Grantown-on-Spey Caravan Park

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Take your ear plugs!

Positives first - clean, tidy site. Negatives:  health and safety first. When you arrive you are shown to your pre allocated pitch by the warden who travels on a motor scooter, no safety clothing or helmet.  First thought - if they have no concern for their own safety have they any concern for the safety of their customers?  Pitch - we booked a super serviced pitch (gold pitch according to owners), and having opted for serviced pitch never took the waste container.  Drain for the waste was in the back corner of the pitch, raised around 6 to 8 inches above ground level.  Water does not rise to that level on its own so if you don't raise you waste pipe after you drain your sink water will simply back up into your caravan.  I had to use a storage box to hold the waste water.  And I paid £30 per night for this standard!  Noise - wow, this is the nosiest site I have ever been on.  I have no problem with kids playing and the associated noise that goes with kids, but from dawn until after dusk hordes of them shout, scream and bawl as they try and demolish the equipment in the adventure play park. I do not exaggerate, it was truly awful.  You then have droves of them racing round the road network on scooters and mountain bikes, whilst the majority of drivers totally ignore the speed limit and drive way above a safe speed when there are kids - and adults around.  I am not sure why the Caravan Club are associated with this site as there is no member discount.   All in all a nice well maintained site, expensive, and one we will not be going back to.  

buckielugger

Reviewed on 10/08/2015 12:35

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Highest Standards

We stayed on this site for a few days in July, and it was wonderful to stay on an AS with the highest standards after Braemar. This is a large, efficiently run site, with everything tidy and attractive from the flower beds to the well tended trees and bushes. The toilet blocks and all facilities are of the highest standard, well maintained and scrupulously clean. This is the standard of site that makes touring a joy and pleasure, and this is a site the Caravan Club must be proud to be associated with.

lecigale

Motorhomer from Dumfriesshire

Reviewed on 21/07/2015 16:45

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Lone voice of dissent?

We received a cheery welcome on arrival and were escorted to our allocated pitch.  First impressions are that this site looks immaculately maintained.  However, this comes at a price; a huge team of gardeners worked solidly through Thursday afternoon and were still at it during Friday morning. Despite a tiring drive we were unable to sit outside and relax as the noise from the hedge cutters, strimmers and lawn mowers was quite invasive. Another barrier to sitting outside are the very tight touring pitches.  Had we wound out our awning we would have in all likelihood been covering next doors car.  They weren't inconsiderately parked - there was just no room.  We had tried to book a super pitch for the free wifi etc. There is pay-as-you-go wifi but after trying to log onto the registration page for 2 hours we gave up.  TV reception was also poor. We are new to touring and currently use just a digital arial.  Perhaps if you have more technical kit you would get a better signal? There are two shower blocks on site and from the look of them you would be forgiven for thinking that they are on two separate sites.  One, in the centre of the park, is modern with underfloor heating.  The second at the back on the hill was cold (Scotland in July!) and the shower temperature fluctuated great making it potentially dangerous.  Talking of hills, our pitch sloped greatly and required the 4th step of the levelling blocks. Grantown itself was a disappointment and seems to have suffered the economic downturn with many of the Main Street hotels closed.  Having said that there are lots of easily accessible walks and cycles from the campsite entrance and a walks leaflet is available in reception.  There is lots to do in the surrounding area if you have transport. I wouldn't recommend this site and can't envisage returning.

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Simply The Best

Just back from a 5 day visit to this site. Heard all the raves and seen all the reviews and they are not wrong, a truly excellent site very well kept clean and tidy. The gardeners keep the site in immaculate condition, the wardens very friendly and helpful. Brilliant family site fantastic children's play park,walks in the woods for the dogs. Weather was not the best but had a great time. Will certainly be back.

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Best ever Site!

Just returned from Grantown-on-Spey and the site is beyond perfect. Every time we visit there are new improvements and it is clear that this is one of the best sites on the network. We had a terrific welcome from the wardens and quickly settled into the pristine surroundings. It was the Grantown250 week and we enjoyed partaking in the numerous activities on offer.  Although the site was busy (we are not surprised!)you could hear a pin drop at night.

Regy

Reviewed on 29/06/2015 14:26

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May tour 2

This site has to be one of the best sites on the network , spotless clean great location and quiet. A short walk down the lane takes you into Grantown village where there are plenty of shops to stock up from.  A trip into the Cairngorms is not to be missed. Will be back one day soon.

glenorm

Caravanner from West Midlands

Reviewed on 12/06/2015 21:37

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Dog friendly site but not the town! May 2015

This site has three parts. A residential area at the back and just in front of it a second part which is on the hill (pitches are hardstanding and fairly level) with great views (weather permitting!) but the toilet block up here is poor and needs refurbishing. The heater is a blown air one above the door and thats it, which isn't much good on cold days. The third part is lower down on the flat with a very nice modern toilet block but not such great views! Nice touch in that they give you a Freeview box to plug into your tv if you don't have satellite. The site is about a 10minute walk from the town which had a Coop, a butchers and two bakeries. There are two hotels a bistro and two tea/coffee rooms. Only the hotels allowed dogs in but the choice of food was limited in one and none in the other. None of the other establishments allowed dogs which was very disappointing. There are as you would expect some great walks all around the site and from the town and with the River Spey at the south end this is a lovely spot. But, would I come back here? To the site yes but not the town. 

Andrew20

from Devon

Reviewed on 02/06/2015 21:37

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Best Ever Site

We have been caravanning for over 25 years now and confirm that this is the best site we have used anywhere. We have covered all of Britain including Southern Ireland and as far north as the Shetland Islands. Our holiday again this year is another 10 weeks in Scotland, with four of those on this site. This is about the eighth time we have used it. Unable to praise it highly enough.

SAINT

Caravanner from Gloucestershire

Reviewed on 28/01/2015 17:54

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Best site you can go to

Absolutely the best site we have ever been in fantastic pitches, very good lay out, very friendly staff. Our favourite site. 

jackiefreddy

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 04/01/2015 21:41

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