Makins Lakes

Liked Clean, friendly staff, loads of fish.

Disliked Really busy with all the fishing competitions which fills up all the good lakes.

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Liked Mel at the reception was brilliant, she was very helpful and offered options when the cafe was closed. Other staff members were helpful too.

Clean facilities and near to where we pitched our tent. Lots of room for kids to run around and play. Unfortunately we didn't get to use the games room but that was our call.

Disliked I think the cafe isn't open throughout the week but then staff are readily available to offer options as there are other cafes nearby.

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Liked Quiet site, plenty of fishing lakes

Disliked Washing and toilet facilities weren’t the cleanest. Full of spider webs and spiders that had been there for some time.

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Liked We've stayed twice now, only for one night each time. The campsite it's self is a field so not much to say there, it's exactly as we expected it to be. The fishing lakes are great, we managed to catch on both visits. The shop is stocked with a hood variety of items, and great tackle shop.

Disliked Unfortunately I was less impressed with the toilet situation, if you go non electric you will have a bit of a walk to go to the toilet, which is a bit of annoying especially when you need to go early hours of the morning. There's 5/6 toilets in the ladies and some showers but that's it for the whole campsite. This last visit I wasn't too impressed with the state of them and lack of toilet roll. My partner too hasn't been too impressed with the mens toilets as only two toilets availed again for the whole campsite. Really do need another toilet block preferably in the non electric field.

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Liked The lakes for fishers.

Disliked I absolutely hate the false advertisment here !!!! Do not believe that this campsite its family ! There were saying that play area and of course you will see here the photos DONT believe ! The play area its private no access my children were absoluetly bored !!! Watching a playground closed. Its fuming when i reported about advert and of course they said " sorry we didnt know" i mean how can you not know !! If you have bookings throught page they are features visible so please stop lying customers !! Furthermore toilets should be cleaned refularly lots of spiders children were scared to go, i mean seriously ?! Absolutely would never go there stopy lying advert and change that there is NO playgrqound,fraud !

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From the manager: Hi, thank you for you recent review.
While I understand it must be frustrating seeing a playground and not being allowed to go in it, your review is false.
We have not advertised a play ground and it does not show on our features page and has not been shown for over a year now.
We have always double checked any photos that our past guests have put up to make sure they don't show the playground because even though it is not advertised people can get confused. There are only pictures of the goats in their play area.
Please note the play area is for the school that is located on site, and does not grant us access to use.
However we do have a games room open which we would've been more than happy to show you and help get you set up in there but you didn't give us chance before you left.

Liked The lakes were lovely, well maintained. The on-site shop was great and had all necessities if you forgot or wanted extras like led holla hoop and toys.

Disliked The facilities left a lot to be desired, when we arrived the toilets and showers where okay, but by the time we left two days later, they were horrendous, the mens where blocked and disgusting for an evening and morning (with over 100 people or more on-site approx 8 toilets with all mens blocked is not great), the ladies had one out of 5 toilets with toilet paper, with tampon wrappers etc lying around overnight and for most of the following day, we notified the shop but they only managed to unblock the males toilets did not bother to clean toilets and showers.

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Liked There’s a lot of things to do in the campsite and around, such as the golf range, walks, fishing etc.
The pitching of the tents is easy enough. It’s a first come first serve and not designated spots.

Disliked As per some other reviews, the toilet and shower facilities are gross and not cleaned nearly enough. The men’s washrooms were completely blocked and the smell was noticeable if standing outside the facility. The washing up area is also not the nicest and again not cleaned well.
You can buy water from the reception but non of the taps around the campsite were working so we had to get it from the washing up station, which isn’t the nicest taste. The lady manning the reception wasn’t very accommodating in telling us where the loos, water etc. was. We had to ask several questions to get any answers.

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Liked absolutely brilliant facilities and fishing defiantly coming again

Disliked nothing not much else they could do to make it better

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Liked Lovely site, nice shop and tackle shop, very peaceful at times.
Loved the cafe too!
Will go back, but not on a bank holiday.

Enjoyable weekends fishing for both of us.

Disliked The toilet block was unusable as all toilets were blocked - there didn't seem to be many staff around either to report this too.

It seemed to be quite cramped, maybe because it was Bank Holiday.

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Liked I can not fault my stay at makins.The facilities were great,the staff very helpful,I will recommend this site to anyone,and I caught 24 fish in two days ranging from 5lb to 20lb.

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