Longleat Club Campsite

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Good for families

1st and last visit

First visit to this site with family and grandchild. The entrance road is long and narrow in places but negotiable with care. This site is ideal for family with children visiting Longleat Safari Park. The entrance to walk into Longleat is just outside the caravan gates with the Safari drive through just a few yards up the road. It has a nice dog walk through a small wood on the edge of the site. It is a very busy site with many families staying with children. It is a little different of course with the covid restrictions in place. The wardens were helpful and friendly around the site. I did find the bands for the toilets and showers a bit of a pain. After leaving your band other people would take them. Also many people forgetting them after using the loo,s leaving people queueing outside when the toilet block was totally empty. The families on this site at the time of our stay left a lot to be desired. Gangs of children running about at 10pm screaming and shouting outside people's caravans. Had to ask a group of screaming girls to move away at 10.30pm who were collecting all the stones from our pitch. They removed hundreds then started throwing them around caravans and motor homes. We should not have to drag the poor wardens from their beds to address these problems. The parents should be aware what their kids are up to at this time of night. Would not visit again due to noise shame that some spoil it for others.

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Maiseysjollyhols

Reviewed on 22/08/2020 12:10

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Pretty site

We spent 3 nights, mid week at Longleat. Our first time here. It is a pretty site with lovely trees throughout. The site is well maintained, clean and well organised. Out only gripe was the huge swarms of children racing around the internal road system on their bikes, screaming and shouting til dark. They also congregated and played in large numbers outside the facilities. No social distancing. This is not the fault of the CC, this is down to the parents.

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Nikola Jovanovic

Reviewed on 21/08/2020 16:21

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Rated 4 of 5

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Recent Visit

Just got home from a 5 night stay at Longleat. The Wardens here were great, very helpful and sorted out a little problem we had on arrival. We pitched under an Oak Tree and the only things we had falling on our MoHo were Acorns, no sign of any Caterpillars at all. We were next to an access road to Longleat House but vehicular traffic stopped early evening. Yes the Children were riding bikes round the Site but what else were they to do, if you don't like Children, don't visit during School Holidays! The proceedures put in place re Covid 19 were as good as they could be but during our stay we witnessed numerous incidences of people entering the Facilities Blocks with total disregard.to the systems in place, as my mate says, you CANNOT treat STUPID. Overall a very enjoyable visit, we will return.

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Jabawokee

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Reviewed on 21/08/2020 10:25

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Disappointed no Longleat discount

This was my first time staying at the Longleat site and my first time joining the club. I only joined and booked this site for the Longleat park ticket offer, only to be told when I got to the safari park that they weren't doing the offer anymore, this is despite it still being advertised at the site. I therefore had to pay full price as my kids were looking forward to it. The facilities are dated and to be honest not as clean as I expected, I can only speak for the women's facilities here. Given the COVID situation I would've expected more regular cleaning than the standard once a day, in line with other non-caravan club sites I've visited. That said, the facilities worked, showers were hot, dishwashing facilities were good, I found the staff welcoming, the site itself is nice and good for kids, especially if you want them to get out on their bikes which I didn't really have a problem with, it was nice to see kids outdoors. The only other annoying thing was the noise of the road block for the Safari park which kept clunking to let cars in and out all night. The band system for the toilet and shower block didn't really work but I think they realised this on our second to last day when they added more hooks, although my band was still taken by someone else while I was showering.

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Skattyskoo

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Reviewed on 19/08/2020 19:22

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Creepy crawlies and covid rule breakers.

We were impressed with the spacious pitches at this site but not so impressed with the oak trees that overhang most of them. These are infested with small black creepy caterpillar creatures that constantly drop to the ground. We were told by a regular visitor that this is normal but some of these things can be a danger to humans and animals. We just made sure we had hats on at all times but not nice. Not sure what can be done to get rid of them. Maybe high access spraying at the start of the season. We were also not impressed to find that many visitors ignored the covid 19 toilet block rules and marched in and out whether the hooks had bands on or not. It seems the wardens had said it was ok to use the toilets if just the showers were in use? Made the whole exercise pointless. When politely asked where their bands were, some were quite abusive. The site roads are a bit of a racetrack for the kids on bikes as can be expected but one young lady on an electric scooter was going well over the site speed limit and you couldn't hear her coming. The club may need to consider banning those things. A lovely country location and some great local pubs but this is a site for younger families. Probably most would go for the shorter stays with not much else locally apart from the safari park and Longleat house. Not one we would go back to having been once.

