Croft Farm Water Park, Tewkesbury

17 – 19 June 2022

With a big beautiful blue lake, Croft Farm was the obvious choice for our next Paddle boarding trip. Easily accessible form the M5 motorway with no narrow roads making the it an ideal motorhome journey.

You have to check in first at the reception which doesn’t have parking for motorhomes or caravans so its a quick perch blocking in other cars before heading to our pitch. Once there we didn’t know whether we needed to pitch to the left or right as there’s normally site rules and we found out that with gravel pitches even the canopy needs to be on the gravel which isn’t ideal but rules are rules.

On the day of arrival the weather was glorious and the males decided to go straight onto the lake with their paddle boards.

Unfortunately I got mainly videos which I can’t add to this site so this is the only photo I have of Mr B on a paddle board!

After such a beautiful day we relaxed in the evening ready for a full day of paddle boarding and kayaking the next day…however, it rained all day. Dark skies and cold winds meant a day of games in the motorhome.

Even though we have a sink for washing up, we tend to use the site washing up facilities to reduce the need to fill up with water and empty the grey waste. The washing up facilities at Croft Farm are by far the worst we’ve ever seen. There was no shelter so if it rains all day you have to wash up in the rain. The sink were constantly blocked and full of rancid dirty water so we never actually successfully washed up on site. I felt very sorry for the tenters who had to other way of washing up. This site charges premium prices for their pitches but the facilities are well below par. The toilet and shower block was uncomfortable to use with very basic cover between cubicles. Again if you pay basic prices you don’t mind but our pitch cost £42 a night.

Having said that despite the facilities the main draw is the lake and that is probably the reason for the high pitch price.