Hi Colin,Hi All - My wife and I arrived home at mid afternoon on Sunday after an excellent week at Plassey Leisure Park. The site was all it is shown in the brochure and very quiet and relaxing. Toilet/wc amenities were very clean and plenty of free hot water to the showers. The staff when needed were also very helpful and obliging. The wildlife on site is not so wild - the ducks would eat out of your hand and also come into the awning. Lovely walks around the site/golf course and also small garden centre (wife bought four tomato plants first day of visit so had to water each day, bring them in the van each night from possible frost and gently carry them home)
The site is very central for places to visit such as Chester, Llandudno, Llangollen, etc. and the roads were very goad with easy access to the site off the Oswestry - Wrexham road.
The only down side was the fact we had to come home (back to reality).
Hi Jo,Hi reply to gill about the fishing at The Plassy, we booked this site because it had 7 lakes, now, to say they were ponds would be an exageration 2 had no water, 2 were puddles with no fish, 1 was no more than 6feet across, 1 was fishable but nothing over .5lb and never did find the 7th. this is not the place to go if you want fishing, under the trade description act i dont know who regulates this but it wants looking into. the site was good very clean, but if its fun you want this is not the place as no noise after 11 and they do come round and tell you to be quiet. hope this helps
Hi JohnHi Jo,
I sorry you were disappointed with the fishing, but in my defence I would say........
1) We only advertise we have 5 small fishing ponds - this can be confirmed by looking at any of the website / literature on my park. You only have to look at an earlier posting of mine on this chat forum to check this.
2) Last summer we experienced exceptionally dry weather, and I agree the water levels did drop......but you are wrong to say the ponds were like you discribe.
3) Fishing in the ponds is FREE OF CHARGE. If you want to find some larger fish, I can gradly show you lots of commercial fisheries that would happily charge you the privilage to do so.
4) I make no apologies for the No Late Night Noise after 11.00pm rules. If you want to party after that time.....I don't want you on my park!
To be frank lots of people & families are delighted with this rule at The Plassey......and it lets them have a decent nights sleep. Why else do we find so may people returning again and again?
Happy holidays,
John Brookshaw Owner The Plassey Leisure Park
The fishing ponds (not lakes!!) are on average 15 metres across.....and there is a mixture of roach, tench & carp.Jo
Thanks for that info re the fishing,although a pleasure fisherman as opposed to match hubby is pretty serious about it
If the sites are near enough we generally go to check them out first after the experience we had at Serles where the two lakes were the size of a goldfish bowl and the fishing platforms were so far above the water the rod wouldnt reach,not to mention a fiver a session which was half a day 9-1 & 1-5 which was not much use in the heat of summer
If John would like to comment further on the size of lakes and size,variety of fish,happy to hear
Gill