Aberlour Gardens Caravan Park
Aberlour on Spey
Moray
AB38 9LD

Tel/Fax: 01340 871 586

E-mail: Via the web site
Web site: www.aberlourgardens.co.uk/

This private site is hidden away behind Charlestown of Aberlour. The wardens have been on the site about 18 months and are friendly, helpful and enthusiastic.

The site is well laid out with plenty of room on each pitch.
There are many trees so be wary of dropping pine cones, but the combination of trees and the walls provided a secluded sheltered site.

We were on site the weekend of the Highland Games and the site was full...however the basic facilities were kept clean all weekend as was the site.
One point to note on busy weekends the play park opposite the on site shop gets busy with youngsters!

The village is a short walk and has the basics plus many local attractions, for the fisherman you are right on the Spey and Rothes Trout Fishery (web site) is not far up the road.

This would make an excellent base for a tour of Speyside and Moray and as a bonus Caravan Club members get a 10% discount.

David Benison. CLIC. August 2006

Delnies Wood Caravan Park (C & CC site)
Delnies Wood
Nairn
Morayshire
Scotland
IV12 5NX

Tel. 01667 455 281
Fax. 01667 455 437

Web site: Reference only. http://www.bigfreeguide.com/delnies-wood-caravan-park..

Map Ref. 027/847551

Dogs welcome

The third site on our Summer Trek was at Nairn just along the coast from Inverness.

This is a newly acquired site for the C&CC. It was originally Delnies Wood Caravan Site. We mention the original name because the C&CC sign is small, runs parallel with the road and is easily missed. We know , we missed it and had to drive into Nairn to turn round easily.
The Delnies Wood signs are larger and set at an angle to the road. Also Delnies Wood is signposted from well outside the area.

The site is 2.5 west of Nairn on the south side of the A96. It is set in a sheltered pine wood just of the main road (not too noisy) in approx. 3.5 acres of well-used fairly level ground. At present about 75-80 pitches are in use (nearly all caravan pitches with mains hook-up). There are some static vans on site but these are being removed to extend the site to about 150 pitches. The work is due to start at the end of the season and will be well under way for next year. The showers and toilets are clean but have not yet been upgraded to the high C&CC standard. The site has a recreation room with a pool table in it and its dog walk is about 2.5 miles of pine woods at the back of the site.

The site is ideal for visiting Nairn itself. The area is full of history with Fort George, Cawdor Castle (the setting for the Shakespeare’s Scottish Play), Clava Cairns, Kilravock Castle and, of course, Culloden are all well within an hour’s drive. Loch Ness is just about an hour away (at least the northern end).

For an extended day trip Ullapool, Skye and the Hebrides (at a pinch) are reachable. Somewhat easier to get to are the Moray Firth (with its dolphins), the Whiskey Trail, Speyside, the Cairngorms Royal Deeside and Aberdeen. We managed to reach John o’Groats in less than 3 hours in spite of some sea mist on the road. There is a ferry to Orkney from there as well. The area has plenty to offer the tourist and is well worth a visit.

John Trace. CLIC. August 1999

Nairn Lochloy Caravan Park
Harbour Road
Nairn
Morayshire.

Part of the Parkdean group of sites. A typical commercial "holiday factory" with over 350 sited static vans, clubhouse, swimming pool, bar, play areas. Plenty for kids to do if they are bored, kids club and entertainers.

The toilets are tired to say the least, and the touring area gives the impression of being an afterthought that Parkdean are stuck with, badly marked very bare pitches, little or no landscaping, we spent five days with a view of two large Calor Gas Propane tanks.

The location of the site is however superb, on a beautiful fine white type sandy beach and a few minutes walk from Nairn town centre. A cycle track also gives safe access beside River Nairn into town. Small harbour beside site entrance. Public has access thru site at all times to beach and sand dunes.

