Mayfield Park — Hotel in Cotswold District

We have stayed here many times over the years and have always enjoyed our visit. This year we camped for five nights and for the first time, we had a serviced pitch (electricity and water) which was very handy and made life easier for us. Being able to permanently run our Cool Box and recharge our phones, iPads etc. was especially useful. The whole site has had a considerable amount of work done to it in the two years since we last stayed. It has been landscaped and the serviced pitches are mostly on the level, with a gravelled parking area for a caravan or car to be positioned next to an area of grass where tents or caravan awnings can be erected. Unfortunately, our grassed area was quite small and it very much restricted which way round our tent could be pitched. There was also quite a bit of bare compacted earth, which also influenced where we could place our tent. When we booked, we weren't asked how big our tent was. Larger tents would definitely have had difficulty in fitting into that space. Our pitch was quite private due to the laurel hedging surrounding this and many other pitches and was appreciated. |Five suggestions for improvement:- a) that you have clearly labelled rubbish bins so all rubbish does not end up in landfill. When we first arrived, there were two huge bins, full to overflowing, one clearly marked as being for recycling and the other for landfill. There was also a separate bin for glass. These large bins were taken away, presumably to be emptied and were replaced by five very small bins ( which quickly filled up) with no indication of which one took what, apart from the glass. We conscientiously separated our waste whilst there, but when we were leaving, were told "we don't really do recycling, just put everything, apart from glass, in any bin". This in NOT environmentally friendly!; b) the shower curtains should be weighted. Any movement of air, no matter how gentle, blew the curtain onto your body which then stuck to you - not a good experience as it felt very clammy and made continuing to shower rather difficult; c) that some sort of foldaway shelf is provided in every shower cubicle to put clothes etc. on. There are few hooks, so anything put on the floor (the only other option) gets thoroughly wet. It should be possible to take in and at the end of the shower, to have a dry set of clothes to change into; d) the wire shower racks are rusty and past their best. They should be replaced; e) Wifi should be available throughout the site, not just at Reception. It's 2023 and the technology is so much improved that it should be possible to install the necessary electronics to boost the signal so Wifi is...

(Written on my arrival in Ireland)||A British 20 pence coin fell out of my pocket today and I got angry all over again.||Back in the overpriced (28 Pounds per night) campground near Cirencestor in England's famed Cotswald hills I had been given a tenting spot in the furthest reaches of the campground. Even though almost every other tent site was empty - which should have been a warning to me. It was a 500 metre walk downhill to the "amenities building" which contained the washrooms, toilets, showers and laundry room, then a 500 walk uphill back to my tent. ||Because my tent site had no electrical outlet I asked the woman in the reception office if I could recharge the battery I use to charge my smart phone in her office.||"You can do that yourself in the amenities building" she replied. But there was not a single plug in near the wash stands- something common in every other campground facility that allowed people to use their electric shavers. ||But there was a plug in within the laundry room. A single plug in accompanied by a sign stating this plug in was for recharging smart phones and electric razors. It came out of a timer box you were supposed to fuel with 20 P coins. One plug in for the entire campsite, being used to generate income for the campgrounds owners. (It cost me 40 pence - two coins - to raise the "charged" level in my battery from 80% to 100%)||Then there was the campground wi-fi. The woman at reception warned me it could be used only near her office, but there was a gazebo 20 feet from her office where you could seek shelter from the rain to use the wi-fi.||Except the signal was so weak in the gazebo my cell phone constantly lost contact.||So I went into the reception office where there was a comfortable arm chair. The wi-fi in the office was 5 bars strong - fully up to snuff.||I began doing research for my activities in the area, but mentioned to the receptionist she should tell the owners to get a better wi-fi transmitter.||"There's nothing wrong with our wi-fi," she replied. "It's the local hills - they block the internet."||Pure idiocy.||The woman then told me I should leave. She didn't want me in her office. But I could sit at a picnic table just outside the door where there was a strong signal.||It was raining. So I kept on working in her office. She fumed. I ignored her, finished what I was doing, then left without a word. ||I kept encountering that kind of "service" in English campgrounds.||Jim Farrell||Canadian...

We were really looking forward to this visit, but unfortunately it wasn't the site we had read about in reviews. First of all, access to the site is via a dip in the road followed by a rising drive which if like us you are entering with a long unit, presents a risk of bottoming of the caravan rear. The next hurdle is a blind turn to the left where you then come to an abrupt halt at a security barrier, that when we visited had a faulty touchpad. With no sign of the reception at this point, you are required to exit the car and walk into the site to find the reception. We were given directions to our allotted pitch which required careful navigation through the tight site. Once at our pitch, which was one of a row of terraced pitches, we were disappointed to see that we had a huge hedgerow for our outlook. The pitch itself was a hard standing that was long and narrow and surrounded by a raised wooden plinth. This meant that with our caravan pitched as instructed to the back left hand corner, it left only half the width of our awning on the hard standing and the other half on grass. The raised wooden plinth was then situated right through the middle of our awning which we continued to trip over. All the roads onsite are of a packed hard-core type which proved to be very dusty especially when people used there cars to visit the solitary shower block and failed to observe the 5mph speed limit. The shower block facilities were very clean and tidy. When we visited the site was quiet, I can't help but feel the one shower block might not be enough should the site be busyer. The whole site is situated on a hillside and some people might find that a problem when returning to their unit from the shower block, especially if they are pitched at the top of the site. There are two small dog exercise areas which I found to be poor for exercising a Labrador. Back to our pitch, which was classed as a fully serviced pitch. We had our own fresh water tap for drinking water and a waste gully for grey waste. An EHU completed the set-up. No tv connection available. We also found the mobile phone reception to be very poor and the WiFi was only accessible from the reception area. To sum up we were disappointed with the site especially for the price we paid. I'm sad to say it's not a site I shall be visiting again and I shall not be recommending...