Rated 4 of 5

Rated 4 of 5

Peace and tranquility

Rated 4 of 5

Access to local places of interest

Rated 2 of 5

Beauty of surroundings and scenery

Rated 2 of 5

Ease of arrival/welcome

Oh Dear

After reading other reviews, and looking at the photo's of this site, felt fairly confident I had booked a very clean welcoming site. Our hearts sank as we pulled on, felt like we were pulling onto a storage facility, with untended grass, patchy and uneven in parts, small pitch sizes and no views to speak of. This is one of the worst C.L. sites we have ever stayed on, and we have done dozens. Our pitch was alongside some caravans being stored, seperated by a narrow amount of laurel, and other caravans seemed to belong to people who may have been working in the area, as they left early and came back at tea time. You never saw them sitting out enjoying the sun or anything, making us feel in the minority. On arrival and ringing the bell at the main door, Mr whoever(never bothered introducing himself), just nodded for us to carry on past the gate and along. No real welcome, or advice or interest in us as users of his site. After the initial disappointment, I had to make a visit to the toilet facility. It was filthy, no hand soap, some rolls of kitchen paper on a dilapidated old cupboard, shower was very dirty also. The toilet shed thingy was sited at the top end of the site, with 3 steps up to the main door. Frosted glass in the door was not the most private-feeling, you felt you could be seen from all around. It is just about fit for purpose, but is very unsavoury. Do yourselves a favour, just don't use this site, the owner does not deserve your business, as is obvious by the unwelcoming neglected and downright dirty facilities that you are expected to use.

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Peter 67 replied on 26/04/2022 10:40

Posted on 26/04/2022 10:40

We have been almost full over the winter for the first time with campers getting out after covid and I agree it has left some awning patches in the grass, which are now repairing in the spring sunshine. The shower room was moved to the new position shortly before you arrived, we are still working to complete it, a hand dryer being fitted today, I’m really sorry about the condition during your visit. Your comment about opaque glass is helpful feedback, I shall address that. Information-wise, we send out a detailed pack where we have an email and a copy is normally kept in the shower room, there’s several comments about this in the other reviews. Nearly every day I have lovely conversations with our visitors about things to do and what they have found interesting, but sometimes people prefer to be left alone, I try to respect that but recognise it didn’t feel right in your case. We don’t have ‘workers’ at the site as you thought, people often go off for the day and return in the evening.

devondumpling1947 replied on 18/08/2022 20:04

Posted on 18/08/2022 20:04

I cannot see that you are writing about Forton House C.L.if you are you must be having a joke , we have been caravanning now for 40 years and only use the C.L. network of the club and this site goes down as excellant in our eyes and also by all the other caravanners who have written a review, If you feel so bad about this C.L. I think you will find fault with every site you visit