We initially booked for 8 nights at Firbank Park, but ended up staying an additional night showing testament to the great CL site and surrounding area. We received a very warm welcome from Justine who was very knowledgeable about the area and gave us advice on walks and places to visit. The pitches are very spacious and there is lots of additional area to walk dogs if required. We were unable to get any TV signal, but the mobile signal was excellent on both O2 and EE so we watched TV via an IPad and Firestick. There are lots of walks in the surrounding area of various distances including walks direct from the CL. The information board was very helpful with details of these walks including QR codes to upload them direct to your phone. The pitches are metered with the first 10 units included with your pitch fee, and we never went over our allowance as we didn't require our heating on but used our Alde hot water, kettle, microwave etc.There are lots of birds to see on site including woodpecker, birds of prey and we saw deer almost every day from our caravan. A small B road runs alongside the site and there was some noise on weekday daytime from logging timber trucks but evening, night time and weekends there is no noise and the site is very peaceful. We visited Balmoral castle, Crathes castle, Ballater, Glen Tanar, Muir of Dinnet and Deeside Way. Ballater has some lovely shops including a great butchers, bakery and ice cream shop. This was our first visit to this area, and it will not be our last and we would definitely stay at Firbank Park when we visit again.