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We all look for ways of cutting the cost of night stops. Apart from sites and wild camping we have CLs and CSs and then there are the new boys, Britstops and Motorhomestopovers. Do you use one or both of the last two? If you have, have you and comments and have you renewed you membership for another year?
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I've put " no" on the poll; we're not members of either Britstops or Motorhomestopovers and have never used them. The only reason we have not done so is that we rarely, if ever, go anywhere in UK that requires more than a day's journey at a time. We tend to plan our UK trips- unlike European ones where we seem to wander fairly aimlessly !
This means we stay for a few days at X, sight-seeing while there, move on to Y for a few more days and so on. When we get to wherever we're going we prefer a site close to whatever we've come to see and that generally means a town or city site; not the best place to find CLs or CSs, pub, Britstop or whatever.
We don't camp for the sake of it, using the van as a means to an end- hotel and restaurant rather than holiday cottage.
We've stayed at some smashing CLs and CSs however but always because they have been close to a place of interest.
That said; the Britstop scheme and other similar ones are excellent and serve a need- and the more the merrier. If we find a place that looks as if it would make a good stopover or CL/CS we do point out the advantages to the management !
We have used motorhomestopovers once. We stayed in a field next to a pub in Cornwall. The field was quite nice with a pond and enough distance from the road to be nice and quiet.
The landlord knew all about the scheme when we called him.
We did have a meal in the pub and a few drinks. So it wasn't actually saving us money as such. But it was a nice meal.
So I would say it doesn't save money as I would feel guilty not having a meal if I was staying on a pubs land with no charge.
I do think we will be renewing and trying a few more this year.
We've joined Britstops and will renew for this year. We stayed on 2 so far, which were fine - the number of places was going up rapidly last year, so hopefully will conmtinue to expand.
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No longer quite so new to all this but still loving it!
we joined britstops but not used any yet, have lost the list and emailed them for a copy, but had no reply as of yet.I assume they are waiting to see if we are going to renew the membership.But still would have enjoyed an answer.
We joined Motorhomestopovers at last years Newbury show, but we have only used them two or three times and won't be renewing.
It works out a quite expensive night just to park over night in a car park, once we have paid for a couple of meals and a few drinks. We have always felt obliged to use the pups that we have stayed at.
We much prefer to stay at a CL, the more remote and basic the better, especially the ones that only charge a fiver At least at a CL you can set up camp, sit out side and have a BBQ, unlike a pub car park.
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Yes, we like BritStops. Particularly enjoy the ones at farm shops and other interesting businesses.
We also stay at lots of different campsites too (including naturist ones), and sometimes wild it. Not a member of the Motorhomestopover scheme - believe the locations are normally at pubs, which we tend not to frequent very often.
Looking forward to the new 2012 BritStops guidebook.
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At least at a CL you can set up camp, sit out side and have a BBQ, unlike a pub car park.
