Cirencester Park Caravan Club Site has a great deal going for it including well laid out pitches, it’s only a 15 minute stroll into the centre of Cirencester and it’s adjacent to a country park.

The site is run to the clubs usual excellent standards but there were a couple of negative points I noticed when we were there a week ago.

• The first of which was that they only had one booking in point in reception so although there were two wardens on duty they could only book one person in at a time.

• The second was that although there are 217 pitches, and at this time of the year I would imagine these are full most of the time, I don’t consider the toilet amenities adequate for that number, especially when you consider the average number of people per pitch must be 3 at least.

This leads me on to a particular bugbear that I have with regard to the planning of toilet blocks by the Caravan Club.

Why is it that the Caravan Club insist on installing so many privacy cubicles at the expense of toilets and showers. One of the blocks at Cirencester Park has more privacy cubicles than toilets so whilst I had to queue for a toilet and then a shower the privacy cubicles were unused. Surely the Caravan Club needs to review it’s planning strategy and start equipping toilet blocks with what their customers want now and not what we may have wanted 30 years ago.  In any case, if you have a Motorhome or a Caravan then you have your own privacy cubicle anyway.  I also consider shared privacy cubicles as unhygenic and would never use one myself, let’s be honest and to the point, who knows what’s been washed in the basin prior to when you use it.

You also need to be careful with your choice of pitch at Cirencester Park if you like the sun because there is a lot of shade created by the trees in and around the site. Now obviously sun or shade can be a good thing depending on your requirements so you just need to be careful which pitch you choose so that you get what you want.

We also found the service road to the tennis courts, cricket club and the site had a lot of traffic and some of this was being driven way too fast, so you need to take care when walking on this road out of the site.

I do hope this post hasn’t come across as being negative in any way, it wasn’t meant to be I can assure you. I just thought I’d try to be a little constructive. Please let me know if you disagree or if you have similar views.