Hotels near Reffley Spring Wood, Kings Lynn

The correct postcode was in the satnav for mYminiBreak, yet it was still tricky to find! On the approach to the site and as you crest a small hill in the road, your eyes are immediately drawn to the right, where a big and vibrant sign is tied to a fence advertising holiday caravans. Pretty soon after passing this sign you realise you’ve driven too far, so you turn around and quite easily drive past the mYminiBreak site again. After turning around a second time and driving to the postcode, you might notice the mYminiBreak sign if you’re lucky. It is set back and behind another building and hard to spot from the approach! Parking and following signs on foot to the site office, I came upon a handwritten scrawl on a gate marked private. Loudly calling ‘hello’, Nigel pops his head out from behind a computer in a room to my immediate left, I thought this was just a storage room full of old and dusty computers, but apparently it was functioning as a reception area. NOT WELCOMING AT ALL AND CERTAINLY NOT A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION! To make matters worse, my elderly mother had to use the broken breeze blocks to step up and gain access to the office. It was at this point my mother was having doubts about staying here at all. Nigel checked us in to our two stables/cabins and showed us around. Perfectly fine, but when he asked who we booked with and I told him *******, he pulled a face a face and said, ‘that’s unusual’, as if we were some form of lesser customer because we had used a genuine site where the accommodation is advertised. This is when I thought about telling Nigel to forget it and we’d find somewhere else to stay! The two rooms we were sleeping in were as advertised and in as perfect an order as you would expect, but over the next couple of days this appeared not to be the case! When it went dark it appeared the lighting in my room, ‘Pebbles’, was insufficient and poor, with the room not having a main light on the ceiling. The veranda outside hosted a table and two chairs for each of the four rooms, which is a great little touch, but not when the veranda isn’t covered from the rain, the cushions get wet and have then become mouldy! Furthermore there are wooden planters outside the cabins on the veranda. They had not been maintained, so what could have been an attractive addition to the cottages, was just an eyesore of plants in their plastic garden centre pots placed in the wooden surround. Simialrly, the hanging baskets had been planted in a slap dash manner and still contained the tags in them. In general this summed up the unkempt and lazily maintained holiday lets, as well as camping and glamping site, that is suffering from a serious lack of love! I noticed my bedside lamp had a crack in it and moved it to get a better look, that’s when it fell apart in my hand! The broken shards of China would be very dangerous if it was night time and you were barefoot, a perfectly reasonable thing to be while in bed and the broken shards ended up on t

Visited my birth town Wisbech for the Rock Festival, but since my parents had a full house, we decided to leave our kids with them, and stay at the historic Rose and Crown, about which we've read so much in Andy Ketley's book series on local pubs. The economic state of Wisbech hasn't been kind to the Rose and Crown (or the town in general), and the (hopefully temporary) loss of restaurant and bar at the Rose and Crown is very sad. That said, our brief stay was fine. It was, in effect, no frills, and what you get is similar to a stay in a Travelodge, but in a far-more-interesting building. Mario, the gentleman on the desk, was lovely. We will likely stay again.