My understanding of a CL is a small site for 5 units only, that is exclusive to Caravan Club members only. We stayed at this site 5th and 6th of August 2012, for the purpose of going to the Olympics. We booked 14 months earlier; this £10 a night CL suddenly charging £25 a night! (We understand that people want to benefit from the Olympic Games being held in London...) The price increase aside we expected, for our money, a quiet site with 4 other units. Although we had a friendly welcome, what we found was an incredibly busy site; we were placed on a hard-standing pitch next to the field which was unsightly and scrappy. The field itself looked nice but already had 9 caravans and motorhomes on it. We were joined on our gravel pitch by another caravan whose view was then a brick wall. Opposite us was an industrial unit with an office, parked cars and behind it 3 more caravans and another camper (4 in total). On the main Road opposite the farm house was another small field with 4 more units crammed in and behind another farm building there appeared to be even more caravans. All of these were using the 1 water tap (by our caravan) and 1 chemical disposal point (an old toilet).
To add insult to injury for our £50 stay, we found a note in our awning asking us to leave by 10.30am. Presumably to rush even more units into their money-making couple of weeks. However, judging by the old electric hook-ups, it would appear they regularly have more than 5 units on this site. Some of the pitches look like permanent pitches possibly for workers in the small industrial unit.
All in all we were incredibly disappointed and would never, ever use this site again. We wouldn't recommend it and I sincerely hope that the Caravan Club remove it from their list of CL's. This was a flagrant abuse of it's location.
jingler
Reviewed on 07/08/2012 16:43
