Thinking of buying an RV?

[Rammo]

We are in a 9.1m RS - I always declare as 8.9m or even 8.5m on CAMC bookings as often 9m seems to be rejected - otherwise I phone.

Earlier this year we stopped at York CAMC in our previous 7.9m van prior to changing it for our current 8.9m.

I asked the warden if they accommodated 9m and he said they did, indeed there were a couple on site at that time.

We booked again after changing the van - only to be told 8.5m was their limit and no way could they accept longer!

We’ve since stayed at Manor Farm .

 

[Don Campbell]

Touring Corsica in a 36’ RV was fun

But there again both Lyn and I can drive

We have just changed and are on our fifteenth camper since buying our first at the tender age of 28, eleven of them being Yanks.

The latest is a tiddler, a Winnebago 24J

We’ve met dickhead wardens, but tend to laugh at them and their idiotic logic.

I’ve found the best way of dealing with ‘WW’ (️W) on CMC sites is to ask for the area managers name and mobile and to ask them to quote exactly what rule we contravene as we’ll escalate it.

There is though, either a “Wow look at that, that’s lovely, can I have a look” attitude or a Wouldn’t want a “thing” like that attitude“

We got moaned at once for leaving our generator on all afternoon! ”We’ve had complaints’

Didn‘t help that I’d been in the pub and thought the accusation was only a tad less funny that the fact that the ‘WW’ thought he was telling me off! I’m married, I get proper bollockings!

I said that whoever complained was a cretin as I didn‘t leave a genny on when on hook up and going out, so we all marched over to my camper, and sure enough, a generator could be heard, powering the just as noisy pump in the footings of the building work next door!

I obviously milked the demanded apology, made the point that if the warden had done is job properly, got off his arse and investigated the complaint, us being bothered or annoyed would have been avoided, but it does sadly reflect that to some RV’s are an anathema.

We called ahead to a site in Scotland, Lyn was driving and I asked if they could accommodate a 12 ton 11m RV ‘Yes, drive around pick a pitch and come in the office in the morning to pay, if you arrive after Six’ which we did.

Slowing driving around working out what’s what, and this suicidal maniac jumps out in front of us waving a torch shouting ‘Stop stop, what the f*ck do you thing your playing at’

Being a misogynist this was aimed at me, despite Lyn driving, so I told him we’d phoned, said we were 12m and were told to drive round and find a pitch, which was exactly ‘what the F*CK’ we were doing!

His response?

“My wife would know 12 meters from 12 foot! And your rig is too big to be driving around my campsite in the dark!”

So it seemed yet again that it was our fault for owning a Yank

(I would like to point out that as we can drive, even being 12m and dark, we’d not gone on the grass, so no real issue other that probably looking like something had landed from space on a dark December Scottish campsite!

We had a Winnebago 24J for years. What a brilliant bit oif kit is. Never had any real problem with size, just sometimes finding suitable places that have what I call "proper motorhome service points" where you can put a black pipe discharge into. Sometimes even when you do find one it's surrounded by a low brick wall and any engineer will tell you sh*t does not flow uphill.

 

[TheAleMan]

Only had issues once and that was on a private site in Cambridge, booked a lake front pitch only to be told that my van is to big when arriving!!
Said to the chap check your emails as I gave my van size when booking and I’m not driving back home…
Next thing he says is you can park up on the field part if you can get through the gate, mate you have caravans in there and a lot of them are 8ft wide like me so pretty sure I can get through
He then directed me to park next to a tag axle van longer than us that also had a toad on the back

Bit of Karma a bit later on as he got over run with “as you likeys“ and they had to shut the site down!

Done a fair few of the club sites and have always had a friendly welcome and nice time, maybe just lucky with that

I know the site your referring to Mark. The ‘do as your likeys’ gave them alot of grief and resultant big hit in monetary terms.

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

I know the site your referring to Mark. The ‘do as your likeys’ gave them alot of grief and resultant big hit in monetary terms.

Yes he shut down for a while, guarantee no one was charged with anything
It is a nice site with plenty of room but as with others as soon as they see a big van they panic

 

[Adrian140974]

Awful but not unexpected!! We have a 9m vehicle and Used many ccc sites with no issues over the last 5 years. Been reviewing last weekend to plan out next year and they appear to have made changes. I can now only find 2 sites in the North East that will take over 8 or 8.5m when the pitches are at least 10 long. This will be my last year with ccc, useless. I don't understand why a site could accommodate me last year but this year the computer says no.

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[steve69]

So what your saying in effect is all vehicles over 9 m should it be on the uk highway as there to big ? So that's all the LGV. Vehicles gone then

Haven't seen many LGVs on roads leading to campsites. Or indeed on campsites.

 

[knokinonabit]

Our MH is 8.371mtrs, being as precise as I can be, and every time I try to book online with C&CC the computer says no.
On a very recent tour around Scotland I took to just turning up at the sites and asking if they had a space. After being asked if we were members and giving our membership numbers this was fed into the computer. All of the wardens had raised eyebrows when the length came up, but all of them found us a pitch. No one was awkward at all, in fact they were all very helpful. One of them said, when I pointed out we could overhang the grass, that it wasn’t the fact we were overhanging in itself, it was that we may be too close to the caravan/MH on the pitch behind us to comply with fire regs. Every time a suitable pitch was found and we never had a problem.
We stayed at Glen Coe, Loch Ness Shores, Milarrochy Bay and Culzean Castle club sites, plus several private sites up as far as John O’Groats, and never had any bother.
Perhaps it’s my winning smile and lovely nature that swayed them all in our favour. Or maybe not !!!!!

 

[busby]

We just turned up at a CAMC site in Wales, to see if they could accommodate our 9.4m RV, a few years ago. Very friendly wardens (husband and wife) said, "have a look at this one" and it was big enough to park on almost sideways.
Looking around the site I could have parked on 12 pitches with ease, so I asked why there was an 8.5m limit. He said that it was the size of the smallest pitch, as no-one can book a specific pitch, that might be the only one available. But, he went on to say, if we can accommodate larger RVs we will, that's what we are here for. How refreshing is that to hear? Very rare I know.


Craig

St David's by any chance ?? BUSBY,,