Ceiriog Valley Park — Hotel in Great Britain

We enjoyed our stay, the caravan is lovely and comfortable and the owners are really nice and site layout nice with river." Plenty of walks but it's very remote which we didn't mind but others might so bear this in mind. The site is lovely but there is no signal unfortunately for mobile phones unless your on EE only. They do have free WiFi but even though the ariel for it is near the caravan the WiFi signal was very intermittent and we struggled to have conversations with family on WhatsApp. The pictures don't show it on the booking advertisement on 'Sykes Cottages' but the caravan is positioned in the corner of the facilities car park which due to the gravel stones it can be noisy when cars are coming and going especially with kitchen window/patio doors open and due to there also being access to the pitch field from the back end of caravan where you park your car the mornings can be noisy if people needing to use facilities decide to use that access point rather than the designated steps/ramp as with it also being gravel the noise is terrible and we were awoken around 5.30am with people coming and going from tents as it was very busy on our first night due to it being used for stopovers for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, that in itself didn't bother us as they were fairly quiet considering how many there were but the morning wasn't great. Another set came on in the week for one night so we spoke to the camp leader who made sure none came passed that way which was great. But in height of summer with normal camping that can be an issue if the owners don't seal off that access point which isn't actually needed by campers anyway so placing more bushes would make it more private for caravan hirers. Perhaps the owners should consider tarmac instead of gravel or pour on gravel binder which will make it less noisy. We have suggested some alterations to the owners, like adding more bushes on the car park side to create a divider between the caravan and the carpark to give more privacy and make it visually more appealing and add a venetian blind to kitchen window again more privacy than current roller blind. All in all if these few issues were resolved to create more privacy we probably would consider going again but not as it is currently situated. Nice local towns to drive out too especially the canal...

Liked: Staff were friendly, approachable and live on site. They are available for long hours. They provided useful information and directions for a variety of local walks. There was a beautiful riverside walk directly from the camp site. Stunningly beautiful small campsite: peaceful and impeccably well kept. Free wifi across the site. Loo blocks were kept spotlessly clean and not closed at inconvenient times for cleaning. The showers were free and not on a push button. Water flow was good and they were warm. There was a bench to put your clothes on or sit and dry your feet. The shower curtain was effective at preventing dry clothes being splashed. There were laundry facilities on site. The site was level and the grass pitches seemed to be well drained. It was easy to get awning pegs in the ground. Overall, a lovely, friendly site and not overly expensive.

Disliked: The B road which is the approach to the site from Chirk direction is quite narrow in places. The site is not well signposted from the opposite direction. There is quite a steep slope down to the site and I was worried if I could exit towing the caravan up it after my holiday. The owners offered help and support if necessary. It was actually fine, as there is a straight section to accelerate in before going up and also an area at the top large enough to level out before exiting onto the...

From entering the Ceiriog Valley at Chirk it’s only eleven miles to Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, where the road splits and climbs out of the valley: one way to Oswestry, the other into the heart of the Berwyn Mountains. An outlier from the Snowdon volcano, the upper valley has a magnificent granite quarry, whereas the lower valley has two deep slate mines – all now lost in the forest. A tramway once carried the granite and slate down the valley to the Llangollen canal, where an aqueduct still crosses the River Ceiriog below Chirk Castle, right on the English border.

This is a great area for walking and cycling, with the campsite itself occupying part of the old tramway along the bank of the (sometimes) walkable River Ceiriog! We have written very detailed accounts of fourteen cycle rides in and around the valley in all directions.

In twenty-five years of full-time European travel (now restricted by the lingering nightmare of Brexit) we see Mike and Tammy standing with the best of campsite owners and managers we have met. They are so close to their work that they built their own house and home by the river on the campsite itself! And we agree with all the very positive statements made in...