parking in chester (part 2 )

[trickydicky]

hi everyone, just got back from chester.had a wonderful time (no rain).found the "little roodee" carpark easily. it was just as you all said, 5mins walk from chester,always other m/h's there, very quiet, barrier down at 10.30 for the night. no problems at all.

i will mention though the charges. when we got there we parked in the coaches/lorry bays as our m/h takes up 2 car bays.i went to pay (£10 for over 6hrs,£5 overnight).luckily for me the pay booth wasn't working and there was someone there mending the ticket machine,so i enquired if we were ok where we had parked. he told us, no, we should use a car bay (even though we were overhanging) and just pay for a car ( £5.90 over 6hrs,£1.50 overnight). he said everyone did that and we would be ok. so that's what we did,and saved ourselves nearly £15. i did notice though that there were a few bays along the river edge of the carpark that were longer and m/h's tended to use these if they were free.it's such a shame more councils don't allow us to use their carparks, they are usually in a prime position and saves having to worry about transport to and from a campsite etc.

 

 

[Cattwg]

Thank you for the update. We shall certainly consider Roodee car park when we are next in the area.

Cattwg :-)

[GJH]

trickydicky - 2009-07-25 3:01 PM

 

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it's such a shame more councils don't allow us to use their carparks, they are usually in a prime position and saves having to worry about transport to and from a campsite etc.

 

This has been discussed on many other threads of course but always worth another visit. Councils will only change their attitudes if they see a positive outcome.

 

Perhaps you might like to write to your local council and/or those in areas you like to visit using your trip to Chester as an example of how much economic benefit the city gained - and other councils could gain.

 

Graham

 

 

[Hymer C 9.]

Hi Trickydicky, we cycled from our home just over the Welsh Boarder along the river and on to the Roudee Car Park (which one were you) there were 8 motorhomes parked there 2 Italian 1 Irish the rest from UK. The weather was beautiful, the sad new is to make use of the Roudee while we can as Planning permission has just been granted for a new theatre to be built on the site, they are bringing Chester up to City of Culture status and lots of work is ongoing.

 

It might be a idea to drop a email to Chester CC saying what a useful facility it is when we use it then when eventually it goes they may provide facilities else where in the city. Carol.