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Our second stay at this site and whilst we enjoyed our stay and the dog walking facilities, I'm sad to report that the washrooms are looking a bit shabby with missing toilet seat (surely its not a toilet if you can't use it?) and a lack of bleach, or the environmentally friendly equivalent, for the loo. They were cleaned daily but only with mild detergent with the resultant staining.
Beware of the pitches nearest the toilets as they get flooded. After two hours of moderate rain we returned to find the pitch hard standing under water and as we had the awning up, it caused quite a mess with about 4' of grey/muddy water covering the awning matting. You had to wear wellingtons as it was too deep for shoes. We moved pitch and although not as bad, it still flooded after heavy rain. I suspect a problem with drainage.
On the plus side, the washrooms are good to use with all facilities in one room. The shop/cafe is just as good and very friendly staff.
We'd have put up with the issues around the washrooms, but the flooding did cause problems and could have resulted in water damage to our personal effects.
We arrived around lunch time to begin our 5 night stay. Willow House was very easy to find from directions. Check in was quick and easy. There is a small area for Caravan Club members as you enter the park. The reception is well marked. Before entering the main park there is a farmshop and cafe. You are given a code for the barrier. There were quite a few caravans on an orderly site. Camping was at the end. We did not have electric hook up so could go a bit further from the caravans.
We were the only tent for a couple of nights. We found Willow House very peaceful. You could hear road noise in the far distance.
The facilities were at the beginning of the Park so was a bit of a walk past all the caravans. There were 4 bathrooms with Shower, Toilet and Basin. There was one chair in each and all were quite spacious. There are 2 separate toilets. A wash up area was at one end of the facility block. I see on the website there is a laundry but we were not told about this on checking in, luckily I had no intention of doing a wash.
The whole park was kept neat and tidy, bathrooms very clean, would have preferred all of the toilet seats to have a lid, to put extras as some hooks were broken. Lots of people had dogs, there was a dog walk but lots of caravaners walked through the tents with the dogs. The site seemed mainly set up for caravans.
We used the cafe for a breakfast, it was very good, the cafe was very clean, coffee very good.
Outside the Park is a bus into York (number 40) which took about 8 minutes. It came at 42 mins past the hour and was £3. 20 return. Much cheaper than £2. 40 per hour parking in York. Return time was 05 mins past the hour, last bus at 7. 05pm. Parking in York after 6pm was £2 until midnight.
York itself is fabulous, I loved all the narrow little streets, very old buildings, different squares with beautiful buildings, lots of independent shops and coffee shops. Lots of places to eat. We visited the Georgian House owned by the Fairfax family. The staff are very knowledgeable about the house and made it all the more interesting.
We visited York Air Museum, probably about 15 minute drive. Very interesting. Quite emotional reading individual stories.
We spent a day in Harrogate, about 30 mins away. Had a lovely lunch in Le Deli in Beulah Street (the toilets were up a large flight of stairs). We stopped to view a battle site on Marston Moor (on the road to Tockwith) of the English civil war, Easy to imagine it with the detail of the battle on the site. I found it very atmospheric.
There is a Tesco just a few minute drive from the site.
I would recommend Willow House as it is an Adult only site which is nice during the summer holidays and more so York itself.
A fairly small site that as far as I can see is split into three sections the first is a CL site for Caravan club members, secondly there are the camping pods and thirdly the main body of the caravan site, given over to what looks like people who leave their van here for longer periods, resulting in most of the park being very quiet.
There is a shop on site selling limited provisions and an attached café, for hot food and snacks, both close at 4pm. On a Friday the side of the café becomes a takeout selling fish and chips they are well worth a try.
The site is long and thin resulting in an avenue of vans; we were down the bottom of the site and had to walk the full length of the site for showers and to empty the waste, not ideal. The showers or wet rooms were very large and free to use with a controllable electric shower, these and the toilets were very clean and well kept.
The site boasts an electric link up it was not fully serviced with standpipes offering water and grey waste drain below this. You cannot link your van to the water supply. The water pressure was also quite low for a site this size and our drain was blocked.
This is not a quiet site during the day with constant traffic noise in the background, only broken by little boy racers, bikers and ambulances.
Around about there are numerous things to do and see with plenty of large name shops and outlet stores. Eating can be done in the on site café or at the shopping outlets, there is no local pub. Use the park and ride for York it’s great.
Will I go back? Because of the lack of serviced sites, only one toilet/shower block for approx. 30 vans, sorry No.
We tried to book the CL site but it was full and were offered a pitch on the main site. We stayed for three nights during the second week of Easter.
We found the warden helpful and courteous. The site is clean, well maintained and has a country feel to it. The pitches are well spaced and we managed to park near the shower block. The showers and toilets are new, heated, clean and efficient. Lovely dog walk at the end of the site with a small pond and it leads onto public paths. There is a farm shop/cafe and we had lunch there twice. Reasonable price and good quality.
We had a look at the CL site and would have been quite happy there although it is closer to the road noise.
One of the better sites we have stayed on and will return.
We stayed here for our first trip in our camper as it was close to home.
Friendly welcome from the warden, told us about the farm shop and bus service into York. Stayed on the main site, facilities were clean and modern. Only negative would be no sanitary bags in these facilities to encourage users not to flush down toilets and causing them to block.
Nice walk along river into Wiggington from back of site. An excellent bus service into York from the end of the road. Little road noise during the night, but overall a good first trip out.
