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Roseland Holiday Park
Canada Hill
Rothesay
Isle Of Bute
Argyll (Browse area)
PA20 9EH
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Pitches: 10
Open: 01/04/2024 to 31/10/2024
01/04/2025 to 31/10/2025
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
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 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop <1 mile |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <1 mile |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <1 mile |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <1 mile |
 No Tennis |
 Beach <1 mile |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport <5 miles |
 No Dog Walk |
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Date of Visit: August 2024  |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: With friends |
| Reviewer: Ferrier |
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 I was here with my motor home for 3 nights in August 2024.
The toilets and showers are for mixed genders. There is no privacy between males and females which I found intimidating. There is not enough toilets or showers either.
The washing up area for dishes etc is not good, if it is raining as it is exposed to the elements.
The good news - This site is in an amazing spot with access to all tourist areas and you can walk into Rothesay.
The owners should visit Tarbert Holiday Park and take a leaf out of their book to see how it could be. 
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| Date of Visit: June 2024 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 8 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: The swifties |
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A very nice camp site, if a little unusual. 3 pitches for touring caravans, and about another 6 for campervans and motorhomes, all around the edge of a tent field but no one was using the tent field.
There are also log cabins round the edge. Booking, check in all done online, queries by email, with a quick response.
Site very clean and tidy.
Showers dated but very clean and tidy and roomy, £1 for an 8 minute shower.
Bute is a lovely pretty island, with lots of walks. Mount Steward is definitely worth a visit, the house is amazing. Not open Friday or Saturday though.
Jam jar cafe on site had just reopened, and was very nice inside with good food, and seemed to be well used.
Bute is well worth a visit, easy to motor around and very quiet outside school holidays.
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| Date of Visit: July 2024 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Cavarno |
12 reviews from this member |
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The worst site we've been on for a while.
It would appear that there is a new area at the far end of the site which looks OK but we were told it was fully booked when we arrived and we were sent to a car parking area at the other end of the site in the middle of an area of mobile homes.
The toilet facilities were mediocre despite being new and didn't even have a waste bin in the washing up area. A large group of young kids about 6 year old were running riot until 10pm without intervention from any parents who were shut away in their mobile homes.
We were due to spend another night here but left the following morning. But really needs alternate facilities for visiting campervans.
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| Date of Visit: September 2023 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Trevor + Jo |
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The campsite is an area of sloping grass surrounded and overlooked by static caravans. The grass was in very good condition and the pitches are well marked and of adequate size. There isn't much of a view, despite being on top of a hill but therefore surprisingly sheltered for tents.
There is a communal wash block, 2 loos, 2 showers and a wet room. A distinct lack of hooks for the sinks but generally very clean and lovely hot water. There is a washing up area complete with washing machine but no freezer. We were fortunate to have some amazingly hot and sunny weather for Scotland in September and the lack of a freezer became a major issue.
All booking was done on line/by phone. We didn't see anyone from the site all the time we were there, made it feel very impersonal.
Bute is a beautiful place! Must do's:
1. Mount Stuart House
2. Walk to Canada Hill and then down through Bogany Wood to Rothesay
3. Explore Rothesay: Gardens and fountain, Pavillion, Victorian Loo's, Zoe's icecream shop, MacQueens butchers, Isle of Bute Smokehouse (The yard)
4. Visit St Blanes Hill and church, Rubh' an Eun lighthouse, Kilchatten Bay sandstone columns (organpipes) for geology fans!
5. See the seals at Scalpsie Bay
6. Best pub: The Anchor Tavern in Bannatyne
Great Island, OK campsite that would benefit from a freezer and appears unwelcoming. They take your money and leave you to it.
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Vw hettie |
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Located near the golf course on Canada hill. Don't try to approach on the Serpentine road, which has steep hairpin bends.
Staff pleasant, shower/toilet unit pretty basic breezeblock with concrete floor, but clean with hot water. Note the unit is communal, which may be uncomfortable for some
Being on a hill, expected reasonable views. Surprised to find the pitches for small campers were actually just a little parking row with hook ups, overlooked by about 20 statics from all sides.
