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Post by JP on Mar 16, 2014 21:02:06 GMT
Hi all
Just back from a night at Burton Constable Holiday Park near Hull. Lovely site, good facilities and lovely surroundings, its absolutely spotless and the staff were so friendly it was a pleasure to meet them. But I don't like using sites especially in the UK and this trip has reminded me why. The site like most has rules and plenty of signs reminding you of them but nobody seemed to care one bit. We were on the motorhome only area, a nice flat gravel area with water, waste and electric, marked out for 4 MH's (but loads of room). There were at least 3 signs saying MH's only, no parking, fishermen please use car park (which was 20 years away). Luckily we were awake but they started to arrive at 7am driving all around our MH, staff kept moving them off every half hour or so but more kept arriving. If we were wanting a lie in there would have been no chance. Then there was the dogs on leads rule (ignored), clean up if your dog fouls (not very often), kids to be on their own pitch after 11pm (sat on top of the skips screaming) motor bikes to be left in the car park (raced around the site), just about every rule was being broken and the poor staff were being run ragged. This was when the site was almost empty, I wouldn't think of visiting during busy times. No wonder our county is going to the dogs when seemingly normal people just seem to think that the perfectly reasonable rules don't apply to them.
Wankers.
James
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Post by Barry B'stard on Mar 16, 2014 22:31:22 GMT
You should have used the Desert Eagle I gave you!
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Post by JP on Mar 17, 2014 8:08:42 GMT
You should have used the Desert Eagle I gave you! Don't tempt me
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Post by Miculo on Mar 17, 2014 8:31:44 GMT
I thought you were winding us up with that post James.
I see you weren't. That would do my head in, Alan.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 9:44:34 GMT
The trouble is, James, that many people these days don't seem to care a fig about the rights of others or behaving decently towards them. It's all part of the 'ME, ME, ME' attitude and 'If you want it, go for it'. Strangely enough, those very same people get extremely upset when you grab them by the throat and kick them in the knackers. Amusingly enough, in that situation, they suddenly want the rules to be applied and start to scream for the police and you to be arrested for assault. That's why I wait until it's dark and they've all gone to bed before setting fire to their units. That teaches them! Would tell you more, but here comes the warder with my meds - note, they like you to call them nurses here in Broadmoor, but really they're just screws in a different uniform.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Mar 17, 2014 14:16:55 GMT
I'm sure there are plenty of decent campsites out there (maybe) but the fear of ending up somewhere like the one James was on is enough to put me off bothering to be honest. I wonder if its partly to do with them attracting a diverse range of clientele who are bound to clash and for many when they feel they have coughed up money for something its license for them to behave as they bloody well wish and sod everyone else.
You don't tend to see this when wilding (although I avoid gatherings of vans) or most of the free aires.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2014 15:03:18 GMT
Well I do use campsites, Barry, though only C&CC ones, and only certain ones at that (ones that I find particularly convenient for various things I like to do), but the situation James mentions is all too prevalent these days, even on C&CC sites. As for the Site Management, most write me off as a nuisance when I complain about noise after hours, dogs allowed to run loose to piss and shit on my pitch (a favourite early mornings when the bastards that own the mutt are too lazy to get out their pits and walk it off-site, and late at night when they're too drunk to walk it anywhere), and other things which are a direct intrusion on my right to peacefully enjoy the site without annoying others. I've even wasted my time complaining to HQ about their Site Managers not doing there job properly but all that happens is that I get an anodyne letter of apology. Frankly, I really do think it's mainly down to this 'ME,ME, ME' attitude which is so prevalent nowadays - or perhaps I'm just getting old!
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Post by Keith on Mar 17, 2014 15:20:26 GMT
It's all right for some to spread out - some people have no thought for others ........
