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Postage & Packaging:£0.00 Availability:3-5 working days
Advantages: Not too far from Portmadog, sandy beaches around 1 mile away, prices quite reasonable Disadvantages: Toilets/showers could have been a lot cleaner, terrible Welsh weather, not much space on site
Graeanfryn Farm
I stayed here earlier this Summer holiday with my family. We had just bought a new touring caravan and this was the first place we tried it out in.
We have been to many camping sites before we bought our new caravan, staying in a tent, but after freezing half to death and getting soaking wet (as well as having to listen to the whole sites arguments/ snoring etc through the thin fabric walls of a tent) too many times in our "waterproof" tent we'd just had enough, and decided a caravan would be better to suit our needs.
Location
Graeanfryn Farm is in Nefyn, we had stayed in this town before and that is why we choose to come to this site for our first trip in the caravan - if anything went wrong at least we knew the town quite well and wouldn't get lost on our way back home and also its a lovely place ...
Advantages: Brand new caravans that are well kept. Disadvantages: As with all caravans a little on the pricey side.
Apologies in advance, this is long review!
After seeing a report on my local news the other night I thought I would review the one thing that, over the last 5-6 years of my life has been a constant, come rain or shine, recession or boom we have visited and stayed at this particular place as our holiday home of choice.
The particular report I was referring to earlier, was the fact that out of all the poor companies in my local area (I live in the Midlands, we are one of the worst hit areas for redundancy?s), the caravan companies were flourishing.
Now as I have already stated, we (myself, my husband, my two children and various other members of my family, depending who is available on holiday week!), have stayed at this particular caravan site for a while.
The caravan site in question is ?Tomlinsons caravan and leisure park ...
Advantages: price, pitch size. Them Selling one of the tourinhe g fields to Tesco! Disadvantages: No security, The brochure inacurately paints a completly different picture!!!
Visited during the last week of July 2009.
My first impression was not good. On arrival I noted the complete lack of security or anyone to greet and meet at the entrance. Also I noticed the entertainment complex that seemed small. The reception area is very small. The park is vast with over 400 touring pitches, which seem to vary in size. Our pitch that we had to go choose ourselves was 6m x 6m which was sufficient for out trailer tent. There are also hundreds of Static caravans too. My next bad impression was the washroom facilities in my opinion were not totally clean and the high level cleaning was not up to standard! There was also no hot water. I did complain and the problem was sorted the same day. The brochure promises a lot but in reality fails miserably?
I would also challenge their ETCB 4 star rating? I would thing they are ...
