Great site
Great site, with lots to do in the area. The fox and rabbit would recommend for food. Definitely a site we will be coming back too.
The Fox and Rabbit Inn
Hidden gem perfect location
This is our second visit to the site this year and what a treat good level hard standing pitches with a grass area to the side of each pitch with plenty of space . Improvements have been made since our last visit with each pitch having its own water tap what a great bonus for a CL site make filling the water tank on a camper van easy . The fox and rabbit pub is less than 2 minutes walk away offering a great selection of beers and wines along with a great food menu either as bar snack or in the restaurant area. Give this hidden gem a visit you won’t be disappointed.
A little gem
We stayed for 3 nights at the end of May 24.
Checking in was very easy in the Fox and Rabbit with everything about the site was explained and very straight forward. There are only 5 club pitches so it is small and friendly, although these are on a large field so are a good distance apart with individual drinking water and hook up.
Easy access for the highlights of the area of which there are plenty, Whitby, Pickering, North Yorks moors and railway, Thonton Le dale (home of Bangers and Cash), and many more.
The icing on the cake is the Fox and Rabbit pub, with great hosts, excellent value food, especialy good selection of ales and lagers all within a very short walking distance (100 yds) of your pitch.
Beautiful CL Site in the heart of Yorkshire
Great news, the site has now reopened after Covid. Along with new electric card meters, easy to use. Can be topped up at the Pub if required.
Overall the price per night is very good value and competitive with others sites.
The site has hard standing pitches, set in beautiful field fenced off with trees. It is only a 2 min walk to the Fox and Rabbit Pub, where you will get a warm welcome. They have a good selection of beers and wines. Eat in the bar area or restaurant, menu also has a specials board.
Access to the site is good with a hard gravel driveway, leading to the field via a gate. You need to check in at the pub on arrival, for further instructions.
Amazing location of outstanding beauty on the doorstep.
Basic ,but Expensive
First of all I don't usually leave reviews but would like to point out an issues we had.
Just stayed here for 2 nights , first of all the pub and staff are excellent and are highly recommended.
The site itself can only be described as basic, hard stands with Electric hook up, but there is only 1 water point which is not really near any of the pitches. there is also a CDP and a few dustbins .
At £25 a night it is definitely top end for a CL. if EHU is required that is an additional £5 making it £30 a night for a basic CL.
They have just installed new hook up metered posts and for your £5 you receive 14 units of electricity which is supposed to be 14Kwh, which should be enough for standard usage. but there seems to be a problem with this scenario as there was 4 of us on site and all of us had to have and additional top up and 1 caravan had to have 2 top ups.
When we left the site we had 2 units of electricity left on the meter, meaning out of 43 hours of hook up we had used at least 40 units of electricity, which none of us have ever encountered before on any metered sites.
We were all quite frugal with our usage and cannot understand why our consumption would be so high and perhaps there is a problem with the calibration of these meters
The staff could not explain or understand it and advised , we were the first customers to use this new system.
The management advised they will check with the installers . but be aware it could prove expensive of a basic site.
Excellent CL but ....!
The site itself is all that you can expect from a well run CL - hard standings, water and electric hook-up points. But, and its a big but, the chemical toilet disposal point was to put it mildly, mank!!!! It has obviously judging by other reviews this year, been causing problems for some time and it nearly overflowed twice when I stayed before the liquids drained. It was reported, but not seemingly attended to, so I wondered if the holding tank was well overdue being emptied. This is something that the next Caravan and Motorhome Club CL inspection should pay attention towards, as I am not the only member to point this out. That said, caravanners could help themselves as floating around in the debris, were what was obviously non-flushing wipes. Come on folks, do your stuff as members, we don't expect to find that. You wouldn't do it at home, so why do it when away?
Comment from the Club
Thank you for your review and we are delighted that you found the CL Site excellent. We wanted to reassure you that the Chemical Toilet Disposal Point has now been rectified.
Perfectly acceptable site but......
We stayed for two nights over Easter and the site was fine but I thought the site had fully serviced pitches ( one of the reasons why I booked it ).You pay on arrival in the pub and the woman who took my money confirmed that the pitches are fully serviced but they are not. There is one tap at one end of the site - the pitch we were on was the furthest from it ! - but that is not a reason for not going to the site. It appears that there is a lot of confusion because there are two CLs called Fox and Rabbit. The one we stayed on is called Fox and Rabbit Inn which incidentally does not come up on the Club's website. If you search for Fox and Rabbit on the Club website, a site called Fox and Rabbit Holiday Cottages and Motorhome CL comes up which says that it does have fully serviced pitches and is at the same general location but owned by somebody different to the one we stayed at. I did not find out exactly where this other one is but I think it was in a field to the south of the site we stayed at. Anyway, if you go to the Fox and Rabbit Inn CL's website - foxandrabbit.co.uk - you will find a link there to the Club's website with all the details for the Inn site but you cannot find that by looking on the Club's website ! I do not understand why and I have raised it with the Club so hopefully the Club will sort it out.
I would endorse the good points about the site made by others, especially the access from the site to open countryside, although it would have been nice if there had been a gate in the south east corner of the site onto the public footpath which runs from the pub past the site and into the vastness of Dalby Forest. I ended up lifting my dog over the fence and climbing over it to walk along the public footpath, instead of walking all the way back to the pub to get onto the path and then having to walk past the site to get to the point where I climbed over.
A previous review complained about the state of the toilet disposal facility but it was fine while we were there. Another review referred to noise from a nearby "industrial site" which I think must be a barn associated with the adjacent farm. We did not hear a lot of noise from there - bearing in mind that you have to expect agricultural machinery working in the countryside, we did not find it objectionable. Although there is a lot of traffic on the A169 past the pub, we found that the CL was far enough away from the road for the traffic noise to not affect our enjoyment of the site.
Excellent for the Many Places of Interest
Visited Fox & Rabbit Inn site 1st - 8th August 2020
Excellent site with easy access and welcoming staff. Good food in the dog friendly pub.
Hard standings are good with easy access to water points refuse area and chemical disposal point. Many places of interest are within easy drive, Nice site for our dog too.
I would have given 5 stars but for the grass needing cutting and the noise to early evening from the adjacent industrial site.
Peter & Veronica
Caravanner from Kent
Dirty Elsan point full of human faeces Reported - no action taken
I am sure this is a better site come the summer dry months but in winter is very messy on the entrance and sadly you have to walk through puddles to open the entrance gate. Hard standing was not bad. The Elsan point was disgusting and reported by us but NOT sorted or even looked at for that matter. It seems it is a well know problem at this site and had been reported the week previous. It was over flowing with human faeces, solid excrement. WE will not return.
Good site, good food friendly staff.
This was a last minute booking for us as we had made others plans which were cancelled last minute.
Despite our initial disappointment we decided we would try here with it only being a short 70 mile drive from home.
What a gem of a CL Site. It’s the second field in and you still get road noise but we weren’t disturbed by it at all.
The pub has a good menu and we ate there twice in our 4 night stay. Big thank you to the staff for their warmth of welcome and service.
The pitches are well spaced and level, with trees to make a wind break, so even on windy days it wasn’t to bad.
Lots to do if your walkers and cyclists we walked in to Dal y Forest from the site and spent our days walking amongst the spruce trees.
If you like Scarborough and Whitby are far and there lots to see and do if you wish.
All in all a 5* CL.
Hotdog2017
Reviewed on 23/09/2020 08:38