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Sandpr |
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View very good. Welcome was extremely unfriendly. Lady called my husband a liar about a phonecall which happened which gave the ok for us to pay the balance owed to her on arrival. We received an email of this fact from somebody at Roselands.
Facilities very limited and access to them treacherous for somebody who is not fit.
Diggers and other large machinery were still working at 8. 15pm.
The pitch was very unlevel
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| Date of Visit: April 2023 |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: LBBK |
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This is one of the more unusual sites I have stayed on but is, I believe, the only official tent campsite on Bute. There is a mixture of statics, tourers, glamping and cabins. The cafe was closed throughout our visit.
Motorhomes are parked in two distinct areas: one with considerably larger pitches than the other. There is space for about 12 tents - electric hook up available. Sloping. Cars parked by the tents. The grass was long and needed cutting.
Booking & check in all done via email - very efficiency. In fact the only staff I saw were a couple of teenagers cleaning the wash block in the afternoon.
The wash block is unisex which may not be to everyone's taste. Two toilets, two showers, three washbasins and a hand drier. Also good disabled facilities. Water was hot and showers free. Also two washing up sinks plus washing machine & drier. All new and well maintained but not enough provision when the site is full.
There is also a well designed mini veranda with chairs to offer some protection from rain. Sadly over my stay there was a posse of poorly behaved smaller children using this area as an adventure playground, particularly the attraction of the digital door lock.
The site is above the town, giving good views but it is exposed to the weather. The Serpentine road up to the site is best walked and looks great on Strava!
Bute itself was delightful. Plenty of beaches, history, geology, gardens, cycling & walking. The West Island Way is well waymarked. There is a good bus service running the length of the island and across to Ettrick Bay: cash or cards accepted.
Would I return to Bute? Yes.
Would I return to this site? Yes, but only midweek outside of school hols.
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| Date of Visit: August 2021 |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Adamedwardsteather |
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The first issue if you are cycling is getting up from sea level where the ferry docs to the top of the hill, somthing like 280 feet above the town zigzagging up in just 0. 8 of a mile! But we did most of it!
The reception is at the Jam Jar cafe, which we later had a nice lunch at. Checkin is supposed to be after 15:00 but we were early. A quick check of the CCTV showed the space for us was empty so we were in a set up before 12:00.
The camping space is a small oval surrounded by static caravans which must feel very odd when they are all occupied as all the living room windows look out at the view over the campers. It's also on a slope but we managed to pitch at an ok angle. There were only 3 other tents on site and I would guess the space is probably ok for up to 12.
The toilet block is very new with two loos, two showers and a babychange/ disabled/ family room all inside the same concrete and breeze block building. Because of covid there was a one family at a time rule, not always being followed (and given space and ventilation, it seemed excessive. )
One snag is that the door has an electronic keypad which bleeps and with windows open to the block, anyone going to the loo at night would be heard going beep, beep, beep on the pad, clunk as the door unlocked and then the sound of the hot air handdryer.
The Jam Jar cafe is open 10-4 so ok for lunches but not breakfast or dinner. We got a takeaway indian as a Sunday in Rothesay meant much of the eating places were shut.
The views from up the hill are good and it does at least mean when you set off the first mile is downhill.
There is a large coop in town with a smaller one closer to the site, but you have that hill to climb with your shopping.
This is the only site on the island and it strikes me there's an opportunity for a more touring/tent using site somewhere nearer sea level, if the land is free.
Would I stay again? Yes I would.
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| Date of Visit: July 2021 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Young couple |
| Reviewer: HeatherJA |
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Good little touring site with everything you need. Ideal as a base for exploring Bute or a stop off between ferries. Great views over Rothesay and over to the mountains of Arran.
A 15 minute drive from the beautiful Ettrick Bay. The Jam Jar Cafe on site does good coffee during the day and pizza nights over the weekend.
Only issue was that if you were in the shower and someone else used the toilets or sinks in the block then the water was scalding.
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| Date of Visit: June 2021 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Muriel |
3 reviews from this member |
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Cannot fault the site, clean tidy, good facilities.
No Internet, our fault we should have checked before booking.
Rothsey and the Isle of bute is a great place, clean and tidy, no litter. Plenty of sitting places along front. Lovely promenade. Water is crystal clear. Fantastic open air bus tour.
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