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Fantastic camping weekend at Elm Cottage during half term. The site is super clean and has the best grass quality I've ever seen at a campsite - the kids enjoyed running around barefoot! Loved it! Quality facilities with lots of hot water. Additionally what makes the site so special are all the extras and personal touches that the owners Jackie and James arrange for: we had Thai food stall, music band, games for kids, not to mention a snug room where you can plug in your hair dryers and straighteners or just chill out:-) Overall a fab campsite and we are already looking to book again in the summer!
What a fantastic site! Our first visit to the site and the area too on May Bank Holiday weekend to watch motor racing at Oulton Park. The owners Jackie and James were very welcoming and friendly. The site is right on the main road, so easy to find and no long and narrow road to traverse to get to it. Traffic noise was surprisingly unobtrusive. We had a lovely pitch in the touring field. There is also a large camping and rally field, which appeared to be very busy, but again, surprisingly, noise from it was also almost unnoticeable. Although there is a single toilet block (which also houses a laundry room and dishwashing facility) this again ran very smoothly, considering the number of campers on site. The best thing for me though was the cleanliness, especially of the toilet block! I have never been on a site where the toilets are so spotless - the owners are obviously putting their heart and soul into their site. We will definitely be returning.
Just spent a lovely weekend at this site, owners and staff were so helpful and friendly and couldn't do enough for us even lending us a screwdriver to fix one of our children's toys and they came round regularly on their bikes to check we were OK. There was a Thai meal available on site which was run by external caterers on the Saturday night which made a nice change from cooking although the portions could have been a little bigger for the money.
Pitch sizes are decent and although the site was full we didn't feel packed in and had plenty of space around us, noise levels were fine considering it was a busy weekend and we have two young children who had no problem sleeping.
Facilities are very clean, I even bumped into one of the owners cleaning the toilets at 1am that's dedication for you. They also have a very nice toddler room on site which was great for washing my two year old after he had spent considerable time digging in the dirt.
We also enjoyed a very pleasant meal at the Shrewsbury Arms which is within walking distance from the campsite and the site is perfectly located for both Chester Zoo and Oulton Park both of which we attended over the weekend.
There is a small shop on site offering camping essentials such as bacon, eggs, bread, milk which was really handy and bacon was very tasty.
We have just returned from a 3 night stay on this site. After being shown to our pitch( which was an all - weather pitch) we had a walk around the site. There was an indoor dishwashing area as well as an outdoor one, also there was a freezer for campers to use, and a nice little room called The Wee Snug to plug in hairdryers, straighteners etc, which was a thoughtful addition to the site. There is also a nice little dog walk around the edge of the site. The park says it has 35 pitches, but that is only for touring vans & motorhomes & does not take into account the camping field which holds a lot of tents and extra touring caravans etc, so this B\H with the weather being warm & sunny the 3 ladies showers, 1 private wash cubicle was not sufficient for the amount of people on the park. On the Sat eve they held an ' Elm Fest' with an outdoor Thai caterer followed by an open mic then last off a band. One of the Ts &Cs of the park is for people to not make any noise after 11pm so we were surprised that the band didn't finish playing ( quite loudly) until 11. 30 pm. Overall it was OK, the weather & the local area made it for us. If you like Haven holiday parks then this is for you, however if you are looking for a bit of relaxation then I wouldn't recommend going during busy Bank Hol times.
Well sign posted from the A54 and easy access onto the site.
We arrived mid-morning (by pre-arrangement), so we could make full use of the day and welcomed on arrival by the very friendly owners Jackie and James.
We had chosen an all-weather pitch which had plenty of space for the van, awning and car – hook up very nearby. The site is extremely well maintained, nicely mowed grass, flower tubs and even a help yourself herb box! The facilities are excellent, underfloor heated shower/toilet block, free showers and hairdryer. There is a wash up area, laundry and recycling area.
The site also has a great little shop, ideal for everyday essentials and ordering a newspaper. Also on site there is a small private collection of owls in which you are welcome to look around.
There is chargeable WIFI available; mobile phone reception (O2) was good.
