Woodland Springs Touring Park in Devon
Address: Drewsteignton, Exeter, EX6 6PG
Telephone: 01647 231695
Email: Click to email
Website: Click to visit
Pitches: 77
Season: All Year
A caravan and camping site exclusively for adults situated in the Dartmoor National Park in Devon. This is a tranquil and secluded site that caters for caravans, motor homes and tents. Access is quick and easy from the A30. Ideal for those wishing to see the beautiful Dartmoor, the lovely cathedral city of Exeter and the delightful county of Devon. We are also an ideal base for discovering Plymouth, Cornwall and the South West. We are surrounded by farm and woodland with some walks from the site with many other walks within easy reach. We are a Practical Caravan Top 100 Site for 2010 and our toilet/shower block won a 5 star award in the 2010 Loo of the Year competition, we also have WiFi.
Telephone: 01647 231695
Email: Click to email
Website: Click to visit
Pitches: 77
Season: All Year
A caravan and camping site exclusively for adults situated in the Dartmoor National Park in Devon. This is a tranquil and secluded site that caters for caravans, motor homes and tents. Access is quick and easy from the A30. Ideal for those wishing to see the beautiful Dartmoor, the lovely cathedral city of Exeter and the delightful county of Devon. We are also an ideal base for discovering Plymouth, Cornwall and the South West. We are surrounded by farm and woodland with some walks from the site with many other walks within easy reach. We are a Practical Caravan Top 100 Site for 2010 and our toilet/shower block won a 5 star award in the 2010 Loo of the Year competition, we also have WiFi.
Reviews of Woodland Springs Touring Park
This summer my wife and I went this campsite, which was so unsuitable for our needs that we could not stay, even though this meant we lost our £60 deposit.
We have both been camping for most of our lives (myself for over 40 years) and this has never happened to us before. We have never seen so much gravel and such little grass- it felt like a caravan storage facility.
The only good point was the quietness except for the owner’s two dogs yapping and barking.
The campsite information asked for suggestions- ours would be for the owners to pack their tent and visit some other campsites to see how they should be run and how nice they are and also how to treat people who are on holiday. We had just travelled from a lovely site in North Devon. After leaving but not staying at Woodland Springs we soon found a beautiful site with friendly welcoming owners, grass and beautiful views, unfortunately unlike this one.
We give this one star- apparantly the toilets are ok
We have both been camping for most of our lives (myself for over 40 years) and this has never happened to us before. We have never seen so much gravel and such little grass- it felt like a caravan storage facility.
The only good point was the quietness except for the owner’s two dogs yapping and barking.
The campsite information asked for suggestions- ours would be for the owners to pack their tent and visit some other campsites to see how they should be run and how nice they are and also how to treat people who are on holiday. We had just travelled from a lovely site in North Devon. After leaving but not staying at Woodland Springs we soon found a beautiful site with friendly welcoming owners, grass and beautiful views, unfortunately unlike this one.
We give this one star- apparantly the toilets are ok
Response from Woodland Springs Touring Park:
This couple were on a pitch that was 1/3 stone flanked by 2 areas of grass for sitting on and awnings, this is then flanked by Budlia's on one side and tall grasses on the other. We must point out that this couple were in a VW camper van and not a tent. We keep our grass pitches for tents and some caravans (some are exclusively for tents only), camper vans and motorhomes are only put on pitches with stone. We are open all year so we must have a good proportion of pitches which are either all or partial stone to service our winter trade. 44 of our 77 pitches have some degree of stone. Over the winter of 2010 we will be creating some extra grass pitches for tents only.
His initial complaint was that his awning wouldn't fit on the pitch so we offered him a pitch which is slightly larger on the awning side. He turned this down and asked for a particular grass pitch that is actually narrower than the one he was on. It became apparent that he wanted a grass only pitch. He said he didn't want to stay and demanded his money back, we pointed out that our T&C's say no refunds if a stay is cancelled within 7 days, at this stage he was getting rude and aggressive. As a gesture of goodwill we agreed to his wifes request to return the balance above the deposit but the gentleman had lost his cool and stormed off yelling that if we didn't give him the balance back he would write the worst review ever, even though we had already agreed to this request.
Apparently our toilets are OK!! Well anyone who has been here knows that our toilet block is excellent (2010 Loo of the Year 5 Star award winning in fact) and as many customers tell us on a daily basis.
Chris and Jan have been Caravanning for over 30 years and base Woodland Springs on what we wanted out of a Touring Site. We must be doing something right as we have a very high satisfaction and return rate of customers and excellent reviews on many web sites and in our Vistors Book but unfortunatley no-one is going to please everyone all the time and this was obviously one of those times.
This couple were on a pitch that was 1/3 stone flanked by 2 areas of grass for sitting on and awnings, this is then flanked by Budlia's on one side and tall grasses on the other. We must point out that this couple were in a VW camper van and not a tent. We keep our grass pitches for tents and some caravans (some are exclusively for tents only), camper vans and motorhomes are only put on pitches with stone. We are open all year so we must have a good proportion of pitches which are either all or partial stone to service our winter trade. 44 of our 77 pitches have some degree of stone. Over the winter of 2010 we will be creating some extra grass pitches for tents only.
His initial complaint was that his awning wouldn't fit on the pitch so we offered him a pitch which is slightly larger on the awning side. He turned this down and asked for a particular grass pitch that is actually narrower than the one he was on. It became apparent that he wanted a grass only pitch. He said he didn't want to stay and demanded his money back, we pointed out that our T&C's say no refunds if a stay is cancelled within 7 days, at this stage he was getting rude and aggressive. As a gesture of goodwill we agreed to his wifes request to return the balance above the deposit but the gentleman had lost his cool and stormed off yelling that if we didn't give him the balance back he would write the worst review ever, even though we had already agreed to this request.
Apparently our toilets are OK!! Well anyone who has been here knows that our toilet block is excellent (2010 Loo of the Year 5 Star award winning in fact) and as many customers tell us on a daily basis.
Chris and Jan have been Caravanning for over 30 years and base Woodland Springs on what we wanted out of a Touring Site. We must be doing something right as we have a very high satisfaction and return rate of customers and excellent reviews on many web sites and in our Vistors Book but unfortunatley no-one is going to please everyone all the time and this was obviously one of those times.
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Site Features
• Dogs allowed• Disabled access
• Laundry on site
• Shop nearby
• Cafe/Bar nearby
• Tents allowed
• Touring caravans allowed
• Motorhomes allowed







