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The best toilet and shower facilities we’ve come across. Immaculate just like a hotel.
Staff on check in were great, they phone you a couple of days before tell you which pitch you’re on, park up get sorted and then walk up to the reception easy !
Only negative is the pitches are quite close together, but you do get to know your neighbours !
The Tarn House itself is now the pub and serves very good meals.
Must be 250 statics on site and the tourers are at the bottom of the site but it’s fine, the facilities make up for that. Lovely walk into Skipton from here or if you’re adventurous up Sharphaw the hill behind is well worth a hike.
15 or so hardstanding fully serviced pitches below a statics site.
Booked online, £20p/n for two of us. Received a courtesy call letting us now our pitch number and explanation of booking in.
Nearby toilet block is excellent: clean, warm, modern with proper showers, no charges.
No shop on site but the site has a good bar which does food at weekends. The static site is well maintained.
20 minute walk down the road to Skipton, there is also a footpath across the fields. Road not too busy, does has have footpath to begin with and yes there is a slope. Discounted taxi service available according to information in welcome pack.
No WiFi on pitches but good phone coverage.
Overall very good site and we felt good value for our midweek stay.
This is our second visit and we were on pitch no 1. If you've never been before you are best phoning ahead to find your pitch number as when you arrive you don't go past reception and check in, as with most sites. Reception is at the top of the hill, you wouldn't want to take your caravan up there! The pitches are serviced with water, waste and tv aerial. The aerial on pitch 1 doesn't work - the site engineer has looked at it and they don't know why.
The showers/toilets are excellent, never busy and plenty of hot water. Lovely and clean with a heated floor.
There is no shop on site, Skipton - a 40 minute walk downhill there, uphill back. Good walks from the site and easy access to many attractions.
There is an excellent farm shop - Keelham Farm Shop - about 5 mins from site - at the campsite entrance turn right and go down to the main road - it's quite narrow. Turn left and along to the roundabout - straight across the roundabout and it's on the right hand site. Good opening hours and lots of really nice produce. Much easier than going to the supermarket in Skipton and plenty of parking.
Although the touring part is at the bottom of the static site, there was no problem with noise or traffic.
Visited this site for a relaxing weekend which we had. To begin with a little stressful finding our pitch. We had booked hard-standing and been put on a grass pitch which when we got to it, was not fir for purpose and away from the other tourers. After discussing with reception they moved us to a hard-standing with the other tourers. The pitch was much better not totally level with it being gravel but a few tweaks and we were right. The toilet block is amazing with heated flooring shower heads the size of saucers and as much hot water as you like none of this 10 second shower then have to press the button again. Skipton was a lovely walk approx 20 min downhill with plenty of shops and bars. Taxi's really good and lots of them in Skipton easy to get one back up the hill if you didn't fancy the walk. Lovely site would go back.
Cracking site. Just spent 3 nights there and very impressed. Extremely large hard/gravel level fully serviced pitch. Majority of site is statics and separate touring area set off away a little bit from them with a few seasonal pitches and approximately 6 -8 touring pitches. Very peaceful & quiet & very close to an absolutely immaculate toilet block complete with heated floors and plenty of hot water from proper showers. Some lovely little touches for dog owners, little points on wall around toilet block for attaching dog leads to and a little doggy shower as well. Staff we met on site were very helpful & friendly & we did have food in Tarn House itself which is where reception is and about a 5-10 minute walk up a slight hill from touring area and food was delightful and again service first class. Good location, about a 20 minute walk into Skipton but that's downhill and after that and walking around Skipton it was a taxi back up but only about £4. 50 from town to site. Didn't see no buses or bus stops on road to site and you do have to walk a little bit before you reach the pavement but it is a pleasant walk to town. Skipton itself is great, plenty pubs & restaurants and got some great service everywhere we went. Great site, great location. We'll be back.
Beautiful tent only site set on a family run hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales, nestled between Ingleborough and Whernside. The Three Peaks footpath runs right through the farm adjacent to the campsite with lots of walks direct from the site from easy strolls to climbing the Three Peaks, and five minutes to the pub!
Tent pitches only, no electric hookups. Toilet and shower block and washing up facilities. Sit, eat and socialise in the old barn, with free wifi, charging lockers, freezer. At weekends the Philpin Snack bar is open for cooked breakfasts, hot and cold snacks and drinks, ice creams, chocolates etc, on other days there are vending machines in the barn. Find out more here
Just returned after staying Monday to Saturday. The site was lovely and clean the very friendly staff were out first thing every morning picking litter and cleaning toilets. The toilet facilities were modern and spotless I was not afraid to use them. Another positive point for small families and disabled visitors was a wet room with a shower and bath included. There was a small laundrette by the toilets and a positive for us was a warm dog shower, great for walkers and smelly dogs. All the touring pitches were super pitches, make sure you take a good length of drainage hose to reach straight into your personal drain. The pitches were all hard standing with patio paving around so there was no mud trailed into caravan. A good sized piece of grass was between each plot. In the week the site was very quiet which we like, at the weekend it quickly filled up, I can see this is a popular site which we intend to visit frequently.
