Castle Howard Lakeside Holiday Park Reviews
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With unrivalled scenery, fishing and a quiet and peaceful location, escape the hustle and bustle at Castle Howard Lakeside Holiday Park. Just a short walk (20 mins) from spectacular Castle Howard, it's family and dog friendly with fishing. Located within easy reach of a farm shop and cafe at Castle Howard. Spacious grass pitches with and without electric and hardstanding pitches are available for tents, tourers and caravans.
4.4 /5
124 reviews
83%
would recommend
Terrible!
Bobby T
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Well where do I start? Nice location. However, extremely isolated, no shops or pub etc. Now the negatives. Castle Howard house is made out to be here, yet it is a 1.5 mile walk, along a road with no path. The "lakeside view" doesn't exist and finding the lake took some doing. You can only walk along the lake for approx. 10 mins before being stopped by a locked gate. No staff or reception after 17:00. No security or warden. No way of identifying if the tent next to you has even paid to be there. Noise curfew is not enforced - resulting in loud music/laughing/shouting etc all night until 02:30 in the morning. No control of group sizes, think 4 car loads of people to one large tent. People arriving in large groups, then also setting up marquees for a canteen etc. Flying drones. Poor facilities (basic hostel style showers etc). Camping field is near a main road, which also appears to be used as a local race track. Fishing is advertised, yet no explanation on site how or where. No management on a weekend, reception is staffed however, we were told about our complaints, "this is above my pay grade". Some pitches are used as walk through for the woods and could be disrupted. To summarise, a noisy, unmanaged, uncontrolled site. Shame as it could be lovely! I highly recommend you don't visit, I've been to many smaller privately owned sites which outclass this site in every way.
Beautiful campsite
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June W
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This park is very beautiful and a lovely place to stay. I like you can pick where to pitch. The lady I spoke to was very helpful and nice. There is a point I would like to add, the fantastic showers and toilets were quite a long walk away from the camping area if you booked non electric. Otherwise a very pleasurable campsite and would go back anytime.
Happy night
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Dawn M
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Lady checking in was very helpful, as it was our first stay here. Site very nice, walks for your dogs, relaxing surroundings and a peaceful night sleep, would recommend, definitely book again. Thankyou.
Our stay
Gordon H
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A good electric camping pitch with excellent heated toilets/washrooms (yes it was June but this is the UK!). The only negative point is lack of a camp shop and no nearby shops for essentials. Also no children's play facilities.
Good stay
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Janet B
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Lovely location with easy access to Castle Howard and lovely walks along the lake. We were in a lovely quiet spot in a campervan on hard standing. It was a bit noisier closer to the shower block but was quiet in the evening. Showers were good. Sinks are quite high - I'm tall and I found it hard to wash my face without standing on tip toe. Only one slight criticism was that there were no recycling bins, unless I missed them! Our welcome to the site was lovely. I do think £40 per night is a little pricey - I don't feel the experience was significantly better than sites that cost £30 per night, but maybe we were paying for the location and it was a bank holiday weekend. Would definitely recommend others to stay.
Our stay
HJ D
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Beautifully located near a gigantic country house with lovely surroundings! Unfortunately we didn't have time to walk, but the hikers we encountered were walking on the narrow roads. Camping was adequate, no luxury. Cleaning left much to be desired. Well worth the money considering the area. Translated from Dutch.
Good location. Lakeside camping area
John C
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Good location to drive around. Friendly staff. Seems to be child / family friendly.
Great first time camping
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Tammy W
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We chose this site as it wasn't too far drive from home if things went wrong- it was our first ever family camping trip. Great welcome, friendly receptionist. First impressions were good- clean and well maintained. Shower blocks were as expected, only started to look a bit rough after 8am in the morning! I'd say more loo paper is definitely needed or better loo roll dispensing. We woke to crow noise at 4.45am, then the geese, so if you're a light sleeper maybe don't pitch near the trees! I wish someone had have mentioned the scarecrow cannons sounding every 20 minutes- they're loud! They do stop at night but we still found them annoying! All in all, we'd stay again.
