What a lovely site this is, very well kept with lovely lots of flowers and flowering bushes and hedges very eye pleasing and welcoming. It's next to a busy main road and as I am a light sleeper we pitched over on the riverside of the site and it wasn't a problem we couldn't hear the road only the lovely birdsong coming from a great variety of birds in the woods running behind the site. It has lovely walks two minutes walk down into the woods and the River Dee, what a beautiful river, there is also a footpath and cycle path, part of the national cycle network. You are close enough to walk to main supermarkets or if you prefer there is a bus stop just outside of site. Banchory itself has a good selection of shops and eating and drinking places, it also has a lovely park, we walked in via the river path which you have to leave at one point to go up into the town, but you can get back down if you want to. If you have dogs I would give the Falls of Feugh café/restaurant a miss, you have to sit in their front area right on the main road as they have no admittance to dogs at all, not even to go through to the rear terrace overlooking the river. We loved Silverbank site and will definitely return, the staff are really friendly and work hard to keep up the standards on maybe a little dated site, but lovely all the same.