Chatsworth House Club site. Always full ????

Thats exactly how we managed to get 3 nights last weekend over the Chatsworth Country Fair weekend! 

yes thats right .

It's a few years since we stayed at Chatsworth but thoroughly enjoyed our 2 stays - both in the winter.  One of our stays was to see the house decorated for Christmas which is well worth going for. Don't forget to visit Chatsworth farm shop while you are there.

Hi just thought I'd write this to agree with you, that like you we didn't think that we could get on the Chatsworth site but managed to get a full week in September. Although the weather was atrocious it was lovely to get back to the area . It is a lovely site and excellent for the " fourlegs" our German shepherd who can thoroughly recommend it. We found the wardens very friendly and helpful too.

We managed to get in for just the two nights in November, the Wednesday and Thursday nights.   We didn't find it the friendliest of sites, but loved the surrounding places, Baslow has some pretty little gift shops (for Mrs Jingles) and  Bakewell town is really lovely and we would go back.    On the Friday morning when we were getting ready to leave, Mrs Jingles ran across to the site Reception to check if we could stay another night and the warden said, "No we are full".

There were quite a few spaces on the site at this point, but other visitors could have been booked in for these.    We tried another commercial site in Bakewell and a CL, but they were  also full for the weekend.  We were amazed at this given it was the middle of November.  So we set off heading for Grassington (Wharfedale) where we knew we could get into,  as we were now heading north and on our way home.    However, about an hour after we left Chatsworth, we checked the bookings online and found that spaces had now become available!!

So, we wondered how spaces were now available if you are required to cancel at least 72 hours in advance?   Presumably there can be emergency cancellations, or people who just don't show.     But, yes, we also find the whole "weekends fully booked up" syndrome to be a real pain.

 

 

Just had to cancel my booking a Chatsworth for next weekend so there is at least 1 pitch now available for that weekend!

Dont understand the problem. We were there last weekend. At least 40 empty pitches every day. Good weather, good walking, Chip van on Friday, what more could you ask for?

We have stayed at this site twice and loved it both times.  We shall go again, so thanks for the advice on showing our Caravan Club receipt as we didn't know about this.

 Chatsworth mostly showing as fully booked when it's actually not. Goodness knows how much money c.c. lose through cancellations. There ought to be a text, stand-by service put in place. We have been several times and the house and gardens are well worth a visit, particularly at Christmas. However, we believe the site is way over rated and looking very tired now indeed. 

The first time we went to Chatsworth it was pure luck, as I was looking for a weekend away in our area and Chatsworth came up, we booked straight away, although I might add my friend tried booking straight after and couldn't get in, and we had a lovely weekend so we wanted to book again for the horse trails weekend which we managed last year having booked on booking day in December, but unfortunately the horse trails were cancelled due to the weather, we still went and had another good weekend.  So we have booked again for    horse trails weekend this year but I had to book at 9am on booking day and since I have looked I can see weekends are all booked in may and June the reason is its such a popular site but why not try some of the others in the Derbyshire area we love Carsington water [Blackwell plantation] and we never have any problem getting on there.