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Good for families

Nice site, but we won't return!

Having read lots of reviews and watched the videos, we thought we'd go to Cirencester as it's pretty local to us and we needed to do a shakedown trip to sort some new kit on the caravan. It was 1/2 term so that explains some things; let's do the site first as that's the nice bit. The part we were in was peaceful, although it backs onto the college so no idea what that's like in term time, shady (but the trees turned out to be the type that drop sticky dew over everything), and we enjoyed the stay. Others have commented on the size of some pitches but ours (96) was OK. As usual, facilites were spotless, all were being very sensible and the wardens were friendly. Highly recommend Piazza Fontana hidden down an alley in Castle Street. HOWEVER, that access road is not sorted. We got caught, arriving at 3.00pm, by a mass exodus of mummies who'd collected their little darlings from Cricket and Tennis lessons in the Park. I think the biggest problem is the lack of sight line to tell if anything else is likely to come around the many corners, even in a 4x4, and this starts from the main road at the moment (road works on the first section will disappear eventually but they don't seem to be hurrying to finish). In the first section of site access road proper we got well and truly stuck, 3 vehicles trying to exit that wouldn't / couldn't reverse to the nearest passing bay and us (car and caravan) with four vehicles following. The 1/4 mile trip took around 20 mins and was the same at every passing bay due to the constant stream of exiting vehicles. Eventually one far sighted guy in a Discovery held all of the traffic at the Club Entrance and we finally got in. I'm no inexperienced driver, I have a full HGV licence and regularly tow normal trailers hundreds of miles, we've been Club members since 1986 and I've never been in a situation like that before, and I'll never do that again! Shame really, cus a lot of the time it's probably fine, but would you want to get caught in that? I appreciate the Club has had some improvements made to the road, and that they don't own it but to my mind it stil isn't good enough. The stupid part is that the orginal road is still there, lying idle behind the grass bank!

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joanie replied on 04/06/2021 18:30

Posted on 04/06/2021 18:30

it really is a great shame about the access road. This was our favourite site, but after paying out a good bit of money for a caravan it would be foolish to risk driving down that road even without all the hold ups that you had. I do wish the CMC would listen to it's members as when you look back over the reviews and what has been said on other caravan forums re the access road, it does seem to be a lost cause.