Narborough Fisheries

Lovely place to relax and fish

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Lakes and grounds all very beautiful, toilet block very clean

Shower - no way of adjusting and kept turning off far too quickly - also annoying it was so often locked
Shop sold nothing for campers - only fish bait - no basic essentials available

Wc/Shower Facilities spotless. Site spotless, very friendly owners/staff & most Campers. Caught many different sizes/species fish. Gate is usually locked at night time makes you feel safe. Swaffam is close by. Small Market Saturday. Swaffam Kebabs is amazing & delivered right to our pitch with online ordering Cash/Card with Gloves/Masks & also the Chinese just outside is amazing delivered with Mask/Gloves on, but this has always been lovely. Small Asda not far. But also an Aldi 20 mins away.

Fishing is very busy on a Tuesday Cars pulling on site 8am literally unloading outside your personal space. Pitches are very close to the road, so Fishing Rods sticking out in road/umbrellas, Caravan towing bars sticking out too. we are always further up on the site, which was confirmed first but then told we where swapped to a further away pitch (because of a larger Caravan) before arrival & felt we had been shoved down the end as we had an old trailer tent. All the nicer units are now up the other end, we felt let down, especially after being regular customers for a few years now. The Jets from Marham are so noisy, until 11pm some nights. We don’t like the fact that Camping price is per night £30.00 (fair enough) then extra for fishing (when you are Camping, we got a small discount as our son struggles to fish all day due to personal circumstances). So this is working out £43/45/50 per night depending on which lakes you fish. Speaking to some of the daily fisherman, (they didn’t even realise fishing was extra for Campers). There was also a lot of noise like Cranes or some works going on close by. We have been many times before and it has always been an enjoyable stay. But we didn’t enjoy our stay this time & couldn’t wait to get home to be honest, as we live in peaceful Countryside away from noise. (So we probably noticed it a bit more, but anyhow it was not enjoyable & we where very tired). Really painful stones under your feet in awning. Trip hazards too as they are not absolutely level. Our neighbours Pitch 5 where very rude! & they both thought they owned the site to be honest! Just turn up unloading which took 3 hrs his saying “move your car because my dogs are going in the road”, when they where tied close to the road near the lake in the first instance, because of passing Cars, he said “my dogs are going to get run over” he tutted & moaned about bbq, then when we where packing up, the Car was sideways on & they both moaned at us & made our stay just awful, so not sure we will be going back to be honest! (This part is not the owners fault but thought they should know that the other Campers think they own the place & are upsetting their regular Campers)! I’m not sure we feel we will visit again, we really used to love it but we just couldn’t wait to get home to be honest so tired from all the noise going on.

All good

Non

The place was quite picturesque and well kept. We didn’t use the toilet facilities because of the covid situation so cannot comment on that.

Most of the staff seemed friendly as did the visitors. Chinese within walking distance had really lovely food.

Reason for the 2 star

We booked this long weekend break at least 4 weeks beforehand. We travelled a round trip of 170 miles to come to Narborough Lakes, looking forward to the fishing on the biggest lake, being a keen fisherman.

When we arrived we were told that the big lake had been hired out on the Saturday, so could only fish on the Sunday. At the time I didn’t mind much as spent the Saturday with my young son on the small lake, having bought a £9 ticket for me and a £7 ticket for him.

I tried then to purchase a ticket for me for the Sunday for the bigger lake, only to be told the whole lake had been rehired for the same group of lads as they wanted to stay another night.

On booking my pitch I did ask if that includes the fishing and said I wanted to book onto the bigger carp lake. The lady did advise me that there is no pre booking and I need to book on arrival. I phoned 2 days before arrival and they still said I could not prebook.

When I complained that the lake had now been prebooked by the group of lads a month before, I was told by the owner to talk to the group to ask if they would allow me to join them (what a joke,). They had obviously been allowed to precooked and it was not their fault or down to me to ask them permission.

We left the following morning and went elsewhere.

I left very disappointed as had waisted mine and my families time and also the fuel and packing of fishing equipment that wasn’t needed

We’ were refunded for the following night as we decided to leave as he did understand our reasoning, but that doesn’t make up for our time wasted and our disappointment.

Pitches lakeside ,clean facilities ,good fishing and friendly staff

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Very friendly people. Superb place to stay and relaxing. Even if we are not professionals, we catched lots of fishes

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The reception experience was excellent and welcoming.
The pitches are hard standing and well spaced.
The shower blocks are immaculate.
The views are really pretty.
The location is excellent.

Dishwashing area is not under any cover - so you get wet in the rain.

Stunning location and extremely peaceful. This was our very first trip as new caravan owners, and we couldn’t have asked for more.
The facilities were spotless and we even bumped into the extremely pleasant owner. Thank you for a wonderful weekend break and we’re already planning our next stay there.

Didn’t seem overly clear that you had to park up before driving down to the reception hut. Consequently I drove down to the hut (about 75metres) and then had to try and turn around.

The friendly welcome was great and especially the cleanliness and maintenance of the sight. WiFi was very good.

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