Rural Relaxing

Positiv On site cafe.

Negativ Pitches are on a slight slope. Toilet facilities are shared with the public cafe when open. Advice was to bring bottled water rather than drink out the taps.

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Vom Platzbetreiber: Thank you for your review and thank you for visiting.

With any rural field it is advised to bring bottled water however, our taps are on the mains and we do use them, some people prefer to bring bottled water so that's why we put it in the information as a "might like to bring" Our taps are safe to use.

The café is open from 9 until 12.30 Saturday and Sunday mornings & bank holidays and or the benefit of readers, as a tiny rural site we don't have separate loo facilities for café visitors (who, surprisingly, rarely use them in the short time they visit popping in for a coffee or a breakfast roll). What I can say is there are good solid wooden doors on the showers/loos so to ensure complete privacy.

With high repeat of camping visitors who come year after year I don't think this dislike is justified as not to visit again.

Positiv Cafe on site over the weekend
Simple check in
Nice friendly staff

Negativ That is was on such a hill.
And that there was no plug sockets in the bathrooms.

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Vom Platzbetreiber: I reviewed your pitch and for the benefit of readers, the "hill" is infact a gentle slope. Our flattest pitches had already been booked beforehand (a busy bank holiday weekend), others are on a slight gradient but I have never received a negative comment about the gradient in the 10 years of operating. I am sorry we fell short on your pitch allocation.

Regards to the electric sockets. There are sockets in the ladies room - two behind the small cupboard aside the long mirror and another one which operates the table lamp.

In the gents there is a socket next to the sink raised on the wall. Acting on your feedback, I will move the cupboard so the sockets are highly visible. I regret you didn't have the opportunity to ask any of my team about this at the time as we would have been very happy to point them out to you.

We look forward to welcoming you again.

Positiv Stunning place, very welcoming host, great facilities and just a really lovely vibe! We were lucky with the weather which just made it even better. Beautiful local pub, places to walk the dogs. Really highly highly recommend!

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Vom Platzbetreiber: It was lovely to meet you and thank you for choosing us. It was a lovely week for your break and thank you for coming to Rural Relaxing and for sharing your lovely comments, we work hard to keep this quiet space lovely for everyone and I glad we met with your approval! Thank you. See you again.

Positiv Easy to find, good clean facilities. Nice walk to village and visit to pub
site had plenty of space, cafe on site, good for families

Negativ nothing

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Vom Platzbetreiber: It was lovely to welcome you and thank you for staying. I am thrilled to hear your comments and look forward to welcoming you again.

Positiv Fabulous and funky style! Very quiet area and lovely little village. Caroline is very friendly and helpful.

Great showers and toilets.

Negativ Nothing!

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Vom Platzbetreiber: Thank you for your lovely positive message and I am thrilled you enjoyed your stay, look forward to seeing you again one day!

Positiv I chose one of the worst wet and windy weekends. Caroline had emailed bookings to say the site was to wet for cars to go on. As I was cycling this didn't cause an issue. On arrival it was apparent the warning was well judged. Had a car tried to get on it would've got a foot or two into the field and churned the grass into a bog.
My alloted pitch was quite wet under foot but still useable. It was within 10ft of a water point. I couldn't be happier.
After pitching up I had a walk around the site. No one else was there. Toilets were good and the cafe eating area looked well worth a visit if it opened this weekend with the poor weather.
Later that evening a couple in a small motorhome set up just outside the grassed area. So I had the field to myself.
After a night of frost I saw the cafe was opening.
I had to visit. Inside the cafe was a blazing log burner. Taking the seat nearest this was wonderful after the chilly night. Breakfast ordered.
I had the full fry up. It was bliss.

Negativ With the sloping site friction or the lack of, was my enemy. I kept sliding down my sleeping mat during the night.

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Positiv Beautiful set up, very homely and comfortable. Can only imagine how lovely it must be on a summers night. Helpful friendly staff & good full English breakfast with all the trimmings, fab sausages, however the bacon had no flavour. The addition of shower gel was nice too.

Negativ Not much to dislike, just unfortunate things for our visit. Field was water logged so we couldn’t go on it, shower didn’t work but was fixed the next day.

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Vom Platzbetreiber: Hello

As our first guests for 2026 (others were cancelled due to terrible wet weather), I had inspected the showers a week ago however, it became clear that one of them was not reaching temperature and therefore we called out an electrician as soon as we were informed, he arrived on an urgent call on Sunday morning and confirmed a part was required. At the time of the complaint, I stated there were two other showers available but as you were going out for the day you hadn't time to shower and therefore, as a gesture of goodwill I gave a 10% discount voucher for the café.

I am taking up your comment about bacon with our supplier. We have used this butcher for many years and have never before had a complaint about the lack of taste to this bacon, indeed, we have many people who come weekly as regulars to the café so I don't understand why it seemingly was tasteless - I will be sure to check it out.

For the benefit of readers - In view of the water logged field, I offered the customers another date but they stated they still wanted to come, I therefore made sure their vehicle had a gravel hardstanding pitch to ensure their vehicle wouldn't get stuck.

We do go above and beyond to make things right and when I spoke to the customer, they stated they would like to return, I look forward to welcoming them again.

Positiv This was our 3rd year staying at Rural Relaxing. We stay in the Safari tents and us and the kids absolutely love it. The site is lovely and clean and has everything you need. Plenty of space for the kids to run around and play and it’s such a relaxing and peaceful setting. Caroline has always been very welcoming and helpful. She suggested a local pub (wheel and compass) that did a lovely carvery and there was a kids play area in the garden which was a bonus.
We love it here so much that next year we will be back there to get married, we can’t wait.
The local area/village is lovely and within walking distance

Negativ Nothing

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Vom Platzbetreiber: Thank you for your lovely review and we will look forward to having you married at Rural Relaxing!

Positiv Such a lovely site. It does what it says in the name - rural and super relaxing. We loved that the site isn’t huge and the pitch sizes are really generous.
The owner obviously cares about your experience, providing toiletries, logs (with an honesty box) and camping bits you can borrow. Also great to have a cafe on site too… breakfast looked delicious. A real family vibe and would visit again for sure.

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Vom Platzbetreiber: Thank you for your lovely review, thrilled to be able to welcome you and thank you for your lovely comments. Look forward to seeing you again!

Positiv Lovely campsite with great facilities; clean toilets & showers, on-site cafe open on weekend mornings and able to order homemade pizzas on a Saturday night. This campsite is great for families.

Negativ Not a dislike, but just a point to note - the campsite is self check-in, so when we arrived our pitch no. which we had been allocated had tents already on it! I rang the owner, but initially no reply. They then did text back, apologised and advised us on another pitch. I did receive an email the next day, explaining the mix up. It didn’t impact our trip, but if the site was full, it could have been an issue?

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Vom Platzbetreiber: This was an administration error due to a changed booking date for which we apologise

We always keep at least two pitches free every weekend plus long electricity leads just in case, however this was purely an admin error and the issue has been resolved.

For the benefit of the reader There is never a case where we have no space available it’s a small rural site and we take customer feedback very seriously we have checked to make sure this doesn’t happen again and are confident with our “extra empty pitches” that are always available. It was a busy weekend with lots of customers chopping and changing so again, space appeared limited.
We were however very pleased to hear Mrs King enjoyed her stay after this blip.