Pioneer Billys

We stayed at Pioneer Billy’s during Easter half term and found the location was pretty great. We were just outside a town (Camborne) with shops, restaurants etc and fairly close to both major and minor roads which made grocery shopping and getting around Cornwall quite easy.

The site is clean, well kept and the owners were great! They were kind, helpful and accommodating every time we spoke with them.

Derek the donkey, Muffin the pony, the goats and the tent visiting chickens were great though. To hear Derek’s story from the owner and hear him regularly “eee oorrr” is wonderful. The entertainment value that all the animals had on the kids during our time at the site was great and the owners own children helped keep the kids busy for hours which was brilliant.

We felt that the facilities were lacking unfortunately.

This was because there was only one basic communal toilet/wash room available for most of our stay. This was because the second toilet/wash room was undergoing maintenance and had been closed.

Hot water was also lacking. Showers were always luke warm, were never hot and the rooms were very cold. When using the washing up area there was no hot water through a tap, instead we had to use the “very advanced water heater” which was a kettle on a gas camping stove - this went missing on the last day which was annoying.

The advanced washing up heater is probably “added character” to site and it didn’t bother me too much but others might not enjoy the charm. For us, the Luke warm showers were the biggest gripe, along with not being able to book an electric pitch on the pitch up site even though we were allocated an available electric pitch. I’d have quite happily paid the extra £20 for an electric hook up to have use of mains electric.

Nice little site, Decent pitches. Very helpful owner

Only one working shower out of 2. Luckily the site was very quiet at the time of stay.
No hot water at dishes cleaning area

This was our second stay here. A lovely warm welcome again from Carole. Nice and quiet until the donkey sees his breakfast on the way then everyone knows about it! Very funny! We have family in the area so will be visiting regularly and we are both more than happy to continue using Pioneer Billy's.

Only 2 bathrooms with no separate toilets, Even thought the site was nowhere near full we had to queue.

Could "Vacant/Engaged" signs be put on the bathroom doors? If they are shut you have no way of knowing if someone is inside. This can mean either queueing when one is empty or trying to go in when occupied (and other people trying to get in when you're in there).

Excellent campsite - Excellent Friendly owners!

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Easy to find. Nice small site. Very friendly welcome. Good size pitch. Toilet/shower very clean. I expect there would be a wait for facilities when busy as only 2 bathrooms and no separate toilets. All in all a very nice stay for one night to visit family. We will definitely return as it’s just down the road from where we need to visit and near to local amenities.

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Extremely friendly hosts. Went out of their way to accommodate and advise us on surfing destinations during our our stay. The cat was a lovely asset, but betrayed us for other campers.

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Was very quite, and private.

No hot water

Excellent very clean quiet site. Felt like I was in happy place, weather and views amazing. Lovely to wake up in pleasant surroundings.

Leaving and coming home

Friendly staff, beautiful location, well supplied campsite

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Everything

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