WARNING - WE ARE BEING WATCHED!!!

Bruce and Bev · Guru

WARNING - WE ARE BEING WATCHED!!!

Cloak · Guru

Good onya BB...

Delta18 · Guru

If it is anything like your avatar pic then it sure is a beautiful sight....I mean site! blankstare

Glenelg · Guru

they do not understand do they. i'll say no more.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

They are not the only ones Bruce and Bev.

Phil C · Guru

What next, spies on all the nomad sites? I just find it hard to handle that the CPs charge a mint for not much and expect us to leave free camps alone. Its called competition I believe.

BTW the ONLY decent deal I got from a caravan park was at Mt Barker in the Adelaide hills, stayed for 3 months after my operation and got a great rate. Rant over

Cheers

PS Nice avitar evileye

-- Edited by Phil C on Saturday 13th of September 2014 06:29:45 PM

Vic41 · Guru

Good advice B & B and congratulations on taking that action! smile

They'll find out the hard way we are a force to be reckoned with, they are only cutting their own throats trying to force us into "their" parks and deserve any downturn in their business because of it.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Hmmm.... I'm sort of glad some C?P operators read this forum, they might get ideas for what sort of facilities G N's like.

Some of us are not self-contained and still use caravan parks quite often, its nice to find a place with large sites, clean amenities, and NO Jumping pillows/playgrounds to add to the costs.

Golddetectornomad · Senior Member

As Dr. Spooner would say..'he's a shining wit'.....
Why not name the park, and send an email to them stating there is a post on our site which names them, and warns they were not friendly to you, and your Grey Nomads/Senior Australian Citizen friends should avoid them.....seeking any other alternative than their Park.......you can hardly be sued...you have done nothing wrong ..your honest opinion on how you found them, and as we are a travelling Grey Nomad site we are interested where we place our business..........an attitude adjustment would be likely....
Bruce and Bev...love that little fur tree backwater scene....I bet on a clear day you can practically see forever......even Tasmania?......lol.....Hoo Roo

-- Edited by Golddetectornomad on Saturday 13th of September 2014 10:51:06 PM

Jayco Gypsy · Senior Member

Good on you. I would have done the same and moved on. I think what some park owners forget that there is a place for both and people who wish to camp with out C/P restrictions were never going to be their customers in the first place.

baute · Senior Member

Well since we are being watched, I would just like to say that caravan parks won't get my money when they kick me out at 10am! When some of them charge ridiculous fees for me to park my car and have a snooze, some even have the audacity to charge extra for showers through coin operated showers.

Now lets tell them why we free camp. Is it because it is free? No! It is because we can define our own personal space, it is because we can work to our own timetable. It is because we can choose our neighbours and move on without forfeiting a nights camp fees if we don't like them. Free means freedom to camp how we enjoy camping without others imposing their ideas on what we should be doing and for how long we should be doing it and who we share our space with. Gee I wonder what the world is coming to, the old jolly swagman was able to roll out his swag where ever he wanted as he tramped the land. In my opinion camping is a right we should all be afforded and a part of what makes us us. Maybe some park owners should try free camping and they might just get the concept.

-- Edited by baute on Sunday 14th of September 2014 12:21:07 AM

Mousey · Senior Member

really why dont the Motel owner complain about the CABINS they put in after all they are caravan parks DOH

Cloak · Guru

I prefer Caravan Parks providing they don't have kids or young people or swimming pools or jumping pillows.

Yeah it's a demographic thing maybe they should look it up.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

biggrin Very true Mousey. I have often thought of that myself.

To that CV park spy..........keep spying mate, you might actually learn about how to treat your customers. Have you ever thought that $15 for the night is better than an empty site? have you? Maybe, just maybe if you got up from in front of your poota spying on us and go clean the showers etc, cos if ya always spying on us they must need a clean by now, bugga, I'm on the soap box, I'm out a here biggrin

smile Just some friendly info for ya really! smile

oldbobsbus · Guru

I guess these C/P owners that do this do it becoz it is the only way they know..

It is obvious they have no marketing skills and no management skills..

So they use the only skill they have, letter writing skills and complain to anyone and everyone in a hope that someone will listen to them..

Well authorities are now seeing the benefit of having the Nomads stop in and around their towns and spending money there, it is up to the individual business people to find ways to encourage us to spend our money with them..

Now this brings me to Dougs point, maybe any C/P owner reading this could learn a little and offer us some sort of encouragement to spend some money at their establishment instead of having empty sites while we drive on past to another site..

I'm not about to offer them any advice on how to do this becoz if they don't know how then they in the wrong business.. But I do notice there is some spare advertising spaces on the top of these pages.. biggrin

Allany · Veteran Member

Park owners / managers cannot expect councils and governments to do their bidding
They miss the point

If they provided a park with good size sites, clean amenities and a friendly atmosphere at a reasonable price
They will come

Allan

dorian · Guru

Golddetectornomad wrote:
Bruce and Bev...love that little fur tree backwater scene....

