Disappointing with unfriendly wardens.
What a disappointment this site turned out to be. The wardens were far from friendly, not even a smile or a hello as they passed our caravan or in passing generally. We witnessed and had the unpleasant fortune to have been on the receiving end of one of there petty rules. On returning from our morning dog walk quite early a young child with her father was touching a flower pot man arrangement outside the reception. Suddenly the Warden manager appeared from outside her caravan with her dog and told the father quite abruptly not to let his child touch the flower pot men as they were fragile and would break and then walked off, she did not even give the man a chance of a reply or to apologise! Why not advise in a nice welcoming tone instead of using a head teacher voice? We were pitched in number 160 the very last hand standing pitch at the end of a one way section. On returning one afternoon I totally missed the no entry sign and I was literally 5 feet into the road next to our parking bay, not at all busy, no other cars in the vicinity. The next thing I saw was a warden emptying the bins next to our pitch waving his finger in a very aggressive manner raising his eyes in the air and circling his hand for me to go back and drive right around the one way system. I indicated that we were next to our caravan with my hand and he just kept waving his finger, It was rude. why not politely walk over to the car and say "Hi not sure if you were aware but this is one way system I understand that if anyone else sees you they will copy and before you now it everyone will be going the wrong way". I was just taken back how rude it is to wag a finger at someone. About an hour later we were sitting next to the caravan outside and low and behold the wardens electric buggy zoomed right past us past the no entry sign and stopped by the bins, going the wrong way around. One rule, comes to mind.....The toilets and showers were disgraceful, far from clean. The toilets regularly had faeces splattered around the bowl, in the bowl and urine on the seats. I am not saying that straight after they were not clean but cleanliness certainly was not maintained at all times. We can only compare the cleanliness with this site to our first site we stayed at in Buxton but we were so impress with the toilet and shower block and the cleanliness there compared to this site which was totally the opposite. We thought all Caravan and Motorhome Sites were of a high standard? I used the same shower cubicle one day after each other and in the soap tray I saw a curly hair, not unusual for a shower if it had been just used, but to find the same hair in the same position the next day is totally unacceptable especially during these times. Social distancing at this site was non existent, on an evening stroll to look around the site we witnessed 21 people having a drink party in one awning! Clearly this site needs some attention. Such a shame as our previous Buxton site experience was 5 star!
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