CCC • View topic - Longleat C.C. site, Warminster, Wiltshire

A very large, nice site up to the usual C.C. standards.
It can be very busy especially in school holidays as we found out. If you need it quieter go the dog walk end which is the opposite end to the play area. The dog walk end is to the left looking from the site entrance.
We were lucky because we got a pitch next to the dog walk. The dog walk isn't very big so we walked them along the approach road verge which was nice until the phantom night walker allowed their large dog to keep shitting on there without clearing it up

Longleat itself can be expensive, see ... http://www.longleat.co.uk/your-visit/prices-standard.html
for prices. Even then there are additions to some attractions.
A trip around the lake on the miniature railway is 1 mile long and takes 10 minutes, cost £4 Shocked

A bit expensive for a family of five.

Below I've copied my post on PCv ...

Well Lady Luck was looking after us again. Although the site was always full and as one unit left another had it's pitch within 15 minutes we managed to get pitch 29 which was next to the dog walk.
As you know the kids was off on holiday and although we didn't know it at the time the play area was at the other end of the site and wasn't we glad because our end was quieter :O)
Also opposite there were grass pitches which weren't in use which made it nice and open although one chap thought it alright just before leaving to walk his dog on there for a dump. He did at least pick it up but then he put it in the normal bins despite there being a dog walk plus poo bins just 20 paces from him.
Next door the family had taken over the grass area between us with bikes, BBQ and swingball which was about 3 feet from my car. No accidents so there were no heads ripped off.
On the open space some kids thought it great fun trying to run over a pair of ducks on their bikes. I went out and told them to clear off just as one of their fathers rode up. He must have seen them but didn't even say 'oh you naughty little darlings'.
And finally ... heh! heh! heh!
... why do parents let 3 year old kids on bikes with stabilisers on just wander off. I was driving back to our van when I came across a pair of them in the road. I stopped and waited for them to move but the cute little buggers just sat there. Eventually one rode off and as I thought the other was following I started to move off just to see the little **** do a circle and stop in front of me again. He did move off just as I was about to hit the horn and watch him jump out of his skin and hopefully draw some 'parents' attention to what their feral kiddies are up to.
Apart from that we had a good time .. heh! heh! heh!
In fairness to Jo-Anne I could imagine some of what she described going on although the well mannered/behaved kids far outnumbered those who were let lose to do their own thing.
What did strike me about the site and because it was always full was how laidback the wardens were. There was no having to be off site by 12. The earliest I saw people arrive was 8.40am and the latest leaving at 8pm.
On the site there was some contraption which I can only describe as a speaker on a pole. Her Ladyship asked me what it was so keeping a straight face and off the top of my head I told her it's a siren they set off if a lion escapes. On the Friday she just gone out with one of the dogs when a siren did go off. I've never seen the missus be so quick taking the dog for a walk arriving back puffing and panting like the dog.
Apparently they test the sirens every Friday morning. I'm not sure if it's because of escaping lions though.
Would I go again? No, not because it's not a nice site but because we have now exhausted that area. If I did go again though it would be when it's quieter.

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