The short version

Anytime Booking is a well-established UK campsite and holiday park management system. It has served a lot of parks well for a long time and is a capable, full-featured tool. If you're running a complex holiday park with statics, owner sales, multiple pitch types, and detailed PMS requirements, it's a solid option.

CampSuite is built for a narrower audience: UK campsite and touring park owners with up to around 200 pitches who want something simpler, mobile-first, and dramatically cheaper to start with. It replaces the paper diary rather than trying to be a full holiday-park PMS. It's free for CL and CS sites.

If you're a five-pitch CL owner, CampSuite is almost certainly the right fit. If you run a 300-pitch multi-park operation with complex commercial relationships, Anytime Booking probably fits better. Most of the interesting territory is in between — and that's where it's worth comparing properly.

Who each one suits best

Choose CampSuite if

  • You run a CL, CS, or small-to-medium UK site (up to ~200 pitches)
  • You want your diary on your phone, not tied to a desktop
  • You want free software if you're under 5 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:

The pricing difference is biggest at the small end. A five-pitch CL owner is asked to pay nothing with CampSuite, which is hard to beat. At the larger end the gap narrows because the feature sets diverge.

Feature comparison at a glance

The pattern is consistent: CampSuite covers the 90% of workflows that matter to a small-to-medium touring site, and stops there deliberately. Anytime Booking goes deeper into park-management workflows that only start to matter at larger parks.

Setup and switching

One of the nicer aspects of choosing a simpler tool is that setup is quick. CampSuite 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 typically involves a more involved onboarding because there's more to configure. That's not a criticism — larger parks benefit from that care. It's a reflection of the two tools sitting in different product categories.

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 companies are UK-based and both offer proper support rather than an overseas chatbot. CampSuite's support comes directly from Rob Heeley and the small team at WorkBee Limited. Anytime Booking has a larger support team built around its park-management customer base.

For small operators, the "small company support" model often works in your favour: the person replying to your email has probably met dozens of CL owners like you and knows the product inside out. For larger operators, a bigger support team with formal hours and ticketing is a better match.

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 has mobile access but, like many established park-management systems, the primary interface is desktop-first. If you sit at a reception PC all day, that's fine. If you're more often in the field, a phone-first tool is a different experience.

What you give up with each

Honest trade-offs matter more than marketing copy.

With CampSuite, you give up: static-caravan owner workflows, complex multi-park head-office reporting, deep channel-manager integrations, and the comfort of choosing the industry-incumbent tool. For sites that don't need those things, none of it matters. For sites that do, it's a real trade-off.

With Anytime Booking, you give up: a free tier for small sites, a mobile-first interface, and the simplicity of a tool that deliberately doesn't try to do everything. The larger feature set is great when you need it and more than you need when you don't.

A practical way to decide

Before committing either way, do three things:

  1. Count your pitches. Under 20? CampSuite almost certainly fits. 20–100? 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.

A note on respect

Anytime Booking is a good company making a good product. This page exists because people search for "Anytime Booking alternative" and "Anytime Booking vs CampSuite", and we'd rather be honest and useful than pretend there's no competition. If Anytime Booking is already working well for you, stay where you are. If you're reviewing your options, you now have a reasonable view of where CampSuite fits.