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Cobh the most sensible Motorhome Parking in Ireland?

 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #1

Cobh the most sensible Motorhome Parking in Ireland?

It has everything a Motorhomer needs.

• Fresh Water
  
• Cassette Emptying
  
• Drive over drain for grey water.
  

No expensive French style Bournes, no EHU.


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Whilst Portgleone Aire is fantastic it is a total overkill for services.

Whilst Broughsane is nice, and handy to a great village, why do you need 10 hours of Electric?

ETC.........

Why do some Motorhomers require EHU? you are parked, with the added benefit of overnighting, not camped, if you want to camp use a campsite.

What do you expect from a French Aire? The three points above? So why would expect more from an Irish Motorhome Parkng Area?

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 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #2

Agreed, only other requirement is a rubbish bin.

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 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #3

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Agreed, only other requirement is a rubbish bin.

If you put a rubbish bin in,it will be full in seconds,and left overflowing

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 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #4

Carry a couple of black bags in the garage and fill them as you go along. your domestic bin will be empty so thats sorted.

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 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #5

Plenty of bins along the sea front last time I was there.

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 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #6

Called by to check it out on the way back from Kinsale last week, it is a great location and definitely well laid out. Will be visiting it in the coming months. Also checked out the stopover at Midleton, not quite as good as Cobh but at least has dedicated spaces. Also FYI Lidl in Kinsale allow overnight parking for Motorhomes in their car park, we actually parked up on the quays but it's a good option.

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Re: Cobh the most sensible Motorhome Parking in Ireland?

 ·  Posted: 02.11.2016  ·  #7

Quote by TAYLOR.

Quote by kabundi

Agreed, only other requirement is a rubbish bin.

If you put a rubbish bin in,it will be full in seconds,and left overflowing

I agree Ken, Maybe a pay to use Compactor would be the answer, we used one in Co Wexford this year, it was handy but expensive, I think €7 for standard black bin bag.

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electic in Broughshane

 ·  Posted: 06.11.2016  ·  #8

To answer a valid question, the 10 hr electric was introduced to assist disabled and ill motorhome users who required electric overnight for medical equiptment. prior to this a cable had to be run from some of the adjacent buildings to assist these motorhome users, Broughshane saw the need and responded to this.

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 ·  Posted: 06.11.2016  ·  #9

Re: EHU for medical requirements.
My bro-in-law runs his sleep apnea machine off an inverter all night and can manage fine without an EHU.

Re: rubbish bins.
In the south, unlike most of the rest of Europe, we have household bin charges for domestic refuse collections. If the European policy of providing bins at motorhome parking areas was followed here the bins would inevitable by used by local residents trying to minimise their refuse collection charge and be filled in a day or less.
Facilities for the disposal of 'household rubbish' by tourists is one of the unresolved issues surrounding the provision of motorhome service bays here.
It is a littering offence to place 'household rubbish' in street-side litter bins so the only law abiding way is to keep it in a black bag until a proper disposal point is found. Not the best idea but there is no other legal option.

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Why not add Big Bin locations and the locations of others who provide waste disposal services to the MHC App

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 ·  Posted: 06.11.2016  ·  #10

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Note to Ally:
Why not add Big Bin locations and the locations of others who provide waste disposal services to the MHC App

Good idea, I'll look into it.

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 ·  Posted: 06.11.2016  ·  #11

Quote by baguette

Note to Ally:
Why not add Big Bin locations and the locations of others who provide waste disposal services to the MHC App

Very good Idea Colin
This Summer was the first year we didn't take the Van to France, Rubbish disposal was a problem here in Ireland, lucky we had a list of Compactors since we were joined Safe Nights Ireland

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Quote by baguette

Note to Ally:
Why not add Big Bin locations and the locations of others who provide waste disposal services to the MHC App

As if by magic

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #14

Snobbery at Cobh

 

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #15

No need to bring one with you 🫣🫣

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #16

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Snobbery at Cobh

 

There is a Caravan and Motorhome Club (used to be The Caravan Club) etiquette which says units should not be parked door to door. That's ok for the CAMC who in past had a membership who almost exclusively had UK units all with their doors on the same side.
For motorhomes which can be a mixture of front and rear lounge layouts with their door on the left or right hand side there can be no clearcut etiquette except be discrete and respectful of your neighbours privacy as practicable.

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #17

Normally I'd try to avoid parking door to door but a bit hard to do at times as some of ye insist on having right hand drive vehicles. If you don't like looking into my motorhome pull down your own damn screens.

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #18

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No need to bring one with you 🫣🫣

Exactly. I know what my reply would of been.