Nearby is the small village of Little Budworth. It’s a good 20 – 25 minute walk (5 minute drive) where there are two excellent pubs. On our first evening we were going to walk, but due to bad weather booked a taxi to the Egerton Arms (cost of taxi £15 return). This is a great traditional pub with friendly staff and lively atmosphere. The menu is slightly limited to being pre-dominantly burgers (all homemade), with a couple of specials also available. Don’t let this put you off as the burgers were delicious!
The following day we visited the other pub in the village the Red Lion. Again, very traditional and cosy. We didn’t eat here, but probably will next time after looking at the menu. Good choice of pub classics.
That evening we took a 5 minute walk from the site along the A54 to the Shrewsbury Arms. Lovely little pub, friendly staff. Had a good pub meal.
All-in-all, a really lovely site, would highly recommend and we look forward to another visit soon.
Just back from a 3 night stay. First visit to this Park. Been to other sites in the area and this is as good as any we have been on. Not a big site but all facilities good and very clean. A small shop on site with a few essential provisions.
An unusual feature is a small owl sanctuary on site in a very pleasant little garden area. Also a free air pump installed for topping up car/caravan tyres. Overall would recommend this site for long or short stay to explore the surrounding Cheshire countryside.
Booked here as wanted to be close to the Oulton Park race track. We were greeted by one of the new owners, who was lovely and polite and happy, she gave us a quick run down of the campsite, she gave us a map of how to get to the track via a safe footpath, which is not for the infirm! but we enjoyed a walk through the woods and over stiles etc. Anyway, back to the site, Its well laid out and very well looked after. We were pitch no 1 in the touring field, less than a 20 second walk from the amenity block. The toilets were clean, warm and well looked after. The showers hot, clean & free, there was a lovely indoor dishwashing area, as well as an outside one for heavier items like bbq's cookers etc. They also included a freezer for your iceblocks! great when camping! there was also a laundry with a washer and dryer, at a very reasonable cost - great touch. The owl sanctuary was a lovely touch and it was really lovely to look at the birds. The site is a very peaceful quiet site, so you wouldn't get your late night camping parties here. The New owners are lovely, we cannot wait to go and stay here again for the next bike meet. Great pub (shrewsbury arms) down the road which do lovely food and are really well priced (4 of us ate mains & a few drinks for £77. 00) Beware- they stop serving food at 8pm on a sunday! however. The local Chinese will deliver to the campsite! there's also a a tyre pressure machine on site, clean drinking water facilities, waste water facilities and chemical toilet facilities. There are a couple of rooms ( the barn & the snug) available for hire, but would recommend they open these in the evenings for people to go sit it and chat on the colder evenings. Because its such a lovely site the guests are very respectful of the facilities and the area which is great.
We looked for a site near to Oulton Park Raceway and seriously looked at three. This was the dearest, but it also had the type of facilities we wanted.
On arrival, we were greeted by a lady in the reception and booked in with no problems. She is very friendly and made us feel welcome. Pitches are numbered, so with our motorhome, we could leave the site and come back to the same spot.
We opted for a grass pitch with EHU at £23. 50p per night. Our pitch may have been grass, but the wheel tracks were solid gravel. This made it easy to park and took away any danger of getting stuck if we had heavy rain. We were given a map of the site with our pitch circled and asked if we wanted papers for the morning. The shop, although very small and in the reception, had the few essentials including local bread (mmmmm!).
Although child friendly, it is not really a site if your kids have to have things prepared for them. No club, no amusements and no swings and slides. That made it perfect for the two of us. The kids that were there played outside and respected others privacy.
One of the things we did think was a lovely touch was the Owl Garden! I don't know the story behind the owls, but there they are in aviaries in a small, private garden. Although private, the site have a sign on the gate encouraging people, kids included to go take a look. Again, the kids here that we saw, even without adults in the garde, were great and no problem to the owls.
The toilet block is probably one of the best we have ever seen! Geothermal and solar powered, fully insulated and heated. Best thing though, no matter what time of day you went in, they were always spotless. Because of the way they were kept, it would seem that everyone who used them for showers, washing or the toilet facilities, respected the block.
When we arrived, we did mention that we were going to Oulton Park. We asked about the possibility of walking and they produced a map and marked out a safe and beautiful walk through the country park.
This site has taps for fresh water and a drain for grey waste. The drain is well designed and makes the task of getting rid of your old washing up water very easy. There is a small area built into the block for emptying toilet waste. It is well designed and easy to use, there is even a shelf for the toilet tank cap, so you don't lose it down the drain.
There is also a motorhome service area. Park the van on it and open the drain taps and away goes the water, grey and clean! Obviously the Black waste goes in the toilet area disposal. There are also taps for filling with fresh water.
So to sum this stay up? Brilliant. Great staff, great site, great facilities and they even kept the good weather there for us! Would we go back? A resounding yes from us both!
We found this site to be very welcoming and the staff very friendly. The site is quiet, well kept and clean and caters for all types of campers. Ideally situated to visit the Cheshire countryside (Chester 20 minutes away by car), with a very good gastro-pub within 500 metres. There are many National Trust sites in the area within easy reach, for the kids there's an Ice Cream Farm and Theme Pa
We have just returned from a lovely weekend at Elm Cottage Touring Park, the experience start to finish was excellent.
Our check-in was met by a couple of wardens and the lady in the shop. The lady in the shop was a little impersonal, but hey you can't knock people's individuality and their personalities - everyone is different, and she wasn't unpleasant. The wardens were excellent, chatty and very personable, and buzz around the site on a Segway (which is REALLY cool!)
We'd booked in with my parents, pitch 24 and 25, and the site had no objection with us swapping so our 2 year old daughter would only run onto our pitch, and not a random neighbour.
The pitches are excellent in size, but the course underneath is exceptionally hard. We ended up buying some pile-driver pegs from the site shop to get through. No issues if you've already got them, but we didn't. These were exceptionally reasonably priced at £13 for 20. Once pegged out, we were set and had a little explore of the owl garden - which is a beautiful touch to the site.
The pitches were good location - close to the amenities block (but they all are). The amenities block is excellent. Geothermal space and underfloor heating, and powered by Solar - not only is it well kept and tidy, it's also environmentally friendly. The Chemical Toilet disposal is also brilliant, a side room with a shelf for your screw cap, and tiled edging around the bowl. A lot of thought has gone into every aspect of the site.
Location is excellent, so 10/10
Site Facilities are lacking in something for kids - it doesn't claim to have them though, so a 9/10 for not having anything, but not lower because they don't claim to have one.
Value For Money - was perfect. 10/10
Customer Service I can't fault - 10/10
Child Friendliness - 8/10 because of a lack of anything to do, per-se (not lower because of the Owl Garden).
Overall Rating 9/10.
Excellent work Elm Cottage, keep doing what you're doing and we'll be back! Thanks
Just had a weekend at Elm Cottage. This is a nice site, very clean and well maintained. Shower blocks are clean, the showers are the push button kind. I did think at first the water pressure in the showers was poor but then I heard a pump kick in and there was plenty of pressure. There is a garden that has some owls in aviaries to look at. Plenty of information/leaflets at the reception.
The Shrewsbury Arms is 400 yds down the road and I had a couple of pints of real ale which were nice. We ordered some food, I had a ploughmans lunch and my wife had scampy and chips in a basket. We were a bit disappointed with the food to be honest although it wasn't expensive.
The only down side to this site for us was the traffic noise. We were on pitch 13 (unlucky for some) which is at the very top end of the site with a wardens pitch next to it and then the site boundary to the A54. The A54 is a very busy road with national speed limit. Traffic is passing all day and night and I was woken a couple of times by articulated lorries thundering past in the early hours.
We did have a nice relaxing weekend but the traffic noise did spoil it for us and that would put us off going to this site again as there are quieter sites in the same area.
Not the kind of place we would normally stay at especially bearing in mind the price but we needed somewhere near Delamere for the weekend. Had we done our homework we could have stayed the pub nearby for half the price but without showers. Not a problem if you use your van. I really cant understand why its so expensive but alas we paid for a one off.
Good points:
Clean facilities
Clean tidy site
Nice place for small families for a night or weekend.
Handy for Winsford or Delamere Forrest
Good pub nearby 5 minute walk
Site shop selling essentials
Not so good points:
Adjacent to a busy road
Expensive pitches, £27 per night (noisy pitch 15 next to site road)
Five pound a day internet is an obvious liberty as it costs less at home for a month. Its free at the pub.
Power lines and pylons for a view overhead not so nice
Been past this site hundreds of times and, seeing as we left it late to get a pitch for the bank holiday, we decided to give it a go. Really pleasantly surprised with how clean and well organised the site is. We got pitch no 1 which had just been vacated and the grass was almost bowling green standard. My wife and I took our daughter (15) and her friend with us and they're really wasn't much to keep them entertained (apart from watching us trying to suss out the awning without any instructions!) However, the birds of prey were impressive and the rally field made a perfect place for the Frisbee. A worthy mention are the shower facilities with heated floor - excellent! My daughter picked up a menu for a local Chinese takeaway (Winsford) which was open on the bank holiday Monday and very good it was too (about 5 mins from site by car, near to Tesco Express) We enjoyed our 2 days very much!
We've just spent a weekend at Elm Cottage, and enjoyed our stay. We're still relatively new to caravanning, and this was the furthest we've travelled for a weekend trip from our home in Hull.
We were visiting Coronation Street The Tour in Manchester, and found this site online. It was around a forty minute drive to the attraction from the caravan park.
We chose a pitch with water, electricity, drainage, picnic bench and dustbin. We only use super pitches, as our caravan as an onboard water tank, so it's the only way we do it really. The pitch had everything we needed, but was closer to the adjacent pitches than we've had before. Not a major problem, as it was a very quiet site. We ourselves have children, but we're always respectful of others, and don't let them run disturbs others. There wasn't any playground facilities, but we let them play with a football on the Rally field, as no ball games are allowed on the touring field. Understandable rule, as I wouldn't want kids kicking balls near our caravan.
I didn't use the facilities as I showered and used our own caravan toilet for the weekend, but my Wife said the on site facilities were good.
The site was very well kept and tidy, and it was useful having a dustbin on the pitch itself.
The owners were friendly on our arrival, giving us a site plan to find out pitch. The touring field is compact, with low level lighting around the site.
There is a pub not far away, but we never visited it, but it was certainly within walking distance.
Very nice small site, complete with Owl sanctuary.
Our first site visited and we went back.
Clean n tidy toilet block owners were always around, small shop on site, daily papers had to be ordered.
Well looked after site clean and tidy.
Only down side was 10amp electric.
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Tent Pitches 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
Rallies Welcome 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Motorbikers Welcome 
Toilet Facilities 
Hot Showers 
Washing Up 
No Bathroom 
Baby Changing Facilities 
Laundry On Site 
Drinking Water 
Disabled Friendly 
Chemical Disposal 
No Battery Charging 
Gas Exchange 
Recycling Facilities 
No Kitchen Facilities 
Freezer / Fridge 
Motorhome Point 
Wifi Access 
Shop On Site 
Bar <1 mile 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile 
Kids Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
Fishing <5 miles 
Wild Swimming <5 miles 
Indoor Pool <5 miles 
No Outdoor Pool 
Horse Riding <5 miles 
Cycle Hire <5 miles 
Golf <5 miles 
No Tennis 
No Beach 
Watersports <10 miles 
Boat Launch / Mooring <5 miles 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
Open All Year 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <5 miles
Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access 
Fantastic camping weekend at Elm Cottage during half term. The site is super clean and has the best grass quality I've ever seen at a campsite - the kids enjoyed running around barefoot! Loved it! Quality facilities with lots of hot water. Additionally what makes the site so special are all the extras and personal touches that the owners Jackie and James arrange for: we had Thai food stall, music band, games for kids, not to mention a snug room where you can plug in your hair dryers and straighteners or just chill out:-) Overall a fab campsite and we are already looking to book again in the summer! 
