LRM Show @ Billing - Silly Rules.......

[hrh_dave]

Just been reading the FAQ on Billing and OMG what the heck is going on.......

Lifted from LRM Billing Site

What time can I arrive for camping?
Camping arrivals will be accepted Monday July 14 - Thursday July 17. All camping pitches must be set up by Thursday, campers will not be allowed to set up on Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Camping reception will open at 8am to 6pm Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and 8am to 10pm on Thursday. Please do not arrive outside these hours as you will not be able to set up camp until your entry has been processed by show officials. Campers arriving outside these hours will be required to wait in a 'holding' area until reception opens......
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Where will my camping pitch be?
You will be free to chose which ever marked out camping pitch you wish, on a first-come, first served basis. We cannot reserve specific pitches and you will not be allocated any particular pitch or area - you can continue to camp in your favourite Billing spot. Everything you bring with you - vehicle, tent or caravan, awning, gazebo... must fit within the confines of your 10m x 7m pitch.

What if my caravan is too big to fit into a 10m x 7m pitch?
Your options are either to bring a smaller caravan (!) or to purchase two pitches. You will not be permitted to allow any part of the caravan, vehicle or anything else to extend beyond the 10m x 7m perimeter of your pitch.
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Is it just me or this discriminating against anyone who normally turns up on a Friday night.... after work..... Or drives at night and usually arrives in the middle of the night like me.....

[schuee]

This is news to me, I have already booked up for Billing for two camping pitches and when I booked there was no mention of these rules, we normally turn up on the Friday afternoon to setup camp so we can have a few beers in the evening, if this is true it has well and truly cocked things up for us all :?

So they are saying, after Thursday no one can arrive for camping/caravaning? Surely they cannot enforce this rule, think I will be on the phone in the morning to LRM.

Keith

[hrh_dave]

Let us know how you get on......... I think Im heading for the Farmers Field and escape the on site madness..........

[annabelle]

I don't think you will be the only one getting upset about this, it does seem very restrictive.  Maybe LRM are planning to invade Poland as their next event.

[Bob696]

They obviously don't want the money off people who actualy have to work on a friday.

We can't go if these rules stand.

[Eeyore]

  Maybe LRM are planning to invade Poland as their next event.

I can understand the sentiment, but I think it's Billing themselves that are enforcing this (no doubt for health and safety) and not of LRMs doing.

It's still sucks though, and will be overly restrictive for an awful lot of people.

I guess yon famrers going to a busy bunny this year!

Cheers
 

[schuee]

Well I have tried to call, though they must be busy, also have e-mailed to both address's, without any reply as yet, so can only wait and see.

More than likely, it will be the Thursday we will have to go now or one of us to put the tent up, though I have to break the news to everone else who's coming now, there going to be well chuffed off.

Keith

[hrh_dave]

This is the strange bit..... Had a look at the advert in the comic and cant see anything mentioned in the stupidly small print..... It seems the only place its mentioned is on the web..... Was it something they were going to leave telling everyone till they got there tickets about a month before.... or when they turned up on the Friday night to be told to go away in short sharp jerky movements...

[madmatt]

I agree not being allowed to turn up on the Friday is unreasonable. Perhaps the latest arrival time should be 11pm, But I think its a good idea not allowing people to set up in the middle of the night. Last time I camped on site I was woken up at silly hrs by people arriving and setting up one couple even had a domestic at 3am while pitching their tent!

[TDi90]

I agree not being allowed to turn up on the Friday is unreasonable. Perhaps the latest arrival time should be 11pm, But I think its a good idea not allowing people to set up in the middle of the night. Last time I camped on site I was woken up at silly hrs by people arriving and setting up one couple even had a domestic at 3am while pitching their tent!

try a festival  :P :twisted: :dance:

[Tommo]

yeah.

What if they were albino people who couldnt come out in the day? they would be well annoyed with you noisily putting your tent up at 10am when they are trying to sleep.

[Jake]

Looks like my caravan will be in the farmers field too  ;)
 :D

[combatjohnny]

can anyone tell me if you have to ring the farmer up to arrange a pitch or do you just turn up, does anyone have his number.

[DEANO3528]

I have a feeling that the farmer has given LRM the job of booking his field as well, like last year.
A lot of the problem is that in the past people did just what they wanted to do, as the Billing staff couldn't care less. Last year was the first time with both new management and a new show organiser.
As a result things were a little confused but lessons were definitely learned.
Hence the pitch marking for the first time, which was hugely unpopular, but no different to any other campsite (except perhaps under the old Billing regime) you might visit.