Lovely site stayed on the c l pitch, bus stop just outside site, to york £3. 10 return per adult. Farm shop with lovely café. Good little dog walk bottom of site. Shopping centre 5 mins down the road. With tesco and a host of restaurants Showers 50 pence, a little road noise could be heard but didn't really bother us, helpful warden, will visit again :)))
We spent 7 nights here and enjoyed every moment, there are 2 small ponds at the back of the site by the tent pitches, and it is free to fish them, there is a bus stop just outside the site where you can get a bus to York at £3.20 return which is cheaper than the car parks in York, toilet block is quite a walk from the tent pitches, but we took a portable loo so that wasn't a problem, the toilet and shower block were spotless and the best I have seen on a campsite, there is a shop/cafe on site the shop was reasonable but the cafe is a bit on the expensive side, If you have a car there is every shop you can think of in the area.
The site looks mainly geared up for touring caravans some of which are seasonal but everybody seemed to be very friendly especially Eric and Maxine who have a seasonal caravan and always stopped for a chat, the owners of the site were also very friendly and helpful.
We enjoyed it so much that we intend to go back and spend another week there in august.
This is the second time we have been to this site located just on the edge of York (10 min drive, bus stop just outside front gate). The first thing to note is this is an adults only site so if you have kids read no further, on the flip side if you want a very peaceful site then read on.
The site is very easy to find, just off the ring road around York and very easy access for caravans. The driveway up to the site is suffering a bit and could do with some TLC as its a bit pot holey.
Booking in at reception was straight forward although it is worth noting that they currently don't accept card payment although it was hinted that this was on the books to be done soon. Once paid you go through the electric barrier and pick your own pitch, all the van pitches are hard standing and have power and water points shared between 4 pitches.
The facilities block is just as you enter the site along with grey and black water disposal point. The toilet block is brand new this year and is a huge improvement on the previous ones which still are in use but are so far away they really only service the CL pitches and the entrance to the site. The design of the block is good in the fact they have built it with 4 full shower rooms each with toilet and sink and an additional couple of toilets on the end. They were cleaned regularly and had a plentiful supply of hot water and free to use electric shower.
The site is a long narrow site with the road going round the outside edge and all the pitches inside the road. There is loads of space between pitches even with awnings up, its not full of bushes and trees to pretty it up it is very practically laid out this give the site a good sense of space and with no risk of stray footballs hitting your prize caravan it all works really well.
The local area has two large retail parks only a five minute drive away with each having a large supermarket on them. The site has a farm shop and cafe on it, the produce is local, not cheap but comparable to any good farm shop.
Points that are not so positive, We were pitched about a third of the way up and every so you would get a whiff of the septic tank, you would also get it sometimes walking to the toilet block.
Would we visit this site again? Yes without hesitation
Camping in October! You must be mad was the most common response! Undeterred we booked 4 nights at Willow House Caravan Park.
On arrival we found out that we were indeed the only campers at the site, which was fine as we had the pick of the pitches.
The tent area turned out to be approximately 250 meters from the shower block, to be honest had I realised this before booking the site it would have put me off. In addition the tent area had no lighting which basically meant that by 7pm the tent was plunged into complete darkness and the thought of the walk to the toilet block was enough to make a grown man cry!
The toilet block was spotless up to the 3rd day when the wet grass was cut and not picked up. As a result the tent and the showers were covered in wet grass making the whole place look and feel dirty.
There was no light over the dish washing facilities which again caused difficulties when trying to wash up after 7pm (not an unreasonable thing to be doing when you are on holiday!)
It did feel like campers are the lowest priority at Willow House, there is a new 'Glamping Site' being heavily promoted and the positioning of the shower block is primarily to meet the needs of the Camping Pods.
We ended up having to run our car with the headlights on to get some light to cook at night, the caravan pitches and the Glamping Pods all had sufficient light, it was a bit annoying to be plunged into darkness.
Overall if you are in a Caravan or using the Camping Pods this site is probably ok, however for campers the site failed to meet the basic needs of most campers.
On the plus side, the camp is well positioned with easy access to York and the surrounding area.
Just to say a very quiet and relaxing place just for adult ideal large pitches. Good location for York lots of near by activities. Facilities are a nice clean shower block water and electric hook ups. Lovely grass areas to chill on a summer evening. Staff very friendly, they said we could leave when we wanted as no one was coming to our pitch a lovely lady. We will be back.
Ideal for York and surrounding area, Castle Howard And The Lavender Farm fab scones and really cheap. Try the lavender ice cream so yummy
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Tent Pitches 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
No Fully Serviced Pitches 
Adults Only 
Not Members Only 
Rallies Welcome 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Toilet Facilities 
Hot Showers 
Washing Up 
No Bathroom 
No Baby Changing 
Laundry On Site 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
Gas Exchange 
Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
No Freezer / Fridge 
No Motorhome Point 
No Wifi Access 
Shop <5 miles 
Bar <5 miles 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site 
No Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
No Fishing 
No Wild Swimming 
Indoor Pool <5 miles 
No Outdoor Pool 
No Horse Riding 
No Cycle Hire 
Golf <5 miles 
Tennis <5 miles 
No Beach 
No Watersports 
No Boat Launch 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
Open All Year 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport 
No Dog Walk 
Our second stay at this site and whilst we enjoyed our stay and the dog walking facilities, I'm sad to report that the washrooms are looking a bit shabby with missing toilet seat (surely its not a toilet if you can't use it?) and a lack of bleach, or the environmentally friendly equivalent, for the loo. They were cleaned daily but only with mild detergent with the resultant staining. 
