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Great site, lovely hosts - however!

We arrived at the site at about 7.00pm on Friday night, in the dark, for a weekend break. We were warmly welcomed by Andrew who showed us to where we could pitch. As we were the only ones on site and the grass was wet were given the option of siting next to the shed on some hard gravel. Andrew laid out an extension lead for us as we were now over 25m from the nearest EHU point. The peace of the night was only disturbed by owl hoots and the occasional pheasant. The next morning we walked around the site and it is a nice level site, well spaced out and peaceful, even during the day. We met Jackie, who is lovely, as she put some produce in the well stocked shed with jams, chutneys and eggs for sale. We had a wonderful relaxing weekend and were ready to go home after our Sunday lunch at the Star when came the BIG however. A £14.40 bill for electric usage above our 10 unit per day allowance! Yes, we have a big caravan but the heating (Alde set to 2kW) was set at 19 from 8am to 10pm and 11 from 10pm to 8am. We have a 750W kettle which was boiled four times. On Saturday we had a slow cooker running for about 7 hours, but this is rated at only 130W max. Other than that it was just the battery charger so we don’t think our usage is out of the ordinary, thus we are amazed that we apparently consumed over £20.00 worth of electricity in 41 hours. I don’t want to discourage anyone from visiting this site as the location is wonderful and the owners are friendly and welcoming, just be aware it may cost you a lot more than the £17.50 per night, quoted. We would certainly return but definitely won’t have EHU again.
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Rails End replied on 07/03/2022 16:30

Posted on 07/03/2022 16:30

Thank you for your review.

We appreciate your support .

As regards to the electricity usage we ourselves have been very surprised at just how much some units use in the colder weather. With the increased costs of power we felt we had no alternative but to charge for electricity used over the 10 units a night (at our cost price ). If we had not then of the £35 pitch fee for 2 nights £20 would have gone on electricity not leaving a great deal for all the other expenses.

We also felt that this was the fairest way to do things rather than increase the pitch fee which would penalize  lower users. It is interesting to see the variation of usage with the different vans .

Thanks again 

Jackie