Site price hikes ?

[Jim]

you are right to go to work.

I'd go further and say your country NEEDS you to go to work!

 

[Basildog]

If you can safely work and maintain social distancing while doing so; while not breaking or encouraging others to break the rules of lockdown, and you cant work from home, you are right to go to work.

I understand what you are saying but I personally can’t morally justify anyone having work done on what are basically non essential toys and definitely can’t see the customer being able to justify their trip to have work done on a Motorhome
An emergency gas leak on a full timers van would be a completely different situation ?

 

[John Barrett]

I understand what you are saying but I personally can’t morally justify anyone having work done on what are basically non essential toys and definitely can’t see the customer being able to justify their trip to have work done on a Motorhome ⚠
An emergency gas leak on a full timers van would be a completely different situation ?

The 'moral justification' is in providing an income for the mobile mechanic!
John

 

[robnchris]

I understand what you are saying but I personally can’t morally justify anyone having work done on what are basically non essential toys and definitely can’t see the customer being able to justify their trip to have work done on a Motorhome ⚠
An emergency gas leak on a full timers van would be a completely different situation ?

Personally I don't believe it has anything to do with GREED, if as others have said you can work safely and within the guide lines laid out by the government why would you not carry on working.
Yes there is a world pandemic but life has to go on we all can't just sit at home and wait for the cloud to pass.

 

[Basildog]

The 'moral justification' is in providing an income for the mobile mechanic!
John

I don’t have the mindset that has ever put earning money as something important in life , just as going to school was certainly something that I realised at the age of 4 wasn’t really for me ?
As they say we are all different and see things very differently ?

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[Jim]

and definitely can’t see the customer being able to justify their trip to have work done on a Motorhome

Of course, people cannot travel to have work done.

The advice to the self-employed though is clear as mud. On the face of it, if they can't work from home. they can go to work. But they must abide by the social distancing rules. So can a window cleaner work? Maybe What about a carpet cleaner!? That is obviously a no, A solar panel fitter or a delivery driver? Farmers around me are working 18 hours a day, they are not feeding the nation, nothing essential, just growing rape for a healthy profit.

If someone can work without endangering themselves or others, then they should go to work. We need their taxes.

 

[Basildog]

Of course, people cannot travel to have work done.

The advice to the self-employed though is clear as mud. On the face of it, if they can't work from home. they can go to work. But they must abide by the social distancing rules. So can a window cleaner work? Maybe What about a carpet cleaner!? That is obviously a no, A solar panel fitter or a delivery driver? Farmers around me are working 18 hours a day, they are not feeding the nation, nothing essential, just growing rape for a healthy profit.

If someone can work without endangering themselves or others, then they should go to work. We need their taxes.

I was actually talking about the leisure vehicle trade certainly not essential
work like farming etc ??

 

[eddie]

Don’t suppose you have any links to these on line discussions?

 

[Jim]

I was actually talking about the leisure vehicle trade certainly not essential
work like farming etc ⚠??

I mentioned leisure, and rape seed is hardly essential, but they are working on their own with good social distancing. So nothing wrong with that.

 

[Coolcats]

I understand what you are saying but I personally can’t morally justify anyone having work done on what are basically non essential toys and definitely can’t see the customer being able to justify their trip to have work done on a Motorhome ⚠
An emergency gas leak on a full timers van would be a completely different situation ?

As long as an individual can keep both themselves and others safe it’s not an issue to work. Which is why many companies are home working. There are however many jobs where this cannot be done safely so unless process can be put in place then no, for those workers then they need to stay at home.

Even when restrictions are lifted social distancing will still need to be maintained or the chances this will all flare up again.

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[Coolcats]

Don’t suppose you have any links to these on line discussions?

My window cleaner asked permission to clean my windows I’m indoors he is outside, he brings his own water uses a lance with a brush etc. Once the finished I went outside and disinfected any touch points such as the rear gate.

 

[John Barrett]

I just love the use of the word GREED to justify moral standpoints. A home, food, clothes, education and transport for one's family would be my priorities, and the moral people can go to heaven or wherever they deserve to go!
Incidentally, when I was a Main Board director of an eight million pound turnover family owned company, the employees' welfare was pretty high on our list of priorities...

 

[Coolcats]

'When' this is all over and we're allowed out, what's the bet that sites will be charging higher rates

If it means campsites stay in business then so what. We all need to pay our bills and go shopping. If prices are raised local and business tax along with employees are paid then happy days.

 

[PaddyM]

I’m negotiating with my usual hab check provider a mobile service ( my van is in storage ) . The tech will arrive to an open van ( I will remain in my car ) job will be done , tech will leave . I will lock up van . I cannot see any danger Covid wise to this .

