Freshwater East site, food shopping
Hi, visiting for 1sr time later in year. If we pitch up our motorhome & leave it on site can we easly walk to a supermarket/food shop or do we need to take everything with us? Thanks
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I would suggest you have a look at Google Maps as that will give you a good impression of what is available locally. There is a function to measure the distance between the site and the nearest shops.
David
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Freshwater Site is close to beach, down a quite steep hill. Nearest shops will be in Lamphey, around two miles away, although these will be quite limited. Pembroke is nearest town, around six, seven miles away, has all types of shops, nice town. Not sure on buses, doubt they will go all way down to Site, you will probably have to walk a bit. There are good car parks in Pembroke, we parked our MH up under Castle. Best to check out buses, as it’s a few years since we were in area.
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As above, the site is at the bottom of a quite steep hill the road is wide so no problems with access. The one o'clock arrivals is strictly adhered to. The nearest shop is a local CK shop at the filling station in Lamphey. Train Station in the village, trains to Pembroke or Tenby.. All major supermarkets are available in Pembroke. During the summer season a local mini bus service (run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park ), leaves from outside the site entrance.only a limited service. Basic provisions may be available from site reception (long life milk etc). I would take as much provisions as possible with you. Lovely site and area, have fun.
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Motorhomes are sounding a bit of a problem to me if it’s too much trouble to drive to a shop. Glad I didn’t get one. Would never work for me.
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I'm sure we have been to this site with the caravan, if I am right about that, then I'm not sure it's one that I would go back to with a MH unless it was small enough to take off site.
I'm sure some do but if it's such a trek into the nearest village what else would you be able to do from the site.
We normally stay about 4 days anywhere, be it MH or caravan. I doubt I would want to sit about the site for that long if getting off site is so difficult.
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We have stayed at FE a while ago. Nice site, easy walk onto a nice beach. We had a car with us at the time, so we drove all over. We stayed on a CL at Jameston just above Manorbier last time we were in Pembrokeshire with MH. Pembrokeshire is a stunning area, with lots of fantastic places to visit, either with or without children. We use our MH on a daily basis, so for us, no issues. We certainly didn’t find parking it up anywhere difficult, and wouldn’t have even had it been a little longer.
All depends what the OP’s priorities are. If it’s a simple beach holiday, chilling out, then a nice location, and some nice walks from the Site. Rainy days (we had rain every day on our September 3 week tour) then glad we use our MH, we could use it as a mobile cafe, sightseeing, day trips all over to Castles, towns, other areas of coast. WTG has suggested some transport options, so with a bit of effort, it’s doable.
Our MH parked up under Pembroke Castle, and then view from MH parked up at Carew Castle, not far from FE
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One of the advantages of taking a moho to the supermarket is that you can unload cold stuff straight from the trolley to the fridge/freezer. Even more pertinent when 'over there' as temperatures are often higher.
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How long does it take? Four nights is a long stop for us.
Mind you, one benefit of a MH over a caravan is being able to tour an area stopping in different parts of that region without the need to keep travelling over the same ground as you have to if you're based on one site.
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It’s a different style of touring that we find ideally suits a MH. We had a caravan for 16 years and generally spent at least a week in one place, so 4 / 5 sites in a tour with perhaps a couple of one nighters getting there. Compare that to last years 45 night tour of northern Scotland that used 16.
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We have both a caravan and a MH, and tend to use each in a different way. We think of caravanning as “hobbit” touring, there and back again, as you tend to plonk a van down and then explore by car, going home each evening. MH touring is linear. You plot a route, stopping off at things of interest along the way, and carry on. Both are a fantastic way of exploring somewhere.
You will see a lot of MH’s parked up and used like a caravan on Club Sites. We do it occasionally ourselves for a couple of nights, going out by bike. Some Club Sites are fine like this, others need a bit of research if planning not to use MH daily.Hope the OP has a lovely time, it is a very beautiful and interesting area, well worth exploring away from just FE.😁
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We spent 6 nights in Pembrokeshire last year. 3 nights near Narberth, and 3 towards Newport, in the north. We saw and visited lots in the east of the county, which is where we wished to explore. Much rather spend fewer nights in more places, if that makes sense. When we had the caravan, we would have probably spent 6 nights on one site.
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We took the caravan to FE, we enjoyed having the dog friendlly beach across the road and there are some good coastal walks especially onto the adjoining NT Stackpole Estate and the more isolated beach at Barafundle. However we used the car a lot and did trips out to Pembroke, Manorbier etc and the nearest shop would have been a long walk up the hill. With our present motorhome we'd have probably managed all these things too unless we just wanted a day or two by the sea before moving on.
The site is very long and narrow so if you want to do less walking stay near the front.
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We tour all year round, away for about 250 nights a year, and often stay for 4 or 5 nights on a site before moving a relatively short distance to the next site. We find that we can appreciate what is in the area over that time scale, can go back at a later date if we think we have missed something or want to visit a place again, and I get bored being in the same place after a few days anyway!😁
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Totally agree Nellie
We also tend to stay 4 or 5 days as we prefer to see a small local area before moving on. It seems that many long stayers in this country do seem to tour a largish area from a site, a much greater distance than we do. In the vast majority of cases, we move in the region of 25 miles max before starting all over again. Ideally we like to see the local area by foot or bus with the car being third choice.
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