Arrived at Black Knowle yesterday around 1330 for 4 nights, only 4 pitches left and we ended up with the last one, which we didn't like.
Prior to arrival we had a warning light flag a problem on our drive down. I established it was OK to drive on but with a loss of power and had arranged for breakdown to meet us at site around 1500.
So unhappy with pitch and potential problem with MHome we asked wardens if we could wait to pay after breakdown had assessed the van. They said we must make a decision on what to do by 1500, subsequently breakdown advised arrival time 1615.
We also asked wardens if they would let us know which pitches might be available in the morning, NO they wouldn't.
So they pressurised us to decide stay 1 night and loose rest of booking or pay for 4 nights. Problem was if we did latter and MHome had to be taken away we would loose money.
If we paid for 1 night and being unable to find another site, we would then go home and loose money on our next site this coming Sunday.
We argued the point that had we arrived later the booking would still be available. They would not accept that.
So we paid for 1 night as we were annoyed with the wardens and actually we felt the site was too "crammed" with pitches, even fitting pitches in spaces where you wouldn't have expected them but we would have stayed if van had been OK and we could have swapped pitches. This morning quite a few had been vacated.
We however found a site at Sparkford, to save wasting Sundays booking but alas not a lot to do here.
So peeeeeed off to say the least, complaints have gone in to CMC already but it has spoilt our week away.
To top it off our daughter is sending us wonderful photos of her trip around the NC500.
Prior to arrival we had a warning light flag a problem on our drive down. I established it was OK to drive on but with a loss of power and had arranged for breakdown to meet us at site around 1500.
So unhappy with pitch and potential problem with MHome we asked wardens if we could wait to pay after breakdown had assessed the van. They said we must make a decision on what to do by 1500, subsequently breakdown advised arrival time 1615.
We also asked wardens if they would let us know which pitches might be available in the morning, NO they wouldn't.
So they pressurised us to decide stay 1 night and loose rest of booking or pay for 4 nights. Problem was if we did latter and MHome had to be taken away we would loose money.
If we paid for 1 night and being unable to find another site, we would then go home and loose money on our next site this coming Sunday.
We argued the point that had we arrived later the booking would still be available. They would not accept that.
So we paid for 1 night as we were annoyed with the wardens and actually we felt the site was too "crammed" with pitches, even fitting pitches in spaces where you wouldn't have expected them but we would have stayed if van had been OK and we could have swapped pitches. This morning quite a few had been vacated.
We however found a site at Sparkford, to save wasting Sundays booking but alas not a lot to do here.
So peeeeeed off to say the least, complaints have gone in to CMC already but it has spoilt our week away.
To top it off our daughter is sending us wonderful photos of her trip around the NC500.
