i have visited this campsite with my family for the past 20 year, i love this site it is so peaceful and quiet when site is not running on full capacity, as there just isnt enough facilities for showers and toilet when site full. The attitude of the onsite staff leaves alot to be desired.

I booked with a friend 2 into wing hall with our caravans over the august bank holiday.
I really would not wish to go through the experience again!!!
The entrance is fantastic......at the top of the drive however it is jammed with cars parked, then you need to go around a U-turn between trees and dustbins to get into the caravanning field, the field was CRAMMED full of tents and caravans, we wove our way through to the allocated spot, we had pre booked so knew the plot number. I then walked back to the farm shop to book in. On the way there I saw a poster on the fence stating that if you pitch up before booking in you will be "fined" by your fees being DOUBLED! This should have sounded alarm bells and I wish we had left then, but took it as though it was "tongue in cheek" and walked on.
I paid for the pitch (2 nights in caravan with 4 adults & 2 kids - No electric or water hook-up in an uneven grass field) only £64! WOW! But it was BH weekend so everywhere is full.
About an hour later an old woman in a Jeep 4x4 turned up and asked why we were there as "no caravans had booked in" we showed her our invoice and she rudely announced we had not paid enough! Apparently £64 for 2 nights should have been £72! What a bargain!!
We had arrived at lunch time and continuously during the afternoon more and more tents and vans turned up. In the end you could hardly move, i cannot believe this was within the rules or planning regulations for this site. Thank god there was no need for an ambulance or if a fire had started.
Now we come to the best bit, the showers and toilets, disgusting is not a strong enough word to use, in addition you have to queue for the privilege, I paid the 50p to use the shower and got a cold shower for my money!
Even at 10 pm both gender toilets were still queuing to be used in the dark.
In addition, to walk back and forth to the toilets and washing area you need to walk through fields with hens wandering about, a lovely site until you realise that the grass is covered in chicken excrement.
We booked for 2 nights but left after one (as did many others judging by the emptying of the field) we begged the owners of a site nearby to squeeze us in and paid again to go there. That is how poor the place is!!
Please believe me, you don’t want to go there, if you don’t believe me, try it at your peril.
I shall be copying this to Rutland Council and all others I can find to listen.

hi, this campsite has a lot of potential, great area, lovely helpful lady on reception. But there are some downsides to this site. First when you drive down the main thoroughfare to your pitch you can feel as though you are in a travellers site, as old and new caravans are stored next to pitches. Those with seasonal pitches have grass and weeds growing high around their vans. Toilets are closed at 10pm, its ok for us with vans but as for those with tents it can be quite annoying.Main gates are closed at 10pm too. Finally be careful of the warden...his manner with peoples children can leave a lot to be desired, he looks as though he just doesnt want to be there, but remember his wife is a lovely lady better to talk to her on reception if you have any problems

Great central location for visits to Scarborough, Bridlington etc... and only 40 minutes from York and Flamingo Land. I have now stayed here 2 years running and would recommend it to anyone especially families as there is a large flat enclosed field for the kids to play in safely. The ice cream parlour is excellent with friendly staff and great tasting ice cream of many wonderful flavours,they also do light lunches at resonable prices. I have found the easiest route is via the A 165 onto the B 1249 through Beeford and onto Skipsea.The only thing i think is missing is maybe a shower block, but for £9.75 (2010 prices) per night with hook up you can't go wrong. I will be visiting for many years to come.

To be honest camping was not our first holiday choice and if it hadn't been for the fact that our 4 year old son thought it would be a great idea we probably wouldn't have gone. It also didn't help that we were camping virgins so we left home kind of expecting the worst.

We were greeted at the entrance by friendly staff who explained that we could pitch where we liked so long as it was within the site boundaries.

We found an open pitch, setup the tent and did our cursory walk around the site (minding the cow and horse manure which our son thought was hilarious). We checked out the kitchen, laundry and shower/toilet blocks which were well stocked and clean and breathed a sigh of relief.

