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Liked Beautiful countryside, easy to find, lots to do in the area including easy walking and cycling routes with direct access from the camp. Facilities clean and tidy, lovely shower.

Disliked Couldn't get on allocated pitch as large motorhome had spread out over the pitch so selected a vacant one and that was fine. Paid for firewood in advance but couldn't find out how to get it?

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From the manager: Hi Allie,

Were glad you enjoyed your visit. Sorry to hear about the motorhome, unfortunately we were away when you visited and our site was busy (website failure). We would have sorted this for sure. Regarding the wood, sorry about that we have the wood ready for you when you arrive, it must have been missed. When you visit again drop us an email and we will get you a fire pit and wood for you stay FOC :)

TMV 🏕️

Liked Quietness,

Disliked Non really

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From the manager: Thank you for the review, we really appreciate it! We hope to see you again soon :)

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Liked The location, it was really scenic. The showers and toilets are new. A bit quirky and rustic themed which fitted perfectly with the surrounding. The honesty shop was a nice touch. Being in a working riding school it was lovely to see the horses, and honestly the location is beautiful. The Elsan point was lovely and clean and easily accessible. Couldn’t fault the facilities, especially for the price.

Disliked I think they’d crammed people in for the bank holiday weekend. Every pitch was allocated, but there wasn’t enough space so people had to put up tents on spaces that weren’t allotted as pitches. We have a 7.5 x 2.8m motorhome, and while pitch up states the pitch size will be a max of 7.5m wide x 10.5m long, the actual size of our plot was just under 5m wide. Luckily, the person that should have been next to us was one of the people who had to pitch their tent on a random piece of grass, so the next pitch was empty. But, had the pitch been filled, we wouldn’t have been able to open our awning (which it states is included in the price). We paid extra for our tow car, and we struggled to find anywhere to park it.

There were groups of people who had crammed multiple tents onto single pitches bringing several vehicles with them. They were playing music into the early hours of the morning. We were really disappointed as the reviews had said how lovely and quiet it was, but our experience was quite the contrary.

The refuse bins were not substantial enough for how busy the site was. We arrived on Saturday morning, and by the evening the 2 small wheels bins and small recycling box were already overflowing. By the time we left on the Monday morning, there were rubbish bags piled up all around the bins.

I understand that the owners were away on holiday, so had left the site in someone else’s hands. I’m unsure if the issues we had were down to poor supervision, over booking, lack of visitor vetting or a combo of everything.

It hasn’t put us off coming back, as I think it was just a perfect storm of circumstances. But it wasnt what we thought it was going to be for that weekend.

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From the manager: Hi Natalie,

Thank you for your review and feedback! As you mentioned we were away and unfortunately during that time out booking system went very wrong! Allowing too many people to book, by which time we were unable to change this so tried to accommodate the best we could. We never have that many pitches on site as we are a small rural site. Please accept our sincerest apologies. Please drop us an email and we will sort out a way of inviting you back so you can see the site normally on us! :)

I look forward to hearing from you,

TMV 🏕️

Liked Absolutely loved it. We had a perfect weekend. Staff were really friendly and accommodating. The site was clean and really peaceful. We are definitely going to book another visit.

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From the manager: Thankyou for your review Sarah, so gad you enjoyed your visit with us! We look forward to seeing you again soon!

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Liked Loved the views. Our first off grid stay in our motor home. Had a great weekend. Staff were helpful when the toilet paper ran out. The honesty shop is well stocked and loved the games you could take play with and take back. We would could back to stay.

Disliked Only thing I would say is to add quiet times to the booking. Sorry if I missed this on the page.

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From the manager: Hi Emma,

Thankyou for your review, were glad you enjoyed your time with us. Unfortunately you visited when we were away and the booking system crashed allowing to many bookings. We do have a quite policy that should and will be stuck by! On this occasion we were not there to manage it unfortunately. However, if you visit again you will see how quite and peaceful the site is :)

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Liked Location, handy for Donington Park.

Disliked Overcrowded, and only 2 toilets and 2 showers.

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From the manager: Hi,

Thank you for your review and feedback! Were sorry you had a bad time with us, this is not what TMV is about at all! We were away and unfortunately during that time out booking system went very wrong! Allowing too many people to book, by which time we were unable to change this so tried to accommodate the best we could. We never have that many pitches on site as we are a small rural site. Please accept our sincerest apologies. Please drop us an email and we will sort out a way of inviting you back so you can see the site normally on us! :) We have regular visitors for Donnington park - if you are a visitor to DP come back and stay with us to see our site normally.

(I cant get your email or I would have emailed you directly - drop us an email so we can rectify this please :))

I look forward to hearing from you,

TMV 🏕️

Liked Beautiful views

Disliked The walk to the toilet is so far if you’re towards the end of the pitch.

They have squeezed too many pitches
Onto the site which feels very greedy of them. It was overcrowded on a busy weekend.

On our second night there was a huge group of 30 or so people who shared just 3 pitches (how this was allowed I have no idea). They were loud and obnoxious and played loud music from their arrival until 1am then were up chatting loudly until 3am!

To make matters worse this meant that there were two toilets for about 100 people! Insanity!!

We (and at least two other families) left a day early because of the state of the facilities and the loud, obnoxious group

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From the manager: Hi,

Thank you for your review and feedback! Were sorry you had a bad time with us, this is not what TMV is about at all! We were away and unfortunately during that time out booking system went very wrong! Allowing too many people to book, by which time we were unable to change this so tried to accommodate the best we could. We never have that many pitches on site as we are a small rural site. Please accept our sincerest apologies. Please drop us an email and we will sort out a way of inviting you back so you can see the site normally on us! :)

I look forward to hearing from you,

(sorry I cant get your name and email or I would have emailed you directly - please get in touch)

TMV 🏕️

Liked Beautiful well kept site, great location and lovely facilities.

Disliked Nothing.

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From the manager: Hi Mark,

Thank you for your brillant reviews. We are very proud of the facilities and everyone mentions how nice they are. We look forward to seeing you again soon!

TMV 🏕

Liked Lovely friendly and welcoming owners
Nothing too much trouble
Really thoughtful touches of items available you may have forgotten
Beautifully clean
Fantastic views

Disliked Nothing!

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From the manager: Hi Diane,

Thank you for your review! We hope to see you again soon 😊

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Liked Brilliant pitching sizes, the facilities are second to none. We will definitely be returning to this campsite

Disliked Nil

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From the manager: Hi Josh,

Thank you so much for the amazing review. We look forward to seeing you all again soon for your uni catch up! 😀

TMV 🏕