A balanced review of Sandringham
Just back from a ten night stay on this site. Access is very easy from Kings Lynn on a straight road. The site is well laid out with great pitches in lovely woodlands. Some pitches are sloping so don’t forget the levelling blocks! The site is well located to explore the coastline and is itself in a lovely woodland area with plenty of forest walks.
The wardens were a great bunch; all really friendly, welcoming, helpful; they’re an asset to the CC. The facilities were immaculately clean for our first week or so but the CC’s usual high standards slipped a bit as the site became 100% full. We use our own shower as a rule but one evening I used the site's shower and was surprised to find the floors were really dirty, and a swarm of insects a bit like small flying ants had found its way into the showers. Insects were stuck all over the walls inside the shower cubicle! That was not pleasant but worse, I noticed they were still there or there again the following night.
The previous comments about poor telephone/Wi-Fi signals are absolutely correct. We're on Vodafone which generally has a reputation for getting a signal in most places but Sandringham was too much even for Vodafone! We never got 4G, suffered intolerably slow 3G and mostly had "e" or no signal at all. We were visiting Norfolk with friends who were not staying on the site but in Kings Lynn and we had to make all arrangements in advance because we could not rely on any digital messages arriving at all or on time. No room for any arrangements changing at short notice or any emergencies either! No checking weather forecasts for places we were due to visit – of course it’s manageable with a lot of planning but all a bit inconvenient. We know we rely on our phones but this doesn’t make it any easier when they fail! We looked at taking a CC Wi-Fi subscription but were advised against it because it’s not good enough either.
The really negative thing for us on this site is the pigeons. Their numbers are definitely out of control; they are like a plague! Every morning at 5/6 am we’d be woken by pigeons clattering on the roof. We didn’t pitch or park under the trees but the mess they made on the caravan, awning and car was amazing. We not city based; we live in a rural village and love the birdsong but in this beautiful forest we heard nothing but the incessant pigeons and an owl on one night. It was the talk of the site and it’s such a shame; you really can’t grasp how this effects the enjoyment of this otherwise lovely site until you have experienced it, and it's definitely what we'll remember of Sandringham, and sadly the thing that will make us think twice about returning,
Hope this review helps you all!
Darrel Cartwright
Reviewed on 23/07/2021 23:29
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