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07/7/2021 at 9:37am
Location: Liverpool
Outfit: Swift Challenger 560
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To be honest, I was shocked when I saw the grass pitches. The first pitch we were allocated was so sloping that I knew that I would not be able to get the van level, even with the equipment we had with us so we asked for a flatter pitch. Thinking back on it, there were big holes in that pitch that I thought had been dug by a previous occupant but now I think the holes were made by the previous person’s levelling ramps sinking as well! The lady at reception took ages trying to find us an alternative pitch as apparently the site is full over the next few weeks and this one that she finally found for us was a bit flatter but just as soft. Strangely it is not boggy and doesn’t feel very wet and due to the slope, is well drained but the ground is just really soft.
I would say that over half of the 400 or so pitches are hard standing and although most of them also need levelling ramps, it is much easier to level on hard ground so the people on those don’t seem to complain. However, we are not the only people on a grass pitch who have been complaining. A huge Motorhome arrived for the pitch opposite us on Sunday and I could hear the owner complaining on the phone to reception that the pitch was too sloping and asking to move. There clearly wasn’t anywhere else as he finally set up on the pitch but after a while, gave up trying to level and is just sitting at an angle! Another large Motorhome couldn’t get level on a pitch a few further up from us and he is now set up on the flat tent area at the bottom of the hill but those pitches don’t have electric which we need.
This is not the sort of site we usually go to, we like smaller sites, but due to only making the decision not to go to France a few months ago, we couldn’t get in anywhere else! I will definitely not be back to this site again and I will write a full review when we get home. The site itself is surprisingly quiet for the size of it and the facilities are good but the grass pitches are a joke. I like stepping out of the caravan onto grass rather than gravel but this has put me off grass pitches for life!
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