So, I think I will have reviewed this site already, but it can stand another praiseworthy review I am sure.
Firstly - updates. The site now has club wifi! If you have been here before or read the site notes, you'll see there is no phone signal in much of this area, and especially so on the site. The club wifi is great - the signal is strong, and you can get 1 Mbps for free, all you have to do is log in every hour. I paid for the premium service and got over 50 Mbps, which is better than my home broadband.
The site is reached from the main Pickering road by a twisty roller coaster of a road, but it's fine if you take your time; watch out for the suicidal pheasants playing chicken, and don't bother washing your caravan before you travel, there's plenty of mud and manure on the road. It's an easy site to find and to enter, with a nice wide opening.
The layout is great, the pitches are big enough for van car and awning side by side, and the site doesn't get arsey if you park your caravan the 'wrong' way round ie, with tow bar away from the single access road. This gives us a lovely front window view of the beck and the beech trees that line it, instead of looking at another caravan 10 metres away.
No facilities apart from water and waste disposal which suits us just fine - it keeps the price nice and low. It's all spotlessly clean, and 100% in full working order.
Road noise - not that we could hear, maybe the odd Ivor Williams trailer rattling past in the day time, or a tractor now and again. If you're worried about this, pitch up on the beck side of the site, not the road side, and you'll be further away from the road.
There is a great pub literally opposite the site,and another one just up the hill, plus a couple of cafe/shops in the village. You are not far from Pickering (North Yorks Moors Railway and a castle and a LIDL) and Helmsley. There are great walks up on the moors, the folk museum at Ryedale, Rievaux abbey.... the list could go on and on!
Pat and Mick were lovely and welcoming, and the site was in beautiful condition. There was some very heavy rain, but there was only one pitch affected by a large puddle that emerged on the road, but it drained as soon as the rains stopped, and didn't seem to affect the couple on said pitch, they just had to walk round the back of their unit to get to the road way and avoid the puddle.
Will we be back? Most definitely!