We did realise however that we had pitched too close to the main road and could hear the traffic despite being more than 300 yards away. (Never mind, lesson learned!). Our son loved the whole camping experience and slept better than he normally does at home so wasn’t affected.

We had a fantastic 6 days on site and were thinking of asking if there was an opportunity to stay longer but on the final night we returned late from a day out to find that several large tents had pitched together into a large huddle approx 4 feet from ours (there is a limit of 6 meters) and we had to endure screaming children (and adults) til at least midnight. Shortly after that we were woken by an argument (again between adults) which lasted at least another hour.

Our camping extension idea came to an abrupt halt that evening and we left the next morning with mixed feelings about our stay.

It was a shame that the campsite patrol team didn't notice either how close the group had pitched next to our tent or how disrespectful they were to other campers by making so much noise.

Our overall experience was fantastic and have taken away a few tips for making our next stay a better one - we will simply take more care in our pitch choice (and set a 6 meter land mine perimeter of course) or choose a site where large groups are not permitted.

We are already looking at a better quality tent and look forward to planning our next excursion.

my family have just returned from a weeks holiday in wooler we stayed at highburn house where we have stayed twice before we found the owners very helpful and pleasant on arrival /during and departure the grandkids loved the site as did my wife and myself it is a lovely well layed out site very good value for your money.... a pleasant walk into the village we reccomend the fish/chip shop in wooler we would definatly reccomend this site to anyone we all had a great time on this site yours sincerly jimmy/sheila clough

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To cut a long story short we had a pitch booked to arrive at the site 10AM however due to a slight delay in leaving and unexpected traffic on out trip (Quite a long 3 hour trip) we where a couple of hours late. Upon arrival the owner met us and told us he had been trying to contact us since 11am. I told him that I had not received any calls however my phone had been on a car mount for the whole trip and maybe I had a bad signal.

At this point the owner became very aggressive and accused me of calling him a lier. To which I replied that I was not calling him a lier but just that my phone had not rung.

It transpires that he had already given our pitch away although it was still only 1pm in the afternoon. When I asked him if he had any additional pitches he aggressively told me he did not and it was my own fault. He continued to raise his voice at me at which point I got in my car and drove off to try and find somewhere else.

All in all I'm sure the camp site is very nice but the owner has some serious customer customer service issues that he needs to address with himself.

For this reason I can not recommend this camp site to anyone as if you are a bit late there is every chance that you will be talked to very badly by the owner and have nowhere to stay when you arrive.

A relaxing site to take a break. Lovely clean toilet building. Pitches with their own water and electric. Friendly owner.

Myself and family pre- booked three tents to stay for a weekend camping at Highburn House. We found on arrival that the owners of the site were very obnoxious, rude, abrupt and un-accommodating. We arrived at the site at 9.45pm after a 70 mile drive with a five week old baby and a 3 year old child. Our family consisted of seven adults, two babies and one dog. The owner of the site ran out of her house waving her arms and shouting we don’t accommodate groups on the site. We explained to the lady that we were not a group we are a family and had pre- booked during that week and had given details of gender, ages of family members etc to her husband who had taken the booking. She began screaming at us and accusing us of being liars and said that they would never book three tents onto their site as they don’t have space for that many tents. We politely told the lady that we had travelled quite a long way and had a five week old baby with us, this did not bother her and she told us that she had had problems with people like us before and that we could not stay on her site. We asked her what she meant by ‘people like you’ and asked how she could judge our family before she had even spoken to us. We are a decent, hardworking and responsible family having a weekend break. We had politely tried to reach a solution with the owner to resolve the problem, the owner’s husband sat in the living room watching out of the window. The lady threatened to call the police, which I still don’t understand as we had not and were not causing any trouble, all we wanted was to pitch our tents and have a sleep before exploring the area the following day. The site is advertised to be family friendly with relaxing surroundings. Our family did not find our experience of this particular campsite or the owners to be welcoming or friendly and would certainly not recommend it to anyone.

We found a site called Riverside Holiday Park a little further down the road and explained to the staff what had happened at Highburn House and the staff there bent over backwards to accommodate our family for the weekend and we all had a lovely time.