Royal Umpire Caravan Park

Comfy bed, lovely warm POD, fantastic football pitch and play area, lovely warm shower block

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Pub up the road lovely meals but very noisy

Everything was bad
pitch was too far for Elderly to use toilets or shower not enough facilities on site
The site all round is in very very poor condition pot holes everywhere most plots are seasonal residents how they put up with poor conditions I don’t know
The WiFi signal not reaching pitch so was told go up by office and use it also mobiles reception poor
This whole site wants a complete overall should have done it during lockdown
Only use this site if you are desperate for somewhere to stay
This is our sixth year caravanning and this site is disappointing worst place ever

Clean and tidy, parking good, easy access to site.

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The area around was beautiful, lovely villages and towns.
Close to beautiful Southport and Blackpool.

I booked site this as it appeared to have a lovely childrens area and I was to be joined by my grandchildren with my 3 daughters coming and going throughout the week.
We were in 2 cars on arrival and were advised only 1 car per pitch with the other in the car park. We were allowed to take the car down to off load and it was taken to the car park after. It was a trek from car park to the pitch. My daughters were only there one at any one time and the cars were moved after unloading bedding etc.
We felt uncomfortable from the beginning as we were on a row of mainly seasonal pitches who appeared to be talking about us and gathering, noseying and generally making it obvious we were being talked about.
Our grandchildren felt that uncomfortable they didn’t want to use the park after the first couple of days.
My second daughter turned up and again parked at the side of the pitch to unload. I immediately had a phone call from the site office. Someone had complained and could we move the extra car. I explained that she had just arrived and was unloading and would then move the car. She again said she wanted the car moved and I said we would as soon as it was unloaded.
We went into Blackpool and met another of my daughters who had just arrived and on returning to the site, she took her car down to the pitch. Again to offload bedding and clothing. It was 10.30 pm so rather than be noisy and take the car to the car park, she left it there overnight with the plan to move it the next morning. The next morning she took the car to the car park and found a laminated map of the correct parking position - perhaps you could have given us this at the start of our holiday? We were in the van all the time and perhaps someone could have spoken to us?
We were unsure which side was our grass and our neighbours had, apparently been parked on our grass leading my daughter to park on someone else’s. This pitch was empty!
The whole week we felt generally unwanted, no one said the usual good mornings and hellos you expect on a camp site.
On packing up I went out to reverse my car onto the van and the opposite pitches male came out and stood with his arms folded on the edge of his grass. He swore at us - 2 women and 2 children! It will be f****** good to see the back of you lot. He accused us of messing up the grass and said we weren’t allowed on his - we had no choice but to go onto odd bits of the grass as the road was very small. Another couple of the seasonal people were hanging out of their awnings watching us. We did retaliate but on setting off the opposite male pointed into the car at my 13 year old grandson and told him to F off you w*****.
What a horrible site. I have never had crossed words with anyone on another site, we pride ourselves on getting on with people, being quiet, not causing a fuss or making a mess. Our only crime - to park on the grass a couple of times. There was no noise from us despite there being a lot of us, we were out most days and quietly played games and watched movies at night.
There should not be a mixing of seasonal and touring pitches as the seasonal clearly become very territorial. As we were leaving, the guy from the next - seasonal - pitch turned up. He was witness to what the male was saying to us and told my daughter he was planning on leaving as it was always the same.
I feel the site didn’t help, instead of coming and talking to us, we had a fairly rude phone call and laminates.
I went into the site office to complain as we left and advised that I may be contacting the police about the males threats to my grandson. We told her that we had felt uncomfortable, spayed on, talked about all week. The woman on reception advised that she had not been there since Tuesday and knew nothing about all the complaints regarding cars and the grass.
Visit this site at your peril as you will be most unwelcome as we were.

How warm and snuggly they were

Just the decking was slippy with the rain

Great amenities in the pod, clean, comfy bed, clean toilets and shower block, friendly staff, beautiful park.

Nothing

Area was good links to lots of other areas, site was well looked after, just needed cleaner toilets and shower.

Not as clean as advertised in shower/ toilet area.

Very comfortable and warm place with all your needs in the pod. Nice helpful staff we be going back

Just a little outdated in small parts but not important.

Satisfied with stay

N/A

Was a good pitch.

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