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  • Takethedogalong
    Takethedogalong Forum Participant Posts: 17,056 ✭✭✭
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    edited May 2020 #32

    We do indeed have similar tastes😁

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #33

    My preferred options in the Lake District are places like Patterdale cl , but it's currently closed and not taking any bookings. I've been able to book the Borrowdale site for almost the same price (£40.10 for 2 nights as opposed to £40 for the cl, but I have a £10 gift voucher to use which I've had for over a year!). Both sites offer the option of walking into the fells straight from the site and  both don't have toilet block etc. It will be something new for us but I'm looking forward to it.

    thebells, you'll enjoy Borrowdale site. We're like yourselves by the sound of it, preferring small sites and CLs to club sites but we have used this site on numerous occasions over the years, including in May last year. Access is so easy to the north western hills and a bus stops right outside. Will take you as far as Buttermere or into Keswick. Hope it actually opens up and that the weather behaves for you. Check out the reviews of the site.

  • thebells
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    edited May 2020 #34

    Funny you should say that becuse as I read through the reviews prior to booking, I noticed yours and I was waiting for an opportunity to "quiz" you about it😂

    I was going to ask about access to Buttermere! 

  • Wherenext
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    edited May 2020 #35

    WE drove there but you can let the bus take the strain. The "problem" we had was the fact that we planned a long and arduous climb of Red Pike, then along to Haystacks on the ridge and didn't know how long it would take so couldn't chance the bus. As it happens we could still have caught a bus back. Not sure how I managed to drive as the legs were a bit wobbly.smile

    There are plenty of walks from site or you could catch the ferry across to Keswick and walk Skiddaw etc. You'll not lack for a walk. 

    Just take care on the approach to the site from the little village of Grange. Give the entrance a wide berth turning in.

    I'm always jealous of people going there.smile

  • eurortraveller
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    edited May 2020 #36

    Back to the beginning...Is the Anglesey site called Dafarn Rhos?

     It looks a lovely beachside location and would tempt me far more than going to Chirk. Mind you I wouldn't layout a lot of money right now to make a two week reservation there. My own style is to look at a weather forecast a few days in advance and then phone them.... and if they say no then there are lots of other fish in the sea.

  • vbfg
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    edited May 2020 #37

    I hope that the overnight ban is lifted soon and it is not too long before we are welcomed back to the Lakes and other holiday destinations. IMO Borrowdale is a lovely site and as well as being so near the fells and to Derwentwater, you can buy a ticket for a trip on the ferry or a day ticket (a discount at at the site's reception) and get on and get off as many times as you like as long as you are going in the same direction.  The Langholm Kitchen and Walled Garden is a lovely walk through the woods and is a very pleasant place to have lunch.  Personally, I do prefer a site with a toilet block but the advantages of such a nice site outweighs the disadvantage. 

  • flatcoat
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    edited May 2020 #38

    The problem with lifting the overnight ban (especially ahead of full site openings) will be the proliferation of wild campers leaving their ‘waste’ behind them.... 

  • MichaelT
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    edited May 2020 #39

    I don't think you should tar everyone with the same brush as your own camping habitssurprised

  • rayjsj
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    edited May 2020 #40

    Agree, Most repeat Most wild campers leave the place where they stayed with NO Signs that they have stayed there. No small patches of burnt grass with heaps of tin cans.etc. I mainly use sites but don't despise Wild Campers and on the odd occasion have wild camped myself.

     

     

  • MDD10
    MDD10 Forum Participant Posts: 335
    edited May 2020 #41

    Re the non refundable deposit.  The campsite wouldn’t have a hope in defending that one at the small claims court...known as a frustrated contract. 

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