How early do you book?

[MollieO]

Having failed to find anywhere to go this weekend and also having had difficulty earlier in the summer holidays I'm wondering how organised I need to be for next year.

Clearly lots of people don't wait until the long range weather forecast before booking (my mistake) but just how many months in advance should I book?

Looking at UK campsites only.

sommer hols, bank holidays - about 2 months in advance. other than that I don*t bother with booking at all.

Depends where it is, main summer break about 2 months before, most others the week before. Have stayed at 2 sites this year which didn't require a deposit, they weren't fancy but great not to worry about wasting money.

booked main summer hols in March, as wanted 4 pitches together. Also booked Spring Bank at a similar time. Non summer holiday weekends we book 3/4 weeks in advance usually, though may try a couple of days ahead if we are free for the weekend and the forecast is good

I tried to book for this weekend last weekend but haven't been able to find anything at all.

Have you got somewhere booked yet?

This site has space....
Tudor camping park

I'm going camping tomorrow morning and will book when I get there.

In the Uk december, eurpoe turn up and get in to a campsite it is very very different abroad form the Uk even though we tryed in Novemeber for a site in Bristol we failed....

OMG ivykaty44 - you just turn up (in France)! I just spat my coffee out! I would be scared stiff there would be no spaces

I have been camping abroad on my own with my dd's since dd was 18 months old - I have never booked a campsite in france or spain in aorund 8 summers of camping in eurpoe, have been into holland aswell and germany and not once booked.

We got caught out one night - we tuned up and they had spaces at this site but it was busy and noisey and aorund 50 euros a pitch so we stayed one night and moved on...

The first time I took dd's away and dd2 was 18 months and dd1 was 8 that holiday - we had a ball, I gave dd1 the map and said we need to be around here tonight you direct and odn't worry if you go wrong we can alwya find somewhere to stay - so we would head for a general direction and stay where we ended up and have 2-3 night. We did this for 4 weeks from santandar to st malo

Wow I am very impressed! You must have had a great time.

I think I would over analyse everthing in my mind that could go wrong, hence I am a meticulous planner.

Thx CoffeeMad we are going to give it a miss this weekend. I got so fed up at not finding anywhere I liked that had space we've decided to stay at home and see friends instead.