Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales
Electric optional hardstanding and grass pitch
Liked Star gazing was amazing! The little swing set and Wendy house was a hit with my children (5, 4 & 3). Showers were powerful and hot! Toilets were good too, sometimes the toilet took a while to fill up before flushing if going in after someone else but not an issue really. Hearing the owls and foxes at night was amazing too! The person running the site seemed nice and helped us with any enquiries we had. Picnic bench on our pitch was handy aswell as the fire pit! Close shops like co op to get bits from and there’s a few takeaway places in Lampeter only 10 min drive (we got one on our last night it was fab)
Disliked Wasn’t fond of the sloping pitch, we made it work though. Noisy neighbours who didn’t care about what time it was, screaming and shouting at each other, also had an off lead dog attack my dog who was on lead which I wasn’t pleased about. It states in rules dogs to be kept on lead at all times but clearly they weren’t to fond of that rule. Nothing really around, anywhere you wanted to go such as attractions etc was at least 45 mins to an hour away which wasn’t ideal but my fault for not researching it properly. Stream that was advertised on pitch up as a place to paddle in wasn’t a stream at all more like a puddle which upset my kids a little.
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From the manager: Apologies for the noisy neighbours and their dog, which should have been on a lead - I agree. I did have a word with them. The stream is normally suitable for paddling but with the summer drought, the water is very low at the moment. I'm glad you liked the rest of our facilities. Our location is what it is. We're not on the doorstep of anything much, but we're centrally located to quite a few things as long as people set aside enough time for the driving.
Llanymynech, Powys, Wales
Shepherd's hut
Liked Where to start?! Everything was perfect!! The location, the fishing, the hut itself to the owner.. we could not fault a thing!
Me and my husband spent the weekend in the shepherd hut and what a stay! We did not want to leave. When we arrived we were greeted by Mike the owner and he was lovely! He shown us how to get to our hut and met us there for a little run down of how everything in hut worked and where everything was etc, gave us our key and away we went.
The hut itself was amazing! Equipped with absolutely everything you could need! Double bed, tv (which has Netflix, Disney etc on it you can log into), fan on the wall for hot nights, under floor heating for cold evenings. There is 2 tables which open up for extra tabletop space and a place to eat together so you don’t have to eat on the bed. There’s a small fridge, a kettle, 2 electric hobs, microwave. plenty of cups, cutlery, chopping boards, pots and pans etc, everything you could need!! We even got some coffee, tea and milk and a little welcome hamper which was a lovely touch! There is a separate bathroom in the hut which had a toilet, sink and shower in. We had towels and toilet roll which again was a lovely touch! Overall great facilities!!!
We arrived in the evening so we decided to get the rods out for a few hours in the evening just to get a lay of the land and have a little warm up for the full day fishing the next day. Just that little few hours I caught about 15 roach quite good sizes some babies some just under a pound it was fun.
The following day we got up around 7am to the most beautiful view of the lake from our hut, had a coffee and away we went to fish for the day! We fished for 12 hours straight and during the day Mike came round for a visit to check in and see how we was and if there was anything we needed and how we were getting on fishing which was a lovely added touch. Overall we caught about 7 carp ranging from 3lb to a beautiful 16lb, 4 tench, lots of medium sized roaches too! It was a brilliant day! All of the fish are well looked after, all beautiful!
We have definitely found our home away from home and we are already looking for dates we can go again! Thank you to Mike once again, our stay was amazing!
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