We stayed here on the strength of the reviews and awards the site has had and, on the basis of them, we were expecting something exceptional. However, we were very disappointed. The site is quite good but not exceptional.
First impressions on arrival was that the site was quite cramped. The pitches are nowhere near the size you come to expect on Club sites. The first one we were offered was not wide enough to accommodate our motorhome and awning. We were then offered another pitch which was just about wide enough but it was tight. If you have a caravan and an awning you have to leave your car in a car park at the site entrance and your caravan is towed to the pitch by a tractor. In the Club directory it says that this arrangement is "to maintain the peaceful atmosphere". As far as I could see, it was purely because you cannot accommodate a car, caravan and awning on the pitches because they are too small. Furthermore, the tractor which tows the caravans to their pitches is quite noisy and creates more noise than if cars were allowed to park on the pitches even if there was room for them. The unhitching of caravans at the entrance and towing them to their pitches also causes delays on arrival; when we arrived there were two caravans in front of us and the unhitching and towing of them to their pitches delayed us getting in.
The toilet facilities are certainly very impressive. There are about 10 cubicles, each with a shower, toilet and washbasin and kept very clean. However, the pressure of water out of the shower was very poor and the ventilation was insufficient to prevent the mirrors steaming up after using the shower.
The "on site dog walking area" was a grass corridor about 3 metres wide and about 200 metres long around the edge of a small woodland area which it is fenced off from. There are signs saying that dogs have to be on their lead in the dog walk which seems totally unnecessary and I just ignored it after a while. Dogs are also not allowed in the adjacent woodland area which again seems unnecessary; nobody else seems to use it even though there are paths through it.
If you want to walk from the site you must first walk along a narrow lane which has quite a number of cars on it, some of them travelling quite fast. However, there are some good off-road walks a bit further afield.
Overall, I thought it was a satisfactory site but really nothing special and I would not recommend it.
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