York Rowntree Park Club Campsite

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Great site in the center of York

This site is great to visit York no need to use the car once on site, my wife is disabled and can't walk long distances without a break and we found lots of places to sit and let her rest a while. Arrived on a Sunday set up and asked the warden for a local place to have Sunday lunch, he wasn't sure but recommended the Mason's Arms just over the bridge. We had a very nice lunch and beer was good too. Not the quietest of sites the normal city sounds are quite loud and the building work next door can get noisy. Site it self is well looked after and the wardens are a happy and friendly bunch.

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FREEDOM42

Caravanner from Gloucestershire

Reviewed on 10/09/2018 18:04

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white line

we pitched on corner pitch to blue marker as requested then we were told that we had pitched wrong and that we needed to pitch at an angle to the blue marker on white line... the white line they were referring to was a faint sprinkling of stones. apart from this small hiccup we had an excellent time.

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rollyboy

Motorhomer from Cheshire

Reviewed on 05/09/2018 19:22

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Flagship site but not perfect

We have never stayed on this site before as we have always used Beechwood Grange or a private site in Stockton on Forest. We came for a family reunion as I was born and brought up in York and have revisited regularly. Rowntrees Park site is in an ideal location for visitors who wish to soak up the history and shopping as it is a short walk along the river bank to the start of the Bar Walls. I would recommend turning left once you reach Skeldergate Bridge and join the walls to continue clockwise round them, you will finish up on the other side of Skeldergate Bridge for a short stroll back to the site. The site itself is "compact" and totally hard standing.with 1 metre hedges between pitches. To comply with fire stipulations the pitching arrangement is not the usual car/caravan/awning but the pitches do have plenty of space. We found the staff very helpful and friendly and were kept busy keeping the site and toilet block clean and handling the constant flow of vans in and out. The toilet block was very well equipped, the male block had 10 showers for 89 pitches on site which is a much higher ratio than I have seen elsewhere. Other reviewers' complaints about construction noise adjacent to the site may be true but that is outside club control and will be over within 12 months. The more long term noise nuisance comes from the children's play area in Rowntrees Park itself which is immediately behind the tall hedge at the back of the site, this includes the sound of skate boards as well, this will be most obvious at weekends and during school holidays. The access to the site with your caravan or motorhome is narrow in places and because it is through a terraced residential area contains legally parked vehicles at the roadside. It is perfectly negotiable provided one sticks to the club's posted entry and exit times, so don't arrive early like so many I saw. The facilities for shopping, eating out and drinking in the area are excellent accessible 5 minutes walk from the site via the pedestrian gate at the rear. I would recommend Angel In The Garden for light snacks, Fisherman's Wife for Fish and Chips to take out or eat in (10% discount for club members and seniors deal) and The Slipp Inn for a real pint of Yorkshire beer on Clementhorpe which you pass on your way into site... Further afield you could dine out at several restaurants with a view of Clifford's Tower, "31 Castlegate" being one we tried, and for entertainment try The Grand Opera House 3 minutes from Clifford's Tower. Last year we went to a Billy Fury Tribute and this year we saw The Drifters there.

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RomanyKevin

Caravanner from Leicestershire

Reviewed on 04/09/2018 10:11

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Excellent Club Site

Just back from a 5 day holiday at this club site and thoroughly enjoyed our visit. Staff were excellent and were very informative regarding any question put to them. Pitches are hard standing with grey chips which were not a problem (would have liked water and drainage on the pitch but sadly not available). Facilities are superb - very clean and well kept. Some local shops are a 5 minute walk from the site where there is a very good Indian Restaurant which gives you discount if you stay on the site. York city centre is a 15 minute walk from the site with many attractions to see (York Minster and Shambles Market to mention a few). Have read a lot of negative reviews for this club site which in my opinion do not agree with. Anyway, we had a good time at this site and we will certainly be back. Thank you Rowntree Park Staff for a memorable holiday.

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DouglasandNancy

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Reviewed on 02/09/2018 13:12

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Ideally located to explore York but mind your peg spacing !!!

We’ve just returned from out 2nd visit to this site in August. The site is ideally located and in easy walking disitance to explore York and it’s attractions. The site and its facilities are well maintained, clean and tidy. You will see from the other comments that there is building work taking place next door. While we were staying we did not notice much noise and the builders tended not to work at weekends. The only negative comment I have is that in 10 years of being a club member I have never been asked to move closer to the pitch peg !! On this occasion I was only 6 inches from the peg and had just set-up. When one of the warden approached us and told us we needed to move over. He asked me to get my caravan ready to be moved and he assist (with the other warden) to move my van over. If spacing is such a major issue then I feel the wardens should escort you to your pitch and assist you in pitching in the correct location. When it became time to leave it was extremely hard / impossible to hook the car on due to the narrow road way the position of the motorvan on the opposite pitch. Luckily I have a motormover fitted which made it possible. My advice would be I watch your peg positioning on this site as the wardens inspect every new arrival.

