Tell us about your experience
A difficult one. I think the marketing is misleading. We anticipated a beautiful, small, sleep, family run vineyard with a handful of campervans or caravans. We arrived to something resembling a mini theme park. A stunning location but over commercialised-two functions going on with banging music, animal park with a lot of people visiting and possibly 40 campervans and/or caravans. No way is the vineyard set up to take 1/4 of that number. We had e mail communication over the days leading up to our 4 night stay and were reassured that grass and electricity would be sorted out.l for us. Impossible. To hook up would have meant literally being in a car park and the other option which was highly unattractive (a back yard with rusting cages) was too full anyway. We had paid in advance and were told we couldn’t get a refund because they hadn’t received any money as yet from Campspace. We researched alternatives but having driven for a full day we were just too tired to move again. A stressful evening. We stayed two nights on some grass as far away from the crowds as possible and without electricity. It promised so much but under delivered on a huge scale. Lovely local town to escape to with a spa that I would recommend.
How was the contact with the host?
Mediocre. Promising contact leading up to our stay. Nothing more than a very overwrought Duty Manager to try and juggle way too many things during our stay. A member of the family who own it as a presence would have been helpful I suspect.
Tips for new guests?
Be careful that you know what you are getting. It is not what it implied on the tin.
May
2022
