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.
4.38 /5
119 reviews
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would recommend
Very friendly
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Russell H
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Made extremely welcome on first arrival. Loads of space, excellent, clean facilities. A little bit noisy at night due to the main road but apart from that, all good.
New happy place
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Louise M
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A beautiful place with stunning surroundings, very peaceful and amazing skies at night due to the lack of light pollution. Great place for the dogs as has a lovely lakeside walk. Facilities cleaned daily, just a shame the shop wasn't open longer and the pub was nearer. Would definitely come back again and again.
Nice for family
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Ana M
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I stayed for 3 night to explore north Yorkshire. It was lovely and spacious, but I think they were very poor on showers and toilets. Also, the tumble drier wasn't working properly so we had to bring everything wet back home, but it was worth it still. It had a lovely lake and it was dog friendly 😊
Quiet
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Susan F
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Site was very quiet as we wanted. Shower and toilet block could do with an update as they were quite old, but I must say the water was lovely and hot in the shower. Only 4 toilets for the whole site.
Most congenital
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Andrew H
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Booked at the last minute at half the cost of other sites. Perfect for our requirement of an overnight stop with showers and electricity. Very polite and helpful staff. If I was coming this way again, would just come again without looking elsewhere.
Great location
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Lee T
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Lovely meadow with a lake beside it. Adjacent to Castle Howard.
Great
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Hollie C
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Perfect little campsite. Lovely and quiet! We had a hard standing pitch for our tent, which was hard to peg down but managed in the end. I think I only saw one member of staff and that's when we checked in. Perfect for wildlife, fishing and watching the stars. Little girl loved it and it was great for her riding her bike around and not having to worry too much about cars. Only thing that would be great if there was a play area, but you would probably loose the peace and quite of the site.
Friendly staff, great welcome, nice little shop and good camping spots
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Fred D
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As said in the title. 😃
Our stay
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Robert S
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First time camping for my wife and she loved the location. I thought it was perfect for a quiet relaxing day/night. We stayed in the over flow part of the site. Next time we will be booking with the kids as I'm sure they would love it. If you or the kids want to spend time on technology, then I'd not recommend the site as we couldn't get any internet at all but a 5 star rating from us and wait to come again.
Good location
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Lyndsay E
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I stayed one night at Castle Howard on my journey south from the Borders. It is well located, being a 2 minute drive from Castle Howard or a 30 minute walk. There is a shop onsite and helpful staff. All the facilities you would expect are provided. The grass camping area was busy and I was situated on a hardstanding pitch which was level and well maintained. A good site to explore the surrounding area.
Motorhome
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Debbie B
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Amazing site. Well sign posted.throughout the site. Clean facilities. Definitely visit again
Camping etiquette
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Kate S
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A lovely campsite but only one toilet block for campervans/caravans and campers, so it was very busy at times and cleaned once a day. I was sited on a pitch next to the lake walk entrance, the number of people who cut across my pitch and walked between my van and windbreak was unbelievable- what has happened to camping etiquette? I would go back but would ask to be placed on a different pitch.
Beautiful setting, excellent families and accommodating staff
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Hayley L
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Just came back from a fantastic stay at this site. Originally booked a non-electric pitch by mistake and the hosts were wonderful, moving us to a more suitable pitch and even ensuring we had the sun during the heatwave! Facilities are the best we have encountered. Hot showers, free hairdryers, washer, drier, freezer etc. stunning location, we visited the lavender fields and Castle Howard, and both were breath-taking. Could not recommend this site more, we will definitely be back. Thank you again to the hosts for their patience and kindness.
Lovely site
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Rachael S
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Very clean site. Nice location next to the lake. Facilities were clean and plenty. Nice little shop on site too. Will stay again.
Lovely site
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Victoria G
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Lovely clean and friendly site. Really enjoyed our stay with everything needed, toilets, showers, shop and beautiful scenery.
Overcrowded, noisy and inadequate facilities
Adrian S
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The main camping field was overcrowded with tents, people and cars everywhere. It was also very noisy, with music and loud talking until early in the morning. The main problem with the site is the lack of loos and showers to cope with the number of campers they try and squeeze onto the site. Queues to use everything!
Stunning
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Ciara J
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Very beautiful location. Well maintained. Quiet and peaceful.
Camping
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Steven A
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Excellent, very happy with my stay.
Beautiful location and lovely staff!
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Richard H
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The campsite is just across the lake from the beautiful Castle Howard and only 25 minutes from York. We had a great stay, would definitely recommend!
Never stay here unless you want no sleep!
Faye T
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I would never stay here again! Booked for two nights and left after one! Large groups were playing music until 2am, shouting, banging car doors and no security or staff on site. I wish I hadn't paid to stay as there was no point in paying as it felt like anyone could just turn up and party all night as there no staff after 5pm. Felt very uneasy and not safe.
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.