The short version

Anytime Booking is a UK booking and management system built for larger holiday parks and mixed accommodation, statics, owner sales, lodges and touring under one roof. It's aimed at parks that run a full PMS and pay for one.

CampSuite™ is a camping platform that runs the whole site, bookings, payments, guest messages, arrivals and the daily jobs, from your phone. It's purpose-built for UK campsites and touring parks of every size, free for up to 100 pitches, live in about 15 minutes, and getting more powerful every month.

If you're a five-pitch CL owner, CampSuite™ is the clear fit, and it's free. If you run a large multi-park holiday-park operation with statics and owner sales, Anytime Booking is the more established choice, for now. Most sites sit in between, and that's where CampSuite™ wins on price, mobile and simplicity.

Who each one suits best

Choose CampSuite™ if

  • You run a CL, CS, touring site, or larger UK park (free for up to 100 pitches, or a tailored plan for bigger multi-park groups)
  • You want your diary on your phone, not tied to a desktop
  • You want free software for up to 100 pitches
  • Simple is a feature, not a limitation
  • You'd rather not train staff on a complex PMS

Choose Anytime Booking if

  • You run a holiday park with statics, touring, and residential pitches
  • You need a full PMS with owner-account handling and complex invoicing
  • You have multiple parks and need centralised head-office reporting
  • You already have a dedicated reception team trained in a PMS-style tool
  • You need integration with channel managers and third-party OTAs

Pricing, side by side

Pricing changes, so always check current rates on each provider's website. As a guide:

At the small end, the price difference is biggest, especially for CL and CS sites where CampSuite™ is free. At the mid-size end, monthly fees matter less than fit and feature coverage.

Feature comparison at a glance

The pattern is consistent: CampSuite™ covers the workflows that matter to the vast majority of campsites and touring parks, on your phone, and adds more every month. Anytime Booking carries extra holiday-park machinery that only larger static and mixed-accommodation parks tend to use.

Setup and switching

CampSuite™ is optimised for fast setup. It takes about 15 minutes from sign-up to a working diary, using a step-by-step wizard that asks for your pitches, prices, and a couple of policies. There's no onboarding call, no training session, and no project plan. If you can use a smartphone, you can set up CampSuite™.

Anytime Booking takes longer to get going, as there's more to configure and usually an onboarding process to work through before you're live. For most campsites, that's time and hassle you simply don't need.

If you're thinking about switching from Anytime Booking, most CampSuite™ users run the two side by side for a couple of weeks. You keep taking bookings on the existing tool, enter new bookings on CampSuite™, and cut over once you trust it. There's no pressure to migrate in a weekend.

Support

Both are UK-based with real human support. CampSuite™'s comes straight from me, Rob, and the small team at WorkBee Limited. You're talking to the people who build it, not logging a ticket into a queue.

For a CL or a family-run site, that direct line matters. When something's odd on a Saturday, you want a person who knows campsites and knows the product inside out, not a queue number.

Mobile experience

This is where the two tools diverge most clearly. CampSuite™ was designed mobile-first from day one. The diary, the bookings, the payment flow, the check-in, all of it works on a phone without scrolling sideways or pinch-zooming. That matters because a lot of small-site owners are literally walking across the yard when a booking call comes in.

Anytime Booking, like most full holiday-park systems, grew up around a reception PC. Mobile access exists, but it's an alternative view rather than the main one. If you run your site from your pocket while crossing the yard, a phone-first tool is a different thing to live with day-to-day.

What you give up with each

Honest trade-offs matter more than marketing copy.

With CampSuite™, you give up: static-caravan and residential park management, and the very deepest OTA integrations. Most campsites never touch either. Everything else, we already do or we're building right now.

With Anytime Booking, you give up: a free tier for small sites, a genuinely mobile-first system, commission-free direct bookings, honest month-to-month pricing, and support that answers as a person.

A practical way to decide

Before committing either way, do three things:

  1. Count your pitches. Under 20? CampSuite™ almost certainly fits. 20 to 100? Either could work; try CampSuite™ first because it's faster to trial. Over 200 with statics? Anytime Booking is likely the right answer.
  2. Walk your site on a busy Saturday with your phone. If you find yourself wanting to check the diary three times while outside, that's a vote for a mobile-first tool.
  3. Start the free CampSuite™ trial. No card, no commitment. Set it up in 15 minutes. If it fits, you've saved yourself a procurement cycle. If it doesn't, you've lost 15 minutes and you know more about what you actually need.

Being straight with you

Anytime Booking is an established name, and this page exists because people search for an Anytime Booking alternative and deserve a straight answer. We're not here to knock them. We're here to show you there's a simpler, better-value way to run a campsite, one that's catching up fast on features and already ahead on price, mobile and support. Try both if you like. We're quietly confident which one you'll keep.