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Royal Umpire Holiday Park
Southport Road
Croston
Preston
Lancashire (Browse area)
PR26 9JB
Tel: 01772 600 257
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Pitches: 180
Open: 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024
01/01/2025 to 31/12/2025
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| Who's it for |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
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| Date of Visit: September 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Howard95 |
4 reviews from this member |
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 Have been several times to this site and have noticed a deterioration in the behaviour on the site. There are far too many loose dogs on the site which are supposed to be on a lead - rule not enforced at all. Children are unsupervised by their parents well after dark and riding bikes at speed around the site - where is the warden? Cars are parked with no consideration for others and it was virtually impossible to get our caravan off the site. We seem to be one of the few who actually removed dog faeces from the dog area which was immaculate when we arrived.
Toilet facilities good as usual and staff always friendly. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Stevo61 |
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We have just had a great weekend the park has been very flexible when we had to cancel and change the weekend due to the weather !
The staff have gone that extra mile when I lost my mobile phone a special thank you to Joe for retrieving it for me.
We were a group of 12 adults and 1 child the entertainment that was laid on at an extra cost of £5 was well worth it because we have seen very little of the child that was with us, she has had a ball.
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| Date of Visit: August 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Motorhomefun |
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We have come to Royal Umpire for a long weekend tagged onto a full week away elsewhere. We still have one night to go and I feel compelled to write this before we have even left and if it wasn't for having children with me we would have gone home today!
When we arrived we were told that the lock would be taken off the toilet doors as they had run out of keys due to being so busy. Not great as this meant that due to there being no other inside facility, this became the gathering point for everyone and anyone.
The toilet floors were filthy, toilets full, dirty and not flushing, wine glasses and beer bottles around, stinking of cigarette smoke and generally people loitering making going to the loo a very uncomfortable experience for me and my family.
That then brings me onto the showers, what a mess, blocked drains, full of hair, dirty nappies, paper towels, broken windows. Again disgusting all round and so glad we had the fall back of our own onboard facilities.
When we booked we asked to be near the toilet facilities for health reasons (I had a broken foot) this was honoured and we were given the pitch right next to the toilet block, which would have been fine except we then became the cut through pitch for people going to the washing up area and family bathroom.
In face our view was directly into the family bathroom. This is nothing that a bit of waffle fencing wouldn't sort out and would mean no cut across and privacy for us and those in the bathroom.
We even had our pitch used as parking for the toilet blocks on several occasions with vehicles playing loud music. I could carry this on as the experience was awful but my final point which I think sums up the experience is a note on the communal freezer thanking the 'scumbags' for steeling the entire contents of meals they had placed in there.
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| Date of Visit: August 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Jayandpam |
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Arrived 01/08/12 for 5 nights left after 3rd night
Could not stay any longer. We had to pay £20. 00 for shower key that we didn't need due to locks removed. Showers far too hot for me and the kids
No shop on site. Burger van that opens on weekends, ice cream van comes round everyday. Loud shouting and lots of beer drinking through the night from other campers,
We had an electric pitch by a large muddy patch, had to make do close to the edge with cars going past doing more than 10 mph (5mph speed limit)
Tractors and other large vehicles go fast on the tracks so had to get the kids out the way fast.
Shower block floor was always flooded as was washing up area,
Me and my wife didn't find this site suitable for our children with foul language and drunken behaviour through out the night.
The park was ok but very muddy
The good point was the time we left and will not be going back there again.
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| Date of Visit: August 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Peteandlins |
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Can't write much about this site as I'm too tired having been kept up most of the night by other campers effing and jeffing at the top of their voices and playing loud music until 2(?) in the morning.
As previously said the toilet block is a disgrace, it felt like going into a downtown ghetto when I went to the loo with all the people hanging around outside it.
I would rather camp on a motorway roundabout than ever return here.
