Eco Camping Glamping

Thank you Claire, Michael and Finn. It was great to meet you and hopefully we will see you back in West Clare someday. Best wishes.Mícheál

Noeleen. You spent 5 minutes here and i tried to explain to you that we had very bad weather the previous two days. In fact this summer has been the wettest i can remember and i have worked out of doors for the past 20 years each summer. As such we are adapting to make the campsite an all weather campsite and you will have seen the ground work we are doing to get the campsite prepared for the changing climate.The bell tent had to be taken down due to an unusually strong wind and heavy rain from the north west that week but it was not damp as i had dried it out. It is a nature reserve so the grass is grown in certain areas to keep people away from those areas. The grass around the tent was mowed, using a solar powered strimmer, that morning. I told you you would not be charged as you did not want to stay but you still had to have your opinion to share with the world. It is one of the sad facts wit the social media age that 'everyone wants to be heard'. Sometimes as the old saying goes 'if you do not have anything positive to say why not say anything at all'.

You did not give the place time to really see what the developing project is all about and what is planned. You ust wanted to have an opinion. Your negative 'feelings' can have a damaging effect to our business but to tell you the truth people with narrow minds like you are not the type of guests we are looking for to experience our eco campsite. My experience of meeting you Noeleen was not a very positive one. After i explained everything in a text to you afterwards you lied to me and that is why i do not want to see you again

Thank you Monica. It was a pleasure having you and your family here and hopefully we can welcome you back to this part of West Clare again. Yes, what we are trying to offer here is a Wild Camping experience (with a few comforts like solar electric charging facility for phones and batteries, toilets, shower, eco products for sale like bamboo toothbrushes, coconut fibre scrub pads, etc.) We want people to experience nature while they stay here and wake each morning to the dawn chorus. We see time spent in nature as therapeutic. Thank you and best wishes. GRMA. Mícheál

Barry, I am very disappointed with your review as you seemed to understand what we are doing here after giving you a tour of the solar charging facilities. I did text you say that the weather a lot of rain was forecast before you traveled and suggested that you might prefer camping in nicer weather with children but you decided to travel anyway.

Firstly, i want to address an important point regarding reviews so that hopefully other people in future can be more reasonable. The accommodation is normally 'your tent' when you stay here so why would one leave a negative review about their own tent !? This has appeared in any negative reviews we have so far and i hope pitchup.com will address this fact that people are reviewing their own tents negatively which is a little confusing.

Now Barry. i explained to your friends wife (who seemed like she had a degree in camping or something) we do not have a kitchen and will not have a kitchen here due to COVID19. Most people bring their own cooking stoves.I also told her that you could use the solar powered chest freezer for storing ice packs to transfer as needed to your cool box each day (a system that works very well and is more eco than plugging in a cool box) and also that we had two sinks (one beside the shower and flush toilet for hand and face washing) and another sink which we call the kitchen sink where you prepare your food and wash dishes. There is also a compost bucket there for food waste under the kitchen sink that the chickens recycle. Warm water for a shower is available between 4 and 7pm but because you let your children run all over our newly prepared earthen mounds and get so dirty i prepared hot water for you at 9pm for you to wash your kids. My son who is 11 was looking in disbelief when he saw your children throwing lumps of earth and stones around the place from our newly prepared mounds which are to be planted with lots of basket willow for wind breaks between pitches during the spring time. I asked you to stop your children from damaging our mounds and looked back 30 mins later to see they were still creating a mess. When you and your friend came to say goodbye the next day you said you were hoping to come back and see how the project develops at a future date. After leaving your negative review stating that you would not visit again we would prefer if you don't visit again as there is too much confusion within your group

Thanks Des for your positive review. Hopefully see you back in West Clare sometime. Best wishes. Mícheál

GRMA Geoff. You fully understand what we are doing here and the aims of helping people to experience a life in balance with nature with the latest micro renewable energy technologies. Our eco campsite has a wild camping feel that brings people closer to nature yet we are still a 5 min walk to 'civilization' with local shops, pubs and restaurants. We are also a great location in mid west Clare for touring the Burren and Cliffs of Moher 30mins to the north of Miltown on the Wild Atlantic Way and Loop Head Peninusla 30 mins to the South on the Wild Atlantic Way. A number of people mentioned to us this summer, who get what we are doing here, that they appreciated the simplicity of the experience and the education. We will endeavour to retain the feeling of camping in a nature reserve and not make the place sterile looking like other campsites. Thank you for your kind words, Slán agus beannachtaí a chairde. Mícheál

Thanks Thomas for your positive review. Warm water can be ready for guests if they text me a time when they wish to shower. For next year i will be giving an information sheet to guests when they arrive that will state this. Apologies if you didnt have warm water while you were here but all you need to do is ask me the net time you are here and i wil have it ready for you between 4 and 7pm. A cool shower is refreshing every now and again :-) Best wishes, Mícheál

Hi Margaret. Yes it is a basic site because it is a nature reserve and this is what we will be retaining. We are sculpting all weather pitches within this nature reserve for next year and the ground work has been completed at the front of the camping park. You should have mentioned the uneven pitch when you got here. There are lots of level places to pitch and only a maximum of 12 pitches over 4 acres. If you do ever come back this way camping i will find you a level pitch. Best wishes, Mícheál

Hi Agrita. It was so nice to see you and your family enjoy yourselves while you were here. Enjoying the simple things in life bring families closer together. As i mentioned to you so what if there is a little bit of rain for one night. As long as you are dry and realise it is an experience for a only few nights it is good for the soul. Best Wishes, Mícheál