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Thornley Leisure Parks
COVID-19 Policy
March 2021(Updated March 15th 2021)
Last season we put several new policies and procedures in place to enable us to open all 9 oh our Holiday Parks across Wales and England in a Covid secure way which was safe for both our customers and staff alike.
We were overwhelmed by the way in which all our customers adhered to the new way of Park Life and we were able to keep everyone as safe as possible whilst staying with us.
We have updated our COVID-19 policy to bring it up to date with the current situation in both England and Wales and would like to ask you to make yourself aware of any policies that have either changed or been adapted since last year, especially the new information regarding face masks.
Helping us keep you safe during your stay.
Thornley Leisure Parks are committed to keeping all of our Holiday Home Owners, Seasonal Touring Customers and Holiday Customers safe whilst Wales and the rest of the UK eases itself out of the latest lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
We know how much our business supports our local communities and economy through local jobs. In addition, you as our customers contribute to the local economy through your shopping and excursions to tourist attractions when you stay. We need to safeguard our local communities, to ensure our teams safety but also that of the businesses who rely on us to survive.
Please note – this guidance and rules are subject to change and we are doing our upmost to keep up to date with the Government guidance across England and Wales and implement updates as quickly as possible. Changes will only be made when we feel it is safe to do so in the individual Holiday Park environment.
What is Covid-19
Covid-19 is a new illness that can affect your lungs and airways, it is caused by a virus called Coronavirus, and is transmitted between people in close contact. There is no vaccine currently and to prevent infection, you should avoid exposure to the disease.
What are the symptoms
The symptoms are a new continuous cough, high temperature, shortness of breath and the loss of taste and smell. It is still possible to have the disease and not show any signs. That is why social distancing is the key to reducing the spread of the disease.
Holiday Home Owners & Seasonal Touring Customers
Our success in keeping our Parks Covid Secure will rely on everyone doing their bit to adhere to our new policies and guidance whilst staying with us. To this end we would ask the following: –
- Under no circumstances should your holiday home be used to self isolate. Anyone found to be doing so will be asked to leave immediately.
- Only travel to your holiday home if you are well enough to do so and are not experiencing any of the recognisable COVID-19 symptoms such as high temperature, new persistent cough or loss of taste and smell.
- If your primary residence is within an area involved in a localised lockdown and there are travel restrictions in place preventing you from leaving your local area, you are not permitted to travel to your holiday home until the restrictions have eased.
- If you have been identified through the Coronavirus Track & Trace programme and have been asked to self-isolate, you must not use your holiday home throughout your self-isolation period.
- If you become unwell whilst at your holiday home, please return to your primary residence to self-isolate and notify us when you return home.
- When on park you must adhere to our social distance and hygiene policies detailed below.
- There should be no social gatherings inside your holiday home.
- We would ask that you do not enter other customers holiday homes on the park.
- Only members of an extended household or support bubble are permitted to use the holiday home at any one time.
- We would ask that anyone staying with you in your holiday home be made aware of the social distancing and hygiene rules. Whilst staying on our parks, your guests are your responsibility and as such, anyone found to be in breach of our current guidance will be asked to leave the Holiday Park with immediate effect.
Please ensure you bring the necessary face coverings, hand sanitizer and cleaning products you will require for your stay.
Holiday Home Maintenance
We understand that there are certain instances where it may be necessary for ‘Emergency’ work to be carried out to your holiday home whilst you are staying with us. These are as follows: –
- Boiler not working – no hot water or heating
- Gas bottle delivery
- No electricity
- Water leaks
- Faulty door locks
- Gas/Electric test
For a member of our staff to carry out any work we would ask that you vacate your holiday home, leaving the windows open to allow for ventilation. Our staff, wearing the appropriate PPE, will attend to the issue and notify you of the outcome.
If any further works require carrying out, including warranty/after-sales we will be able to arrange this following your Holiday Home being vacated for a minimum of 48 hours.
Any outside contractors you employ to work on your holiday home on the park will need to sign in, have their temperature checked and provide copies of their Covid-19 safe working procedure documents in addition to the usual risk assessment and insurance details.
Holiday Accommodation and Short Stay Touring/Camping Guests
Before you arrive with us we would ask the following: –
- You may only holiday with us in your own household or extended household group. Members of different households will not be permitted to stay together in the same accommodation.
- If you or any of your party are experiencing any of the recognisable symptoms of COVID-19, such as a high temperature, a new persistent cough or loss of smell and taste, please let us know before arrival. You will not be able to come to stay with us but we will change your booking dates to a later date in 2021.
- If you or anyone in your party is unable to come and stay with us because you have been identified through the Coronavirus Track & Trace programme and have been asked to self-isolate, please contact us and we can change the dates of your booking to a later date in 2021.
- If you are planning on coming to visit us from an area which has been locally locked down and you are not permitted to leave your local area as a result, you will not be able to stay with us during the lockdown period. Please call us and we will change the dates of your booking to a later date in 2021.
- Please ensure you bring the necessary face coverings, hand sanitizer and cleaning products you will require. We will ensure our accommodation is cleaned to the highest standards, however we would ask all guests arriving with us to take extra precautions during this time.
- Prior to your arrival you will be contacted by a member of our team who will talk you through the new check in procedures. These will vary depending on which of our Parks you have made your booking with. Please ensure you fully understand the new procedures in order to help us safeguard our team.
