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Wow what a weekend! the staff on site were great but the seasonal people made us feel more welcome! especially one person who is sited behind the sand pit, she was very busy with her own children but she watched my children on the play area while I was able to use the facilities, she also made time for me and told me lots of information about the site/area and local shops which I wasn't told much about on arrival! She also made us aware of the train rides and other things our children were able to do on site.
The toilets and showers were always clean Day or night and always full of toilet roll (which is great)
This site is great for the kids and even older children ! To watch your children have fun and enjoy the weekend makes all the stress of setting up the tent worth it. We all felt very safe and the freedom we could allow our children was amazing. All our kids had an amazing time and made lots of friends, we forgot to bring our bikes and were offered to borrow some from others kids on site and my eldest child had a whizz on another child's electric scooter, which he thought was amazing and is now asking us for one!
Being in high season the cafe/bar could be open later than 8pm but we just ended up going to the local shop and brought our own and sat outside near the bottom play area while the kids played on a huge climbing frame/hidden house/tunnels/sand pit.
Looking to book again very soon as now the kids don't want to go anywhere else 10/10
Stayed at this site for two nights to try out our new awning as its only a ten minute drive away from our house.
I have to say that knowing the area well the site is a jewel in the rough.
We arrived on site where you have to park up and report to reception to check in, after which we were showed to our pitch, which was far from level but still in a nice area and seemed a million miles away from where we actually were.
The site it seems is aimed solely at entertaining the children, train rides around the site, bumper boats, tractor rides and a zip line plus many parks and a huge covered sand pit. On site you'll also find a bar and cafe serving snacks all day.
The shower blocks were clean and modern with plenty of hot water the toilets were clean and cleaned regularly throughout the day. The chemical taste disposal was quite a walk from our caravan as was the grey water.
The surrounding is OK with a Tesco express nearby and a bigger superstore a short drive away, its a nice base if you intend on visiting Derbyshire peaks and towns, Matlock is a twenty minute drive away and a little further is Bakewell and Buxton.
As I've mentioned the site is perfect for children and the security on site is strict and the rules are enforced, there is a coded gate to enter and leave the site and always one of the staff nearby keeping an eye on it, at night there is a night warden patrolling the site and making himself clearly visible to everyone.
A little gem of a site which I will be visiting again as soon as possible.
At 1st this site seemed lovely good facilities lots of room. But after 3 nights of loud noise in the early hours from some really annoying geese kept as pets on the site. Then there's the noise of the staff riding around the site in 4 wheel drive mini trucks from 7 until 10 at night way to fast for my liking.
If you want peace and quite don't come to this site.
After trying to find a campsite last minute, at the end of the school holidays, I was delighted to secure a pitch at Golden valley. The website looked nice and the reviews on UKcampsite mostly favourable.
The site is rather pricey, costing us £88 for just 2 nights for our family of 2 adults and 4 children plus dog, in a caravan. On arrival you have to park outside the barrier and leave the car while you walk across to the reception. This is opposite the gate, so no hardship and shows just how serious they take security on the site. Once you have booked in you are given a keycode to allow entry for the duration of your stay.
We were sited on pitch 23 which is in a slightly quieter area at the back of the site. Although there are pitches right near the play areas, if you would prefer to be able to watch your children play and don't mind the noise.
The site itself is quite large, extremely well looked after. There are lots of staff keeping it clean and they are always around should you need to ask anything. The toilet blocks clean and there were never any queues, this is probably helped by the fact that they have numerous portaloos situated around the site as well as the two main toilet/shower blocks. There seemed to be ample areas for dishwashing and also low 'greywater' sinks for bootwashing. The site has loads of trees around which is lovely, although we did end up with bird poo all over our awning, so maybe a soft brush to clean it before we left would have been handy.
The facilities for kids in absolutely excellent. There are four play areas, two of which have large covered sand-pits. There is a mini-golf course which is £2 per club to hire and there is table-tennis (we didn't do this so not sure on price) There is a train that goes around the site twice a day )10am then again in the afternoon) it is free and the kids love it. There are also mini cars for £1 a go and bouncy castle for £1 a go (5 minutes) Also check out the billboard outside the reception in the morning as it lists the days activities and times.
The bar and cafe area is at the side of the reception and there are a few tables outside overlooking one of the play areas; they also have a kids disco upstairs in the evening. Disco style face painting is 50p, a pint of Fosters or IPA is £3. The cafe also sells milk, marge, cans of beer and bottles of wine. None of it horrendously overpriced compared to any other convenience store. I must mention that you have to spend £10 to be able to pay by card in the cafe. There is a co op about a 5 minute drive away if you need more than the basics, or don't want to spend £10.
