Nice site, shame about the location
We spent the best part of an hour driving around Edinburgh trying to find the site, partly because we mis-read the instructions in the book, but if coming from the west there's nothing to tell you that you're at the Gogar Roundabout until you've gone under it! No matter, when we arrived at the site we had a warm welcome from wonderful friendly staff. We had a serviced pitch so didn't make much use of the facilities block, but it was very clean when we did use it. I concur with an earlier reviewer about the surrounding area. The narrow approach road was full of parked cars obscuring the view ahead, so we ended up face to face with vehicles coming the other way without room to pass, us with a caravan in tow so they had to mount the curb and drive on the verge to get by. I walked out with the dog in the mornings and the surrounding hedgerows and woodland are in a very sorry state, littered with beer cans, toilet paper, you name it - yuk! We used the privately run shuttle bus into Edinburgh, which was a bit of a mistake. He charges £4 per person each way, so £16 for a return for two of us. The problem is that you are then tied to his fairly restricted timetable, and as the weather was freezing cold and my wife has limited mobility we needed to head back before our allotted time so I ended up paying another £16 for a black cab back. We should have just paid for one way, but we'll know better next time. There is a very adequate area for the dog to do its essentials and overall we liked the site and the staff were great. Royal Yacht Britannia is certainly worth a visit, as are the Kelpies at Grangemouth and the Falkirk Wheel.