Just visited this site as my daughter was swimming in the Skipton triathlon. Had e mail telling me which pitch we were on (grass pitch 16). When we arrived we were directed to it by one of the groundsmen. They state that all their touring pitches are now super pitches so we expected to have our own water, ehu and tv and waste water we had first three but could not find a drain, so I went up to reception to ask about it and was told that they hadn't finished that pitch yet. To my mind they shouldn't have put us on it. The ground round the tower was very rough in fact there was a hole covered by soggy hardboard and a big circular grid with just a big hole underneath.
Apart from that the site is very nice and despite people saying there is no dog walk it is at the far end of the touring pitches (hard standings)and there are plenty of doggy bins. The toilets are cleaned quite few times a day. The only thing I would suggest is a mop and bucket to clean out the showers, I had to clean it every time I used it it's nothing to rinse it out.
Beware, beware beware, tarn house campsite is not how it looks, the touring area looks more like caravan storage than a touring field. A desolate patch of gravel surrounded by trees blocking out any view.
Tarn house itself is very dated, and very clicky with members of staff not really wanting to serve people who are not staying in the hotel,
During our stay not one person from the site introduced themselves, our name and pitch number where stuck on a notice board, until our last morning, when a disgruntled looking man asked us for payment.
I have never left a bad review on here and feel bad but, for touring caravans this site is an after thought, just to make a bit more money,
If you want to spend the weekend in a car park, go to Arn house
I was really happy with the site. The toilet block was warm, it only had one shower ( which I didn't use) but looked nice modern and very clean. Ll the staff ( and workmen still doing up the site) were really friendly and helpful. The pitches were nice, but a bit stony. It was in a nice location right in the start of the Yorkshire Dales and 2 mins in a car to Skipton. Only thing I wasn't happy with was paying £2 a night for our dog. I could not understand why a cost, she didn't use any amenities and I couldn't even see a dog walk ( though you could just walk them around the site on a lead). I would definitely go back there again and would have given it 10 stars but due to the unreasonable cost for the dog I will give them 8. It cost £19. 50 ( £17. 50 without the dog) so that is not a bad price.
Visiting friends who've sold up and since retiring now travel on the canals, we wanted a site somewhere close to the canal and to Skipton. Searches on-line brought up Tarn House Caravan Park. Very few reviews on UK Campsite, only one in 2010, and worryingly no detailed information (or pictures of the caravan area) on the web site. However, nothing else came close to meeting our needs for the visit, so we booked Tarn House with fingers crossed.
On the plus side:
There appears to be only a dozen or so touring caravan pitches.
Each pitch is quite well spaced and is on hard core.
The site is quiet, lots of bird noise, and the views at the back of the vans are lovely - pity the views aren't at the front so you can actually see them.
On the downside:
The hard core pitches are made up of jagged chunks of varying sizes of limestone, and could rip holes in your awning carpet. Earlier reviews mentioned grass pitches but we didn't see any.
There is no heating in the shower/toilet block. It was very cold in there.
There is only one shower in the Ladies and one in the Gents - neither are lit very well.
The showers are electric and the flow rate was very poor. The Ladies shower control knob is broken.
The toilets were not clean - the floor round the toilet pedestals was dirty (clearly the young man who did the cleaning of both the Ladies and Gents, which incidentally took him about 5 minutes to do both, didn't consider it necessary to clean the floor around the back and sides of the toilet itself), and the toilet seats had sticky looking 'splashes' underneath - thus not cleaned and sanitised. My husband informed me after looking in the Ladies (no ladies in there at the time!), that the Gents toilets were worse.
Disgusting dirt had accumulated behind the main door.
A previous reviewer mentioned a pub being within walking distance, but I didn't see one (other than the House itself), and in any event I don't recall there being any lighting on the country lanes surrounding the site - certainly no pavement - so not ideal at night time.
Other than the few caravan pitches, the estate is given over to static caravans and some lodges. The statics are packed in tightly - it's not the best of views.
I don't recall there being any sort of play area for children although that wasn't of interest to us.
In summary, we will not be back
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No Tents 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
Holiday Homes for Hire 
Holiday Homes for Sale 
Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
No Rallies 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Toilet Facilities 
Hot Showers 
Washing Up 
Bathroom 
No Baby Changing 
Laundry On Site 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
No Gas Exchange 
No Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
No Motorhome Point 
Wifi Access 
Shop <5 miles 
Bar On Site 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site 
Kids Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
No Fishing 
No Wild Swimming 
Indoor Pool <5 miles 
No Outdoor Pool 
Horse Riding <5 miles 
No Cycle Hire 
Golf <1 mile 
Tennis <5 miles 
No Beach 
No Watersports 
No Boat Launch 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <5 miles
No Dog Walk 
The best toilet and shower facilities we’ve come across. Immaculate just like a hotel. 