In the other toilet block, at the top of the hill, there is a pool table (50p coins needed) and gym upstairs, and a jacuzzi downstairs.
As you can see lots for the kids to do, but also a lot for them to pester for money for. Make sure you have plenty of change.
Overall the site is lovely and the facilities for kids are great. There are one or two negatives for me, but don't let this put you off the site.
1. There are a LOT of seasonal pitches and the occupants, or more specifically their kids, seem to think they own the site. They race around on bikes, go karts, mini motos and mini quads at high speeds. I found this quite frustrating at times, especially the revving and beeping from the petrol/electric ones.
2. On the first night we had heavy rain so didn't notice, but on the second night we could clearly hear traffic from the nearby A roads. It was especially noisy if any motorbikes went along and we go away to escape traffic noise, so it isn't really what we want to hear when trying to sleep.
As I said, don't let those points detract from the overall positive review as despite these points we would consider returning for a short stay, but would maybe try other sites first.
What a beautiful gem of a place hidden away amongst woodlands and fields and as much fresh air as you want. My partner and I have never camped before, and after going abroad all the time we decided to put our money into this country. So we completely changed our life-style and bought 2 Lurvleeeeeeee boxer pups and booked the bank holiday weekend at Golden Valley after a friend recommended it to us. We couldn't have gone to a better place for novice campers. The whole experience was second to none and it's all down to the fabulous staff and management at Golden Valley. Two lovely happy ladies on reception greeted us who were extremely helpful, friendly and professional, as were all the rest of the staff. Lovely funny lady in the cafe / bar ! Oh and very reasonable prices on the booze ! Thanks to the train driver that let my grandson sit in the front with you as you tootled around the camp, brill ! If you want to take your kids, or just yourselves to a child and dog friendly camp-site, I really would highly recommend this site, you won't be disappointed. I don't know who enjoyed it more, my grand-son, my partner and I or the pups. Most definitely will be returning. We met some lovely people and we will be meeting up with them at GV of course, in a couple of months. We've got the bug and we're going back at the week-end. It's 25 minutes away from us so why not ? 😀
We visited this site for 4 nights, on first impressions it is very tried looking. We were show to are pitch. Which was not suitable. They gladly moved us.
The biggest thing that struck us was the condition of a lot of caravans witch must be on sesonal pitches. The awnings and caravans were absolutely filthy some of the awnings were so bad you could not tell what colour they were ment to be. We think this is becourse the site states no washing of caravans. We were in an area of 6 vans 5 of witch were in this condition. So not a very pleasant out look.
Also there is no grass at all around the caravans just gravel. So every thing gets very dusty and dirty very quickly. Our van and car was filthy after 4 night.
Just come back from a weekend here, and I have to say was fantastic. Our 10 year old daughter made friends and she loved it here. Will definitely recommend. We shall be returning to this site very soon. Staff were very friendly and the food in cafe was good value
Stopped for a few weeks, and what a lovely site, I would recommend this site for anyone, family are well catered for, as well as a couple. The site is spotless great staff, toilets shower block kept very clean.
Its only up the road from me but well worth a visit.
A MUST FOR KIDS. What a great site. 3 play areas for all ages. I have a 3 and 10 year old. Large covered sand pit. Tractor train rides and log fume rides. It was the bank holiday with over 400 tents - the staff never stopped to keep the site clean and the kids entertained from morning until night.
Toilets and showers cleaned regularly. Great on site cafe - reasonably priced. Great for bikes. Fishing is a must with plenty of fish caught by all.
Lovely pub upstairs that had a disco at night.
All the people who worked there were really friendly and helpful. Nothing is too much for these people who go out of their way to make your holiday a great experience.
Local coop, tescos, sainsburys near by.
If weather is bad there is treetops soft play, which is excellent 5 minutes away.
