Just been reading some reviews on a site near Weston super mare and the owner was telling the van owner that some sites are thinking of banning continental vans due to the hab doors been face to face with uk vans , has anyone heard about this or is it just bull poo.
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It would be a very stupid owner to do that as many people have foreign manufactured MHs with the door on the UK offside.
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Sounds like bull poo to me, if they are that hung up about what way the door faces just park the opposite way. Problem solved, mind you nothing would surprise me about some of the jumped up Adolfs that police the exact parking locations in UK sites 
I thought we are all supposed to be friendly and say āHiā to each other 
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I had a row with one āpark on the white pegā Adolf. Expected us to open the hab door into a hedge the dickhead.Sounds like bull poo to me, if they are that hung up about what way the door faces just park the opposite way. Problem solved, mind you nothing would surprise me about some of the jumped up Adolfs that police the exact parking locations in UK sites
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It would however enable the protocol 'I fart in your general direction' !
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Im pitched up this evening next to an LMC caravan with its door on the wrongside. Would all continental caravans be banned also?
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Once on a club site I was asked to turn around because the next camper could look straight in, I refused because I wanted the door on the sunny side, they just had to put up with it and so did I.
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It is true.
And I canāt remember where I saw it recently. But I was searching for a campsite and on one campsite website, it was clearly mentioned that they do not accept them. That is any caravan or motorhome with the Han door on the offside (uk right hand drivers side).
Iāve had a lot of issues with our motorhome on uk sites for this reason. Where the sites are hedged, nobody usually bothers.
Iāve just bought a caravan, a Hymer. I was so glad I could find one with a near side Habitation door.
That means I can use it in the uk and on the continent. Where I have never seen the issue.
And I canāt remember where I saw it recently. But I was searching for a campsite and on one campsite website, it was clearly mentioned that they do not accept them. That is any caravan or motorhome with the Han door on the offside (uk right hand drivers side).
Iāve had a lot of issues with our motorhome on uk sites for this reason. Where the sites are hedged, nobody usually bothers.
Iāve just bought a caravan, a Hymer. I was so glad I could find one with a near side Habitation door.
That means I can use it in the uk and on the continent. Where I have never seen the issue.
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I was browsing campsites the other day and came across one (can't remember which now) that would not allow 'continental vans'. Why turn away business? It put me right off, they sounded like a miserable lot!
Morris sites insist you park wrong way round so your hab doors donāt face each other, this decided me I wouldnt go to sites here if heāll froze over. Caravan club site Morton in marsh insisted I parked so I got out on the sodden grass reinforcing the fact .
Never had an issue parking either way round on any site.
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Not a problem - all UK vans therefore banned from Europe.
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Donāt forget the elderberriesā¦.!It would however enable the protocol 'I fart in your general direction' !
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Me neither.
And if you are camped five meters apart . . . thats good enough for building regs and boundary windows, surely good enough for campsites.
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There is a hugely popular site on way to Burnham on Sea that does not allow hab doors on wrong side. Mind you it doesn't matter which side the door is on if you had a problem & needed to exit quick they allow tents pitched anywhere.Always reminds me of soweto when I pass. But packed solid
Supposedly due to 'fire regs' . then again as above you wouldn't entertain the place with any sense.
Surely it's the site owners prerogative to take a blunderbuss to their own feet? I'd guess it wouldn't get that crowded for those able to comply, leaving more spaces available on less regimental sites.
Or we could fight back , perhaps start a movement, " off side openers matter ",.
Mike.
Or we could fight back , perhaps start a movement, " off side openers matter ",
.Mike.
They will be glad of anything they can get next year, with all the new Aires opening and folks going to Europe again.
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Likewise. I get the impression that there are some funsters who are disappointed if they don't have a tale or two about how they outsmarted the campsite wardens. Personally I have never had a problem parking in whatever direction I like within the confines of the allocated pitch and being respectful of neighbours, pitch conditions etc. except once, when to my surprise, the "warden" insisted that instead of parking fore and aft as 'normal', I park sideways in the pitch because of the slope and he produced two stonking great wooden wedges to level us up leaving us with a brilliant view over the campsite and to Robin Hood's Bay beyond.
We have a "continental" van and have never had an issue. Just had to drive in rather than reversing in.
I think it way be different for caravans in that they have to have the towing hitch facing outwards so as to be able to be towed out in an emergency situation ( I think)
I think it way be different for caravans in that they have to have the towing hitch facing outwards so as to be able to be towed out in an emergency situation ( I think)
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That will be Home Farm Holiday Park. Static caravans mostly and a 40min walk to the beach with nothing else around. It says you must ring up if you want to use their touring field with a continental outfit.
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When we were on a site in Rudeshiem you tell the uk built vans because we were facing the opposite way to the rest. The site boss turned us round to be private as she put it.
We ended up back on the the Rhine with lovely views having a rear lounge.
We ended up back on the the Rhine with lovely views having a rear lounge.
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How strange - did he give a reason?
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