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MKIDD
Reviewed on 25/08/2015 20:07
This is a very nice site and is very well located to visit some lovely towns and beaches. The site itself is not too big with a new central block housing all the quality facilities you would expect of a Caravan Club site and the wardens were friendly and helpful. The hard standings were well spaced and level. The grass pitches mostly seemed to have a bit of a slope but nothing too drastic. Access to the site from the main road, is down a single track (typical Devonian, high sided) road with passing places, thankfully not too long. However, should you leave the site and turn right, to Croyde for example, then be prepared for miles of this type of road.
So a lovely site, but not so good for the dogs. There is no on-site dog walk and we could not walk our dogs outside the front gate because the narrow road would have been too dangerous. The only place we could walk the dogs was on the Tarka trail, accessed via a locked gate, at the back of the site. This trail has a tarmac path about a meter wide with hedgerow but mostly knee high nettles both sides of the path. We found no grassy areas. You can walk the trail for miles but as we are retired and have two little dogs and spent a lot of time on the site especially when the weather was bad, all we required was an area where our dogs could do their business and have a short walk. Had we been staying for only a couple of days then it would not have been too bad, but as we were there for 9 days, only being able to use this same narrow track every time our dogs wanted to relieve themselves became tedious for us and the dogs. Bikes also use the trail so you have to keep looking behind as they can come up quickly and quietly (bells are obviously not cool these days). As they pass, you have to be prepared to stand to one side hopefully not in the nettles, as the path is narrow.
Onsite there are signs reminding dog owners not to let their dogs fowl the site and even an ad-hoc sign on the small grass area outside the front gate of the site (this area is raised above the level of the road) reminding dog owners that ‘This is not a dog toilet area.’ So I think that some form of on-site dog walk/area would really be appreciated by dog owners.
Just a suggestion, either side of the ‘back gate’ are overgrown areas being only partly used for grass cuttings.Having to walk back and fore past these areas so many times each day, we could not help but think they would make one or two lovely fenced dog walk areas giving dog owners a bit of choice.
Twoplusdog
Reviewed on 24/08/2015 21:56
mucker1958
Reviewed on 20/08/2015 20:18
Lewis777
Reviewed on 19/08/2015 12:34
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