Camping and caravan club closures
- Thread starter Bargy62
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Closed Club Sites
We were desperate to run our entire network as normally as possible this year, but like many areas of the hospitality and tourism industry, we currently do not have as many staff members across the network as we need.
We're continuing to recruit to address this, but even as restrictions start to lift, our teams will still be working with additional measures and enhanced cleaning in place. It's important that we only open where we can operate safely and ensure we can deliver our usual high standards.
This means we have taken the difficult decision to close a small number of our Club Sites and Ready Camps, and we have contacted any members and customers affected. The following campsites will be closed until next year: Bala, Clent Hills, Kelvedon Hatch, Lauder, Sheriff Hutton, Slindon and Speyside. Hertford and Theobalds Park are also closed and will both reopen from 1st November 2021.
If you have a booking on a closed Club Site or Ready Camp location, you should have been contacted via email, your booking will be cancelled automatically and refunded in full. If you have not received an email or would like to speak to someone about your booking, please contact us.
We sincerely apologise, we would like to reassure you that cancelling bookings is never a decision that's taken lightly. We hope to be able to assist you in making an alternative booking with the Club.
We were desperate to run our entire network as normally as possible this year, but like many areas of the hospitality and tourism industry, we currently do not have as many staff members across the network as we need.
We're continuing to recruit to address this, but even as restrictions start to lift, our teams will still be working with additional measures and enhanced cleaning in place. It's important that we only open where we can operate safely and ensure we can deliver our usual high standards.
This means we have taken the difficult decision to close a small number of our Club Sites and Ready Camps, and we have contacted any members and customers affected. The following campsites will be closed until next year: Bala, Clent Hills, Kelvedon Hatch, Lauder, Sheriff Hutton, Slindon and Speyside. Hertford and Theobalds Park are also closed and will both reopen from 1st November 2021.
If you have a booking on a closed Club Site or Ready Camp location, you should have been contacted via email, your booking will be cancelled automatically and refunded in full. If you have not received an email or would like to speak to someone about your booking, please contact us.
We sincerely apologise, we would like to reassure you that cancelling bookings is never a decision that's taken lightly. We hope to be able to assist you in making an alternative booking with the Club.
Not surprised, there are serious recruitment issues across large swathes of the hospitality industry and haulage, etc. Even campsites that are open could struggle - could be a bad year for campsite loo cleanliness!
The site we just left at Tregurrian was the complete opposite due to their enhanced cleaning deep cleaned once a day and checked and cleaned if necessary 3 times a day
We only ever used the showers and they were spotless
Maybe this new way of doing things has put existing and new employees off not so much a glorified holiday with a bit of toilet cleaning chucked in any more
We where at West Ayton, Scarborough CCMH club site a few weeks ago and they had plenty of staff. They where only allowing 4 in each toilet block at any one time and a site thats large with two blocks is a bit resrictive. I wonder if they just made staff redundant and not on ferlow? If so, no wonder they are having an hard time recruiting.
As with last year, it seems that sites which need an infrastructure to run are the ones that struggle to have facilities open, or open at all. It would be a pity if this has a big impact on peoples' ability to camp this summer. At this present time, it's generally a relatively safe way of holidaying because it's outdoors and there is natural tendency for people to distance from each other on their pitches.
Let's hope it doesn't drive some to do the type of camping that was complained about last summer.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for some to camp at a different type of site and for some landowners to create new camping spaces. For example, a reference here Relaxed planning measures 'worth thousands to farmers' - Farmers Guide :
'A North Devon farming family made more than £20,000 by opening a temporary campsite at the end of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
New regulations allow farmers to operate a campsite without planning permission for 56 days and this has been extended to 2021.
They decided to open as a campsite for the first time last year as the UK came out of the first lockdown.
By the end of the season, the campsite had generated around £22,000.
Lesley said: “We went live on Pitchup.com at teatime on August 8 and by bedtime, we had 30 bookings, including eight for the next day'.
Let's hope it doesn't drive some to do the type of camping that was complained about last summer.
Perhaps this is an opportunity for some to camp at a different type of site and for some landowners to create new camping spaces. For example, a reference here Relaxed planning measures 'worth thousands to farmers' - Farmers Guide :
'A North Devon farming family made more than £20,000 by opening a temporary campsite at the end of the first Covid-19 lockdown.
New regulations allow farmers to operate a campsite without planning permission for 56 days and this has been extended to 2021.
They decided to open as a campsite for the first time last year as the UK came out of the first lockdown.
By the end of the season, the campsite had generated around £22,000.
Lesley said: “We went live on Pitchup.com at teatime on August 8 and by bedtime, we had 30 bookings, including eight for the next day'.
