a pitch at Battle last year over Easter as it was so busy and there were only a few empty spots.

 

[Scout]

I think the "new rule" on CMC sites is two white posts and you can park any way you want as log as the VAN is between the posts awning either side plus if a tugger car either side. so its not just motorhomes, what do you do thats needs to be so private..?

 

[V and B]

We generally ask site owners/managers before pitching up, but as Motorhomes are becoming more popular, and the majority are continental with the hab door on the right, people will just have to adjust to this, as it becomes more common. It's Impossible to please all of the people all of the time. Live and let live I say.

 

[CAB96]

Our Benimar isn't British built but has the hab door on the LHS

There's a few Euro manufacturers who sell a lot of vans in the UK and make layouts specifically for RHD/UK, Benimar being one.

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[Barriesimpson]

There's a few Euro manufacturers who sell a lot of vans in the UK and make layouts specifically for RHD/UK, Benimar being one.

Well they're Spanish, so they would wouldn't they

 

[Detour]

In the past month we have stayed at two CAMC sites where we have been allocated a pitch rather than being given the option to choose . No problem with that except on both occasions the adjoining pitch has been occupied by vehicles converted on the continent with the habitation door on the right hand side . The first was a Carthago and the second a Giottivan [ I hadn't heard of that make before ] . Both vehicles were right hand drive so I would have expected the habitation door to open kerbside . I know we could have turned our van around but from pitch 49 at Wyatts Covert that would have given us a view of the Elsan disposal point . I realise sites give limited privacy but I really prefer not to have access doors and wind out awnings facing one and other . Is there a reason why a right hand drive van would have not the habitation door kerbside ?

I too have experienced that on a site near Newquay . I was allocated a pitch but when the owner saw my hab door was on the RH side he came over and said I had to move, and put me in a corner with a thick hedge on one side and a block wall down the other. He could see my annoyance but wouldn't change is mind and he said his site was set up for English motorhomes. What's the problem with people facing each other's doors on a site, houses are set up that way, be sociable.

 

[Barryh]

I really don't understand UK sites and their stupid rules.
Any other country you pay for a pitch and park how you like.
You have paid for the space it's up to you how you pitch anyone telling you how to pitch can sod off.

Our “stupid” rules on what you could do were based on many things. One rule was part of our site licence, which was part of planning permission. The site licence stipulated, based on advice from the emergency services, that caravans should be parked towbar facing out for emergency evacuation. No mention of motorhomes so these could park either way. So that’s the rule we imposed. Anyone that didn’t want to accept it, would have politely had their money returned so that they could sod off somewhere else.

 

[StillGoing]

We've no wet grass here....

There would have been if you’d been in Lanzarote……

 

[Tude]

Our Benimar isn't British built but has the hab door on the LHS

That’s because it’s British spec ! Think about it in England if you stop on the roadside your habitation door would be unsafe being on the traffic side

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[Pausim]

That’s because it’s British spec ! Think about it in England if you stop on the roadside your habitation door would be unsafe being on the traffic side

Do you never use your drivers door?

 

[philann]

I think the "new rule" on CMC sites is two white posts and you can park any way you want as log as the VAN is between the posts awning either side plus if a tugger car either side. so its not just motorhomes, what do you do thats needs to be so private..?

If the two white posts were in the centre of the pitch that would be OK, but they are not and have one side larger than the other, the larger side more suitable for awnings, especially on caravans. This keeps all the doors facing the same way. I know lots of motorhomes don’t use awnings, but some of us do, especially when we have the grandkids.
WHat always bugs me is not being able to park on the edge of the pitch and thus having a large amount of space to enjoy how we want.
I guess we are very strange amongst this community in liking being outside, sitting watching what’s going on or reading or drinking. We also very rarely cook or eat inside the van, which is why we always use sites and never aires!

 

[RoamingFree]

That’s because it’s British spec ! Think about it in England if you stop on the roadside your habitation door would be unsafe being on the traffic side

I was replying to a comment that most foreign manufactured MH's have LH hab doors even if they are RHD i.e British spec.

 

[Pausim]

If the two white posts were in the centre of the pitch that would be OK, but they are not and have one side larger than the other, the larger side more suitable for awnings, especially on caravans. This keeps all the doors facing the same way. I know lots of motorhomes don’t use awnings, but some of us do, especially when we have the grandkids.
WHat always bugs me is not being able to park on the edge of the pitch and thus having a large amount of space to enjoy how we want.
I guess we are very strange amongst this community in liking being outside, sitting watching what’s going on or reading or drinking. We also very rarely cook or eat inside the van, which is why we always use sites and never aires!

I believe the white posts are there to keep the minimum distances between vans, which if I am on a CAMC site is something I appreciate. The awning is optional and a matter of personal choice but yes if you want to use one it may force you to park facing in a particular direction.

 

[PaddyM]

How many times a day do you go in and out of your hab door?
I rarely wind my awning out as I seldom sit outside my motorhome on a site, I'm off out exploring the area or taking in some local culture. Always struck me as odd that you'd drive to a site then just sit outside your vehicle

We are surprised at the amount of people who travel to a site and then rarely leave the inside of their van . At Henley last month a couple in a Burstner didn’t ( as far as we could ascertain and they were deffo in there ) leave the inside of there motorhome for the duration of our stay .

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