Walesby Forest

Liked Lots of actives on offer. Huge amount of space in the wild camping area, woods for kids to play in. We really enjoyed our stay.

Disliked Showers and toilets were not always very clean. Showers were luke warm.

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Liked I thought it was a very peaceful place and myself and my son loved just chinning out and having a laugh, thankyou.

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Liked There is lots to do at Walesby Forest on and off site. The activities on site are good, £20 per day or £11 half a day, the activities each day are unlimited, so your child can access them from 9am until 12:30 and then 1:30 till 5pm.There is some evening entertainment for the children but if that’s not your thing you can access barrels for making campfires or BBQs.
There is a bar and gift/convenience store on site too but anything bigger Asda and Tesco are about a 5 minute drive towards Boughton.
Offsite activities you have Crestwell Craggs, Thoresby Park with Bird of Prey displays, gardens and cafeteria. There is also Robin Hood Caves which is worth a look to explore…. If you just like simply walking there are many paths and trails accessible from site.
If you experience any issues, the Walesby forest maintenance team are quick to help and rectify any issue that may arise. Our first day we had an issue with the electric hookup, where the electric kept tripping but this problem soon rectified and we did not experience anymore issues.

Disliked The only dislike was the water activities available at Walesby. The area is quite small and those who canoed, kayaked or rafted would soon get bored. I think a little more thought into this area would help gain more interest. For example: obstacles to teach them how to navigate the boats. A little more structure to the activity would help massively. Maybe a little lesson offshore prior to accessing the boat would help for those who had never done it before to prevent any incidences or pulling people off the lake.
There is also an area for fishing which is sign posted on activities board. We explored this area and there are no real platforms to fish safely for children plus it’s open to the public too.
Adequate signposting for the fishing would be good too as we did not see much of these….so possibly could have been in wrong area despite following the map provided.

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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 Loved the big site and loads of room. The wristbanded activities were fabulous and kept everyone entertained (Laser tag was a particular favorite!) Great having bar and food options available too.

Disliked Our site (E) was just a bit too far away from the toilets to be comfortable. Although we loved the quiet and space, we would opt to be closer to a toilet if (when) we visit again.

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Liked Great camp site would recommend and hoping to return in the next few weeks.

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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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