Robinhoods Retreat
1st impressions as you arrive, lovely, beautiful hanging baskets and good service road. Extremely friendly staff and very helpful with advice.
Our stay was from Monday to Monday, 7 nights. Plenty of choice for where to pitch from all grass to hardstanding. The majority were all pretty level too although I did see some precarious leveling by some, one who even used a log under one of his steadies.
During the week the site was lovely and peaceful, clean toilet blocks and showers. Pity there's still no music in the block though.
The weekend arrived and so did the madness. I've never seen so many units going around the site the wrong way, children riding bikes everywhere, round the caravans, around the site on the roads the wrong way, through the woods and destroying trees willy nilly. Speeding was totally out of control for some motorists, several must have been doing 25mph. Definitely an accident waiting to happen. In the toilet blocks it was world war 3. I only felt sorry for the staff who had to cope with the mayhem each morning.
The site it's self as explained in the description has no mobile phone signal, although as soon as you were back on the surrounding roads signals came back.
Plenty of good walks and cycle routes right from the site and a place well worthy of a visit is Hardwick it's self where there is a nice clean toilet block and ample parking if you dont fancy the walk from the site. If you do then just go straight over the crossroads, 20min walk 5min drive. You can also get a good cuppa and snack at the small van that parks up by the lakeside. A nice walk around the the lake brings you to Clumber Park visitor centre where there is plenty to do for everyone. Nice grounds and gardens which would be the perfect place for a family picnic. A word a warning though, if you go in your car, make sure to put any valuables in the boot out of site. whilst we were walking around someone smashed the rear window on the pick up truck belonging to the National Trust who had 2 men working nearby trimming the bushes.
Overall an enjoyable stay, however I think I'll stick to midweek visits for the future. Having said that the kids there all seemed to have great fun and we were all young once......
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