National Water Sports Centre

Not much! Location itself was ok, and the Canada Geese were impressive.

No hot water in shower block. Alternative privision at sports centre very poor. Noisy. Badly organised reception. Don't arrive after 5pm! No wifi. Store shop was woeful and couldn't even supply butter. Will not return!

The Location.

Our booking was for 5 nights Mon 11th - Sat 16th Sep. We arrived late on the Monday having spent two and a half hours sat in a jam on the M1 due to a multi car pile up.Having phoned ahead we were directed to the main reception to book in. Having booked in we were directed to the camp site.We had been allocated to pitch 60 and found ourselves to be alone in a section a good distance from the toilet block. We parked up left the caravan and drove to our daughters home in Nottingham not wishing to put up an awning and get set up in the dark and rain. Returning on Tuesday AM we got set up and had a look around the site which is vast with 100 Caravan pitches, and over 120 Tent pitches plus 10 Pods. Unfortunately there are only 5 men's showers one of which was out of order. The same in the ladies. The other toilet block was locked and does not have showers. The laundry area appeared to be a storage area. Thursday morning we rose early and both went for showers, having stood under the cold flow for a few minutes and tried the other three operational showers I guessed that there was no hot water, I was right! My wife who was also wet and cold went to reception to be greeted with a "Yes we know, the boiler has been playing up for days and we are waiting for a spare part" when asked if they intended to put a sign up to let the camp know the response was "Oh yes we are doing it now" the sign appeared one hour later and stayed on the door for the next three days. We left on Saturday morning with a feeling of relief. The site was relatively quite whilst we were there with the exception of Friday night when a number of campers arrived no doubt to go the the local club. On Thursday my wife tried to lodge a complaint about the hot water with the management, having been given two names and one telephone number she duly called and left a message on the answer phone. Nobody called back and further visits to reception produced no response from any site management. The site has limited facilities to cope with the potentially vast number of campers.
There are insufficient bins (currently one skip on site) and no recycling bins.
The drinking water taps are fine but the drain they flow into is obviously connected to the Elsan drain as the smell from the fresh water drain is awful.
Lovely site but poorly run with unresponsive management.
What more can I say other than never again.

Reception very friendly and helpful, Level pitches, Good location, local transport links, good size hard standing pitch.

Not a problem to us but might be to others. The site is busy with vehicles even at 23:00

People driving way too fast

Good location, large spacious site with clean showers and toilets. Water Sports Centre just across the road which has lots of activities, (book online).

Nothing.

Convenience of location to Water Sports Centre.
Friendly and helpful staff
Cleanliness of campsite

Showers insufficient in number and very short (must wait a considerable length of time to rinse off). A changing area would speed things up.

We had a great time. the campsite was ideal for our needs. yes there were one or very tame louder than normal but this seemed to liven up the night and we did not mind it at all, I think you accept this when on a campsite. Facilities were clean and always had hot water, we never queued to wash up or have a shower. my only small gripes were the shop is not very good so don't rely on this for supplies but there is a Morrisons 5 min drive away. The light on our section of the site where the cold tape is was not working and when we arrived we were only given a site map with gate code on and not one for the toilets which is separate to gate and also directions to Morrisons would have been helpful but no damage done as we asked someone.

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Great place to enjoy the facilities at national watersports centre

When site is busy could do with an extra toilet block especially when there is an event at watersports centre and everyone wants the facilities early morning

Clean showers
Friendly site with nice neighbors
Good activities

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Nice little field. Toilet and shower facilities were OK, what you'd expect on a campsite. Enjoyed all the activities on offer. Great for kids

Campsite shop didn't have alot. Could do with stocking up on general essentials e.g bread milk

Toilets etc where perfect very clean . Whole site was well maintained, very short 5min walk to the water sports centre . Grandkids loved it we all did .There is no kids club or club etc on site which we didn't want but there is a small shop. But if you want a cafe, activities etc there is at the water sports centre . We will 100% be going back .

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