Sunday, 6 January 2008

Kippford Holiday Park Review

This campsite is very much for caravans and does not cater well for tents.

We stayed there after reading many positive reviews and carefully studying the site's own web page.

Pitches were rocky, uneven and too small for the tent - pitches are based on tent dimensions but give no additional space for guy-ropes or walking round/sitting by your tent.

Our pitch was on a hill beside the staff toilet block next to a steep, rocky, muddy hill and the staff were unable to move us even though we were visiting with our son who had just had his 2nd birthday.

The shower block was clean and warm but the shower facilities were terrible for such a large and well respected site. There were only 2 showers, both with water pressure so low that that the spray was barely more than a trickle - it has hot though. There were plenty of clean toilets.

That said, the location was nice and it is a nice part of Scotland

I'm sure that caravaners rate this site highly but I would not recommend it to anyone wishing to camp in the area and certainly not with small children.