We often use this site to stop on, when we are up visiting family Yorkshire , however this stay turned out differently due to a sudden serious illness of my son. Fortunately we were able to extend our visit. Its a brilliant site in a super location very convenient for York and its various attractions. The park next door is brilliant for the children and plenty of walking for dogs if you have them. At the time of our visit we did not find the hotel building works intrusive. There was only one downside to our visit apart from my sons illness, was a incident with a warden which reduced me to tears , but we moved on from that. The facilities were kept to a very high standard , and the gate at the back of the site to Bishy Road is a godsend. If you do get visitors to the site they obviously need to be booked in , if the reception is closed you just need to put a note with pitch number and car through the red letter box, The river was very high at the time of our stay but happily no evacuation.