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| Date of Visit: August 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Heebeeteejees |
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23-25 August 2012 (Bank Holiday)
FREE FOR ALL
This is a site of 2 halves - the superior and the not! We were in the water-logged field, our stuff got wrecked still cleaning things 2 days later. We arrived to an empty field but a rally parked next to us, screamin kids & yapping dogs.
The warden was friendly enough coming rescuing people with a tractor but the field we were on needs attention, you can't just hand out some hay when it gets that bad.
Toilets were bit of a distance from us on the field - the block was nearest to the hard standing. It was used like a salon by teenagers in pjs & rollers charging mobiles in the only 2 plug sockets, washing babies in the sink you name it!
Then when we couldn't use our caravan loo I desperately, I went across and it was 'shut for cleaning' for an hour 12-1 daily. Some people where treating it like animals to be quite honest.
The marquee at night was supposed to be a welcome relief from the rain but I didn't expect kids n dogs under foot, up to midnight no parents to be seen people steppin on my feet, spilling rum down my arm - we were a group of 4 adults having a drink & could smell weed around so I think that was unacceptable. Kids were playing in the trees all day running riot but there was a playground nearer the hard-standing.
Overall, it was a shame for the tents / caravans on the field we were on.
It could be a lovely site - the location is ok with a 2-for-1 pub yards away (Highfield) which can get busy for food. The Rose & Crown (Marstons pub) is only 0. 5m and Londis (Texaco garage) 10-15 min walk.
I would have to say never again - I've seen better at Reading & Glastonbury. Remember to pack your wellies & earplugs!
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| Date of Visit: July 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Leezoenat3080 |
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We visited this site last year and left a very positive review.
In 12 months the site seems to have changed a bit.
There are still a lot of very friendly 'residents' who go out of their way to make you welcome.
There is now a Wigwam on site which the warden let us have a look in while she was cleaning it.
The play area is still very good, especially the tyre swing (sneak on it when the kids are away, it's great fun).
A new road has been put across the camping field making it more accessible.
The garden at the entrance is a bit untidy but the gardener was in the middle of cutting everything back and tidying it up.
A lot of trees between pitches have been cut back making it feel more open and tidier.
Showers and toilets clean but be aware closing times vary between weekends and weekdays. They seem to be closed earlier and longer during the week than at weekends, which seems strange when the site was very busy at weekend with a 'loud' music festival on, but very quiet during the week?
There is a good Londis shop within 1/2 mile of the site for basics. Leyland and Chorley are both a short car ride away and both worth a visit. Try Chorley market on Tuesday, it's very good.
All in all still a very nice site undergoing some renovation.
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| Date of Visit: July 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Canvascomfort |
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I booked 3 nights at this site to break our journey back up to Scotland from Devon. We arrived around 6. 30pm on the Saturday night from Devon and it was the warden who issued our pass to us and key to the toilet. I got a shock when I was asked for a £20 deposit for the barrier pass and key, especially as I hadnt brought any cash - opting to find the site then go and stock up with some supplies. I explained this and she was absolutely fine with it. She mentioned to me that there was a music festival on that weekend and I was a little miffed as this wasn't mentioned to me when I called them to book 2 days before. I didn't really have any problem with this but it would've been an issue for others perhaps visiting the site for rest, peace and quiet. As it happened, the music was excellent and although we didn't attend the festival, we were entertained by listening to the excellent bands from our tent. It ended around 12. 30am and it was silent for the rest of the night, so there was absolutely no problems with noise for us. The pitches are excellent on the site with plenty of space and they are nice and flat too. The toilet and shower blocks are spotlessly clean and hot water is always available. The dishwashing facility is excellent and its actually a bit of a pleasure to use as its in a conservatory type building. The kids playpark is fantastic and I have to admit to playing on the rather excellent tyre roundabout with my son and daughter. We were advised that the nearest shop is a garage or a Co-op in the nearby village, but I have to recommend that you visit Leyland. Its about a 10 minute drive (if that) and there are all the mainstream shops and supermarkets as well as an excellent commercial vehicle museum. The tesco extra is enormous and is a 24 hour shop too. Well worth the slightly extra fuel rather than paying over the odds in the local garage that is well stocked but rather expensive if on a budget (as most of us are nowadays). I cannot fault this site. Its very well kept and reminds me of some of the Eurocamp sites albeit without the dry hot weather, but we cant have it all unfortunately. One very small niggle and not a fault of the site. We were pitched along a row of 1 camper van next to us and around 4 metres space, then on the Sunday a family decided to pitch a tent less than 2 metres from our tent - pretty much over lapping our pitch. Now if it was busy then fair enough, but there were NO units at the other side of them and the whole duration of our stay nothing else came in and pitched next to them, so they had no reason to be so close to us. It didn't spoil our time here as in fairness they weren't noisy or antisocial in anyway, I just feel they were a little too close to our tent for comfort.
