35th Trip
Windy Harbour Farm Hotel, Glossop, Derbyshire, Private Site 31st Aug – 5th Sept 2009

Windy Harbour Farm Hotel is a hotel with a small private caravan site situated next to it on a working farm.  Set in a rural location just outside Glossop, High Peak, with views over the Woodhead and Longdendale on the edge of the Peak District, it was a site recommended by friends we were visiting in nearby Hadfield who had her 21st Birthday and Wedding Ceremony in the hotel. They also stayed at this site in their own caravan many moons ago.  Since we wanted to move away from Topley Head Farm, we decided to settle here for the remainder of our stay in the Peak District.

http://www.peakdistrict-hotel.co.uk

Mixed feelings about this one to be honest.  At £12 per night, I guess it's reasonable for a private site but given it was more like a Caravan Club CL, it's a tad overpriced. There's a toilet and washroom next to the hotel but no shower. There are two entrances into the first car park which the entrance to the site comes off, both are a tight turn, even for our small 2 berth single axle caravan.  The site itself is quite nice with 6 pitches, 5 of them single hardstanding (gravel) pitches with a grassy area for an awning and the 6th being a double-sized hardstanding nearest the gate which we were on.  It's reasonably sheltered too.  The main 5 pitches had the typical EHU bollard but the one nearest the gate had what appeared to be a rather run-down and crude EHU supply housing next to a Calor Gas supply cage, now rather overgrown.  This really could do with some work to bring it back to what was probably a very nice site. 

On many sites we've been on, we've seen horses, cows, sheep, cats and dogs but never a Llama!  Yep!  Meet Eric the Llama who lives on the site too and, unless locked in his own compound in a corner of the site, he is free-roaming around the caravan site.  He seemed friendly enough although wouldn't let you get too close to him but (thankfully) didn't spit at you.  The only thing that I wasn't too impressed with was he used the front of the main entrance gate as his toilet!

The water and Elsan point was situated on the side of the hotel which meant leaving the site via the side gate and walking across the two car parks to reach them.  Not a vast distance but far enough to be a bit of a pain.  At least the car parks were clean and not muddy fields.  On the plus side, there's some stunning views of the High Peaks with Woodhead and Snake Pass nearby.

We stayed a night longer than intended here because my wife suffered a bad migraine on the day we meant to pack up and leave.  Fortunately, they let us stay another night.
 

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