Rated 4 of 5

Rated 4 of 5

Peace and quiet

Rated 4 of 5

Facilities and cleanliness

Rated 5 of 5

Location

Rated 5 of 5

Good for families

Overvaluing its status and service

This caravan site has excellent facilities comparable with the best of Caravan & Motorhome Club sites. The toilets & showers are spotless, excellent washing up & laundry rooms and waste disposal point. Minor criticism is that the water temperature in the showers could do with being a little bit higher. The hard standing caravan pitches are level & spacious with electric hook up, water point and grey waste drains. The grounds are immaculate & well maintained. There are a multitude of activities taking place, the majority of which are at additional cost. However there is an outdoor pool, hot tubs and a fabulous children's play area for which there is no charge. The reception is functional, but I agree with other reviewers the staff are not the most friendly & helpful I have met. The cafe & pizza parlour are functional and reasonably priced. The reason I have given an average rating is nothing to do with facilities, it is in my opinion, not value for money. We stayed for five nights during October half term with our three grandchildren who absolutely loved the place. However the cost - £42.00 per night!!! - we stayed in February half term for five nights at a cost of £25.00 per night. On enquiring why the huge increase in price I was told that it was because of the new "Hot Springs" feature. This was not open during our stay, so no justification whatsoever. Even allowing for "Hot Springs" that in itself cannot be justification for nearly a 70% price increase!!!!! Overall fabulous site but certainly overpriced compared to other similarly excellent sites we have stayed on.

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Navigateur replied on 13/11/2018 14:09

Posted on 13/11/2018 14:09

The key factor in this oft repeated moan is "half term". There is no valid argument for all schools in a country having to take holidays at the same time.

Perhaps there was one in the days when heavy industry had to shut down things like steel furnaces, and their suppliers and customers also had to close. We don't have that situation now, and holidays in education and industry could be staggered without any problem. Commerce, nowadays, does not get a holiday.

Spreading the holidays would benefit everyone in terms of availability, but accomodation rates in low season would have to increase to ballance out.

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Dawn F replied on 13/11/2018 16:08

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We have looked at this site and although it does look lovely I also think the price is on the steep side.  

The problem with school holidays is they are not just the one week for half term then set holiday for term ends like they used to be, because different areas have different holidays half term can cover a three week period which makes it difficult for those of us without children to find a peaceful site, even if we go adult only they also hike the price during holiday periods because they know they can still get people to pay up

I think we are starting to suffer from lack of available sites at reasonable prices and I suspect it will only get worse as time goes on

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Posted on 13/11/2018 16:08 by Dawn F

We have looked at this site and although it does look lovely I also think the price is on the steep side.  

The problem with school holidays is they are not just the one week for half term then set holiday for term ends like they used to be, because different areas have different holidays half term can cover a three week period which makes it difficult for those of us without children to find a peaceful site, even if we go adult only they also hike the price during holiday periods because they know they can still get people to pay up

I think we are starting to suffer from lack of available sites at reasonable prices and I suspect it will only get worse as time goes on

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