We arrived back at the Verwood C&CC site after a bit of a convoluted journey.
A couple of diversions sent us on a merry tour of Wiltshire countryside.
We eventually arrived at our site about an hour later than we had hoped.
We had thought that with the school's going back in the week the site would be child free.....
Unfortunately we were unlucky and the site still had quite a few of the little blighters running around...
Obviously their parents were stretching their holiday out until the last possible moment...
Luckily for us the next morning they all packed up and left.
However this weekend a lot more families turned up on Friday evening although by midday today they too had packed up and gone. Making the most of the good weather over the weekend I suppose.
There are new managers at this site and in the short time that they have been here (since April) they seem to have upset everyone by being a bit jobsworth and wanting to make changes just for the sake of it ...
The fish & chip van that has been visiting the site for the past five years that we know of no longer comes here due to a difference of opinion with the new managers...
When we arrived there were just the two managers here as all the assistants had left as they had had enough...
In the past week two more assistants came down to help from a site in Lincolnshire.
A number of the seasonal pitch caravanners here seem to be very unhappy with the new management style with complaints being made to the C&CC head office.
It's always a pity when new managers move in and upset the running of a really nice site...
This happened at the Tavistock site in Devon and we decided not to go back there and it looks like it is happening again here.
The club seems to have a bit of a staff shortage from what I can tell ... Assistants are being pushed through on to management training about a year before they would normally do so....
Also I have heard today that the club intends to put more glamping 'ready camp' tents up as well as some camping pods here at Verwood.(as if there aren't enough here already)
This of course reduces the space for traditional tents and caravans and also tends to attract a totally different sort of person to the sites.
By this I mean people who might not have ever been camping before and as such do not follow the niceties of camp life such as keeping the noise down after about 2230hrs etc....
In a lot of cases they are not interested in camping they are just interested in getting what they think is a cheapish holiday and also because glamping is seen as a fashionable thing to do..
The club is not really a club in the accepted sense and over the last few years seems to have moved a lot further away from it's original purpose than ever before...
Our plan this year to stay at more independent sites has proved to us that in monetary terms you can get a better deal by avoiding club sites particularly during bank holidays and school holidays.
Next year we will be staying at even more independent sites.....
Below are a few more photos taken during our stay in the Forest of Dean area......
A couple of diversions sent us on a merry tour of Wiltshire countryside.
We eventually arrived at our site about an hour later than we had hoped.
We had thought that with the school's going back in the week the site would be child free.....
Unfortunately we were unlucky and the site still had quite a few of the little blighters running around...
Obviously their parents were stretching their holiday out until the last possible moment...
Luckily for us the next morning they all packed up and left.
However this weekend a lot more families turned up on Friday evening although by midday today they too had packed up and gone. Making the most of the good weather over the weekend I suppose.
There are new managers at this site and in the short time that they have been here (since April) they seem to have upset everyone by being a bit jobsworth and wanting to make changes just for the sake of it ...
The fish & chip van that has been visiting the site for the past five years that we know of no longer comes here due to a difference of opinion with the new managers...
When we arrived there were just the two managers here as all the assistants had left as they had had enough...
In the past week two more assistants came down to help from a site in Lincolnshire.
A number of the seasonal pitch caravanners here seem to be very unhappy with the new management style with complaints being made to the C&CC head office.
It's always a pity when new managers move in and upset the running of a really nice site...
This happened at the Tavistock site in Devon and we decided not to go back there and it looks like it is happening again here.
The club seems to have a bit of a staff shortage from what I can tell ... Assistants are being pushed through on to management training about a year before they would normally do so....
Also I have heard today that the club intends to put more glamping 'ready camp' tents up as well as some camping pods here at Verwood.(as if there aren't enough here already)
This of course reduces the space for traditional tents and caravans and also tends to attract a totally different sort of person to the sites.
By this I mean people who might not have ever been camping before and as such do not follow the niceties of camp life such as keeping the noise down after about 2230hrs etc....
In a lot of cases they are not interested in camping they are just interested in getting what they think is a cheapish holiday and also because glamping is seen as a fashionable thing to do..
The club is not really a club in the accepted sense and over the last few years seems to have moved a lot further away from it's original purpose than ever before...
Our plan this year to stay at more independent sites has proved to us that in monetary terms you can get a better deal by avoiding club sites particularly during bank holidays and school holidays.
Next year we will be staying at even more independent sites.....
Below are a few more photos taken during our stay in the Forest of Dean area......
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