Name: Finchale Abbey Park
Address: Finchale Abbey, DH1 5SH, Chester-le-Street, United Kingdom, Chester-le-Street, Chester-le-Street, Chester-le-Street, DH1 5SH, United Kingdom
Rating: 8

Smoke-free property

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All Spaces Non-Smoking (public and private)

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Barbeque

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Finchale Priory

Adventure Valley

Newcastle International Airport

Teesside International Airport

Finchale Abbey Park

Chester-le-Street

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Fabulous . So tranquil . All very clean. Staff lovely . Highly recommend , and will be back . Late booking , so glad we could get in . 
Pitches good . 
Lovely river walks . Was a coffee shop , but didn’t get chance to use. Perfect for Beamish. 

Peace and tranquility

We enjoyed our visit around the ruins but would loved to have some information boards to help us with which part was which. But fantastic setting next to The river. Toilets clean  but lack of staff to ask about site

Ok visit

Just come back from this beautiful peaceful site and can't wait to go back. We stayed on T3 fully serviced, ok so they aren't level but went prepared and it took 5 minutes extra to set up. That's what caravanning is all about.

What a find!

I regularly cycle over to this beautiful place for peace and quiet and sometimes buy a coffee at the little cafe. But be please be careful.  I arrived  by bike at 5.30 one evening and was walking with my daughter on the banks of the river. We became aware of a man shouting at some walkers telling them to get  off the property  These people said they had seen some cyclists ( us) and assumed people could go for a walk there. The gentleman (?owner ) became more and more aggressive  began shouting at us reducing my daughter to tears  then walking right up to us. Another  man came up in a golf trolley and seemed to be supporting the first man . They said there were signs stating people were not allowed on the property after 17.30 . The only sign I had seen stated that one was not allowed to park a car  in the picnic area after 17.30  He  showed us a sign at another entry point near a foot bridge but this implied there were no toilet facilities after 17.00 not that you would be extremely unwelcome after that time.  I don't want to discourage people from visiting this wonderful site close to Durham City. Just don't go late evening unless you are prepared to be verbally abused in a very intimidating way.  Reading other reviews I'm not the first to have found staff less than accommodating

An unpleasant viist to a beautiful place

Never been spoken or treated as badly as I am was by the staff here. We are new residence to the area and decided to show the family the beautiful site only to be verbally abused by the caravan park staff. They targeted my deaf father in law, prodding fun and trying to to intimidate by getting in our faces swearing. This is extremely worrying behaviour and I worry for any vulnerable people staying at the site. Not entirely the warm welcome we expected to the area.

Disgusting behaviour from staff

Gorgeous surrounding spoiled by staff members swearing, screaming, insulting and threatening our family. Not only would I not recommend, I would seriously worry for vulnerable people being around such nasty people who are just aiming to bully and intimidate. They even went as far as to take the mick out of my dad for being deaf. Despicable humans.

What a day ruiner

I have never left a review before but I felt the old woman serving food really deserved one. The priory is absolutely lovely, but the kitchen/food place, being privately owned, is not. First the old women tried to tell me what to have, making it seem she was not willing to serve anything except 2 items on the menu. I ordered "scones with cream and jam" which turned out to be as distasteful as her - try whipped cream on some sort of square shaped, sugared tea cake, bready thing (looked liked something from Tesco Everyday Value range). If these were scones, then i was Bojo. On returning to politely raise the issue of false advertising she seemed ready for me/used to making a stand. I had a receipt but she was totally uncooperative, hostile, & making me question my view of reality (some passers by confirmed that these, indeed, were not scones and that whipped cream was not the norm in county durham). Also £4 for the skinniest cheese toastie on a paper plate filled mostly with cheap crisps to cover the space. feels more like they just care about quick profit rather than their fellow humans beings...

Food/cafe place having a bubble

A lovely clean site perched right nect to the lovely Finchale Abbey (Priory).
Facilities were clean and tidy.
The park is looked after exceptionally well and looks lovely. The Easter break didnt mean it was busy but a steady flow of arrivals from the day visitors at the priory went unnoticed.
The walk along the river was lovely and situated 200metres from the park entrance is a gorgeous acre of grass with picnic tables should you prefer to be away from those happy to park on spaces as you come through the gates to the Priory/Abbey.
We have 5 dogs and they were no problem as long as they were on their leads.
A walk shown on the park map is worth the walk from the site, passed HMP Frankland but it is a busy lane to from the park so be aware.



A beautiful location for a touring park

Finchale abby caravan Park is beautiful. It is well cared for and very clean. The walks and bike tracks have a great back drop through woodland and the is also a river. The toilet block is very clean and showers are hot. The people in the shop are very friendly also. It is a great location to use as your base while visiting adventure Valley, Beamish, Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle well basically anywhere in the North East of England there's some terrific beaches on the east coast you can visit

Finchale abbey caravan park

Well this wasn’t something I thought I would enjoy too much at this time of year as I like my comforts but what an amazing night and experience!!!   This cute little pod was lovely!!!     It was very clean… we did push the two single beds together and popped a king size sheet over it( you have to take own bedding etc).   The one thing that would have been nice was maybe a little kettle in the pod I love my coffee as soon as I wake up and didn’t want to hang around untill 10am when the shop opens on site….   The location of the pods is fantastic beautiful views and plenty turkeys running around ha!!

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