Makins Lakes

Positiv Beautiful scenery. Good facilities. Helpful staff

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Positiv Firstly the roads up to the site and the site entrance are fantastic. Nice feel for security with very nice strong entrance gates. Pitch size was perfect and to have the water tap so close on each pitch was brilliant no long walks to fill up water barrels. Bins and toilet facilities nice a close and to a high standard, clean and tidy.

Negativ Only thing that could have made the stay better would be a later departure time. Getting organised and packed away for 10am woth 3 kids was difficult and a rush.

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It's always worth asking on your arrival if for a later checkout as we may be able to accommodate it :)

Positiv Plenty of space to pitch up, choose your own pitch, great for kids

Negativ Ground was solid, we broke a mallet trying to put up our tent - then struggled to pull the pegs out when leaving.
Toilets could do with checking more regularly, no hand wash available

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Positiv - welcoming staff on arrival
- friendly and helpful staff who suggested our non-EHU friends could pitch their tent on our EHU pitch if their tent fitted.
- lakes are pretty
- location was convenient for us
- toilet block was clean and in good condition
- great pizza truck on Friday night

Negativ - road noise from M69, it runs very close by. It was windy on our stay which will have increased noise carried into the site
- confusing rules on big signs vs actual rules - i.e. “gas BBQs only” - yet the site hire out fire pits, a “dog exercise field” that doesn’t really exist - the ‘sort-of-field’ is a long walk off site, “no dogs allowed around the lakes” - but they are allowed after 6pm.
- pitches on the touring field have no boundaries and people walk through your pitch. Resulting in unsupervised kids running feral and screaming as they run through.
- an EHU issue was reported and not fixed for over 24 hours.
- the relaxed attitude to pitching and lack of boundaries means that there are some very big groups pitching together.
- quiet hours (10pm) not properly observed although the noisy group near us did go quiet at 11pm.

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Positiv Lovely lake views and very spacious.

Negativ A little noisy from road.

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Positiv Open large pitches, fully serviced and clean modern toilets and showers also great cafe on site.

Negativ Noise from road and fisherman early morning

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Positiv 😊

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Positiv Huge amount of space and elegant fishing areas. Proper cuppa in the cafe.

Negativ Very solid surface in tent area

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Positiv Picturesque setting near lakes

Negativ Cleanliness I.e nappies in shower block floor
Washing up facilities left dirty in a state
No pitch allocation - free for all so spacing between pitches is challenging

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Positiv Nice and easy book, turn up and check in no issues - your left to your own devices which is nice , chilled atmosphere

Negativ Poorly maintained - other than a pitch what are we paying for ? For the effort they put in I’d say it was a poor price , facilities were in very poor condition, left nothing but a squeege to ‘clean’ shower rooms , however there isn’t adequate drainage floors are left in puddles and dirty . They have toilet check sheets there , apparently checked 3 times a day , we arrived Friday just after 4pm …. Toilet check sheet had not been signed by the time we left on Sunday at 11am … which showed as there were no toilet roll in men’s or ladies by Sunday . When I booked there were no electrical hookups available however there were many empty electrical hookup pitches available when walking around . I’d say either lower your price or put more effort in these areas. You can hear cars from road at night too , wasn’t awful but it was there , had 3 toddlers with us and they didn’t seem to like it but slept eventually anyway

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