We had a great 7 night holiday at Golden Valley. The park seems fairly small at first sight but in fact it is huge! It's made up a small areas all dotted around the site which gives the impression that it's not busy even when it is. We had a pitch up in the top area which was nice and flat and had no boundaries so no cramming everything into a square. The facilities were clean, tidy and modern and free hot showers which are a bonus. The top play area was really good and the kids loved the covered sandpit. There were other play areas near the bottom of the site which were all very good although slightly busier than the top one. The shop wasn't really much of a shop but there were vending machines dotted around for refreshments at very good prices. An ice-cream van came into the site regularly with some of the best and cheapest ice creams I've ever had from a van! A Sainsbury a short drive away, a Tesco express even closer an amazing chip shop next to it, huge tasty portions at very low prices. Highly recommend a visit to Abraham Heights and Gullivers Kingdom. There was one lad working at the site who seemed to do everything! Checked us in, maintained the pitches, did some of the on site activities and drove the tractor ride around the park, I can't remember his name but he was fantastic! He really should be working as a Red Coat at Butlins! Overall really enjoyed our stay and would like to come back again. Clean well maintained site in a stunning location with level pitches, plenty for kids to do and friendly staff. Perfect holiday site really. Worth taking the kids on an adventure around the park, there's so much to see.
We've been camping for years and love to go to Derbyshire. We decided last minute to go away for the weekend, the sites we normally go to were fully booked and we stumbled across this. We'd never heard of it before and we are so pleased we found it. In fact it's so lovely we booked another weekend away before we even left.
There are 2 main fields, the 'top field' and the 'bottom field' the bottom one is nearer the cafe, bar and children's play areas and the top one a bit quieter but still close to the amenities.
All of the staff we spoke to we absolutely lovely, the owners daughter who I think manages it is really nice, chatty and welcoming. Wardens are out and about all day you see them driving round checking pitches and emptying bins.
Bathroom and showers are very clean and well looked after and the water is hot! Even if the pressure is a bit low. Wash up areas are nice and there's a laundrette too but we didn't use that.
The play areas for the children are brilliant, there's a little boating lake and a fishing pond and they put up an inflatable climbing wall for the kids while we were there. There's a bar on site and is a nice addition.
Ripley is about 10 minutes in the car, we got a taxi in and it was about £5. 50.
I think the nicest thing about this site is it offers everything a large commercial site would, but it isn't a large commercial site, it's family run and you can feel their pride and love of the business in your stay.
After leaving it a bit late to book somewhere for the bank holiday weekend we came across golden valley it looked lovely so we rang up and managed to get in but it would be one the rally field just over the road they said. We agreed and when we got there everyone seemed to arrive at the same time so was a little wait but not too bad, all the staff was very helpful and friendly. So as we got directed to out 'pitch' on the rally field car park we got asked if we and any rock pegs? we didn't so they gave us some which was good but we wanted to be on the field where they said we would be but no the field was only for tents so we were very disappointed at having to pitch up on the car park. They locked the main gate at 7pm so any access to the main site was through the bottom gate which you had to walk back up the road with no path (not good with 2 children and a dog :-( with the amount they charge to stay here we didn't think this was acceptable.
Anyway now for the good bits :-) what a lovely site very picturesque, great for kids, lots to do with the parks, tractor rides, train rides, sand pit, bumper boats a climbing bouncy castle and a fishing lake. There's a bar with a kids disco. The toilet/shower block on the rally field had only just been finished the day we arrived and they were great the best I've very been in.
All in all this is a lovely site but if you are in a caravan I wouldn't recommend a pitch on the car park.
Please, please, please, do not be put off by any preconceptions that you may have about the town of Ripley, when considering this site. Ripley itself is a nice but not hugely attractive little town, with a perception of being tough, so needless to say I was a little disappointed when my wife told me she had booked a campsite there. How wrong can one man be (wives and girlfriends please do not answer that!)???
Golden Valley is set in a stunningly picturesque location, in the middle of a forest on the outskirts of Ripley. It is a large site with very good facilities (the showers are worthy of special mention here. No push button, very warm and clean). The layout of the site is such that there are plenty of great areas for both single tents or larger groups (we had 3 large tents and a caravan). BBQs are allowed, although the one downer is that firepits are not.
The staff are all lovely, and there is loads for the kids to do, with a couple of parks, quad bikes, bouncy castle stuff and a huge zip-wire (which I can strongly recommend).
This is a site that we will continue to return to in future years, with groups or just as a family for weekends.
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Shop On Site 
Bar On Site 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site 
Kids Playground 
TV Room 
Games Room 
Evening Entertainment 
Fishing On Site 
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Indoor Pool <1 mile 
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Horse Riding <5 miles 
No Cycle Hire 
Golf <1 mile 
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Public Transport <1 mile
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Wow what a weekend! the staff on site were great but the seasonal people made us feel more welcome! especially one person who is sited behind the sand pit, she was very busy with her own children but she watched my children on the play area while I was able to use the facilities, she also made time for me and told me lots of information about the site/area and local shops which I wasn't told much about on arrival! She also made us aware of the train rides and other things our children were able to do on site. 