One of the main problem areas addressed last year was people trying to get in and camp for nothing. In the past there were no proper checks made, but now you have passes, wristbands etc. and the idea is being considered this year of a security fence all around the showground, a la Glastonbury, to stop gatecrashers.
It's fairer, after all you paid your money why should someone else get in for free just because they parked on the industrial estate and came into the show on the footpath?
Just my tenpence-worth as I was involved last year.

[schuee]

I totally agree with the principle of wrist bands, and the camping pitches marked out as I can remember Billing as a free for all in years gone by, and sometimes nearly not getting a pitch, though as hrh_dave quoted, there was no mention when LRM first starting advertising booking up for Billing in the mag and on the website, of not being able to arrive on the Friday.
It has certainly put the spanner in the works for our group :x

[kizz81]

hello,
i have a booked 4 camping places but at least two of us have a school prom on the thursday so we planned to go on the friday, what am i meant to do about that? send two of use up on the thursday and the other two of us go on the friday?  :shock:

cheers kieran

[datalas]

All things considered it's the blooming wrist straps I hate,   If you're working at the show you either have to put them on sufficiently loosely so you can take them off again, or not shower for three days.  That and they're jolly uncomfortable to sleep in :(

As for their use I can kind of see the point, but Billing has a public right of way going through it, unless you can *somehow* put a TRO on the smegger it's not going to stop people being allowed to walk up it :?

[hrh_dave]

Ive just left a message to try and find out if the farmer is doing camping this year.......... Will let you all know in due course...........

[hrh_dave]

Just booked the farmers field..... Doesnt matter when you arrive....... and slightly cheaper.

[TDi90]

All things considered it's the blooming wrist straps I hate,   If you're working at the show you either have to put them on sufficiently loosely so you can take them off again, or not shower for three days.  That and they're jolly uncomfortable to sleep in :(

you are joking me arent you??
daz, i right now have three wristbands that have not come off yet from previous festivals.
> Reading 2007
> Download 2007
> Glastonbury 2005!!!!

i havent taken them off. theyre still there, admittedly when they break or fall off then fine but till then theyre on my write and as i say the glasto one has been there for coming up to 3 years!!!!

[Thrasher]

> Reading 2007
> Download 2007
> Glastonbury 2005!!!!

Normal people who bathe and stuff cut them off and keep them as a souvenier. Imagine all the skin than must be ingrained in those .... ick!

[TDi90]

no normal people keep them on, and just bathe with them on!!

[Thrasher]

Having been attending music festivals since 1976 I am at a loss to wonder why it is "normal" to keep a temporary paper wristband on for longer than a weekend. Thankfully my kids are so "abnormal" they despise the things and take them off at the first opportunity.

Hey Rob, you got your *first* ever wristband? I have - it's from 1971....

[TDi90]

i do actually, its from 2005.
but its cloth not paper  :P

[datalas]

i do actually, its from 2005.
but its cloth not paper  :P

The billing ones are usually poorly made selotape with paper on them that go manky when wet and so on and so forth, not something I would keep on for three years ..

[Thrasher]

i do actually, its from 2005.
but its cloth not paper 

You are only 3????

[schuee]

Have just spoken to a very nice lady at LRM, however after explaining that we always arrived on a Friday and have done so for the last 5 years, and it would cause alot of headache to arrive earlier, she knew nothing of the restrictions of not being able to turn up on the Fri/Sat/Sun to camp.She thought it may apply to traders only, so she is looking into the matter and will be in touch with me in due course.

[Frankie-Boy]

For overflow camping in the farmers fields contact Richard Arrowsmith on 01604 890271, and mention Mud-Club.

[schuee]

hello,
i have a booked 4 camping places but at least two of us have a school prom on the thursday so we planned to go on the friday, what am i meant to do about that? send two of use up on the thursday and the other two of us go on the friday?  :shock:

cheers kieran

Have just had a call from LRM, apparentley you can turn up on the Friday now, though there won't be any marshalls to help you to your pitch.So it will be down to you to find a pitch yourself, and hopefully if you have more than one pitch booked you will get them together, depending on how busy the site is.So the upshot is you takea ya chances if you arrive on Friday.

Thats what I have been told so will go with that, though I would suggest anyone else going Friday, it maybe an idea just to confirm it also and post here, I spoke to Christine at LRM on 01359 240066, she was very helpfull.

To be honest, this is what we have always done in previous years. ;)

Cheers

Keith

[kizz81]

thanks keith,
i will try and get some friends  to save me a pitch near them  :lol:

cheers kieran