Roundoak
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A real gem of a site
Nice weekend away.
Beware the road leading to this site is narrow and has some blind bends,with passing points. Nice cl with well looked after grass pitches,over looking the fields and distant views, a lovely Bluebell wood to walk in with a picnic area in the middle. Nice and close to many of the Kent attractions or well within a short drive away. As this is working farm you expect to get a bit of farm noise,but nothing that bothered us. We found the price of this CL a bit high,we have had many CL's a lot better and cheaper with free toilets and showers,£2.50 per person per night,I don't think so. Sorry but we won't be coming again.
Comment from the Club:
Many thanks for your review and we are delighted you enjoyed the site and the bluebell woods. As you mention the site is in a wonderful location with lots of attractions nearby. We are sorry that you found the price for the toilet and shower high. There is a charge for this as many people staying at the site use their own facilities and the cost covers the maintenance of the toilets and showers and means that the CL owners can offer this to members who need to use these facilities. The price is stated on the website to avoid confusion to members. We are sorry to read that you won’t be returning to enjoy the site again in the future.
Be Aware
Site is lovely, peaceful and well maintained. However, when we booked we weren't told of the increase in charge this year. Now risen to £22 AND we found the charge of £2.50 per night per person for the shower and toilet was excessive. It is not luxury either as advertised! We did not have 5 acres of woods to walk round, the area for dogs was fairly small and we weren't able to let them off lead. It took 20 minutes to walk round three times, slowly. The site is very close to the house so there is constant activity with owners walking through, tractors, sit on mower was being used most of one of the days. Yes it's a working farm, very nice but we won't return for a total of £27 per night. Also there is another field which when we were there had 4 caravans on and those people were using the shower facility of which there is only one with toilet in same room. Therefore it is not exclusively Caravan Club members, we just get a separate field.
Comment from the Club:
Many thanks for your review and we are pleased you found the Site peaceful and well maintained. The CL owner has got in touch as she wanted to clarify that the price is in fact £17 per night as stated on the website and not £22 per night. There is a charge of £2.50 per person per night for the use of the toilet and shower facilities as stated on the Club website. As such the price is a total of £22 per night and not £27 per night. We hope this clears up any confusion.
As it is a working farm the CL owners ask dogs to be kept on leads and state on the website that controlled dogs are welcome. There are however many lovely walks in the surrounding area to take dogs for long walks off the lead. As you can see from other reviews this is a lovely CL which is very popular with members and we are sorry that you did not enjoy your time staying on this working farm.
Jimbob0303
Reviewed on 03/05/2017 11:34
The best CL site we have stayed on
Beautiful peaceful Site
charges
fabulous site
A truly lovely site
This is a truly lovely site, run by lovely people. Norman and Ruth Coles made us so very welcome and the farm itself is so very interesting to be close to. We watched grass cut for silage, turned and baled and stacked away for the winter and were able to go on a tour of the farm to see the lovely cattle and sheep, all Hebridean. This is a lovely conservation farm and the CL is a fabulous place to spend a couple of weeks as we did. We only live 18 miles away in Kent, but found this a most relaxing site. If we were greedy, we would like to keep it a secret! We plan to visit Round Oak again.
David and Jessie
Reviewed on 23/06/2016 18:25