Walesby Forest

Liked Space, fresh air, bar food was nice

Disliked Showers/ toilet block were filthy. Felt worse after my shower.
Activities not on then swapped for age restricted ones.
Swimming pool closed
No park/ play area

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Liked The closeness to the amenities. Daughter enjoyed the activities. Blue Peter badge holder. I've knocked the facilities and activities down this time as I think more options could be explored when young children are on site and cleanliness of toilets and showers.

All staff on site very helpful and courteous.
Bar very clean and good choice of food and drink options.

The pool attendant that was organising people in and out of the pool on Saturday did a fabulous job.

Location lots of places to go from site. Rufford, Clumber, Clipstone. Sherwood Observatory. Newark castle and Civil war museum.

Take out menu left on tables in the bar at night, although we didn't choose this option nice to have this perhaps this should be given at the reception at check in.

Disliked Toilets and shower areas need regularly cleaning hourly!!

No BBQs or campfires on this weekend however we took a gas fire and fake flickering fire to give the same camping experience temperature dropped quite significantly. In this case make more things available on display like your blankets, lights a gas fire option perhaps? Or even the nice wooden lanterns you have to paint for kids. Make features of what you have got available.


Think the large white tent on the camping side A could be used for cooler nights when camp fires can't be used perhaps just a small seating area quiet somewhere away from the karaoke to relax.

Shop could stock a lot more items i came one year when you had some lovely necklaces and bracelets. I gave my daughter as tan extra stocking filler for xmas.

No jigsaws. No reading books other than the history on Walesby and only colouring books for children. What about nature books, sticker books word searches or crossword books.

Nice to see some inflatables in the shop for the pool. We took our own a rubber ring donut but nice to see other options available perhaps advertised this at the pool entrance as a young boy was upset it was too deep so my daughter let him have our rubber ring.


Unfortunately one family not us and I hope they raise this they were not happy on the Sunday they had a boy and girl aged 5 and only two activities open for them to do Cave Maze and Low ropes perhaps they should be free if only two things open. The parents then had to purchase two archery sets in the shop.

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Liked Onsite activities, availability and size of pitches (including electric pitches); onsite bar, shop and food options

Disliked Distance to nearest toilet and shower blocks

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Liked Great site, in wild camping, meant we weren't on top of one another, great activities

Disliked Toilets were clean but just old and neglected in wild camping, I know it's reflected in the price but they need some tlc

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Liked Using the wild camping area and being able to choose where & how you pitched up! Brilliant facilities lots of fresh water pumps.

Disliked Only 1 pot washing area which was a 15 minute walk from the wild camping but suppose that makes it ‘wild’. No biggie, nothing a kettle and bucket doesn’t solve :)

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Liked Lots of open space, nice for families and a safe place for children. Top end very quiet

Disliked Toilet shower block discusting not good enough. Pitches need to be made clearer. More info on website.

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Liked Such a great site and the activity team were amazing with the kids

Disliked Toilet and shower blocks were grim

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Liked Friendly helpful staff, didn’t realise we had booked non electric and Katherine made it very easy for us to move and made us feel very comfortable. Beautiful big grounds with lots to see when walking. Loved staying in field E as felt we were away from the hustle and bustle. Very quiet at night, felt secure as saw security doing their rounds.

Disliked The lack of toilet facilities, so apart from the fact they were so far away there wasn’t enough to cater for the amount of people. One group had electric motor bikes and they just kept riding them all around the fields which was very annoying, so we were surprised that was allowed. The food is advertised as open until 19:00 but closes at 18:30 so couldn’t get any at 18:40 when we went which niggled us as just acting on the information given.

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Liked The activity selection if your kids are old enough. Staff were friendly. Especially at the lake. It has such potential with a bit of funding it could really be something amazing.

Disliked Activity locations unclear. A map would help. Age restrictions not made clear when booking so my 2 youngest kids couldn’t do anything, defeated the objective of me booking there. No park or anything else for them. They were bored a lot so of day trips off the campsite had to take place. Lana was the only staff member who was disinterested. Was stood there on her phone actively ignoring my child when she needed help taking off her harness. I had to ask her if she worked there. Shower room wasn’t bad. Didn’t use the toilet block. Flys everywhere! That can’t be helped but just be aware.

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Liked The price and the location as very near the A1

Disliked When I arrived at around 4.30pm I was given a map of where my pitch was.
I had booked a wild camping pitch as It was just an overnight stay. The map was not clear at all and I drove round for 30 minutes trying to find a sign relevant to my booking. I asked several people if they knew where the wild camping was and they just said it was not where they were as they had electric hook up. I then asked an employee and he pointed to a road and said the toilets were half way down the hill. I drove down the road he pointed to and came back to the main entrance. I gave up in the end and stopped where there was some trees away from anyone else, got to sleep early and left by 6am. I would say things would have been a lot easier if there was a sign say Wild Camping with an arrow. The toilets were not that great either.

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