Pembrey Country Park Club Campsite
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We stayed for a second time at this great site, and love it. The wardens are friendly and helpful (with one exception), and keep a clean and tidy site. There used to be a visiting Baker, but he's sadly gone out of business. Equally sadly, there are no food basics (milk, bread, etc.) available at reception - not really sure why, considering there are no shops within easy reach if you can't drive.
If you are into leisure cycling there is a National Route passing by the Country Park, going west towards Carmarthen, and East towards Llanelli; bothbroutes are almost flat and well paved. We went East, stopping at Burry Port where there is a Coop, Bakery, Fish & Chip shop, and (by the harbour) a great 'Crazy Crepe Cafe'; then on to Llanelli, where there are plenty of shops - about a 20 Mike round trip.
Amazing Stay
We love Pembrey. The staff are fantastic, always smiling and pleasant. Mel and team are wonderful. The site is spotless, slightly dated shower blocks. The pitches are well laid out with ample room between your neighbours. A beautiful setting, with ample of things to do in Pembrey Country Park. Mr Whippy comes nightly, it would be nice to have the milk man and bakery man back!
Lovely setting and well-maintained site
Our first stay at this site and we loved the lay-out of the pitches, plenty of space, and a choice of hard standing and grassy areas, some with trees and shade and some open with direct sunlight. The site was very well maintained and the wardens were always working! We didn't have the best weather for the 5 nights we stayed but we did manage a walk along the coast path into Burry Port and would have liked to have more time to explore Pembrey Country Park as it's right on the door step, especially with the interesting war-time history. Very pleased with the food at the nearby Ship Aground in Pembrey who served an excellent Sunday lunch. The only negative I have is that the facilities are dated and look well worn, they are kept heated and regularly cleaned by the wardens to an excellent standard but they need money spending on them, and for the size of the site one block I would imagine gets very busy at peak times.
Why haven’t we been before ?
We spent 4 nights here but we hadn’t originally booked it as part of our South Wales tour - we were transferred from Gowerton due to flooding. We were over the moon once we got there - exactly our thing. We rely on our legs, electric bikes and local transport to get about once on site.
The wardens were brilliant as we hadn’t planned on being here had not done any research so their input was fabulous. We cycled and cycled and cycled everywhere. In fact we followed the coastal path so far we got within a mile of the Gowerton site - Swansea a total of 30 miles that day!
We tried to get a drink at the Pembry Country Inn but was told nowhere to park bikes so went further down the road to the Ship Aground, very friendly welcome , bikes racks outside, food looked nice and restaurant was full the day we went , we didn’t eat there but it looked very nice.
Was nice to be close to the beach where we spent a lovely late afternoon , evening in the sun reading watching the surfers.
On our list as a favourite and will be back.
7 day stay in September
The wardens on this site are some of the nicest people we've encountered during our membership.
This site is absolutely perfect, so many walks long and short, great facilities yes they are in need of a upgrade but they are spotless and that's what counts for us .
This very quickly became out favourite site of the year and we will be back!
Thank you to the fabulous wardens, we had decided not to renew our membership untill we stayed with you, we have now renewed .
Lovely Wardens but overpriced for outdated facilities
The location is amazing based in Pembrey Country Park.
The Club site itself is a lovely layout within the trees.
Unfortunately we went at quite a busy time, lots of dogs off leads walking and peeing other other peoples pitches.
Facilities - Decor is very dated and in need of a service.
One of the toilet blocks had door locks held on by cable ties, exposed pipe work and flaky paint.
Not something I would expect from £45+ per night site.
The wardens are lovely and very welcoming and there is a good shop CK’s around 2 mile down the road
Great location but expensive
Stayed here 4 times now and it’s a great location and some pitches are fantastic if you get in early.
Don’t tend to use the facilities as they are pretty old fashioned and not the best so we pay a lot of money just for a pitch basically.
Haven’t stayed in school holidays before and it was very busy with kids on bikes which was a bit tricky around the barriers to enter/leave, a boy in front of us decided to dump his bike in the middle of the barrier and walk off! We paid £40 a night and it isn’t worth that amount for just 2 people, no awning.
Overcrowded!!!
We visit Pembrey at least once a year but after our recent visit I don't think I will be back. I actually thought long and hard about writing this but things need to improve there.
Firstly, the staff were brilliant, they work really hard and can't fault them.
The biggest let down is the facilities. Staff clean the facilities to a very high standard. Unfortunately other guests leave them in a terrible state. There is not enough toilets and showers for a site of this size, especially when so many people had multiple generations staying in one caravan putting a extra burden on facilities. Water was never warm and there is no pressure in the showers. Facilities need a total overall.
Overcrowding is another issues. So many caravans had 10 or more people, 60% of the site had more than one vehicle parked on site, you can now see why the lack of facilities was an issue.
I am not sure what it is with Pembrey site but it seems to attract the rudest caravaners. We were fortunate to get a hardstanding pitch with a small green area behind. This seem to be busier than the M4 with so many people walking through the pitch, through infront of the awning and constantly kicking up the stones. One morning I even woke to find another family had set up their dining table directly behind our caravan and were enjoying their breakfast. The bloody cheek.
Pembrey is such a good location for families but there are a few things letting it down.
We'll Definitely be Back!
We have just returned from a two week holiday at this site and wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to others. I would say that it has been my favourite holiday in the two years since we purchased our caravan. We chose pitch 50, which was hard-standing, surrounded by lots of grassed area and trees - it was like having a garden around us. We have three children aged 14, 12 and 7. They all made lots of friends immediately, cycling and scooting around. It's about a twenty minute walk to a lovely, sandy and safe beach (although there were a lot of Portuguese Man of War jelly fish on our last day!). The beach is also perfectly firm for a bike ride up to a number of boat wrecks. Cycle route 4 provides great views out over the bay and over the salt marshes. We visited the Botanic Gardens of Wales which is a half hour drive from the site; so much to see and lots of different walking trails. The nearby town of Llanelli is a short drive away and has a surprisingly vast choice of supermarkets - Tesco, Asda, Lidl and Aldi. If you can't be bothered to go and do a big shop, there are two vans which visit the site on a daily basis, selling milk, bread, cakes, pies etc. Both announce their arrival by tooting their horns as they progress around the campsite, so don't expect a lay-in past 9:30am! I would agree with some of the other reviews that the toilet block could do with a re-vamp, but they were always clean. This site is perfect for families, but would also be a great location for campers without children who don't mind the odd child cycling or scooting past.
LEU
Reviewed on 11/08/2022 22:14
Pembrey country park
We have been to this site twice now and staff are friendly lots of things to do around the area. The site is always very busy when we’ve visited. My only disappointment was that I was waiting by the office for my son to to visit us for only an hour and was told by the warden not to use the key fob to let him in as the park was very busy and too many children on the site and wanted to keep cars to a minimum so I was told he had to park about half a mile outside of the campsite which was fair enough,, however whilst I was waiting another vehicle turned up and used the key fob to allow the vehicle in to visit which the warden saw , this car stayed overnight on the pitch next to us so there was a car then caravan then awning and then the second car so there was not enough gap between our awning and the breaking fire regulations. So the warden needs to use one rule for everyone.