Nice stay pleasant site
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Julie D
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Lovely park on lake. Just 5 mins in motorhome to Castle Howard and easy to park there. Nice pitches and facilities block nice and clean and warm, showers lovely and hot. All in all a lovely stay.
Very quiet stay
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Diane E
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Very nice, quiet get away. Relaxing for older people.
First time
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John S
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We stayed at the site for the first time. It is a quiet, peaceful site ideally located to explore Castle Howard and its grounds. We fished on two occasions but were unable to catch any fish, other anglers also had no luck! The facilities meet your needs and the individual plots are of a good size. The staff were very helpful. It would have been better with Wi-Fi connectivity. However, overall, I would recommend this campsite.
Nice tidy site
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John C
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Lovely site. Only downside is I thought it needs another shower and toilet block, plus a site shop would be a good addition.
Easter weekend 2024
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Paula H
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Staff were second to none - very helpful, site very clean and tidy. We will be back again.
Lovely site
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Paul H
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Fantastic park with lovely showers and toilet facilities. Lovely location too.
Great facilities
Ed C
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Great facilities and very clean. Large field for camping so lots of choice on where to pitch. Did however get swarmed by midges/flies when pitching near the water, but after moving further away, had no problems for the rest of our stay. The road next to the site can be quite loud, but is quiet at night. Would probably stay again!
Went the extra mile
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David P
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Excellent stay . First time in our camper and I stupidly booked the wrong weekend 🤦♂️ Found us a pitch , excellent service, clean and beautiful place . Highly recommend for a peaceful night away
Camping
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Sarah H
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Lovely site, nice and relaxing.
Good Value
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Amanda F
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Lovely site and good facilities for the cost of £26. The only downside was the hoards of kids who were doing some sort of outward bound weekend. The majority of them were pretty rude and loud and groups of them were a little intimidating. On the whole, a nice overnight stay.
Isolated site
Lee H
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Stayed 1 night out of two booked and paid for. Campsite is clean and tidy but it was isolated with no outside paths to walk and only roads to walk on. Castle Howard is a 5 minute drive as walking on the road in the rain wasn't an option considered. The indoor part of the garden centre is small. Malton is nearby but we thought parking was a nightmare. We parked at Morrisons and bought some bits on the Saturday and then decided at 3.30pm not to stay another night, so went home. Would have been better in summer when you can sit out etc. We thought it was far too isolated for us with nothing to do for miles.
Simply beautiful
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Nicola I
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We arrived late in the afternoon. The lady on reception could not have been more helpful. The site was clean and the facilities were second to none. We have two dogs and they were made to feel welcome. I cannot recommend this site enough. Now that we have found it we will be back.
Motorhome stay
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Anthony and Jean L
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Very nice site. Could do with a small shop for emergency supplies like Elsan toilet cleaner etc. The nearest supplier is in Malton 5 miles away.
Excellent value for money
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Peter A
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Used the site to access Castle Howard gardens and Yorkshire arboretum. Extremely convenient for both. Site has good vistas over the grounds around Castle Howard. Campsite was very quiet when we were there (Sunday/ Monday early October) but fortunately weather was very kind. Facilities are everything we need and are both clean and warm. Price for this early week stay was excellent given the quality of the facilities. Thoroughly enjoyed our two days and will be back for further visits to the arboretum.
First time visit
David L
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A nice location but the facilities need a bit of updating.
Nice and chilled
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Gary F
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Nice place to kick back.
Beautiful, will return!
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Melissa P
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Can't fault this site, will definitely return. Easy to find and in beautiful scenery, which means lots of nice walks nearby. Although it is a smallish field for a lot of campers, it was incredibly peaceful and quiet, with no noisemakers. Was easily asleep by 11pm. Clean and stocked facilities.