The setting is lovely, at the foot of the Cleveland Hills, with the Cleveland Way going right through the middle. We'll definitely be back to the area to explore.
We had some issues with the site itself, as follows:
We stayed for two nights in two roundhouses, noting it was for a family of three and a family of four. However, the roundhouses are really only accommodation for two, indeed no bedding was provided for the second bed at all (and we were only told of this two days before we were due to arrive).
The second bed was a sofa bed, and it turned out the roundhouse is too small and cramped to simply fold the sofa out, you need to rearrange the furniture to even remotely make it work, and even then you're left with a sofa bed at a funny angle filling the middle of the room.
One sofa bed (in 'Badger') was only a single, which wasn't much use as the family of four was put in there. This made things especially cramped.
Only a tiny table for two is provided on the deck, so all four can't easily sit and eat dinner together. A table fixed to the wall inside will again only seat two. You can move the chairs from inside out, but in our house ('Beaver') it was only a tiny bistro table so four couldn't realistically eat at it.
There was a live music event with thumping bass until well after 10:30pm. We have young children and none of us could sleep through it. We were all exhausted and in a bad mood in the morning. This seemed very poorly judged for a small, peaceful campsite. None of the campsite guests from the field we were staying in appeared to be away attending the event, so it was just a separate pubic event and never mind about the guests. We were told of the event a few weeks ago, but it might have been nice to indicate it would be extremely loud and go on late so we could think to cancel our booking.
The toilet block was very rarely and/or poorly cleaned. The public had used it for the live event, and it was exceptionally messy in the morning when the campers were getting up and ready for their day. It was tidied up a little later in the day but not cleaned thoroughly, and the same bits of trash were on the floor throughout our visit.
The washing-up sinks were full of old food. Like someone had dumped ten cans of minestrone soup in them. We had to clean one out ourselves just to wash up. The other remained as filthy at the end of our visit so I guess no one was cleaning that / paying attention to that
The lights in the shower were motion detected; these detectors couldn't see you in the shower, so you'd be plunged into dark while washing and have to go outside the cubicle to get the light back on.
You can't control the temperature of the showers, inexplicably. It's just on / off motion detectors. We couldn't wash our daughter during our visit as the only setting was scalding.
As a side note, towels aren't provided in the roundhouses. No warning was provided of that, but fortunately we did take some just in case.
These negative y did outweigh the positives, which were:
the BBQ was large and robust, we were happily surprised with the quality. You need to provide your own tongs etc, which I'm sure you always carry in your back pocket.
the roundhouses were clean and neatly decorated, and came with crockery, cutlery, kettle, fridge and a hotel style basket of coffee and tea etc.
a half-filled jar of birdseed was a cute personal touch. The personal feel was offset by a label on a book of local walks demanding money be paid if the book is even opened (just leave one for reference in the room, everyone will be opening it whatever the label says).
the restaurant was friendly and the food pleasant, I enjoyed the burger. It's pretty basic and certainly not a destination in itself, but handy to have if you're on the site
There's plenty of parking everywhere, the site felt safe.
It was lovely to be surrounded by trees. It's great to have a large green space preserved in the middle of the site for the kids to play on.
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