Post by Sorento 08 on Sept 20, 2018 14:13:24 GMT
We chose this site for its closeness to the coastal walks (300 mts).
On arrival only 1 pitch was free, this was close to the toilet and shower building, so our side view was a rather ghastly off yellow colour, we backed onto a low walled garden which had a rather shabby looking static, which looked like it could fall down anytime, the garden was used as a dump for building rubbish along with clothes lines slung on top. The entrance reminded us of a building site.
Our view when pitched was several stored vans to our left, many looked like they had never been moved for decades. The grass side of our hard-standing pitch was just mud. We got talking to a couple who were in one of the vans on the front row who said they were leaving shortly, so we had lunch and waited for them to pack up and go, to our amazement they got in the car and drove towards us, so we had another chat, apparently, he leaves his van there all year and will be returning to it in a couple of weeks time, the van next to his is the same (seasonal), again taking best pitches, front row for the views, the van next to ours were not due back until another 3 weeks and the 5th van was empty too, its no wonder our grass was in such a poor state if its the only one used while the better pitches are left empty for most of the year. The owners, we were told were away so we were unable to discuss our concerns, what finally put the nail in the coffin for the wife was a white van came racing onto site, drove round looked at us in the van and drove off. She never felt safe, even though we had paid for our first nights stay of £15 we phone another site which was over 1 hours drive away. To make matters worse we had driven 3.5 miles on single lane roads with few passing places which seemed to take for ever, so we were not looking forward to doing the same trip back to civilisation again.
We did manage to get hold of the owners to tell them we had left, they did not seem bothered we did not stay.
So I can only say we will not be visiting this site again, we are considering reporting the fact that they have seasonal vans on site which are empty over night both which contravenes CL rules. But will anything come of it?? I wonder
Anyway sorry for the negative report but felt I need to reflect what we experienced.
On arrival only 1 pitch was free, this was close to the toilet and shower building, so our side view was a rather ghastly off yellow colour, we backed onto a low walled garden which had a rather shabby looking static, which looked like it could fall down anytime, the garden was used as a dump for building rubbish along with clothes lines slung on top. The entrance reminded us of a building site.
Our view when pitched was several stored vans to our left, many looked like they had never been moved for decades. The grass side of our hard-standing pitch was just mud. We got talking to a couple who were in one of the vans on the front row who said they were leaving shortly, so we had lunch and waited for them to pack up and go, to our amazement they got in the car and drove towards us, so we had another chat, apparently, he leaves his van there all year and will be returning to it in a couple of weeks time, the van next to his is the same (seasonal), again taking best pitches, front row for the views, the van next to ours were not due back until another 3 weeks and the 5th van was empty too, its no wonder our grass was in such a poor state if its the only one used while the better pitches are left empty for most of the year. The owners, we were told were away so we were unable to discuss our concerns, what finally put the nail in the coffin for the wife was a white van came racing onto site, drove round looked at us in the van and drove off. She never felt safe, even though we had paid for our first nights stay of £15 we phone another site which was over 1 hours drive away. To make matters worse we had driven 3.5 miles on single lane roads with few passing places which seemed to take for ever, so we were not looking forward to doing the same trip back to civilisation again.
We did manage to get hold of the owners to tell them we had left, they did not seem bothered we did not stay.
So I can only say we will not be visiting this site again, we are considering reporting the fact that they have seasonal vans on site which are empty over night both which contravenes CL rules. But will anything come of it?? I wonder
Anyway sorry for the negative report but felt I need to reflect what we experienced.