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #19

In my opinion the first one there has the choice, the next one there parks to suit their own privacy .

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 ·  Posted: 21.07.2022  ·  #20

The above comment from Denise was posted as a reply to myself posting Our Guide to using an AIRE in Ireland.

I think Mrs/Miss/Ms Bay2, should wind her neck in.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #21

I always thought it was hab doors face away from each other ...unless you are with the next van

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #22

Exactly.

Unless it's cowboys and heroes at Drumcoura where the vans are so close together you park door to door and share the same step.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #23

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Normally I'd try to avoid parking door to door but a bit hard to do at times as some of ye insist on having right hand drive vehicles. If you don't like looking into my motorhome pull down your own damn screens.

Your right Liam, it's not your fault if someone else has their door on the wrong side, we are European,s after all.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #24

Quote by baguette

Quote by MHC

Snobbery at Cobh

 

There is a Caravan and Motorhome Club (used to be The Caravan Club) etiquette which says units should not be parked door to door. That's ok for the CAMC who in past had a membership who almost exclusively had UK units all with their doors on the same side.
For motorhomes which can be a mixture of front and rear lounge layouts with their door on the left or right hand side there can be no clearcut etiquette except be discrete and respectful of your neighbours privacy as practicable.

There is a pretty universal policy of don't be a dick which can and should be applied to most scenarios.

I'm trying to understand the scenario above, what could parking door to door achieve once you go beyond the first two spaces?

I'm assuming that when she says parked door to kerb, she means the kerb along the side of the playground and not that they parked across spaces, parallel to the seafront.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #25

Quote by <BM>

Quote by baguette

Quote by MHC

Snobbery at Cobh

 

There is a Caravan and Motorhome Club (used to be The Caravan Club) etiquette which says units should not be parked door to door. That's ok for the CAMC who in past had a membership who almost exclusively had UK units all with their doors on the same side.
For motorhomes which can be a mixture of front and rear lounge layouts with their door on the left or right hand side there can be no clearcut etiquette except be discrete and respectful of your neighbours privacy as practicable.

There is a pretty universal policy of don't be a dick which can and should be applied to most scenarios.

I'm trying to understand the scenario above, what could parking door to door achieve once you go beyond the first two spaces?

I'm assuming that when she says parked door to kerb, she means the kerb along the side of the playground and not that they parked across spaces, parallel to the seafront.

"Don't be a dick" should be the only law necessary for both motorhome sites and wider society in general. You can solve pretty much everything by adhering to that simple phrase.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #26

Your interpretation of the scenario is accurate; we parked with hab door opening to the Fitness Park which seemed logical to us!

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #27

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Your interpretation of the scenario is accurate; we parked with hab door opening to the Fitness Park which seemed logical to us!

Can't see any issue, I would have done the same myself (pretty sure I have in fact). Given the variety of MoHo layouts, I'd generally try and keep my habitation door facing the same direction as neighboring vans if there seemed to be a consistency in how they were parked, after that it's much of a muchness. Given you arrived before them, the onus is on them to follow your lead.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #28

Let's say 90%, I've no idea of the actual figure, of moho's are European built with the habitation door on the rhs. However if a UK model arrives with the habitation door on the lhs the door facing door scenario is unavailable unless the UK model, which here is generally in the minority, reverses in.
If a moho us a rear lounge layout reversing in is probably the chosen preference of the owner anyway.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #29

Also depends if they were pointing towards the sea or not.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #30

I prefer the "Hi! How are you doing? Good I hope? I see my door is facing yours, happy enough? or would you like me to move?"

Or " I made a right balls of that, want me to spin around?"

A-classes can be funny in how they are parked. Reverse in you can't see out your massive window. Drive in you still can't see out of it as you turn your seats around.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #31

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Your interpretation of the scenario is accurate; we parked with hab door opening to the Fitness Park which seemed logical to us!

Other than being an idiot, I can't see how you effected them in any way, you had actually given them the choice to park however they wanted to. Like you, I would have parked front facing the sea for the view. with the had door facing away from the other parking spaces, ( euro van) so no-one could then park with their door facing my door.
It's one of the reasons I don't like Cobh, too many me' feiners. With sunloungers, tables and chairs,and no inforcement.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #32

I hate when you arrive at a space between two vans which have their doors facing each other.
Strandhill campsite have a policy (I usually ask when booking in to places), they say if standing on a pitch looking to the road, the hab door is to open out to the grass area on your left.
I tend to go with that everywhere since.

