Wellstone Country Camping

Spectacular location

More loos would make site perfect

This is a review from my 7 year old daughter.
“It was brilliant, I really liked it. The best things were the campfire, playing in the water, making lots of friends and seeing the Alpacas.”

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The alpacas
Hot showers
No cars on pitch area

Pitches to close together
Wet room set ups

Beautiful location, quiet and peaceful

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Alongside river
Path along river and hut
Warm showers & toilets cleaned twice a day
Free firepits

Rats
No welcome / no one to welcome you
Too many people for the size of the pitches/ site & facilities

Absolutely everything was brilliant. From the area where we could pitch to the stream. It was exactly what we wanted and needed for the kids.

The facilities were exactly what you would expect. (Yes muddy at times but it is in Wales, can't really be prevented.) Chuck a pair of flip flops on and you'd be fine.

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a quiet place to rest, the sound of a stream makes it easy to fall asleep. it is close to the coast you can visit many nice beaches. clean showers and toilets. we were a week but extended our stay without any problems. the owner offers a fireplace (free) and firewood for a low fee. I recommend this place.

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Small site in a rural location surrounded by nature. It was nice to have a fridge with freezer section and there were also a couple of power points available. It was nice in some ways to not have WiFi or mobile signal. They were kind enough to let us bring a larger tent rather than small tent and gazebo that we booked (although we never saw the owners there so they probably had no clue what people had brought!).

The design of the showers meant that that the floor ended up being a pool of mud. You didn't feel very clean after having a shower. There were quite a lot of people using just two showers and they did end up very dirty. There were toilets in the shower which meant more mud. There was no drying mat so hard to dry your feet and no where flat to put a wash bag in the dry. The showers felt like portaloos rather than proper buildings and stuffy despite extractor fans.

The taps were single press and all fairly terrible. Some were far to powerful and chucked water everywhere. They were difficult to stop when you were finished and it felt like quite a waste of water. The hot was intermittent and sometimes scalding. There was not even a little LED light in the washing up area.

Although there were regular trips from a cleaner they didn't replace empty hand soaps. This was not good with the current Covid situation, proper hand washing in shared facilities should be their top priority.

Although it was a small strip of grass there seemed like a lot of people with the tents and also two yurts. This impacts all facilities. We were there at peak time.

We didn't get any details about what to do on arrival, only a location on Google maps in the automatic email from Pitchup. This had the phone number for the old owners (ownership changed in March).

The owner is not on site, being a bit up the lane at Wellstone Cottages. They said they were doing contactless check in but this seems to be an excuse not to bother showing their faces at the campsite (if they were worried about covid cleanliness and soap would be more important). If they were there speaking to campers they might be more aware of the issues.

There was a big area of mud on a way to the facilities which could use some wood chips or something to absorb it. It was on a slope and quite slippery.

As with a lot of campsites they sell banged wood and there are metal fire cages to use so a lot of camp fires. With the location surrounded by trees in a valley this did mean the local area quality was bad, something to think about if you have asthma.

Overall not recommended but okay for a short stay if you want to be in the area. Some of the other campers on longer stays weren't very happy.

The views were amazing, the clear sky, the river to play in, the seclusion, the wildlife, the alpacas and the walks were wonderful. The fire pits on an evening were beautiful and it lit up a little path through the valley. The price was reasonable, and the facilities were basic but just right. It's definitely a magical site, in fact it's the only site we're ever stayed a full day at and not left to explore the local area as we were so content at exploring the site instead.

The showers overflowed as they weren't draining properly. I think it was due to the mud being trapsed in from the river when people were warming up after a dip. An easy fix I'm sure. Also, the slope down to the camping pitches could do with some gravel, it was quite boggy, a struggle to pull the trolleys loaded with kit through, but this is a proper back to nature type site, so don't expect flat pitches, phone signal or electric hook up, it's far more adventurous than that.

Friendly staff, free fire pits, lovely field, small site, stream for kids to play in

The showers flooded, muddy areas so had to walk long way round with equipment.Lack of soap and hand drying facilities. Other campers left toilets a mess. Car park not big enough for the amount of people camping