Meelmore Lodge - Hostel

Myself and the kids camp here as often as possible and love the place , Dessie and the staff are fantastic. I have read some reviews here and think this is not a true refection on this place. Dessie even went out of his busy schedule to go and collect a young lady who hurt her knee and he assisted on giving her a lift in his Quad.

Honestly I don’t know where to begin. We camped one night and were woken by half naked man hassling the girls wanting into their car with them. We all got in our cars and left the campsite out of fear of our safety. When we came back in the morning, the toilets had been vandalised with blood everywhere. When we reported this explaining how petrified we were and wanting to call the police, the owner just brushed it off like it was just an odd occurrence. No attempt at an apology or refund, nor anything done about the man harassing us. There is some CCTV but conveniently broken around the toilets. Owners are more concerned about money then their customers safety!

Me and my partner stayed here for two nights on the 9th September and it was great. We were able to have our car next to our tent plus a 3 metre gazebo plus room for our BBQ area. Although I think space is more restricted during the busy summer. The campsite is on a hill so we took the gazebo down 6.30 am on the second morning as the wind picked up and we've only got cheap pegs. We just turned up without having to book and got to pick out where we wanted to camp. Then paid at the reception next to the cafe. (Receptionist was lovely) The views are amazing and so is the little cafe where we ate breakfast on the second morning as we couldn't be bothered to cook. Although it doesn't offer electric hookups it does let you charge your phones in the cafe (also free WiFi), outside the cafe and in the dishwashing room. Toilets and showers were really good considering we had people constantly in and out with hiking boots. Noise levels were kept low even though we had many families staying, a few single campers, a group on a stag doo and kids doing Duke or Edinburgh or some other award. (These stop too the right of the toilets, away from other campers) so the site was busy. It's also a dog friendly site. Another reason we loved camping here is it's the 1st campsite that the owner came around and asked if we needed a fire pit as it was going to be cold. He provided wood (2x£5) as well. We didn't end up getting a fire pit but later regretted this as it did get really cold. Owner was nice and said it's not normally this busy in September. We will definitely be back next spring/summer this time with our daughter.