Castle Cary Holiday Park

By far one of the best campsites we have stayed at over many years of camping :)
The site is friendly - both staff and other campers
Pub on site!

We were given a touring pitch very close to the park so my daughter could go and play and I could keep an eye on her from the van. The park is very good for a campsite with lots of kids playing together

The pitch was perfect - fully serviced and clean with modern drainage cover. The fences, walls and hedges surrounding each pitch were well kept. Lots of space to stretch out in the sun on the grass :) Plenty space for awning, van and parking.

We used the new-looking shower block and were very pleased with it - although the water was very hot. (Possibly because the weather was so hot?)

We loved the pools at the cafe! It was so hot when we were there that it was very busy and the cafe staff (sensibly) started booking you in to slots when it was busy.

We ate at both the pub and cafe and were very pleased with the food and the value for money at both. We had to book a few days in advance for the pub but did this easily by contacting them through their Facebook page.

Just a tiny thing - but it'd be great if there were mops in the showers. I don't like leaving puddles behind me and being unable to clean it up :)

Also it's beyond the camp site to solve the problem but there is a bit of an outbreak of myxomatosis in the area at the moment and it is upsetting for wee kids to see the rabbits like this. Just to make families aware.

Everything about the site

Thought charge fir crazy golf a bit high

The large pitches
The outdoor swimming pool
The new shower block with 6 showers and toilets like home from home.
The relaxed atmosphere.
The lairds has delicious food but you need to book wee in advance as it is always fully booked. The kids had fun at the lovely playpark, but I think a slide on the grass verge would be great idea as all the kids were sliding down on the grass its self, much to us parents delight getting grass stains out ha!
The donkeys are friendly the kids loved feeding them chopped apples and carrot.

Overall the park is one of my favourites, nice and relaxed atmosphere, family friendly, we will definitely be booking again.

I would say the showers were absolutely scalding that I had to take my small children to the disabled shower room as it had the appropriate dials to sort out temperature to a much cooler setting. The floors are constantly drenched in the shower room, there is one mop and bucked, I think supplying one for each shower room would have helped.

Nearly everything. Park is lovely and staff arexreswelcoming .

Showers were restricted at 10 seconds and could not amend temperature. No hot er dor dishes. Toilet cubicle had a sink but nothing to dry hands.

Location, pitch size, very friendly staff. Lovely food at the cafe and the Lairds inn.

Outside pool ground pretty coarse on feet. Crazy gold needs some TLC. Early closure of arcade for the older children.

Donkeys and park

There were a lot of drunk teenagers going around kicking tents and trying to open tent doors. They continued to play loud music all night.
We were the last electric hook up and told we were the last tent so had all the space at the bottom which was fantastic for the kids playing, but there was then a family that turned up (non electric) just down from my tent in the electric and they filled that bottom space with 5 tents, a gazeebo and a toilet tent which took up the area where the kids could play.
The outside pool is one of the reasons we booked it but the pool was absolutely disgusting, the water was not clear Ans you could not see the bottom of the pool at all. It needed a good clean. In the indoor pool there was no shallow or deep end, it also needed a good clean. There was hairbrushes, socks and pants all lying around the pool and behind the chairs. It was very rusty with holes in doors. At reception you think the facilities will match it but unfortunately it's extremely tired and needs a total refurbishment

Pitch close to shower block, cafe and pub. Cute corner pitch.

Need mops and non slip mats for showers
Pub has limited opening hours. No WiFi.

Liked the pool facilities
Little cafe at pool ok for lunch
Staff lovely.

Fishing loch more like swamp. Opening times for cafe could do with being adjusted for breakfast especially on a Sunday.
Couldn’t book for evening meal or drinks.
Nothing on website about booking Laird inn.
Booked for 2 nights only stayed 1 night.

Grass well cut

Games room very run down nobody was interested when we had a problem with a games machine , outdoor swimming pool very dirty and area around the pool was absolutely shocking for children to walk on ,toilet block we used was absolutely filthy no sanitiser in toilet block 1 out off 6 toilets had toilet roll should be cleaned more than once a day in this pandemic floor was disgusting, pitched our tent near the play area and the smell off something dead or rotting fish was stomach churning put us off sitting out st night it was so bad ,bins were overflowing and stinking 🤮 very poor on a busy campsite .

Swimming pool, swing park, grounds were spotless, cafe at swimming pool food

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