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bonnett25

Reviewed on 24/08/2018 21:09

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york holiday

Roundtree park is ideally situated for York and all it has to offer. Havnt been for a couple of years on this site and was very impressed from the arrival to the day of leaving. The standard and cleaniness and groundwork of this site has greatly improved from our last visit. The wardens work hard on site every day from hedge cutting to cleaning of toilet block and it shows. wardens very helpful and welcoming on arrival. Great walks cycle down the river and beautiful park next door as we where in a pitch beside it we did not find the noise from the park disturbing. What we did find noisey was the constant coming and going of vans on this site. As people can only get short bookings there is constant disruption of vans moving. Then there are those who arrive weekend and in the space 5 minutes its dogs barking and letting them pee on your pitch or as I noticed one caravaner got his fresh water barrel urinated on. I found a lack of respect among caravaners on this site or is this new and Im just the old code. But did not stop us from having a good holiday and enjoying York.

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scottie dog

Reviewed on 20/08/2018 09:38

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Rowntree Park

Rowntree Park is a City centre camp site ideally positioned for visiting York. However that is its main function and most campers retreat to their outfits in the evening. The facilities are good and the staff helpful. It is a popular site and usually full by late afternoon. And other reviewers have covered it well. My only comment is that it is disappointing not to be able to have a pitch without electricity at a discount. We are supposed to be an environmentally friendly club but community paid for electricity, leads to waste and discourages the use of portable PV panels. I was also surprised that there is no dedicated glass recycling.

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vilhain

Reviewed on 16/08/2018 10:50

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A site full of contradictions!

We have just returned from a 5 night stay with our grandchildren, aged 12 and 14. The positives are the location and cleanliness of the site. The wardens work hard to keep a busy site running as smoothly as possible, but it would have helped if they had pointed out before we pitched that the pitch markers aren’t necessarily in the middle of the pitch, owing to the back to back arrangement of the pitches with only a couple of feet between them. This leads to one of the drawbacks - although we appreciate this is a city site, the lack of any ground surface other than grey hardstanding adds to the general feeling of over-crowding and feels quite claustrophobic, especially when you can hear the TV in the unit backing onto yours, and barking of dogs also feels very close. We worked hard to ensure we were ready to leave by 10am, but it turned into quite a stressful experience as we have a 5berth single axel tourer, and had been on a pitch where the arrangement was hedge, caravan, awning, car, hedge. This, together with being opposite a very long Motorhome, made the manoeuvring of the van to hitch to the car on the road, a more protracted activity than normal, even though we were using a mover. We stopped several times before getting the van onto the narrow road to let others pass, but finally just had to keep going as fast as possible to complete hitching up. By this time there was 5 Motorhomes sitting waiting (generally patiently, but not exclusively so). Has any thought been given to either separating out the pitches for motorhomes and caravans, or any form of change of flow for leaving the site, say from 9.30 to 11.30? The weather and the city itself made it a very successful trip, but not sure we’d want to revisit without a specific reason.

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BartonGirl

Reviewed on 10/08/2018 17:56

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Grey grey grey

We’ve stopped here twice for one night on our way south. I know there’s very little grass because of the river busting it’s banks and flooding the site but why have everything grey? You can get the same chips in green , I know it would take more up keep to have grey and green chips but let’s face it the wardens don’t have grass to cut .. speaking of wardens what very over officious bunch ... Park my car in a spare pitch while I set up (place is very tight) and was told to move it immediately.. I did .. I blocked the road . Pitches are very tight. The only reason I would return would be to go to the very nice Indian curry house which is a short walk when you go out the back gate. I’ve no idea what the big attraction is .. you can only see York a couple of times .

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Rangersheart

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Reviewed on 03/08/2018 15:24

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Concrete Jungle - Not for Us

Well we have tried for a long time to get a booking on this site and I have to say that we don’t know what all of the fuss is about. The majority of pitches are very cramped with no break between pitches. If you like a concrete jungle with no greenery around your Caravan then this is the site for you. Our pitch was at the top of the site, The pitch was so tight we were instructed on check in to park our car on the door side which we did, only to be told by another warden that we couldn’t leave it there and we had to park across the front of our Caravan, a first for us on CCC site ! The location to York is good but that’s about it in terms of good points. The facilities on the site were well managed and clean.

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lae26

Motorhomer from South Yorkshire

Reviewed on 25/07/2018 16:50

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