Lovely site best avoided over Bank Holiday weekends!
Out of necessity we stayed at this site for 5 nights from August Bank Holiday Saturday until Thursday. We knew it would be busy so had no expectations of much peace and quiet, and we were 100% right! To be fair, after 10/11 pm the site was quiet which is pretty good for a site which is 100% full. It was just daytime and early mornings where calm was in short supply.
It's to be expected that the site's proximity to Longleat Safari Park, and the site's own play park attracts families with children. I just wasn't quite prepared for the masses of scooters, bikes and skate boards that go with this. They were flying past us in hordes - and on hard surfaces they sound quite intimidating in such big groups.
I don't want to make this a complaint because it's lovely to hear the children playing out rather than indoors playing computer games. However, the difference between the weekend and later in the week when the majority of wheelie kids had gone home in terms of peace and quiet was huge. The site is beautiful, well managed, and has lovely leafy pitches and sunny spaces too. Out of 164 pitches we could only chose from 5 on arrival - so just think twice if you're heading there over a major holiday period.
The proximity to Bath and Bristol is fine; we managed to spend very enjoyable time in both cities. Bath, a beautiful city, was a lovely surprise to me, not having been there before. The Roman Baths are not to be missed! Interesting, and good value anyway but better still if you use a CClub voucher when one adult gets in free with another.
The thermal baths are not such great value. They were expensive (£70 for two for 2 hours) and were poorly organised. I wouldn't go back and I wouldn't recommend a visit to anyone who hasn't been either.
It is literally 5-10 minutes walk from the Site to the The Safari Park Gates where you can catch a Sarari Park Bus to go round the park (£5 each). This avoids using your own car and preserves your windscreen wipers and wing mirrors if you go through the monkey enclosure! You can drive through the park and avoid just the monkey enclosure, but they are quite fun to watch (if it's not your vehicle they're sitting on) so it would be a shame to miss them. The park is a good, full day out and we enjoyed our time there, even though it was Bank Holiday Monday!
Finally, having read the previous reviews and noted the warnings on access, it's definitely not as difficult as we expected. You DO have to drive with care - so what's new? It IS a single track road in some areas - so what's new? Just be careful, take it easy and you'll have a great time!
Darrel Cartwright
Reviewed on 11/09/2017 14:57
