Kilbroney Caravan Park — Attraction in Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Absolutely disgusting behaviour by Park Staff who seem to forget they are employed by the Rates Payers. Locked in Car Park by Staff who obviously don't care about the safety and well being of visitors or locals. Entered the car park at 9.15 cause it seemed to be opened after the closing time stated on the sign, to drive across the bottom car park immediately turn and return to the entrance to find it locked. Not one loop by the staff to see if anyone was in the car park and inform them that it was closing, especially today on the warmest day of the year you think that they would be trying to be as diligent as possible to ensure visitor safety. After eventually getting in contact with someone there was a pleasant young girl who came to try her best to help us and a visiting family of 2 adults, a 2 year old, and a new born baby from Cavan, who had fallen to the same fate as ourselves. This young girl tried to get the gate opened but was unable to do so because there had been no keys left with staff on Council Property to be able to unlock the gates of the park. Then arrived the problem, a very pompous individual who obviously thinks they hold a higher position than what she actually does arrived and began to try and school a visitor to this area who obviously hadn't gotten a very good introduction from the outset of their visit. What ever happened to Irish hospitality and helping out a person in need. This jobsworth obviously thinks they need to belittle people to make themselves feel better. Eventually after an argument with a visitor who's new born child wasn't coping too well with the heat and was quite agitated, and an argument with myself trying to say that it wasn't council employees position to ensure the safety of visitors to the park, she pulled herself of her pedestal and opened the gate. Maybe in future this individual can send someone who actually can relate to humans and not full of their own...

Set beside the beautiful kilbroney park and forest this camp site is well kept and has free WiFi and cctv. Most of the pitches are hard standing but some of these on a gradient. All have electric hookup, water taps, drains and some have tv aerial sockets. The only reason it loses a star is because you have to use a swipe card to open the barrier to drive in and out but also to open the doors to use the toilets and showers. There's lot to do next to the caravan park. There's a laundry room which cost £1.60 per wash, Lots of mountain bike trails. Mountain bike hire, cafe, children's play park, adult outdoor fitness equipment. Lots of walks, tennis court (not free) At the main reception block they have tourist information and they also have showers in the men and women's toilets for anybody to use for free, and a electric shaver socket. They have a children's walk call Narida which goes through some trees in the middle of the park land and has things like large chairs and castles and other children's things. There are plenty of rubbish bins and poop scoop bins and at the side of the poop scoop bins are free poop scoop bags, and unlike most other council, they always have poop scoop bags in them. Its only a 10 min walk through the open park land to the village. Every thing you need is here. Its has lots of old building well preserved and is well...

Nice surroundings, quite a nice park, clean toilets with a few let downs. The camping area is a patch of grass with no set pitches anyone can set up where they like and how they like. Meaning you can get there nice and early set up a nice spot then 2 hours later someone pitches right next/opposite/facing you or a group of 30 in 6 tents forms a circle of tents next to you and lets their kids run riot bumping into your tent, creating noise and chaos late into the night.

After some exploring we found there were better out of the way areas in this site but they were not pointed out when we checked in. Nor did anywhere during the online booking information and process did it inform you that £20 was needed as a deposit to acquire yourself a key card for the park entry, bathrooms and other areas. Something my partner who has camped before thought of and visited a cash point before arriving.

The area and the campsite in general were quite nice plenty of woods, large open spaces etc but there was a few hints of if you weren't in the clique you didn't fit. Obeying rules such as no parking on the grass, open fires, keeping kids under control and no noise after 11 were optional to a few...