I do not like to leave negative or unnecessary reviews. However this site needed an honest review from ourselves. We arrived on site and found a pitch. Our initial impression was one of disappointment and this did not change we booked for 6 nights but left after 4. We had seen the pictures and the reviews but once on site we could not reconcile reality to reviews we had read and even wondered if we were in the right place. The size of the pitches were small and the side near the water tap there were 4 pitches but in reality probably the size of 2 pitches if using caravan club guidelines. Fire break was non existent and no room for an awning as no space for car, the cars not a not allowed on the grass. ( that made sense due to weather but it’s a sign that’s been up for some time). The pitch we were initially went on had insufficient hard standing and the tiny piece of grass at the side completely sodden, no chance of getting the awning up. I know no one can help the rain. We moved to a side pitch (2 side by side) as we were with our friend who brought her own van we we managed to get our porch awning up but our friend the the van next to us could not as no room to get passed with the car, she parked her car in an empty pitch. Couldn’t use the dog walk with the ground being so wet. So had to use local roads to walk dogs though these were fairly quiet. I can’t fault the friendliness of the owners but the site is very tired and needs completely revamping and reconfiguring of the layout. The views were stunning and we had the resident chickens and ducks for company which we didn’t mind but We won’t be going back or recommending this site
Response from the CL Owner
I hope your journey home went well.
Thank you for the review. Unfortunately we have had months of rain that we could not foresee and also stopped us from doing the usual weed killing and general maintenance. All the ground is saturated.
The layout of the caravan site has been the same for 24 years. We haven’t had complaints regarding parking and siting the caravans.
The space where your friend put her caravan is not a caravan plot. It is a space designated for your vehicle.
As your friends had already pitched their caravan we agreed it would be ok. Also the top 3 plots where you parked your car is only a plot for the car for the caravan what would be in the plot to the left. So on the top there is 3 caravan pitches.
We have had twin axle caravans on every pitch sometimes with an awning.
Also we don’t have a designated dog walk area. I kindly offered the use of one of our fields but did explain it was muddy and you would need the correct footwear
Kind regards Vicki and Phil @Acrehill
