Reviews of Nrma Lake Somerset Holiday Park

Huge park in a beautiful location. Good sized caravan sites and easily accessed. However, this park attracts big numbers of campers in holiday times, and campers don't have access to their own facilities. The park has 6 facilities blocks. Sounds impressive but the actual numbers are poor. A total of 12 mens showers and 12 ladies for the whole location. Also, many of the facilities are not open in 'quiet times' and most of the facilities are not close to the main caravan and camping sites. When you can get one, the showers have good water pressure and are hot - but you have to hang everything you take into the shower on ONE hook. Also the toilets (just a few more than showers) aren't equipped with a toilet brush. All of the rubbish bins and the one dump point are located hundreds of metres from most caravan and camping sites. Not a caravan park laid out with customers at the forefront of design. Best to go in quiet times but not in school holidays and on busy weekends. On a positive note we experienced a grey water blockage and overflow - and this was dealt with and resolved within minutes.

The Dam and its surrounds are just beautiful. That makes it all the more disappointing that attention to detail with the accommodation is lacking. We had a 2 bedroom chalet for a weekend. It is a 4 sleeper but had only one wine glass! There is no oven, only a 2plate electric stove and a microwave so one clearly opts for BBQ meals but there was no barbeque tongs and no grids to place meat on. There are stainless steel BBQs but the open fire BBQ is really so much more camp style. The washing up liquid comes in squeeze sachet and is really weak and quite useless. What's wrong with a small bottle which they can fill as appropriate. Oh yes and just 2 face cloths for 4 people. The coffee and tea mugs-cups are so thick and unappealing one has cold drinks most of the time because your drink has to first warm up the thick crockery! Just all round disappointing - yet we pay a very decent rate??

We have stayed there previously in a cabin but decided to book a glamping tent. After making the booking we read reviews and people said there is no bathroom and no kitchen. It is not worth paying for a tent with no facilities. We cancelled and lost our money .