Makins Lakes

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

Disliked 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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Liked - 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

Disliked - 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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Liked Lovely lake views and very spacious.

Disliked A little noisy from road.

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

Disliked Noise from road and fisherman early morning

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

Disliked Very solid surface in tent area

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Liked Picturesque setting near lakes

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

Disliked 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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Liked Loved the friendly welcoming service, loved the shop , loved the setting..... Oh my word it's absolutely beautiful and spotless. All the lakes were stunning a well kept. We will absolutely be back.

Disliked Only thing we could say is to maybe have cleaner toilets ( don't get me wrong they are absolutely usable! And we've had worse!) and hand wash. But to be honest if you go camping and don't being hand wash..... 🤔 So we just made sure we took our with us when we visited the toilet.

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Liked Was very relaxed, liked the freedom we had with pitching (non electric) it meant we could camp next to friends we were meeting there. Toilets and showers were clean. Owners were lovely. We always look for basic campsites so that the kids can run around and enjoy the space, and it was perfect for that. Good space but not too big, so we always felt safe letting the children play and the toilets were only a few minutes walk from us. Close to a town with lots of shops. Will definitely be back!

Disliked Wasn’t anything we disliked, maybe just a few tips for people looking to come- bring a fly swatter- there were lots of wasps around. And the ground is quite hard so would advise bringing screw in tent pegs or at least strong ones. But neither of these things are enough to take away from how great the site was.

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