Would I return? Absolutely. Next time I might even attend the music festival. A brilliant, well run, well kept site.
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| Date of Visit: July 2012 |
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| Reviewer: Billsparty |
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I have never placed a review before but have always placed much stock into the views of others, and it is because of this that I am compelled to respond to the criticism of this campsite by the previous reviewer.
I have visited this site frequently over the past few months and have always found toilet facilities spotless, be it midweek or weekend.
Over the weekend that has been reviewed I will admit that the toilets and showers were below par, however, from what I observed, the cleaners were there frequently and it was more to do with the bad weather and 'ignorant' clientèle that this occurred.
The idea of a fence between the plot next to the showers and the shower block does seem a good idea as the children do seem to be allowed to roam anywhere (is this the campsites fault or the parents)
I would say that the park warden was very visible in trying to move the children on from the toilet area and the park (what time should they be allowed to be out unsupervised by their parents)
As for the stealing of food from the freezer, you cannot blame the campsite for this as this is a facility reliant on honesty.
In essence, I would have to say that the site is normally very clean with very helpful staff no matter what time of day of the week. The previous reviewer seems to have had very bad experience to which they are obviously allowed their opinion, but this, as I see it is not the norm, especially out of the school holiday season.
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| Date of Visit: June 2012 |
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| Reviewer: CatAndNett |
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Went with some friends on our first ever family camping trip to this site, on jubilee weekend 2012. Had heard of it from the people we bought our tent off, they'd just had a weekend there and said it was good for kids, so we went there. They'd had some rain in the weekend before we got there, and the site was really really boggy in some parts. We drove down to the bottom field and managed to find an ok pitch, not too far from water tap and portaloos.
The facilities were ok-there were better ones in the top field, a proper block with showers etc, but just 2 lots of portaloos where we were. Would have been more than ample, except one block was locked up and unusable for the duration of our stay, which meant that everyone in the field was using the same set. This, coupled with muddy fields, made for really mucky and slippy floors in the cabins. They were cleaned out regularly though. We didn't use the showers in the main block, so cant really comment on those.
There was some kind of entertainment going on in the marquee, which sounded ok, but we didn't go in there. All was quiet from there at 11pm. There was a kids play area at the top of the top field, which was always really busy-our kids mostly just made their own entertainment.
One afternoon the generator went down and none of the loos would flush. We walked up to reception to ask when they were expected to be fixed, as we had small children in need of using them, and the receptionist was actually quite blunt, and less than helpful. We asked to speak to the manager, and she told us she didn't know where he was and we'd have to find him to speak to him. We never found him.
We had a drive to Southport, a nice walk along the seafront (although you cant actually see the sea lol) it was a nice couple of hours out.
There is a chain restaurant opposite the rear entrance to the site, cant remember which brand though, maybe Brewers Fayre or something similar? We had lunch in there after packing up, before setting off home. We had a nice meal at a reasonable price, wish we had thought about it the evening before, for tea.
All in all, an ok commercial site, with ok facilities at an ok price. Horses for courses I guess, but not our kind of site and wouldn't choose to go there again.
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