Balbirnie Park Club Campsite

Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

A busy site, well located for the Scottish East coast and 45 mins from Edinburgh.

A very well kept site that is a credit to the hard working wardens. There are quite a few sloping pitches and some are quite tight to manoeuvre onto and out of. It seems to be quite busy and manyseem to use Balbirnie as a one night transit site enroute to other parts of Scotland. Being only 45 minutes from Edinburgh it's no wonder. The site facilities are kept spotless. The adjacent park is great for a walk with your dogs at any time of the day. Good local shops and pubs are only a few minutes walk away. Only a few miles drive to access the coastal path. Dysart Harbour is a hidden gem just outside Kirkaldy and well worth a look. St Andrews is not that far and again looks a nice place to visit. Just don't visit when there is an international golf tournament on though like we did! The biggest downside for us was the trees. The amount of leaves, twigs, nuts and seeds and bird muck on both the van and the car was unbelievable. For that eason alone this was our second and last visit to this site.

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C1iv3

Caravanner from Northamptonshire

Reviewed on 12/10/2022 17:14

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Hard working wardens

We stayed here overnight on a trip back from the Highlands. It is an excellent site with spotless facilities all kept so by just one couple. They work really hard. Great park next door for walking the dogs. Will definitely use again.

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poppyruby

Reviewed on 20/09/2022 15:49

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Good for families

Good site

My second visit here - good location with park next door. Feels dark in many of the pitches due to trees.

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Poppy Poptop

Motorhomer from Worcestershire

Reviewed on 06/09/2022 15:35

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Good for families

Good for a stopover

Lovely site next to a large country park qith lots of walks and green space. Some road noise on some pitches. Pitches are sloping and gradient on road way was steep causing our motorhome to catch on the bottom when driving to find a pitch. We found one on the other side so we could avoid this every day. We were happy as on a pitch in the trees but some back onto residential homes and a busy road. Well cared for and lovely wardens with clean toilet block

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pawsRus

Reviewed on 09/08/2022 16:43

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Rated 4 of 5

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Rated 3 of 5

Good for families

Our first site

This was our first caravan experience and it was a decent one! Staff were lovely and very helpful. Toilet block clean Nice walks in the immediate vicinity as it is minutes from Balbirnie House Hotel which is very impressive and good for a little snifter. Town is an easy walk for supplies or coffee and there is easy access to the Fife coastal trail. Train station is close by for easy trips to Edinburgh or north

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woodlandsken

Reviewed on 27/06/2022 16:22

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Sadly not a site for us

There were very few pitches available when we arrived here at 1430hrs. We had to settle for a pitch in the furthest corner of the site, right next to the main road. It was about the most level pitch of the few left. The pitch is totally covered by trees. This became a real problem. The unbelievable amount of seeds, leaves and twigs that covered our van and car was beyond belief. There was so much that it often sounded like it was raining from inside of our van. Of course we understand that this is something you have to accept if you stay on a site that has lots of foliage, but having got home and spent 4 hours cleaning the mess off my van and car, its not something we wish to repeat. Additionally, access to this particular pitch was very awkward, two trees and the hook up post made it harder than it needed to be to reverse in. Yes, the toilets were impeccably clean and the water/waste areas were kept tidy at all times. Its a well run site that would suit plenty but certainly not us.

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AndyTran

Caravanner

Reviewed on 10/06/2022 16:12

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Very clean and peaceful site

Lovely site and very clean. Wardens are always on hand, very polite and friendly. The site is in between Balbirnie Park and the town Markinch. The park is great if you have a dog and is very safe and large (mine loved zooming about) The local shops are a 10min walk from the site and carry a wide range of goods, the locals are all friendly too. On the right side of the caravan park there are some residential buildings and you are close to the main road, so depending on where your pitch is you can hear the cars passing on the main road. Don't follow the GPS guidance to the entrance of the park (I use Google maps) as this takes you to a private road, you take the entrance to Balbirnie House then turn right. I can't say if this is good for families as we are just a couple with a dog.

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Reviewed on 06/06/2022 10:05

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Outstanding Wardens and lovely peaceful site

We have just returned from Balbirnie Park and wow we were impressed. The wardens, Jo and Craig, were the best we have ever come across and work really hard to maintain a spotless site, even putting little personal touches to the site such as solar lights in the bushes which look lovely in the evenings. The site itself is on the edge of the country park which is also lovely and great to walk the dog in an evening. Pitches are in little wooded glades and as some people have already mentioned, levelling blocks would be useful albeit we didn't need them for our pitch. The toilet block was immaculate and bear in mind that these two lovely people are the only wardens on site so do it all themselves and yet remain happy and friendly. Jo provided us with tips as to places to go which were worth it, namely Culross and small coastal villages. We also travelled up to Abroath to do the Cliffs walk. St Andrews is also nearby and Tentsmuir nature reserve and beach which is well worth a visit. Just read a review from last week criticising the wardens for arriving early and them being rude to them - this really would not have been the case as we truly haven't come across better wardens on any club site. An absolute gem and also cheaper than the majority of other sites we have stayed on within the UK.

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Paterson124

Caravanner from Cheshire

Reviewed on 30/05/2022 08:47

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Peaceful & Quirky

Stayed in our 2 berth caravan recently on the site which is clean & tidy with little quirky bird feeders & plants etc, But take note you definitely need levelling blocks as most pitches not even. We found a great walking website which was mentioned in the information hut. The Markinch Heritage group this had lots of information on the towns history & brilliant walks nearby. A little cafe called Beans ( a short stroll) from the site was welcoming after our walks & if you show your CAMC site card you get a discount. We had a great time in Balbirnie Park club site & surrounding area but the pitches were just not great for us.

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Reviewed on 27/05/2022 13:06

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Good for families

Check your arrival time.. Or Else!

As instructed in handbook I did not use Sat Nav to find this site - meaning I arrived at 12.50 - 10 minutes early. This did not please the lady warden. I said no panic I will happily wait until 13.00. This was not acceptable. I was INSTRUCTED to enter the site, drive round the one way system and EXIT the site to wait away OFF SITE until 13.00 precisely. ( Observing the 5 MPH limit - this took until 12.55, but I was duly sent off site only to return at 13.00). To say that my reception at 13.00 was cool would be an understatement - not the best start to a stay after a long hard drive at what is after all a Club Site run for members. Rules are rules and I did arrive early - I was happy to wait - NO - heaven help if you dare arrive here a few minutes early - You have been warned - so check you watch! Bye the way there is a sign in the Gents Toilet warning about the dire consequences of arriving early here - not quite sure how this helps as you can only access the toilet after you have arrived...? There are better sites on the network but the surrounding area especially the East Neuk makes up for it.

Comment from the Club

We are sorry you've been disappointed with your recent arrival experience and not being able to wait at the site or check in early on this occasion. Arrival times have become an increasingly emotive issue and we know it causes mixed feeling if we allow one or two guests to check in early or to sit and wait onsite, but then ask other arrivals to turn around and come back later. Due to the varying nature and layout of access roads across the network, it isn't always safe or possible for members to arrive and wait onsite or queue on these roads. If you have been welcomed to arrive early previously at another location, we kindly ask that current advice provided by our site teams is followed. We hope you'll be able to continue to enjoy future bookings and will support this change going forward by making suitable adjustments to your journey plans.

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Buteman

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Reviewed on 26/05/2022 14:24

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