Change to motorhome parking at the kelpies

[RichardHelen262]

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[SimonM]

We were there just prior to the changeover and told about it by the very helpful staff there. We stopped there on 2 evenings and then used the toilet facilities in the morning to empty the cassette. It’s a more impressive sight when it is dark and the Kelpies are lit up. It was still too light at 11pm for good pictures.

 

[bartman]

I hope the 10pm deadline means that the car park will be closed off to prevent entry of the boy racers who were there in the previous years when there was overnighting in the main car park.
I think they would take a dim view of it if they saw you emptying the cassette in the toilets too

 

[Biggarmac]

I hope the 10pm deadline means that the car park will be closed off to prevent entry of the boy racers.
I think they would take a dim view of it if they saw you emptying the cassette in the toilets too

CAMpRA have a fund (to which many on this forum donated) to help community enterprises put in proper waste points. If you stopover somewhere that has a toilet but no proper waste point suggest they look on www.campra.org.uk for details.

 

[SimonM]

Well actually, I asked permission from the attendants at the booth before I did it. I was also permitted to park up opposite the toilets to enable my wife to access the disabled unit.

 

[bartman]

Well actually, I asked permission from the attendants at the booth before I did it. I was also permitted to park up opposite the toilets to enable my wife to access the disabled unit.

Point taken. As a matter of interest, when you stayed did they lock the car park to prevent rowdy boy racers from entering?

 

[SimonM]

Yes, I was still having to remain at the small external car park overnight as this was before the proposed change. We walked down the pathway in the evening, and on our return made the error of coming back up the road to the locked gates. We were very fortunate that rather than having to send my wife half the way back to the actual walkway on her electric wheelchair 2 chaps also on their way back scrambled down the bank and helped me to lift it over the gates.

I have to add to this, that on several occasions we were assisted by quite a number of people at sites we visited while in Scotland on their seeing my wife’s blue badge and/or her chair. This included the time we went to visit a brogh on Orkney, when her chair wouldn’t fit through the entry way. I was then allowed to enter free of charge and to take as much time and photos as I wanted to try to make up for the lack of access for her.

Scotland is as far away from home here in Devon as is possible, but is always a favourite destination for us, so much more welcoming than here in England.

 

[Wooie1958]

Somewhere we might now consider again The last time we stayed there was a fcuking nightmare with the boy-racers