York Rowntree Park Club Campsite

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Great Location for a Short City Break

Ideally situated site for exploring York on foot, no need to use the car. Consequently this site is very popular which makes it difficult to get booked for full week, hence our shorter than originally planned stay - Sunday to Thursday. Warm welcome from the Wardens who were happy to assist us make the most of our stay. Excellent facilities that were kept spotless despite the site being busy.

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Andy Harrower

Reviewed on 31/03/2016 18:23

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Some hopefully helpful details

It's not worth me saying how popular this site is, or how well located it is, but some more pragmatic details might be helpful. We found that a ten minute walk from the site got us into the city centre, but that does require a short flight of steps or a road crossing, if mobility is an issue. The local shops (accessed by the back gate) recently won best high street, and it is well deserved. As well as a Sainsburys local (long opening hours), there is an excellent greengrocer, deli, baker and butcher, fish and chips, Dominos and several cafes. The hardware and kitchenware stores are also useful. The city tour bus also goes along this road (Bishopthorpe Rd), so helpful if you wanted to try this. No play area or dog walk, but given the excellent Rowntree Park is next door, that's not a disadvantage. It's also the best shower block on the network in our view, even on Easter Bank Hols, not only was there no queue, there was a choice of free showers. We'll be going back, it's definitely worth spending and hour one morning in December getting booked!

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HelenC

Caravanner from Northumberland

Reviewed on 30/03/2016 16:37

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Rated 4 of 5

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Great Location. Shame about the Easter price hike.

Our first visit to this site, having been trying to get in for some time. It's location is excellent, being right on the river Ouse, within walking distance of the City. It's well set out and the pitches are a good size. Shower bock facilities are very good, plentiful and of the usual club standard. Our only gripe, which was echoed by many others, was the substantial hike in tariff over the Easter holiday. The York site was always at the top end of CC tariffs anyway, but for the club to exploit the Easter holiday just like other solely commercial enterprises is wrong. We really enjoyed York, but that commercial decision will cause some to doubt the benefits of club membership. We joined it for some exclusivity and some member benefits. Continue taking advantage and people will consider the benefits a little more closely before rejoining.

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johnp880

Reviewed on 30/03/2016 14:20

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Back to York

After having caravans, motorhomes including American RV's we decided to go back to our roots and start touring again in a caravan. We can now 'fit' on Roundtree Park again and feel like we have come 'home'. Brilliant camp for accessing York, no car needed and lovely walks. The Only complaint we have is that many people feel like we do and it can be a real struggle to book - nothing much we can do about that lol! We will be visiting again as soon as we can!

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Melcwatson

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Reviewed on 15/03/2016 14:35

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Best up to now!

This site surely must have one of the best locations there can be! Fall out of your Caravan almost straight into York City Centre. Just a little walk along the river and you are there. The best and cleanest Toilet/Shower block I have been in, the Staff particularly friendly and helpful made for a most enjoyable stay even though the weather was lousy (no change there then) everywhere, nice, clean and tidy, no litter, no noise, no problem.....a criticism?......it gets booked up real quick....no wonder, so be quick!.....what am I saying?? build another one Caravan Club!

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cooltemp

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Reviewed on 14/03/2016 17:24

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Great City location

Nice clean tidy compact site within short walk of city centre.

Quiet at night, nice toilets etc. Wardens have an electric buggy which is superb if you're having a lie in, much quieter than the usual mini tractors that wake me up on other sites.

Situated next door to a good park with facilities for kids.

Larger vans have pitches picked by the wardens, ours was very nice.

Be aware when you pitch, it's not the usual "car - van - awning" but "van -awing-car" instead. I had to move after reversing in beautifully, to the wrong position.

Good site for leaving the car put for the week.

Will use again for a cracking city break.

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parrafinpete

Caravanner from Cambridgeshire

Reviewed on 12/03/2016 17:44

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Excellent Site

Would recommend this site to all, The wardens were welcoming, helpful and friendly on arrival. York itself is only a fifteen minute walk away with all the attractions, shops and museums close at hand too. can fully understand why this is a very busy site .

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Mum2four

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Reviewed on 10/03/2016 11:10

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York Site

The site is very handy for York and all the town centre facilities. My only gripe was there were too many reserved pitches for whatever reason. When we arrived there was about six pitches with cones on and we were told in no uncertain terms we could no use them. This left us two pitches to pick from one being to short for our van so we ended up at the back of the site near the houses not what I would have picked.in this respect I was disappointed and thought not very fair when it supposed to be first come first served.Fair enough if they were disabled pitches but they were clearly not as they were randomly spread around the site.

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Canenriot

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Reviewed on 08/03/2016 20:54

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Great Wardens

This site is in an ideal location for the sights of York. But this is largely to thank the site staff who were extremely helpful and sympathetic when I was taken ill.

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Helens Dad

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Reviewed on 08/03/2016 17:25

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WONDERFUL SITE

We love visiting this site, just wish we could visit more often. All the staff on site are really friendly and helpful, they even choose the pitch for us (large caravan), this takes the hassle/argument out of which pitch I prefer and which one my husband prefers..... The site is very clean, we visited just after the floods in January, they were no signs that the site had been closed for so long. Due to its proximity to York City Centre, there is no need to use your vehicle once you have pitched up. Its ideally located to restaurants, shops and all that York has to offer. Will definitely be going back, that's if we can get in!!!!!

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jillth17

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Reviewed on 08/03/2016 16:41

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