I don't see any fur, but maybe if she turned around ...

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Delta18 wrote:
If it is anything like your avatar pic then it sure is a beautiful sight....I mean site!

Neil I am going to have a word with Lynne, does she know you are a perv? biggrin

oldbobsbus · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
Delta18 wrote:
If it is anything like your avatar pic then it sure is a beautiful sight....I mean site!
Neil I am going to have a word with Lynne, does she know you are a perv?

Geeeee talk about getting off topic....

What we need to do is keep to the topic and encourage the C/P operators to have more of these fur trees around.. biggrin biggrin

GaryKelly · Guru

I've never understood the idea of swapping crowded city living for a holiday in the "great outdoors" living in a crowded caravan park.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

oldbobsbus wrote:
_wombat_ wrote:
Delta18 wrote:
If it is anything like your avatar pic then it sure is a beautiful sight....I mean site!
Neil I am going to have a word with Lynne, does she know you are a perv?
Geeeee talk about getting off topic....
What we need to do is keep to the topic and encourage the C/P operators to have more of these fur trees around..

It was Dougwe that told me how to go off topic biggrin I have two fur tree's in my AV if you look close enough biggrin

Now what was the topic again? I agree with Baute, how's that for back on topic biggrin

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Yeh wombat, ya have gone "off topic" again. Ya don't see me doing that disbelief

This is a serious topic mate and deserves serious replies. So get serious mate biggrin biggrin Hear biggrin biggrin

Hope the Spy is down at the showers cleaning for all the happy campers smile

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Dougwe wrote:
Yeh wombat, ya have gone "off topic" again. Ya don't see me doing that

This is a serious topic mate and deserves serious replies. So get serious mate Hear
Hope the Spy is down at the showers cleaning for all the happy campers

cry cry cry evileye

Cruising Cruze · Guru

@ Wombat

Doug's girls will keep a eye on you mate

-- Edited by Webmaster on Monday 15th of September 2014 08:57:44 AM

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

Cruising Cruze wrote:
@ Wombat

Doug's girls will keep a eye on you mate

OK CC, where is the rest of the pic? biggrin biggrin Dougwe would like to see the bottom half biggrin biggrin

-- Edited by Webmaster on Monday 15th of September 2014 08:58:16 AM

Vic41 · Guru

_wombat_ wrote:
Cruising Cruze wrote:
@ Wombat

Doug's girls will keep a eye on you mate

OK CC, where is the rest of the pic? Dougwe would like to see the bottom half

Maybe they are not interested in men confuse As long as they make good housekeepers and doona covers and keep the porta potti emptied Doug may not care wink biggrin

-- Edited by Webmaster on Monday 15th of September 2014 08:58:52 AM

rickpeppy · Member

Good for you!!!!!!!!,they thin that they can charge what they like and we have no options but to stay in there horrible parks,free camping for me and if they dont like it TOUGH.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Wow! This forum has really deteriorated in my absence. You blokes - I think your ambitions exceed your capabilities.

There is a place for both parks and camping. During the peak time when everyone is on the road at the same time (southern winter), there aren't enough caravan park sites available in this country. So there's a balance and a CHOICE. Then it's a matter of budget. Campers have to eat and fuel up.
I have found park fees quite reasonable recently in Coober Pedy Oasis, Alice Springs Wintersun, Barkly Homestead, Camooweal Roadhouse and Cloncurry.
When I'm on the job we free camp wherever there is room for the big trucks. It can be beautiful. We have to be parked up before sunset. We can't leave until sunrise.
You may have noticed the new, sealed truck parks along some major highways, e.g. Stuart Hwy. But you may have also noticed no toilets at these bays.
Then there are some wonderful overnight camps for caravaners and campers which are barred to trucks. They have toilets, and some even have showers. They really are overnight or 24 hour camps. But many take liberties with the isolation and lack of jurisdiction. What's fair about that?
If a bloody big truck 6 metres or more wide, more than 27 metres long pulled into your favourite "free camp" you'd crack the sh!ts.
When caravans park in the only truck bay for 100 kms we crack the sh!ts. Our hours are determined by law under fatigue management, and it has to be by the book.
The parks can whinge all they like but they wouldn't have enough sites for everyone wanting to stay in any one place for a night or 2 or 3 during peak season.;
You even risk the order to move to another site if you extend your stay, because they've booked your specific site to someone else 12 months before. It's a strange industry.
So you are FREE to choose, but if you have to pull into a truck parking bay for the night, go as forward as your can and as close to the back of the bay as is safe and reasonable. The trucks take up a lot of room and take more to negotiate the space in the park.