 

[Brains]

Why double spacing?
At the peak we are asked to stay two meters apart, our pitches are ten metres apart.

Eddie

Yours may be 10m apart, but on other sites they are a lot closer.
My guess is a simple 'catch all' edict will go out.
However many pitches you had before, now you have half.

(With a minimum of X meters between each one, including ensuring no back to back pitches)

That is presuming that camp sites will be allowed to open at commercial levels this summer at all!

I suspect the big 'resort' sites with the pool and the games area and the restaurant etc will not be opening at all this summer, too many people in one place.

Remember the person making the policy in Whitehall is probably someone who has either never camped in his life, or the last time was with the Scouts, but he knows all about campsites as there is one near his holiday home in Dorset and he has walked his dog past it on many occasions.

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[busbuddy]

This sort of post always makes me chuckle, I will admit I am the first to look at a pic from Europe looking over a gorgeous lake and I used to truck all over Europe and it was great but,,,,
I have friends who spend more on a ferry to Spain than I do on uk sites each year BUT don't say it's cheap
Once you are there the cost of living is cheaper but the cost of getting there is more than some people spend on sites in a year

Europe is great and I have stalked........I mean followed lenny HB's euro exploits since I joined this forum

I always find these sort of posts funny, when I first joined fun I found the European trip posts informative, I'm an ex euro long haul trucker, but the whole 'euro is cheaper' preaching just makes me chuckle
Now let me state that I love the stories/pics that lenny HB puts on here .......there are others but not as eloquent as lenny, but to always to be told europe is cheaper is nonsense

To get to europe by ferry/train whatever is the equivalent of some peoples whole years camping cost
I have friends who go to spain every year in their van and it's a £1000 on the boat, a lot of people don't spend that in a year away so how is that cheaper
Lenny.....

Don't know why my post is doubled up and paragraphs missing??? I blame my new smartphone.
It also reads as if I'm having a go at lennyhb and that was not my intention when I typed ?

 

[John Barrett]

Eddie

Yours may be 10m apart, but on other sites they are a lot closer.
My guess is a simple 'catch all' edict will go out.
However many pitches you had before, now you have half.

(With a minimum of X meters between each one, including ensuring no back to back pitches)

That is presuming that camp sites will be allowed to open at commercial levels this summer at all!

I suspect the big 'resort' sites with the pool and the games area and the restaurant etc will not be opening at all this summer, too many people in one place.

Remember the person making the policy in Whitehall is probably someone who has either never camped in his life, or the last time was with the Scouts, but he knows all about campsites as there is one near his holiday home in Dorset and he has walked his dog past it on many occasions.

Then it is quite possible that he/she will have an objective view, unlike most of us on here!
John

 

[Ian.s]

Eddie

Yours may be 10m apart, but on other sites they are a lot closer.
My guess is a simple 'catch all' edict will go out.
However many pitches you had before, now you have half.

(With a minimum of X meters between each one, including ensuring no back to back pitches)

That is presuming that camp sites will be allowed to open at commercial levels this summer at all!

I suspect the big 'resort' sites with the pool and the games area and the restaurant etc will not be opening at all this summer, too many people in one place.

Remember the person making the policy in Whitehall is probably someone who has either never camped in his life, or the last time was with the Scouts, but he knows all about campsites as there is one near his holiday home in Dorset and he has walked his dog past it on many occasions.

Correct to a degree, the government will be and is taking advice from bodies such as the BH&HPA, they are doing a great job in keeping us (park owners) informed and also provided information to be passed onto our local MP. There is an awful lot going on in the background

 

[ctc]

This sort of post always makes me chuckle, I will admit I am the first to look at a pic from Europe looking over a gorgeous lake and I used to truck all over Europe and it was great but,,,,
I have friends who spend more on a ferry to Spain than I do on uk sites each year BUT don't say it's cheap
Once you are there the cost of living is cheaper but the cost of getting there is more than some people spend on sites in a year

Europe is great and I have stalked........I mean followed lenny HB's euro exploits since I joined this forum

I always find these sort of posts funny, when I first joined fun I found the European trip posts informative, I'm an ex euro long haul trucker, but the whole 'euro is cheaper' preaching just makes me chuckle
Now let me state that I love the stories/pics that lenny HB puts on here .......there are others but not as eloquent as lenny, but to always to be told europe is cheaper is nonsense

To get to europe by ferry/train whatever is the equivalent of some peoples whole years camping cost
I have friends who go to spain every year in their van and it's a £1000 on the boat, a lot of people don't spend that in a year away so how is that cheaper
Lenny.....

The Aires are free, no charge, I never stay on site that cost more than12 euros, if you can find any sites costing less in the UK I'm sure lots would like to know. As for the cost of getting there an back, it is less than five days on a UK site.