-As the title says, NO FISHING. We booked this holiday for that reason as my husband as disabilities so can't get round far so he stays back at the site fishing why I explore and do day trips with the children. He went to the office for a permit to be told, you are not allowed to fish, something about observations, and it's being policed to make sure no ones fishing, so he was not happy about that. This should really be updated on the pitch up description as I feel this is the selling point, the lake and fishing, so false advertising, and alot of unhappy people.
The birds- now I know you can't do anything about birds, it's wildlife but to put the touring pitches under those big trees which are full of crows nests is ridiculous, the bird poo (see pics) which absolutely covered our caravan in just a couple of days was absolutely disgusting and ridiculous, it went all over our water bowser, on the blue pipe into the drinking water so we could no longer even use our bowser and had to do multiple trips to the tap instead. the noise from morning until night was ridiculous and if you thought you'd get peace at night because the birds are sleeping you'd be wrong. This is when there's that much movement in all.the nests, all the twigs and sticks from the nests just bounce off your caravan roof all night, keeping you awake. It seemed at lot worse at our pitch 8A as we was directly under 18 big nests ( yes I counted them) so I would avoid this pitch if you're going soon, as the caravans at either side didn't seem to get as much poo as us. We asked to be moved on the second day to be told "you can't as we've got 15 more tourers coming, so there's none free, and we was also the 3rd person to ask be moved that morning" this was false and they could have moved us, the top 2 pitches away from the nests stayed empty for our entire stay, so they could of easily moved us. I think for future, even just closing the 8A pitch in nesting season as it's directly under them would be so much better and save a lot of unhappy customers.
Through all of the bad points, would I stay again. YES. But definitely not in nesting season, maybe summer time, and when fishing is back allowed. The woodlands around the site, and the castle are what's really beautiful about this place and the reason I will be revisiting.
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