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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Plenty of space and friendly staff
N'a pas aimé : Showers could have been more private
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Very friendly attentive staff, best welcome to a campsite/working farm ever. Nothing was too much trouble, including towing us off the field due to poor weather conditions.
Great experience seeing the young calf and baby lambs. Working dogs and horses.
Beautiful river walks from the campsite. Excellent food and drinks.N'a pas aimé : Nothing xx
Great to see veterans working and enjoying life
Thank you, we hope to see you again soon. Brian
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Campsite was nice and well kept
N'a pas aimé : Price of the on-site food for what it was. £3 for a slice of cheap supermarket frozen pizza
Free showers
Free live music every night of the bank holiday
Free use of the barn and patio heaters to dry clothing out and shelter from the rain
£2 for a glass of wine
£2 for a beer
£6 for home cooked, Galloway Steak Casserole
£8 for home cooked chicken curry
No limit on rubbish disposed free
Free tow for anyone who got stuck
We base our menus and pricing on what our customers ask for - the options we offered obviously didn't suit you, but I hope you enjoyed the alternative options in Sedbergh town (a 5 minute walk)......as explained in your welcome pack (also free)
......quite ironic that by far the most feedback from our customers is that we should increase prices, particularly in the bar as they are disproportionately low compared to comparable campsites.
Sincerely
Brian
Lots of space
Ben W.
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Lots of space
N'a pas aimé : Not enough toilets
Never again
Florin B.Confirmé
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Good points very nice surroundings and nice for kids as they have little animals on show. I won’t stay there again
N'a pas aimé : Toilets to far ,showers you have to pay £3 per person, very muddy and not a lot of flat surface for tents.
Thank you for your review.
Many hundreds of campers compliment the freedom to choose your own pitch.
Some people like to be next to toilets, some people like to be as far away as possible (the maximum distance in any field is 75 metres).
We try to promote the freedom of camping, but with that freedom comes a degree of personal responsibility.
It looks like you chose to camp away from the toilets.
There was 30 acres open for camping on your weekend. If you camped on a slope - it was your choice - as there were many many very flat fields with low occupancy.
Mud - we are a grass campsite. There was 2 weeks of heavy rain prior to your visit. The heavy rain during your visit was forecast. You chose to camp on a grass campsite with all of those known conditions. We opened up 30 acres to minimise mud - that’s 7 cars per acre (football field). I suspect that you were amongst the 48 campers who selected the 3 acres of the main field where the views of the Howgill Fells are best. You traded mud for views.
I’ve answered the shower question in a previous review.
We will continue to provide freedom for our campers to select what best suits their needs. Whilst I accept that this isn’t what you want, I hope that this review has helped you to see that if you accept a small amount of personal responsibility, your camping experience will be much better wherever you visit.
Sincerely
Brian
Excellent site, friendly owners and managers
Beth S.Confirmé
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Peaceful, relaxing calming site.
I was a rush to book and somehow the dates were booked wrong. I hadnt had a chance to double check because the email had gone to others and i just didnt have time to check at the time.
Thankfully Brian allowed us to change the date to the correct one and I am ever so thankful because we throughly enjoyed our stay.
Unfortunately when we arrived the camp site was wrapping up their season so we missed out on the bars and activities with the children which I'm sure my kids would have loved!N'a pas aimé : One thing I wasn't a fan of was the portaloo being removed on the day of our last night meaning that we had to use the toilets on the main yard, which wouldn't have been a problem but they are locked over night.
Sorry about the portaloo. Please message me next time you plan to visit and we will give you a days credit for that night.
Kind Regards
Brian
Thank you for a lovely stay
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Wonderful location and great support from the owners, a lovely experience, was told about the charity work they do and a massive hats off to all the staff there for what they do In support of others. Thank you hopefully get down for the next event
N'a pas aimé : Nothing
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : The walks, the staff, animals and the food. Lovley place.
N'a pas aimé : No dislikes just the weather lol
Lovely campsite in beautiful setting, basic facilities but amazing bar
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Lovely campsite in a beautiful location. The staff were all really friendly and helpful. The barn bar was an added bonus we were not expecting, and at £2 a bottle/glass of wine it was an absolute bargain! Pete Lashley (gig singer) was fabulous as always, you must invite him back. You could still find plenty of tent space even on a bank holiday weekend, and the quiet field was just as promised.
N'a pas aimé : You really must sort the shower facilities out. I’ve never had to pay £3 for a campsite shower in all my years of camping. You could easily afford to put your alcohol up by 50p a bottle/glass to make much more money, then you wouldn’t have to charge for showers.
Thanks for your review, please let me give you my perspective on showers.
After 2 years of reviews asking us to install good showers, at Easter Bank Holiday 2023 & the 2 May Bank Holidays in 2023, we hired in VIP showers costing £1500 a week. These showers were only used 28 times, so it wasn't viable. We decided to build our own.
The current showers were installed on 12th June 2023. They cost £6,000 to build and have only had 1 negative comment since (by someone who wouldn't be happy in a 5 star hotel).
Since the 12th June 2023, we have had approx 1100 pitch bookings and approx 3,500 visitors.
Only 128 people have had showers. We have charged £3 - making £384 revenue.
In the same period (69 days), we have used £268 of LPG gas (a lot - but we don't limit time in the shower) and the showers have been cleaned continuously, roughly 10 hours of cleaning and maintenance which at £10 an hour is another £100.
So I hope you can see:
1. The showers aren't used as much as people think.
2. At £3 per shower, they just about pay for the operation, cleaning and maintenance, but they'll never repay the capital cost of building them.
In summary, Farm & Fell Campsite exists for everyone, but it was founded during COVID to give an outlet for families on marginal subsistence. In every decision I make, I'm thinking of hard working families who are struggling to get the money together to get away for the weekend....that's why so much of what we do that involves children is free. Many people encourage me to increase the costs at the bar - but every time I consider it, I'm thinking of that single parent who wants to treat themselves to a couple of drinks on one night of their stay (it's also the reason why we don't charge for the live music) - and I won't do it until it has to be done for viability.
I appreciate your review and whilst you might not agree with my reply, I hope you understand why I'm making the devisions that I am.
Kind Regards
Brian
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Traduire (Généré par Google Translate)A aimé : Simple camping structure
N'a pas aimé : Muddy car park and tyre got stuck
Thank you for your review, it was a very wet weekend following 2 very wet weeks. We did everything we could to help those that got stuck. Incidentally, out of the 16 vehicles that we pulled out (of 364 campers that visited on that weekend), only one of them was a woman driver........ a fun fact that stimulates a discussion on driving styles...
Kind Regards
Brian
Thank you, noted.
Brian