Liked Pleasant site in a good position for local beaches.

Disliked very strange shower system. Advertised 20p for a shower. Turns out this was for a one minute shower and payment was a jaunt away from the shower. By the time I paid and took off my clothes I had about a 10 second shower ! longer showers available for more money but seems a bizarre system.

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From the manager: Hi Chris, thank you for your review and we are glad that you liked our site. I just wanted to clarify the situation regarding the showers ! No where is it advertised that a shower is 20p. I cannot see this on the Pitchup advert ? The pre-arrival email which was sent to you clearly states under the heading of "Hot Showers" : "Hot water is charged at 20p a minute, so £1 gives you a five minute shower. Twenty pence is normally sufficient for washing up. Please note that the hot water starts as soon as the coin is put into the meter so it is worth taking a family member or friend with you to pop the money in the meter whilst you wait in the shower ready for the water to commence ! Otherwise you will lose hot water time whilst walking from the coin meter to the shower. Coin meters are located out of the showers themselves because of health and safety reasons, where electric and water are not a great combination! Hot water is coin operated because it is deemed the fairest way of charging whereby you pay for what you use. The alternative is to increase the price of the pitch per night. But given that some guests will not use the showers at all whilst staying with us or will shower on alternate days, this method keeps the price per night down for everyone. Shower cubicles are roomy so there is plenty of space for an adult and two children, or two adults, to shower together to keep the cost down should you so wish. There is also a free cold shower for anyone brave enough !" The pre-arrival email which you received also says : "Our local council would not let us build a proper shower block because we are in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and all our facilities do have to be taken down at the end of our camping season! So this is why the showers are as they are, but you will find there is heaps of hot water, and it is hot! Unlike a lot of the campsites around us, we do have a proper boiler and immersion which provides a continuous flow of hot water. All be it basic and rustic, the showers still cost money to build, maintain and run, therefore we do have to charge for their use". I don't think that you read the pre-arrival email which contained the site information before you came as everything is very clearly stated.

Liked Pleasant, quiet field. Very clean toilet/shower facilities. Very reasonable charge for non electric grass pitch.

Disliked Beware a steep hill up from Polperro. I treated it as good exercise !

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