Danielle Manners Review of Castlerigg Hall
Me and my fiance decided to book up here for two n...
Me and my fiance decided to book up here for two nights as it was close to Keswick town centre and seemed to have good reviews.
We turned up after a 3 hour journey too 21 questions about who was with us , are we meeting anyone and even tho we paid for our tent pitch they asked if we were sleeping in our transit (which is our car).
We were told curfew is half 10 and they expect us to be quiet after then. And we were to leave at 12:00.
After the grilling we were allocated our field and we went to set up camp.
Our field was quite full of tents and motohomes but was so quiet.
We had an awful feeling like we were constantly being watched from other campers and the staff .
The next day we noticed members of staff going around our area checking cars and tents with red labels shouting which ones were over stayers and getting rather excited about being able to charge them the extra day!! It was 12:02!!
We thought it was an absolute disgrace.
We started speaking to a few people we had met who were camped up near us and realised they were from the north east too.
They invited us to a bbq later that day and we decided it would be nice to go.
What a mistake that was. The staff were constantly driving around and watching us and the other campers there were clearly annoyed we were socialising.
The next day the staff were walking around again checking cars and tents this time 9:30!! These people do not want people there on their site . They want the money but not the actual people their. We packed up and went to Braithwaite for our walk.
We thankfully only booked two nights on this site.
We went for a 4 hour walk up the mountains and decided to pop in on the people we met at the site before we went home to say goodbye.
We sat talking to him for around 10mins and had an altercation with another car who was also sharing our field who was coming up the road we said good bye and started driving back up the road and sure enough a member of staff at the side of the road had his hand stuck out meaning he wanted a word.
A member of staff just noticed you coming back in and you were due to check out this morning. We explained that we did check out but we had come to say goodbye to a friend we had met here.
He was not impressed. We knew it was the other camper we had an altercation with that had complained as the man who was talking to us only had our last 3 numbers of our reg.
Overall toilets were nice. But definitely would not stay here again. It was horrendous from day one. The staff all have stinking attitudes and they just want you off the site asap.
We could not chill out here or relax. We were constantly being watched.
It's a shame because if they were a bit more relaxed then we would visit regularly.
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