Stayed here in July as part of a two location break, ( see our Bridport Bingham grange review ) this was the second year running we stayed here, last year we arrived a day early….. on a bank holiday, mid pandemic staycation….on a packed site, and Ray ( the warden ) went above and beyond to find us a pitch overnight !! What a star ⭐️
The Good :- The sites well laid out, spacious pitches, clean modern facilities and well kept as well as ideally located for exploring the local coast and countryside. There’s a large dog walking area, and playground with field for the kids to explore and run around in. A good selection of take aways visit the site which makes meal times easy and interesting.
The Bad:- Hardstanding pitches are ridiculously hard to get awning pegs into, even the lager diameter ones ended up bending under heavy hammering. WiFi, we couldn’t even connect to sign up to the WiFi let alone use it, another member of our party located in another part of the site was able to join, but reported it a waste of time. If it doesn’t work, please don’t offer it !! This is the first time we’ve had dog issues on a club site. Despite the sign ‘ keep dogs on a lead’ both our neighbours let their dogs urinate and do their mess around ours and neighbouring plots, we had to pick up their dogs mess so the kids could play !!! We must stress this was the minority of dog owners on the site, the majority kept their canine's under control. Last year the site was quiet and everyone was respectful and kept the noise down after 9pm, this year we had kids running around shouting at 10.30pm, and our kids where not impressed.
The Ugly:- We were asked to check in after 1pm, our issue was Bridport Bingham grange requests a check out before 11am and it’s less than two hours to the Ramslade site. No problem we thought, we would pull up in a lay-by when we got to Paignton. How wrong we were, despite driving all the way to Totnes and back, we could find a single spot to park up so at decided to go to the site and wait for half an hour. This is where we were treated like naughty school children, accused of not staying at a previous club site, and the lady in question even called our previous site to check our 11am departure story despite us showing her the email confirmation. When your spending your hard earned cash for a holiday, you don’t expect the companies representatives to be so unwelcoming…… the family arriving after us at ten to one also received a similar welcome, you have been warned !!!!
