General Terms & Conditions.
Thank you for choosing to stay with us at Crich Lane Farm, we hope you enjoy your stay. Please find below the terms and conditions applicable to our site. We abbreviate Certificated Location to ‘CL’. We use the word ‘outfit’ as a generic term to describe a motorhome or a caravan towed by a car.
Our operating certificate is issued by the Caravan and Motorhome Club under Paragraph 5 of the First Schedule of The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960.
Our CL operates by the following Caravan and Motorhome Club rules:
- Only members of the Caravan and Motorhome Club on producing their membership cards may be accommodated on the CL, for the purposes of recreation.
- Not more than 5 caravans, motor caravans or trailer tents may be stationed on the CL at any time.
- No caravan or motor caravan shall be allowed to stay for more than 28 consecutive days.
- No tent camping to be allowed on-site (only a small single-berth pup tent ancillary to the main outfit can be accepted).
You are required to give us your Caravan and Motorhome Club membership number when booking (or ‘Access Code’ if you have hired a motorhome via one of the schemes operated via the Caravan and Motorhome Club). We will check your current membership status with the Club before confirming your booking. If you cease to be a member of the Club, you will not be allowed to stay here and any payment you have made will be forfeited unless we have enough time to re-let the pitch that you have booked.
Minimum Length of Stay
The minimum length of stay for advance bookings is normally 2 nights (longer for Bank Holidays). If we have still vacancies close to the arrival date, we might accept 1-night bookings to fill gaps in our calendar.
Bank Holidays
As a Certificated Location, Crich Lane Farm only accepts 5 caravans at a time on either of our 2 CL’s Normally, guests may stay for as little as two nights, but our site is so popular on Bank Holidays, that we only take advance bookings from Club members planning to ‘stay for or pay for’ more than just 2 nights over a Bank Holiday period. This is because many guests use Bank Holidays as part of an extended holiday and would be prevented from doing so if Bank Holidays were reserved by short-stay guests. The minimum length of stay varies between 3 and 7 nights, depending on the popularity of the Bank Holiday.
Payments, Refunds, Cancellations and Failure to Arrive
Our pitch fee is £17.50 per outfit per night, including electric hook-up.
- A 2 night deposit pitch is payable at the time of booking. Once we confirm your booking, your deposit payment is non-refundable and non-transferable.
- The balance of your pitch fee is payable on arrival.
- If you leave early, your pitch fee is not refundable or transferable (in practice, our experience is the opposite – many people ask to extend their stay here longer than their original booking).
- If you have paid us and WE are required to close our site due to a local Covid lockdown, we will refund you.
- If YOU are unable to travel here or need to leave early (for whatever reason including being required to self-isolate), there is no right to a refund or postponement, and that becomes a matter for your travel insurance.
- If you fail to arrive by midnight on the day that you are due, and we are unable to contact you, we will assume that you have cancelled your visit and will take steps to re-let your pitch.
- Deposits are to protect us against cancellation and lost income. If we are able to re-let any of the nights that guests cancel, we refund pro-rata, less our banking costs. If you do need to cancel your booking please notify us as soon as possible so that we may re-offer the vacancy.
Three or more outfits arriving together may be required to pay the balance of their pitch fee in full before arrival. This is non-refundable and non-transferable. (Our experience is that large groups are more likely to cancel if one of the group falls ill, and the impact on our business is greater than an individual cancellation.)
Arrival & Departure
Call at the farm house reception if you require guidance regarding siting, in particular to show you the hard-standings during wetter months. If we are not at home – please try ringing us, we might not be far away.
Arrive after 1 pm and vacate your pitch before 12noon on your day of departure. This is so that we have no more than 5 vans on-site at any one time. We do not allow earlier arrivals or later departures unless by prior arrangement in order to avoid traffic congestion at our entrance.
Dogs and other animals
We allow a of 2 dogs per outfit if you have more please advise at time of booking.
You are required to keep your animal(s) under close control at all times and clean up after them. Animals are not to be left unattended.
Cars
CLs are intended for recreational purposes and our expectation is that guests bring one car as the towing vehicle. Large motorhomes occasionally bring a car as a ‘runaround’ vehicle. If you wish to bring more than one car, please arrange this with us in advance. We will require the registration numbers of the additional cars so that we know “who’s who” on site.
Electric Supply
We have 16A hookups and charge a flat-rate pitch fee inclusive of ‘reasonable use’ of electricity inside caravans or motorhomes. We do not permit charging of electric cars or using electricity to heat awnings or use equipment outside the caravan or motorhome as we believe this is not ‘reasonable use’. Likewise, we only permit one electrical connection per outfit and do not allow electrical ‘splitters’.
For economy and fire safety, switch heaters off unless you are on site.
Behaviour
Guests are to abide by the Caravan Code and the Countryside Code – both are shown in the ‘Sites Directory and Handbook’ that is issued to all Club Members.
The site is to be quiet after 10pm. It is not suitable for parties or events.
No flying kites, drones, model aircraft etc.
No open fires, noisy fireworks, aerial fireworks or flying lanterns.
In line with Caravan and Motorhome Club rules, we reserve the right to refuse acceptance or to terminate the visit of any person whose conduct, or that of their animals, is detrimental to us or to our other visitors.
Special Needs or Disabilities
We will do our best to accommodate special needs or disabilities. Please explain your needs at our time of booking in case we need to make special arrangements.
Loss & Damage
We will not be held responsible for any loss or damage, however caused, to your property or vehicles or any injury to you or your visitors whilst staying on our CL.
Photographs
We sometimes take photographs of the CL for our Facebook page or website. Please let us know if you would prefer that we don’t include you.
General
Our website and its components are offered for informational purposes only; we shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, usefulness or availability of any information transmitted or made available via this site, and shall not be responsible or liable for any error or omissions in that information.
We reserve the right to change these conditions from time to time as we see fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms.
Please familiarise yourself with the Caravan and Motorhome Club’s ‘Visiting a CL’ guidance on pages 262-264 of the 2023/2024 Sites Directory & Handbook.
