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Message posted by ian j on 02/5/2012 at 6:59am
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just tried to book for the june bank holiday ,saturday to tuesday only to be told i have to book for five nights . tried to explain that i have to back to work on the next day. so much for the so called friendly club more like rip of club .Thats my membership in the bin

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Message posted by neil and lena on 02/5/2012 at 10:04am
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Quote: Originally posted by ian j on 02/5/2012
just tried to book for the june bank holiday ,saturday to tuesday only to be told i have to book for five nights . tried to explain that i have to back to work on the next day. so much for the so called friendly club more like rip of club .Thats my membership in the bin


Why don't you book 5 nights , pay the deposit and when you arrive just tell them you can only stay 3 as you have had call back to work .
They cannot turn you away .
I did this at Chichester when they wanted 2 nights minimum booking I just told them on arrival that my ferry crossing had changed and I would be staying for 1 night only

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Quote: Originally posted by neil and lena on 02/5/2012
Quote: Originally posted by ian j on 02/5/2012just tried to book for the june bank holiday ,saturday to tuesday only to be told i have to book for five nights . tried to explain that i have to back to work on the next day. so much for the so called friendly club more like rip of club .Thats my membership in the bin [:

Why don't you book 5 nights , pay the deposit and when you arrive just tell them you can only stay 3 as you have had call back to work .
They cannot turn you away .
I did this at Chichester when they wanted 2 nights minimum booking I just told them on arrival that my ferry crossing had changed and I would be staying for 1 night only

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Do you ever wonder why these kind of rules have been introduced? Perhaps because too many folk choose to mislead club sites to the financial detriment of the club?  Perhaps its so the site would not have a lot of vacancies if folk arrived for a couple of nights over the weekend and those wanting to fit in a five stay then couldn't.  Sites need to consider their financial viability. An alternative may be to charge a whole lot more for a couple of nights stay. Rules often appear illogical but there are usually very good reasons for them, generally down to how people use their sites.

Interesting concept questioning the "friendly" nature of the "friendly club" whilst liking the idea of lying to get around the rules and to "rip off" the site.

Takes all sorts..........

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Quote: Originally posted by cwdc56768 on 03/5/2012

Do you ever wonder why these kind of rules have been introduced? Perhaps because too many folk choose to mislead club sites to the financial detriment of the club?  Perhaps its so the site would not have a lot of vacancies if folk arrived for a couple of nights over the weekend and those wanting to fit in a five stay then couldn't.  Sites need to consider their financial viability. An alternative may be to charge a whole lot more for a couple of nights stay. Rules often appear illogical but there are usually very good reasons for them, generally down to how people use their sites.

Interesting concept questioning the "friendly" nature of the "friendly club" whilst liking the idea of lying to get around the rules and to "rip off" the site.

Takes all sorts..........

Phil




Phil believe it or not I was told to do this by a club site manager after I queried there policy about minimum stays over BH weekends .
And his exact words were " If you know there is pitch availability and you only want to stay 1 night only for whatever reason even if its a Bank Holiday just turn up THEY CANNOT TURN YOU AWAY IF YOUR A MEMBER "

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