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Camping in North Wales near the coast recommendations please

32 replies

EmEyeHi · 25/02/2011 22:08

Have spent the last 10 years at Mother Iveys Bay (up to 5 weeks a year) in Cornwall but this year fancy a change Shock. Really looking for something similar in North Wales - fairly quiet, walking distance to the coast with very clean facilities.

Have scoured the internet but seem a bit out of touch and not knowing the area feel possibly a little.....frightened??!!....... of trying something new.

Suppose advice of where not to go would be useful too.

Thanks.

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moondog · 25/02/2011 22:11

Riverside Camping is very nice and immaculate .

moondog · 25/02/2011 22:16

Aberafon is more rural.

EmEyeHi · 25/02/2011 22:28

moondog - both of those look just the ticket. Oooh - am getting excited at the prospect now. Do you recommend booking way ahead or would there be the possibility of getting a pitch a couple of weeks before?

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moondog · 25/02/2011 22:30

I'm not sure to be honest. I'm not a camper myself. I am just familiar with them as pass them regularly and know the (very nice) people who run the first.

thatsnotmymonster · 25/02/2011 22:31

any campsites around abersoch. That area is really lovely. Have stayed in a couple of campsites there but can't remember their names- will google and see if it helps!

thatsnotmymonster · 25/02/2011 22:34

You could try The Willows, Abersoch.

Have a look here

SlubberKongWubba · 25/02/2011 22:48

Thatsnotmymonster I was looking at The Willows today for May half term

You won't accept families with more than 2 dc, no problem for us but rules out our friends who we go with who have 3. I've never come across a site restricting number of children before.

It's off my list anyway.

SlubberKongWubba · 25/02/2011 22:49

Sorry that should be THEY not you.

Unlessnyou are the owner.....
Wink

EmEyeHi · 25/02/2011 23:06

The Willows looks lovely too (only have 2 dc). Am thinking am going to be spoiled for choice. Hopefully, will have the opportunity to sample more than one site over the season.

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thatsnotmymonster · 26/02/2011 09:44

WHAT!!! That is ridiculous! I have 3 dc so naturally I am outraged Shock Seriously, I really think that is terrible and discriminatory (sp?)

And no I am definitely not the owner Grin

PerArduaAdNauseum · 27/02/2011 16:41

Was just looking at the Willows and thinking yy all looks good, none of us have more than 2 kids...

'Individual tent bookings which on arrival constitute a group booking will be asked to leave'

Shock

So, they want retired people in motorhomes, and quiet child-free shaggers in their hobbit pods - yes?

Oh, and it sounds like the play area is just that - an area. Where children are permitted to play. So they don't disturb the retirees and eco-shaggers.

[shudder]

nenevomito · 27/02/2011 16:44

We've been to and can recommend Conwy touring park. There are good facilities for children there including indoor play areas for little ones, middle sized ones and teenagers. Considering it rained 5 days out of the 7 we were there, it was a godsend!

RoyalWelsh · 27/02/2011 16:49

www.blackthornleisure.co.uk/

Here is nice if you don't want hook up. The toilet facilities are lovely, and they have a small shop on site, which is handy because it is about two and a half miles of windy coastal road to the nearest village. Umm, what else. They do breakfast in the mornigns after about 9.15 (they are a B and B as well) and they have a BBQ on Saturday evenings as well as Fish and Chips on Friday evenings.

The only thing I would say is that itmigh tbe a little cliquey? I know that they have a large seasonal list, but if it's a family holiday you are looking for then maybe that wouldn't be a problem.

SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 17:15

PerArdua yes [shudder indeed] and you can't have tents that look like this or like this and you can't have any electricity either you tent people.

Why don't they just say it's an adults only site for caravans and motorhomes?

Bizarre

SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 17:19

No boules or swearing either so that totally rules us out as we are fucking boules nuts.

bigTillyMint · 27/02/2011 17:24

moondog that Aberafon site is the one I went to when I was in Guides, the hot summer of '76 - very happy memoriesSmile

EmEyeHi · 27/02/2011 18:31

Mmmmmm - too many rules one thinketh - didn't look into them - has anyone been to The Willows?

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moondog · 27/02/2011 21:11

OOh, it would have been perfect Till!

Slubber, are you the Slubber of yore?

SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 21:12

Yes, tis me moony.

moondog · 27/02/2011 21:14

Ah. How are you? Smile
Any more camping on t' horizon?
It's warming up nicely here.

SlubberKongWubba · 27/02/2011 21:29

I am very well thank you Smile and yourself?

We are over in Sarn Meyllteyrn at Easter (cottage not tent) so may well pay your crab man a visit. Then possibly back your way for Whit half term. Can't wait, am having Porth Oer pangs.

Envy at warming up. Was freezing here today. hail and everything.

moondog · 27/02/2011 22:23

Ooh, very nice indeed.
I couldn't get my winter lobsters as they were snowed in (as were we) although they charmingly offered to sledge them 1/2 mile to the road. That's service for you eh?!

Hail?!
Blimey.
Sunny today, crocuses out, daffodils dancing, lilly of the valley everywhere. Beautiful.

SalandersBro · 27/02/2011 22:38

there's good camping to be had at Tudweilliog, near the Lion. campsite just near the sea. Tud is just out of Aberdaron and the end of the peninsula.

kangers · 27/02/2011 22:45

I think you need to find somewhere near Ty Coch Inn at Morfa Nefyn on Lyn peninsular. Great child friendly bay and sheltered. 10 mins across peninsular to Abersoch and Pwllheli

TheWillows · 02/04/2011 22:06

You are right, we advertise as a site suitable for small families and couples.

This means small families, we limit the number of children as from years of experience large numbers of children and groups of families are not conducive to being quiet: no matter how nice the children and parents are, and yes we do advertise as a quiet site. We have children ourselves so don't presume. Yes we have a play area away from the tents and caravans, we say we do! Who wants a cricket ball hitting their caravan, or their head?

As to s* in hobbits, what a silly comment, are your tents and caravans sex free?

We are a small site, unsuitable for large gatherings of families and groups.

Some sites are families only, do not accept dogs, single sex couples or under 25's, the list is endless; these sites have their restrictions as we have ours.

In fact nearly all the sites around here are families only, no couples, no dogs.

We do take families, we do take single sex couples, we do take dogs. We just limit the number.

Those of you who have commented with 'disgust' are not our target market, there are plenty of other sites around to suit you.

Large tents: we are not alone, most sites these days refuse large tents, some are 12m in length, they ruin the grass damage pitches making them unsuitable for future bookings.

The average age of our guests is 30, hardly pensioners!

All in all, this is why The Willows has been judged to be The Best Place (caravan and camping) in Wales 2010 and in the top 100 sites in UK.

We have policies, we stick to them, we do not mislead we tell it as it is.

If you are one of the mothers with 3 children rest assured, it's policy not personal. As in no children in the restuarant after 7pm, we just don't go to that restuarant.

Neither do we complain that by not having 3 children we do not get reduced water rates - as discussed on this website 3/4/08.