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HampshireRover

Caravanner

Reviewed on 17/08/2020 16:42

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Disappointed

Before I comment on my recent stay I would like to say that we stayed at this site some 14 years ago also on a couple more occasions. At the time it was possible to explore the grounds of Longleat house after closing hours. This was what featured in our decision to return but sadly this is no longer the case. With that in mind there is very little to do on the Longleat estate and facilities are only accessible by car. We spent a week at Longleat followed by a week at the very busy Looe Caravan Club site and noticed a huge contrast in how the wardens managed the site. The band system was not monitored and relatively ineffective in comparison with the system used at Looe site and in particular the wardens, there was an unfriendly feel at Longleat compared to the Looe site. Due to the current pandemic the facilities needs to be cleaned more than once a day no toilet rolls and sanitary bins overflowing is not acceptable. Refresher in customer service is needed for the lady in reception upon arrival. Lovely to hear the lions roar but sadly we will not be returning.

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R25NAW

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 14/08/2020 23:16

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Great location, shame about some of the guests

we had a couple of nights stop at this park, the welcome was informative, its about all that can be said, neither welcoming or rude, we were shown a map, then told to go and find a pitch, then report back with the pitch number to collect our wrist bands and gate fob, which we did, the 2 wrist bands were a bit of a pain, as we have 2 autistic kids, that need supervision when in facilities, and we were told that they had to use a wrist band each, so they had to be taken in one at a time, and using both the hooks, which meant for one child to use the loo, then no one else cold come into the facility, which we felt was not the best option, luckily we have a Radar key due to my Lung disease, so we could supervise them that way, rather than blocking all the toilet block for a child. as others have said, there was children every where on scooters, bikes, skateboards, and other wheeled transport, we have kids, so fully understand that kids need space to play and enjoy themselves, but not racing round, nearly knocking people over, and going faster than most cars on the site (none of whom abayed the 5mph speed limit) and until late at night as well so the big question, would we go back again? yes we would if we were going to go back into Longleat park, as the convenience of access is great, and it is also great to sit and listen to the sea lions, would we stop there to visit the surrounding area? most probable not, it was a bit to noisy and busy for our liking, and with how noisy the kids (and parents were) late at night, it upset the kids, and the only thing that calmed them was the excitement of the safari park and animals.

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CheshireCBR

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Reviewed on 11/08/2020 11:04

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Family Short break

Looking to steal a few days away in the middle of an epidemic is never easy, but the Longleat team did extremely well to make our stay rememberable. Very helpful, explained the restriction implications and followed everything up during our stay. The facilities were generally well Covid managed, but at the end of the day its individual compliance that makes the difference - as a whole it was good. The site was very clean, the plots well kept and the service stations were plentiful. Location was perfect for our plans, whilst the site was beautifully remote (hearing the Safari animals on a night - seals particularly) all local attractions were close enough. The site management were especially helpful and we will be booking our next visit to Longleat very soon.

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DannyQ

Caravanner

Reviewed on 10/08/2020 17:43

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The long and winding road

Having been Caravaning for 47 years and regular users of club sites we had never visited the Longleat site (for no particular reason). We used sat nav to get to the Longleat tavern as suggested and followed the caravan signs down the side of the tavern. I don’t mind narrow roads but I was beginning to think I had made a wrong turn as the road seemed to go on for ever. However, at the end of this long and winding road is a beautiful site, well kept, with spacious pitches and sufficient grassed areas to sit near your outfit and still being socially distant to your neighbours. When we arrived there was a queue of about 7 vans in front of us which is to be expected for the first hour of opening. However the pleasant wardens had a good system to marshal arrivals with checking in at the office by one person at a time in the same sequence as the vans in the queue. We found the site peaceful and quiet even in the evening when many were sat out until late. We used our own facilities but the COVID measures put in place appeared to work well. We have now extended our stay here, will return again and have already mailed friends to recommend Longleat.

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MossDnP

Caravanner

Reviewed on 10/08/2020 16:13

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Bikes, Scooters & Noise!!!!!

The site is very local to us and managed to get a booking for a 2 night stay. On arrival about 7 vans deep we were told by a Grumpy man to wait until you get to the barrier gate to pay which I understand but nobody else seemed to bother. A nice welcome in reception and off we went to find a pitch. At that very moment I was aware of all the bikes and scooters, some parents just let their kids run riot.. very noisy with literally screams from kids until after 10pm and drunk parents arguing using foul language around midnight. Nobody seemed to adhere to the do’s and don’t, handed to you when you booked in but, overall it could have been better. We didn’t use the shower facilities for obvious reasons so I can’t comment. The sites standards have dropped a little since last years people left and pitch stones we’re all over the site roads. You are all aware of what’s around the site for trips out and I’m not moaning, just telling you as it is.

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Reviewed on 08/08/2020 16:01

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