The Caravan and Motorhome Club and Yurts

[Jim]

How many Yurts are turning up on CAMC sites? Is this a trend we members should worry about?

 

[dabhand]

We shall soon see old EV’s with knackered batteries replacing yurts in fields, just part of the evolutionary process

 

[poppycamper]

You can pitch your tent at Brecon Beacons CAMC site if you fancy a trip to Wales Jim


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There are more CAMC sites that take tents than you think..
Without going and getting my book out to check, I know Edinburgh club site takes tents, as do Melrose Gibson Park..
Any others?

 

[Pekepal]

Daleacres Hythe
Brighton

 

[Otter Spotter]

One thing that I have noticed at some CAMC CL when I have called them to book I have not needed to be a member and in some cases, there are more than 5 pitches.
On arrival at one site last week it was obvious from the owners comments, that he was getting pissed off with CAMC but he would not say why just that he was.

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[68c]

Stopped on a CL near the Kennet and Avon canal. Turned out to be the usual small field for five units, although only two others there, one of which looked semi permanent. But alongside was a field twice the size with about five Yurts. Annoyingly their grass was beautifully mown whereas ours was rather long and coarse. Add to that the small toilet block in our field about fifteen feet away was actually for the glampers, we were told not to use it. The glampers were a nice enough bunch, an extended family there for a short holiday. It seems it was the only way they could the older mum to camp. It was nice to see the kids running around slowly getting bolder with their bikes and staying up 'til dark.

 

[Reallyretired]

I had a look in a yurt on a site in the south of France . Seemed to me to be damp,smelly and full of bugs. I assumed they must spray them out with something prior to occupancy. I certainly wouldn't pay to stay in one.
I remember from my youth that if you left a tent up for a few days it would become colonised by all sorts of insects. These yurts are up for months.

 

[poppycamper]

in some cases, there are more than 5 pitches.

5 is supposedly the max number of vans (moho or c'van) they are allowed..
However they are also allowed to take tents aswell Thus the extra pitchs....

 

[cyberyacht]

I wonder if caravanners felt the same when motorhomes started regularly turning up at their sites and then on a number of occasions started to outnumber them, then they changed the name to Caravan and Motorhome Club (uproar) and now they are adding glamping pods (Good God man), why can't we stay in the 1950's?

The name may have changed but the mentality hasn't. Instead of yurts, they could have had an "aire section" non-bookable and available for ad hoc visits/dump and fill and retained the touring ethos.

 

[Otter Spotter]

5 is supposedly the max number of vans (moho or c'van) they are allowed..
However they are also allowed to take tents aswell Thus the extra pitchs....

These were 10 to 15 MH or caravan pitches many with EHU !

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[poppycamper]

These were 10 to 15 MH or caravan pitches many with EHU !

Maybe for trailer tents!!!
Or for rallys!!

 

[Otter Spotter]

One site was split between CAMC pitches and pitches for ‘Go explore’ same price shared facilities and same views

 

[sgl5gjr]

Soon be time for CAMC to have "kampeerplatz" type areas like some Dutch sites have.... Like Aires but on a site for short stays as us motorhome users mainly do ..but they'll need to be switched on to realise that of course

 

[cyberyacht]

Ooh look, an aeronautical ungulate.