Hi Sean,

Thansk for the review. As to there being nothing to do within walking distance, it depends upon what you want to do. We're a rural site with rural things to do like nice pubs, walks, cycle routes, wildlife watching, fishing and so on.

Everyone comes to site with a vehicle, and even if they don't, the GoToo bus can come to site and collect you.

In the vicinity, we've got two market towns, Bewilderwood Childrens Adventure, Three Wrens Gin Distillery Tours, Longmans Farm Shop, Canal Barge Hire, a shooting range, wedding venues and....you get the point.

We will add more to the site in due course.

Cheers,

D

Hi Kim,

Thanks for the review. In response:

- we're a tiny site and have never had a problem with having 4 showers and loos. Most times when I go up and clean them they are empty. If it becomes a problem, we can build more, but then the costs of the same and maintaining them increase the site fees...
- the nearest pubs (walking) are about 25-30 mins and we have the GoToo bus which will collect you from site.
- Yes, fire pits are £20. To be clear, the wood (bagged) costs us about £17 at present, so we make £3 from the actual hire. The reason you can't take your own is because campers buy cheap fire pits, burn holes in the grass and dump them (often on fire) on our bins.
- Aside not being responsible for the thunderstorm and there being a water outage in the area, there was water. We have a biiiiig reserve tank and the site was vactated by noon. The water was restored by United Utilities by 2.45pm. I think you're mistaking my message asking people not to waste water as there being no water.
- As to noise, we do our best. We checked the noise at 6pm and 10pm and there was none. Further, the rain was that heavy that there was no one outside. We also advise eveyone to message us on WhatsApp is there's a problem as we live on site and can sort any noise issues. Neither you, nor anyone else messaged us, and there was no noise to be heard from our house 100 yards away.
- I don't understand "No internet hit and miss this day and age." We don't have wifi, so not sure how it was hit and miss.
- Nothing is free in any business, irrespective of what is claimed. Our fees just about cover our costs (and there's a lot of them). Even if we did provide 'free' wifi, we're not on fibre broadband here. We're on 4g broadband which would not sustain up to 80 campers streaming videos and so on. Most Smartphones are 4/5g ready now, so what's the point of including wifi and increasing costs? Further still, the idea of rural camping is to chill out and not stare at your phone. Embrace it.

Hope you find somewhere more to your liking next time.

Cheers,

D

Hi there,

Thanks for the review. We always expect a bad review when we've had to tell someone off.

For reference, you were the booking that ignored our rule about disposable fire pits then burned a hole in the grass. You thought you'd 'sussed' it when you advised you'd put thin metal plates under the BBQ to stop the heat transferring to the grass. Upon me pointing out that metal is a really good heat conductor, the mood turned a little sour.

In response to your specific points however:

1. In relation to how far the pitches are apart, we've got 5.5 acres and sell 12 tent spaces, 7 tourer pitches and 4 glamping pods. Within reason, you can go anywhere you want on the camping field (i.e next to no-one if you like). Each pitch is a minimum of 10 x 10m to ensure a 6m gap between you and the next tent as per our rules/fire legislation. Not sure how far you'd like to be from other campers.

2. As to loud music on the second night, I don't believe that was anyone on our site. There was a wedding at the barn down the road, over which we have no control. Our 10pm walkaround did not reveal anyone making noise on site.

3. As to me being sarcastic, yes I am, but on that occasion, I was genuinely confused. You pointed at the monument in the next field and asked how long it would take to walk there. As you could clearly see it, and knew how fast you walked, I was not sure I understood your question. I then clarified and advised 5 minutes.

4. As to cleaning the showers, I am not sure I understand your point. We regularly check and clean the showers. If someone is in a cubible, we'll leave them in there, but are you suggesting that we should not clean anywhere else until the whole shower block is empty? If so, please think about how that would work on a small busy site.

Hope you find a site more to your liking next time.

Cheers,

David.