Esholt Sports & Leisure Club - Shipley

Duncan B.

Liked: The pitches were great. Big, flat and well spaced out. Great views and peaceful. Overall a good site.

Disliked: Toilet/shower facilities. One unisex toilet dedicated to campsite with two showers. One women's with similar I believes. Although more facilities available they were in use frequently by the teams playing there. As the campsite was busy this wasn't ideal.
Had a phone call with manager but without help from a guest would have struggled to get set up.

Paul C.

Liked: Lovely location. Good for walking (with the dog). Flat, well drained grass pitches. Great for watching the cricket matches. Jim (the manager) was particularly helpful. Highly recommended and a definite for a longer stay next year.

Anne E. M.

Liked: This was a site full of surprises, all good! The steward was very welcoming, and kind. He made sure I had all the information about the site that I was likely to need and gave me a pitch which meant all the facilities were within easy reach. When I had a problem, I sent an email, within 5 minutes the steward was there to help.
A lovely quiet site and clean, tidy facilities.
I'll go back there again when in the area.
Thank you Stewart/Stuart (I forgot to ask) for making me so welcome.

Lynne G.

Liked: Quiet friendly site. Cricket practice at the sports club was going on in the background, nice atmosphere, not at all intrusive. Friendly chap let me in and showed me the pitch, informative details given.
Facilities not fancy, they are functional and very clean. There is a pot-wash sink in the unisex toilet block. There is also a ladies-only toilet and shower room, showers are very good, hot and powerful.
The ‘Emmerdale’ village is a 5 minute walk up the road.

Nicki H.

Liked: Quiet area

Disliked: Owner wasn’t on site, if it wasn’t for another holiday maker we wouldn’t have got in as the lock was very stiff. Didn’t know where to pitch up so went in a vacant pitch hoping we wouldn’t get woken up during the night to move. Showers and toilet was very out dated with mould and flaking paint. Had to wait 10 minutes for the shower to heat up and in this time the lights went out twice as where on a sensor. Finally get in the shower and the lights went out 4 times causing me to get out wailing my arms about to get the light back on as it was pitch black this making the floor wet and slippery.

Mark C.

Liked: The area was lovely, campsite was level flat and plenty of electric pitches.

Disliked: The toilet block is minging, old dated and stank.

chavs in the tents near us (not the fault of the site).

And loads of planes and helicopters going over head.
We didn't end up staying the full night.

Jason S.

Liked: The pleasant meet and greet upon arrival with all info explained and shown to pitch.
Contact number available on board before security gate.
Great to see there is security but it is a padlock and a self propelling barrier that could provide a little heavy to some.
We didn’t use the pub as we were travelling in and out from another event but heard from fellow camper that it was good.
There was a game of cricket taking place with a good atmosphere and music after which wasn’t played to late but wouldn’t have bothered us if it was.
Did not use on site facilities only there two nights.
Lovely area to camp but lane to site is one of those tight narrow ones In Places but nothing we’re not used to!

Disliked: Upon our 1st night back after being out for the day there was some one else where we had parked 😕 we were unsure if to park in the next empty space as we didn’t know if that could have been where someone else would be coming back to if they’ve been out for the day.
I called to express this and his reply was, Is there no where else to park any problems call him back as he was offsite. Well yes but In all our years of camping we’ve always booked the space/ pitch and never returned to a free for all as we thought this could cause camping tensions between guests if someone was more particular than us and we had parked where they had previously been . Also although we didn’t need a massive size pitch the second space we parked In Was very close to the two either side of us we were ok with it however they may not have been.
would like to check out the pub, clean facilities close to what we needed to travel to but would maybe request the same pitch as we probably would be in and out daily and we may have liked to have stayed longer and wouldn’t want to be pitch hoping every night.

Anonymous

Liked: Small, quiet and well-kept site with level pitches in a gorgeous location. Host was friendly and gave a good info sheet. Short walk to a great pub.

Disliked: Bathrooms were dated and not the nicest, though appeared clean (we didn’t use them, but had a look).