Whilst you are staying with us: –
- You must adhere to our social distance and hygiene policies detailed below.
When you are getting ready to depart at the end of your stay, we would ask you to leave your accommodation by completing the following: –
- Place all bedding in the yellow bin bag provided
- Ensure all rubbish is placed in our refuse areas provided on the park
- Leave windows open on the latches (weather permitting) and all internal doors throughout the accommodation open to ensure ventilation prior to our housekeeping teams’ arrival
- Once you have locked your accommodation, return any keys and barrier passes to the post box provided outside reception.
Park Facilities
Due to the ongoing pandemic we cannot guarantee that any of our facilities will be available for you during your stay with us. Whilst we are doing our best to deliver as many facilities as we can, our priority as always is the safety of our staff and our customers.
You can obtain detailed information about the availability of park facilities from our receptions.
Social Distance and Hygiene Policy
During this period we will be asking all our staff and customers to adhere to the following: –
- Ensure you keep a safe 2 metre social distance from our staff as well as other guests whilst on our Parks, in our local communities as well as using public transport.
- Wear face coverings in all public areas, including receptions, bars and cafes. You will be permitted to remove your face covering once seated in a bar or café.
- Practice regular handwashing
- Use antibacterial handwash and hand gel where provided.
- Contact Reception via telephone/e-mail in the first instance – don’t use our receptions unless it cannot be avoided.
- Ensure children are supervised at all times whilst on our parks to ensure social distancing is respected.
Track & Trace
In order to comply with the Governments policy on the safe re-opening of Holiday Parks, we need to demonstrate that we are aware of who is on our Holiday Parks at any time. In order to do this we would ask you to e-mail your park details of the following: –
Name and Plot Reference
Names of guests
Arrival date and departure date
Whilst we understand that you might find this intrusive, it is a legal requirement and the details will be kept for 21 days. Please note, this is not going to be forever and we hope that by everyone working together these conditions won’t be with us for long.
Local Area Lockdowns
If your primary residence falls into an area which becomes “Locked down” due to an outbreak of COVID-19 we will insist on the following: –
Owners/Long stay touring customers
- If staying with us when your primary residence goes into “lockdown”, where travel restrictions have been implemented you will be permitted to stay. However, if you leave the park overnight you will not be permitted to return to us until the local lockdown restrictions have eased.
- You would not be permitted to arrive at your holiday home once your primary residence has been locked down and travel restrictions have been put in place.
Hire Caravan/Short term touring customers
- If you are staying with us when your local area goes into lockdown, you can see out the rest of your holiday but you must return home when your holiday booking comes to an end.
- If you are due to arrive with us when your local area goes into lockdown and local travel restrictions have been put in place, please contact us as soon as the lockdown happens and we will move your holiday booking to a later date in 2021.
- We are unable to refund any holiday bookings due to a local area lockdown being implemented.
Private Hire
Owners that hire out their holiday home privately will need to issue us with their own COVID-19 policy and procedures which will detail items such as meet and greet, keys and barrier pass handover, changeover and cleaning procedure. Reception must be issued with an arrival list detailing the names of each guest in the party and their departure dates along with contact details. During this time, our Receptions will not be permitted to take any part in the handover of keys or barrier passes.
Legionella
Legionella is the primary bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ Disease; a type of pneumonia. If your Caravan was not drained down at the point of the park closure it is important that you are aware of the risk and follow these simple procedures to reduce the risk:
Descale & disinfect showerheads – The aerosol from showers could spread Legionella so the shower hose, insert and showerhead should be thoroughly cleaned, descaled and disinfected.
Water Pipes – It will be important when returning to your caravan that you run the water through all taps for a couple of minutes, hot and cold. Ensure that toilet seats are down when flushed.
Further guidance can be found online.
Bins/Refuse Areas
We ask that you wash your hands both prior to and after using the refuse disposal points. Hand sanitizer has been provided, please use this before and after depositing your waste in the bins provided. Please ensure that all bin bags are sealed when using the general waste bins.
Changes you will see around our parks
- Enhanced cleaning regime across all areas
- Antibacterial hand gels and sprays available in all central facilities
- Perspex barriers and queuing systems in service areas such as reception and bars (where and when applicable)
- Social distancing markers on the floor
- Reduced capacity in service areas such as receptions and bars (where and when applicable)
- Team members temperature checked prior to starting work
We understand that the additional guidance and rules above may appear onerous, but we hope you will see that most of the guidance is a common sense approach and by us all doing our bit we can hopefully get back to normality sooner rather than later.
The advice above is subject to change as the current situation evolves and we will endeavour to keep you updated with any amendments as they are introduced.
Thornley Leisure Parks enquiries@thornleyleisure.co.uk
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Craiglwyd Hall Caravan Park craiglwydhall@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01492 623355
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The Beach Caravan Park the.beach@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01492 515345
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Dinlle Caravan Park dinlle@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01286 830324
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Maenan Abbey Caravan Park maenan@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01492 660630
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Ocean Heights Caravan Park oceanheights@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01766 810519
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Green Pastures Caravan Park greenpastures@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01766 810519
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Lakeside Caravan Park lakeside@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01606 861043
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Gallaber Park gallaber@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01729 851397
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Valley View Holiday Park valleyview@thornleyleisure.co.uk
Phone 01938 500265
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