Caravan Club Booking Frenzy has been and gone

Managed to get mine booked for the main trips as you can tell I like Clumber Park & York, nice local site for local people when you have kids

Main Holiday will be Scotland, but want a site with lots to do for the 4yr old and would hope to avoid the midges

Clumber Park Caravan Club Site Arr: 04/2010
Beechwood Grange Caravan Club Site Arr: 04/2010
Clumber Park Caravan Club Site Arr: 05/2010
West Ayton Caravan Club Site Arr: 08/2010
Clumber Park Caravan Club Site Arr: 10/2010
Beechwood Grange Caravan Club Site Arr: 12/2010 For New Year  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

The boy done well

Suspect we will return to our seasonal pitch. Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

I might seasonal pitch later in the year, some where nice and local for a quick night or 2 away Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

We managed three bookings;
Lakes x2, and Bunree Scotland. Will CL or commercial site the rest. Club site booking for weekends at less than 6 months notice is getting to be a farcical waste of time.
Just got to pick the new Swift up next week

Fish and chips from East Ayton chippy are bloomin marvelous Mr Pinks, they are our 'local'.

I lkie the site we have booked, not far to go and with the trips been bank hols they can be fully booked up so playing it safe

Which Lakes site did you choose , i wanted Windermeres but it was fully booked the weekend i wanted, so I might look towards forum members Eskdales site instead

CG you could hire a wood pod for your family that weekend and the Mrs can see how we caravaners live

i will keep the chippy in mind, and let the grand parents know as they are there through the week and i'll be there the final weekend Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Troutbeck in the North Lakes is our preferred choice, nice site but 2 miles from nearest pub, about 8-12 miles from Keswick and Penrith, its quiet but gives us a good base to go and do whatever we want. Access is easy from the A66 as well if all the roads get put back in for next year after the recent flooding

In the South lakes we generally use Park Coppice at Coniston as the others are usually booked solid from the day they open the web site up. It is undergoing a major overhaul over the winter so will be interesting to see what things are like, (it was a bit dated facilities wise) It is set in a national trust wood within walking distance (1.5 miles) of the lake and village, sadly not staggering distance to the pub though

I might look at park coppice again

I called in when passing the other year and it was a little dated to say the least, but if over hauled might be worth another look. Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Quoting the CC website;

"Investing in our future
Published: 01 December 2009

The Caravan Club is making improvements across the network for 2010, including the largest investment The Club has ever made in redeveloping a site at Park Coppice. The £2.6m project will refurbish all three toilet blocks, relay the roadways and hardstandings and build three new play areas. The site will also benefit from improvements to drainage, services and access."

If this helps

MVS wrote:

The Non-Caravan Club is making improvements across the network for 2010, including the largest investment The Club has ever made in redeveloping a site at Park Coppice. The £2.6m project will demolish all three toilet blocks, relay the roadways and remove the hardstandings and build three new play areas. The site will also benefit from building some cottages so people can stay in comfort

well I had to join this thread at some point didn't I red rag to a bull  At work
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I had to read that twice  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Looks like this year I am mainly holidaying at home, due to just having 17 double glazed windows and two doors fitted to my house ,lovely job but I am now skinted

I might yet sneak in a trip to France, here's hoping  At work
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winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

chicken george wrote:

well I had to join this thread at some point didn't I red rag to a bull

What took you so long  Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

I was trying to think of something that was critical but not over-offensive.

I'm weakening - on Monday I had a trip in a grey fl2 (with light guards and a body kit ) I kept my head down so nobody saw me.  At work
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winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

MVS wrote:

We managed three bookings;
Lakes x2, and Bunree Scotland. Will CL or commercial site the rest. Club site booking for weekends at less than 6 months notice is getting to be a farcical waste of time.
Just got to pick the new Swift up next week

Fish and chips from East Ayton chippy are bloomin marvelous Mr Pinks, they are our 'local'.

It's the bank hols that I booked, going clumber park for Easter though then Beechwood at the end of April Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis