Reviews of Chalmersquoy Campsite

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Who's it for
Families Welcome	Not Members Only	No Rallies	Not Naturist Site
Dogs Welcome	No Dogs Allowed	Groups Welcome	Motorbikers Welcome
Facilities
Toilet Facilities	Hot Showers	Washing Up	No Bathroom
No Baby Changing	Laundry On Site	Drinking Water	Disabled Friendly
Chemical Disposal	Battery Charging	No Gas Exchange	Recycling Facilities
Kitchen Facilities	Freezer / Fridge	Motorhome Point
Shop <1 mile	Bar <1 mile	Restaurant <1 mile	Wifi Access
Activities
No Playground	No TV Room	No Games Room	No Evening Ents
Fishing <1 mile	Wild Swimming <1 mile	Indoor Pool <1 mile	No Outdoor Pool
No Horse Riding	Cycle Hire <1 mile	Golf <1 mile	Tennis <1 mile
Beach <1 mile	Watersports <1 mile	Boat Launch / Mooring <1 mile
Other Features
Sea Views	Not Working Farm	Campfires Allowed	Open All Year
No Waterside Pitches	Public Transport On Site	No Dog Walk

Coronavirus Update

Our site is opening in line with government guidance and we are taking bookings for arrivals from 15/07/2020 onwards , please be assured you can book with confidence

For peace of mind of our customers and staff, we have decided to restrict our communal areas and this may include toilet and shower facilities. Please contact us for full details of what facilities are available.

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Date of Visit: July 2019	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Nights stayed: 1	Travelling as:  Mature couple
Reviewer: R Abbitt	8 reviews from this member
Lovely site with good facilities in attractive stone buildings. Great communal kitchen / lounge. Westray is lovely, even in the rain. Recommend the Noup Head walk!  via mobile

Date of Visit: May 2019	Unit:  Touring Caravan	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Child friendliness: Overall:
Nights stayed: 4	Travelling as:  Retired couple
Reviewer: Johngillie	1 review from this member
Michael and Teenie are the perfect hosts, friendly and very helpful. The site is maintained to a high standard and the facilities are excellent. Value for money, you won't get any better. The islanders are also very friendly. Jack's Fish & Chips, available weds & Sat night are super and they also sell fresh fish Mon to Sat from the same unit. Had smoked haddock and that was tasty and so fresh. Cannot recommend the site and island highly enough.  via mobile

Date of Visit: April 2019	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Child friendliness: Overall:
Nights stayed: 2	Travelling as:  Retired couple
Reviewer: Fyn van	1 review from this member
Small friendly and very tidy campsite run by extremely helpful owners. Teenie gave a lovely welcome and took time to give a lot of helpful information about the area. We loved it.  via mobile

Date of Visit: May 2017	Unit:  Campervan	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Reviewer: Lenandlou	10 reviews from this member
What a great place. OK so we were lucky with the weather, but this is a lovely site at a reasonable price. There is a comfortable camper's kitchen, clean facilities, and no end of conversation with other visitors and owner Michael. We had fish and chips delivered (scallops recommended), and went on a lovely guided tour (Westraak) under new management. This was a lovely mix of nature and history, with a super lunch, and outstanding value. Will never forget this one.

Date of Visit: June 2017	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Reviewer: Ascadding	1 review from this member
Orkney hospitality at its best. We arrived at Chalmersquoy less a Heiki rooflite which had collapsed earlier in a pile of sharp shards. We had bought some materials to make a patch, and asked if we might borrow a ladder. Instead, Michael brought a fork lift and a pallet, temporary repair accomplished. Following morning we asked whether there was someone who might sell us some plywood to make a stronger job of it, and we were told that Michael's father John (who had been up at 4am in order to launch a boat) was coming to sort it out. And he did. Our weekend on Westray was saved, and we had the great pleasure of getting to know more about the warm Westray community than otherwise we would. For the campsite, brilliant facilities, close to amazing fish'n'chip shop and the Pierowall Hotel whose Westray Crab is beyond praise. There is a seal colony about 400 yards from the campsite, and a wealth of bird life. Islanders wave to each other and to visitors as they drive along. So worth the journey.

Date of Visit: May 2017	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Child friendliness: Overall:
Reviewer: Black Country Man	1 review from this member
Well here goes for being on the our first review. We chose this site because of the positive reviews seen here and we were definitely not disappointed. Chalmersquoy is situated in the ideal position on the island being on the way into Pierowall which is the largest town and more or less the geographic centre of Westray. We were greeted with a guided tour and a very useful chat about wjat to do and see during our stay and nothingwas too much trouble for the owners. At £19 a night for the camper, two adults, two dogs and a hook up it is very reasonable and although tere are only two (free) showers and two toilets they were spotless. I could go on for ages about the joys of the site, the town and the island but I will let you discover those for yourself. I can't really score child friendliness as ours no longer holiday with us but we gave it a score of 10 based on the welcome our dogs received. We will definitely be back.

Date of Visit: August 2015	Unit:  Campervan	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Child friendliness: Overall:
Reviewer: Mel2588	1 review from this member
What a wonderful welcome we received from both Teenie and Michael for our 3 night stay here at Chalmersquoy. The campsite is so well situated in Pierowall for touring the island. The facilities are well maintained. The campers kitchen has been mentioned in previous review and was useful and well equipped. There is secure storage for bikes, complete with bike racks in the out buildings. Wifi is available along with a shelter and cushions so campers can access the net or emails in comfort. As hosts Michael and Teenie could not have been more accommodating offering pick ups for some campers and offering their own laundry facility when there was a rush on the site ones. On Tuedsdays during the summer there are concerts hosted by the Harcus family in the Graand Owld Byre and we had a superb evening of music which ranged from Scottish bagpipes and small pipes through Johny Cash songs, traditional fiddle music to contemporary music written by the younger members of the family themselves. Westray has much to offer the visitor with well appointed shops in Pierowall, lovely galleries and the wheeling Steen cafe and gallery is well worth a visit. If you visit in the summer there is the archelogical dig to visit at the Links of Notland. Hume Sweet Hume for designer knitwear and an excellent heritage centre. All in all a wonderful place to stay.

Date of Visit: July 2015	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Nights stayed: 7	Travelling as:  Mature couple
Reviewer: Ridgebacksontour	11 reviews from this member
Our second visit to this delightful site. On arrival we were greeted warmly by the owners and made to feel most welcome. We were then given a choice of pitches ( seven of which are now hardstanding, a much better option for the heavier motorhome). The facilities were, as before, absolutely spotless and the shower is still activated by the recycling pound. The washing machine is not coin operated but relies upon the honesty of the user who should pay £2 when next one sees an owner. There is now, each Tuesday a musical event in the Old Byre, very popular with locals & visitors alike. There is not a fixed entry fee but a suggested donation, if memory serves me right, of £5. During the interval there is tea & coffee plus a generous selection of homebakes. Jack's Chippy, a short stroll away is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays serving superb fish plus a variety of other takeaway meals. Seals were in abundance this visit, just by standing on the roadside we were within 20 feet of them. So too were the Puffins at Castle o'Burrian. Noup Head lighthouse whilst not open to visitors is worth the tortuous drive from Noltland. A narrow winding unmade road will take you here. We managed it in 9 metre tag axle & it was woth it for the views each way. Noltland Castle is very impressive and substantial building with free entry. The two shops in the village are well stocked with plenty of local produce-Westray strong cheddar being a particularly good find. This lovely site on a beautiful island has to be recommended most heartily.

Date of Visit: June 2015	Unit:  Tent	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Reviewer: Hrosel	1 review from this member
We stayed for three nights and had a fantastic time. There is so much to see in the local area in early summer; including puffins, seals, and all the farm animals you could wish for! We took the ferry over to Papa Westray for a day trip, as well as doing various walks around Westray itself. The campsite is really centrally located, with buses linking to the ferry from the mainland making travel to and from the site straightforward. The owners were really friendly and very happy to lend out maps / binoculars / lifts / helpful advice! There was also a huge range of kitchenware in the campers' kitchen- you could literally cook a three course dinner if you wanted! Only complaint is that the kitchen and bathroom were a bit cold.

Date of Visit: July 2014	Unit:  Motorhome	Rating: Rating Breakdown: Location: Facilities: Customer Service: Value for money: Overall:
Reviewer: Ridgebacksontour	11 reviews from this member
A little gem. The owners are so friendly and helpful. We stayed for three nights and will certainly return again. The facilities are a recent conversion from farm buildings and were spotlessly clean. All the pitches are grass though the one we had did have some hardcore beneath the grass, we were offered this pitch due to the size of my 'van and it proved a wise choice as it made ingress & egress to the site very easy. Pierowall is a lovely coastal village with a hotel that serves food ( no real ale unfortunately) and is dog friendly in the public bar. There are two very traditional general stores but neither are licensed. For 'drink' you need to go to the third store on the island some five or six miles away. Head back towards the ferry terminal and watch out for the sign on the left for Peters Shop. There is also a fresh fish shop that twice a week becomes a chippy in the evening, watch out for the seals basking close by on the rocks as you take the short walk there. We had the best Cod there that we've had in a long time. Noltland Castle is nearby (free entry)and is well worth a visit. For dog owners there are plenty of sandy bays to let them run on. Along the road to the airport is a gallery with some fantastic prints in various sizes depicting local views and landmarks. It also sells excellent coffee and homebakes. The pace of life here is akin to the mainland forty years ago, all the locals as they drive about wave to one another and visitors alike-and in three days I don't think that I got over 35mph but for some reason it didn't seem to matter. If I seem to be waxing lyrical about Westray, the site, the people and everything about the place its because its deserved. Brilliant, just brilliant.

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