I can only reiterate what has already been said here in previous reviews, but for clarity here we go...||||The pod itself is almost as basic as it gets. The addition of 2 x 240v plugs is helpful but they are located right under one of the beds so are difficult to get to. We had 2 small children on sleeping bags on the single 'beds' (benches with a thin plastic covered mattress) and they seemed to cope ok. The 'bed' in the end compartment is a thin plastic covered mattress on the floor and is as uncomfortable as f$£k. Seriously, if you have any kind of a bad back or sore shoulders you must take your own blow up bed or something. I sleep on a memory foam mattress normally and sometimes get a bit of back pain every once in a while, normally from DIY, but this left me literally in agony. On the second night I was awake from about 3 am trying to find a comfortable position and got out of bed just to stop the pain at about 0630.||||There are absolutely no services available. There is no kitchen area to wash up breakfast bowls and even filling water bottles is difficult from the wash basins in the ablutions. No barbeque area, no nothing. On the plus side, ablutions were clean and well looked after. ||||The position of some of the pods is not really 'woodland', more 'shoved behind the car park. If you are lucky then you get one further back in the woods. Since there is no room to do any cooking, you are forced to go to either the Hilton (a short walk across the other side of the lagoon) or drive to a local pub. If you don't bring breakfast stuff with you, expect to be stung for £50 if you are a family of four at the Hilton. Dinner for us (burger, pasta, 2 x kids meals and a couple of drinks) was the thick end of £70. ||||The soft play area is good for kids but a 2 hour session is £7 per child. The surf lagoon is great and if you can't get to surf regularly or just want to try it out, I would highly recommend it. Unfortunately, it seems like Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos was the business advisor and they have designed every facet of the park to extract the maximum amount of money from you (even hiring a locker to keep some valuables in costs you money rather that pop a quid in, turn a key, get your quid back at the end). ||||The indoor activities seem good (we didn't try them) but for young children under 5 there is very little for them to do other than soft play. The staff were excellent - really helpful, cheerful and engaging. ||||My advice would be to get a local hotel or b'n'b, visit for the day and bring your own food. If you do feel the need to stay at a pod, bring mattresses or god help your back in...
Read moreI can only reiterate what has already been said here in previous reviews, but for clarity here we go...||||The pod itself is almost as basic as it gets. The addition of 2 x 240v plugs is helpful but they are located right under one of the beds so are difficult to get to. We had 2 small children on sleeping bags on the single 'beds' (benches with a thin plastic covered mattress) and they seemed to cope ok. The 'bed' in the end compartment is a thin plastic covered mattress on the floor and is as uncomfortable as f$£k. Seriously, if you have any kind of a bad back or sore shoulders you must take your own blow up bed or something. I sleep on a memory foam mattress normally and sometimes get a bit of back pain every once in a while, normally from DIY, but this left me literally in agony. On the second night I was awake from about 3 am trying to find a comfortable position and got out of bed just to stop the pain at about 0630.||||There are absolutely no services available. There is no kitchen area to wash up breakfast bowls and even filling water bottles is difficult from the wash basins in the ablutions. No barbeque area, no nothing. On the plus side, ablutions were clean and well looked after. ||||The position of some of the pods is not really 'woodland', more 'shoved behind the car park. If you are lucky then you get one further back in the woods. Since there is no room to do any cooking, you are forced to go to either the Hilton (a short walk across the other side of the lagoon) or drive to a local pub. If you don't bring breakfast stuff with you, expect to be stung for £50 if you are a family of four at the Hilton. Dinner for us (burger, pasta, 2 x kids meals and a couple of drinks) was the thick end of £70. ||||The soft play area is good for kids but a 2 hour session is £7 per child. The surf lagoon is great and if you can't get to surf regularly or just want to try it out, I would highly recommend it. Unfortunately, it seems like Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos was the business advisor and they have designed every facet of the park to extract the maximum amount of money from you (even hiring a locker to keep some valuables in costs you money rather that pop a quid in, turn a key, get your quid back at the end). ||||The indoor activities seem good (we didn't try them) but for young children under 5 there is very little for them to do other than soft play. The staff were excellent - really helpful, cheerful and engaging. ||||My advice would be to get a local hotel or b'n'b, visit for the day and bring your own food. If you do feel the need to stay at a pod, bring mattresses or god help your back in...
Read moreI wish to offer some feedback on my recent stay with you. offering advice that i hope you might find helpful ||The Pod and parking|the pod was Fab, it was clean and very well kempt, however some extra plug sockets would be a great update.||on the site it states no fires or BBQ's. i do understand the fire risk but how do you expect people to feed themselves when the restaurant is so poor||Parking at the pods was horrendous, there was an event on which is fine, but the car park closest to the to pods was all taken up by the start of the event and other cars, meaning we had to park in the overflow down the road and given we had paid £90 a night i found this unacceptable not to have a designated space.||Cooking in or around the pod?? i found this confusing given that it doesn't actually state this at the time of booking because if i had of known i wouldn't have booked in the first place, given your opening line for the pods is "leave the tent at home on your next trip" i find it hard to believe people would know that they can't cook as this is part of camping charm ||The Restaurant |well what can i say its fish and chips of some description or a massively overpriced mass production base burnt pizza. My friend also asked for Guinness which we were told you had plenty of by the young polite lad at the bar but because you only had 1 glass he couldn't serve it and this was a management decision.||Staff |booking in was fine the lady was lovely|the lad behind the bar was nice and polite too |The lifeguards and park staff were all playing football outside the restaurant, which is unacceptable on its own, but given you had paying customers on the water, I would be assuming that they would have to be watched as a health and safety precaution???||All in all, i won't be returning to Adventure Parcs Snowdonia...
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