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #33

Am I missing something I don’t really care if my door is facing someone else’s if they don’t like it they can move it don’t bother me after all I’ve payed my ten euros to park facing the sea

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #34

Is it really any wonder very few people get involved in creating anything for Motorhomers?
Your door cannot be facing my door, ok instead of you having that beautiful scenic view turn your Motorhome the other way around and look into that block wall .
Bloody children would be easier pleased.
Can we not all just meet, have a chat and be happy?

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #35

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Is it really any wonder very few people get involved in creating anything for Motorhomers?
Your door cannot be facing my door, ok instead of you having that beautiful scenic view turn your Motorhome the other way around and look into that block wall .
Bloody children would be easier pleased.
Can we not all just meet, have a chat and be happy?

Over here the big thing is to wave at fellow motorhomers and then when you get to site they ignore you. Go figure

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 ·  Posted: 22.07.2022  ·  #36

The day I park my Motorhome and someone comes in beside me and tries to persuade me to change direction because they feel I am not parked to their delight will not end well.
It is called live and let live, and they will realise who is parked and happy.

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 ·  Posted: 23.07.2022  ·  #37

Quote by Albert the Talbot

Quote by ntg

Is it really any wonder very few people get involved in creating anything for Motorhomers?
Your door cannot be facing my door, ok instead of you having that beautiful scenic view turn your Motorhome the other way around and look into that block wall .
Bloody children would be easier pleased.
Can we not all just meet, have a chat and be happy?

Over here the big thing is to wave at fellow motorhomers and then when you get to site they ignore you. Go figure

I only discovered the waving thing the other day! I only got my MH a few weeks ago and just discovered that everyone was waving at me on the way past. Initially I said to the wife "that's f***ing cringe, not getting involved in that" .

But then I felt like a scrouge and rude for not waving back, so I did. Now I think it's great! Everyone seems so cheerful and happy to be off out in the van and waving is kinda spreading the love a bit. I'm all in now

I'm only just finding out about this door facing etiquette too. Didn't realise it was such a big deal. I don't really give a sh*t if someone is facing me or not. If they are and they want a chat then great, if not that's fine too. I'm not bothered either way.

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 ·  Posted: 23.07.2022  ·  #38

I park whatever way gives me the better view from my lounge window. The way my door is facing is a very secondary consideration. If my door happens to be directly opposite someone else's and they have a problem with that, they are of course free to move.

I remember at one of the Caravan Club national rallies in England a good few years ago I was directed to a 'special' line for European designed motorhomes and caravans with their door on the 'wrong' side

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 ·  Posted: 23.07.2022  ·  #39

OK, I'm going to stand my ground on this one. What's wrong with basic courtesy?
Example? Last summer, Dick's Field. We had been there a couple of days enjoying the sunshine and waiting for the reserved space next to us to fill.
A van conversion arrives, sliding door opposite our door.
We were well back from the seafront, so there was no view, they could have parked either way.
A grown family emerge and set up all the usual, as we all do. But then on goes the stereo, out come the beers, and we're now unavoidable participants in their holiday. They kept the sliding door wide open the whole time so when we opened our door or sat outside in the heat we couldn't help but see and hear every aspect of their days and evenings.
So the advice seems to be that we should pack up all our gear and move to another space?
Not that they should at least consider their temporary neighbours and park with their door on the other side when they arrive?
From my late dad's Australian High School pennant: 'Manners Maketh Man'

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Re: Cobh the most sensible Motorhome Parking in Ireland?

 ·  Posted: 23.07.2022  ·  #40

Quote by tony glenn

OK, I'm going to stand my ground on this one. What's wrong with basic courtesy?
Example? Last summer, Dick's Field. We had been there a couple of days enjoying the sunshine and waiting for the reserved space next to us to fill.
A van conversion arrives, sliding door opposite our door.
We were well back from the seafront, so there was no view, they could have parked either way.
A grown family emerge and set up all the usual, as we all do. But then on goes the stereo, out come the beers, and we're now unavoidable participants in their holiday. They kept the sliding door wide open the whole time so when we opened our door or sat outside in the heat we couldn't help but see and hear every aspect of their days and evenings.
So the advice seems to be that we should pack up all our gear and move to another space?
Not that they should at least consider their temporary neighbours and park with their door on the other side when they arrive?
From my late dad's Australian High School pennant: 'Manners Maketh Man'

when I said I park whatever way gives me the better view from my lounge window. The way my door is facing is a very secondary consideration. If my door happens to be directly opposite someone else's and they have a problem with that, they are of course free to move. I was referring to a new arrival and talking on the basis that I was there first.
Personally, I have no issue with somebody parking door to door with me provided it doesn't evolve into me being absorbed into their life contrary to my wishes.
I feel your pain in Dick's Field last summer Tony

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