NIce site, needs some tlc
We spent over a week here in beautiful weather. The Clumber Park area is impressive, probably one of the grandest entrances to a site, through a 200 year old archway and driving down the longest double avenue of lime trees in Europe.
Our welcome onto the site was fine. There were plenty of pitches to choose from. Not having any children with us the warden advised us that we would probably not want to go near the playpark area - how right she was! We pitched a good way away from it and the noise even from our pitch was loud and went on late at night. (I love to hear children happily playing but why do they need to regularly emit high-pitched screaming??) On the subject of children playing, playing is one thing but being allowed by parents to go off unsupervised around the site running round others' pitches and riding bikes at speed the wrong way is not acceptable.
So, the site itself. It's a large site with, obviously, many trees. Some pitches get little or no sun but with a bit of careful sun-checking, there are also plenty of pitches that do get the sun. A mix of hard standing and grass pitches. The hard standings did look quite messy with lots of the stones going across the roadways but also very much in need of tidying up from the weeds and grass encroaching into the stones.
There are 2 washblocks both of which felt 'tired'. True they get a lot of use (and not everyone leaves the facilities clean after them). Fittings are very worn eg wash basin plugholes have no chrome left on them so look rusty, screw fittings in showers rusting, hairdryers didn't fully work on the different heat settings or nozzles were loose. The shower temperatures fluctuated widely regularly going from cold to scolding hot.
All the time we were there the sign said that the wifi was either very poor or not working at all - very glad I didn't pay the Ā£10 fee for the week. (On one occasion when a visitor did pay the Ā£2:50 for a day, despite the 'not working' notice, it was working but very slowly.
There are plenty to places to go to from the site. Clumber Park National Trust grounds are lovely to walk around and the history of the site is really interesting. If you're a cyclist there are numerous cycle tracks around the Park. Lincoln is under an hour's drive and well worth a visit. The Thursday Flea Market at Chesterfield was really busy.
In summary, this is a lovely area but the site was in need of some much needed care and attention, especially as for 2 adults the cost is over Ā£30 per night.
tootieflootie
Reviewed on 10/08/2018 21:30