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Post by Barry B'stard on Mar 17, 2014 15:39:16 GMT
It's all right for some to spread out - some people have no thought for others ........ Very Funny Keith! Although it does scarily look a little bit like my own set up. Attachment DeletedAs your clearly a whizz with Photoshop I think you should take on the challenge of putting together the Fruitcakes Ideal Motorhome as described in this thread and mentioned in the recent Newsletter. motorhomefruitcakes.freeforums.net/thread/335/important-motorhome?page=1
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Post by fatwelshbuddha on Mar 17, 2014 15:42:14 GMT
I think my radar kicked in when I read "Burton Constable Holiday Park" and I just knew it would be a 'mare. having only ever stayed on one other Holiday Park in the past in Tenby - and that was through necessity due to a race I was doing - I'd never use one again as it seems to be Holiday Parks that attract the less gifted (aka chavs) amongst our society
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Post by Barry B'stard on Mar 17, 2014 15:49:28 GMT
I think my radar kicked in when I read "Burton Constable Holiday Park" and I just knew it would be a 'mare. having only ever stayed on one other Holiday Park in the past in Tenby - and that was through necessity due to a race I was doing - I'd never use one again as it seems to be Holiday Parks that attract the less gifted (aka chavs) amongst our society The worst one for me from memory was the "Yelloh Village" site at Agde in the French Med. Couldnt get on the Aire which was expensive and Crap so we ended up looking at two sites in the ACSI scheme (I think it was early September). I should have known better. I think Yelloh are a bit of a chain but all the warning signs were there. Having to pay in advance, having to wear a wrist band FFS! Being kicked out of the pool for wearing shorts. Then the boy racer rally arrived. 50 cars with loud exhausts all staying the weekend in the challets. Drove around and made a racket all night long. The place was a fecking nightmare. The final insult when leaving I asked where the Motorhome Service point was so I could empty and fill back up. "Oh we dont have one anymore, the nearest one is 3km at the Super U"! Lovely.
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Post by Keith on Mar 17, 2014 16:05:49 GMT
The French guy spreading out was at an Aire in Arzon. The Municipal Police came and told him to clear up or else! His idea of 'clear up' was to a drink from the water bottles, bottom right of picture, and throw the empty bottles away. Back came the Police to check on his clear up – within a few minutes he'd been told to bugger off and the whole family, at least eight of them, were off site in twenty minutes. You don't argue with a Policeman with a gun!
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Post by tugboat on Mar 17, 2014 16:15:50 GMT
When I can't wild, I think I'm going to stay on CLs (or whatever they're called) the little family run places with maybe half a dozen pitches. I think you're far more likely to have better behaviour 'cos there just isn't room for naughty stuff. There's lots of adult only places too which I would tend to prefer. I actually quite like children, but I couldn't manage a whole one!
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Post by prof20 on Mar 17, 2014 16:17:13 GMT
The French guy spreading out was at an Aire in Arzon. The Municipal Police came and told him to clear up or else! His idea of 'clear up' was to a drink from the water bottles, bottom right of picture, and throw the empty bottles away. Back came the Police to check on his clear up – within a few minutes he'd been told to bugger off and the whole family, at least eight of them, were off site in twenty minutes. You don't argue with a Policeman with a gun! I thought he was French or at least a 'johnny foreigner' with all the left-hand drive bikes dumped parked there If you can't spread out in your own country where can you do it? Messy bugger! R :-XGER
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Post by Barry B'stard on Mar 17, 2014 17:00:51 GMT
When I can't wild, I think I'm going to stay on CLs (or whatever they're called) the little family run places with maybe half a dozen pitches. I think you're far more likely to have better behaviour 'cos there just isn't room for naughty stuff. There's lots of adult only places too which I would tend to prefer. I actually quite like children, but I couldn't manage a whole one! They are superb Tuggs. Its all we mainly use in the UK. You will find them ideal as well as you have a bike on board. A lot of people dont like them as they are usually out in the sticks. You will find the ones that are just a fiver with no hookup (which you now no longer need) are often the most spacious and I think the best. Usually just a field with a tap and emptying point. We have been on some blinders and there will never be more than 5 vans on. We have often had them to ourselves. When we have toured in Devon and Cornwall thats all we used with an odd wild spot. We use them like Aires with the exception that you have to arse on ringing up the night before to check they are open or have space. I have never failed to get on one somewhere at any time of year.
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