The wardens work very hard to keep the site and its facilities spotless, and offer a friendly, helpful welcome - thank you! The pitches are all large/will accept awnings, some divided from the immediate neighbouring pitch by waist-high hedging therefore affording a little more privacy. Some road noise can be heard, inevitably, if you have one of the pitches furthest from the river however its not too intrusive. There is a local bus service just serving Banchory itself, running hourly during the day. Its possible to do the walk to Scolty Tower from the site though a mile and a half can be shaved off by taking the bus into Banchory centre to start the walk there - 15 mins to walk from centre to the entrance to the forest car park road, then 15 mins further to reach the gate where the various routes to the monument start - the routes require varying amounts of effort ;) Morrisons is a 10 min walk towards the town centre from the site, a very large Tesco 10 mins walk the other way.