The bar meals on site ok, there is a selection of takeaways and restaurants in Nairn itself. I recommend a visit to Black Isle and Inverness, about 20km away West. Eastwards there is Elgin and other North Eastern towns. Dolphin watch trips from harbour, about £15.00 per head.

there were no midgies when we were there, and 27 degrees plus! There are buses from Inverness through Nairn, Where you can walk from town centre bus-stop maybe 1.5 to 2km.

We visited and stayed in July 2003, alright if you can stand the commercial aspects. We did complain about things and they were quick to respond, but basically we felt the staff were geared to "static" campers and didn’t really understand touring as a concept.

Mel & Ella Evans. CLIC. July 2003

Speyside C & CC Site--- Second report below
Elchies by Craigellachie
Aberlour
Morayshire
Scotland
AB38 9SD

Tel: 01340 810 414. (no calls after 20:00)

Directions:
From the south leave the A9 at Carbridge. Follow the A95 to Grantown-on-Spey and onto Aberlour. Leave Aberlour on A941 - Do not turn right into Craigellachie - take next left turn B9102 signpost ’Archiestown’, site on the left (3 miles).

Facilities:
Toilets, showers, washing-up sinks, laundry, toilet and shower for the disabled, motor caravan service point, chemical disposal point and play area. Plus very good and long dog walk.

Just returned from 3 nights at this C&CC site - actually it is just outside Archiestown, other side of the river Spey from Aberlour (of Walkers biscuits fame - too yummy by half). Lovely site on hillside overlooking the Spey valley. Plenty of hard standings as the site is converted from a wartime prisoner of war camp. In fact the toilet block building is a typical wartime ’camp’ building, although, I hasten to add, well modernised. Plenty of toilets and washbasins, 4 showers for ladies and same for gents. Plenty of (very) hot water. Sinks available for dishwashing and veg preparation.
Plenty of spaces for tents, etc. Good play park with climbing frame, etc and large field for ball games. Although the Holiday Site Manager (what a mouthfull) said that not many families use the site. Shame as it is quiet with lots of space for youngsters. TV reception is good too. Very friendly and laid back Site Managers who supply milk, rolls and papers to order. I think they will also freeze icepacks for campers. Good restuarant and bar just 300 yards up the road.
Craigellachie and Aberlour short drive away - good pub in Aberlour (Mashed Tun) which allows dogs in, has &'146;real ale&146; and does a good range of ’pub’ meals.

Best advantage for those of us who are recycled teenagers is that the C&CC has decreased the age level for site discounts to a very young 55 - we saved almost £10 on the 3 nights. AND - the discount is in the high season on this site - mainly because I think recycled teenagers are its main users.
So - definately worth a visit, we shall certainly be returning there.

Jan Bain. CLIC. July 2003

This upadate received August 2006

Spent last weekend at this site. Full of families about half in tents - great to see groups of children enjoying themselves in the (large) play area - rounders seemed to be the favourite. What a difference good weather and school holidays makes to a site.

Jan Bain. CLIC. August 2006

Speyside C & CC Site
Elchies by Craigellachie
Aberlour
Morayshire
Scotland
AB38 9SD

Tel: 01340 810 414. (no calls after 20:00)

Directions:
From the south leave the A9 at Carbridge. Follow the A95 to Grantown-on-Spey and onto Aberlour. Leave Aberlour on A941 - Do not turn right into Craigellachie - take next left turn B9102 signpost ’Archiestown’, site on the left (3 miles).

We have had 2 visits to this site this year - both times with grandchildren in tow.

It is built on the site of a WWII prisoner of war camp, hard standings are bases of accommodation blocks etc, shower block is the cell block.
There are a few hardstanding pitches but most are grass, site slopes so, apart from the few hardstandings at the top of the site, you will need levelling ramps although most pitches don’t have too much of a slope.
The bottom of the site can be very wet in rainy conditions - at Easter you squelched as you walked round at the bottom - in August just one part was still soft (there are no pitches on this area).

As a C&CC site tents, trailer tents are accepted as well as caravans and motorhomes.
Pitches are of a good size, plenty of hookups for electricity although there are some non electric pitches for tenters. Very friendly wardens who keep the toilets and site up to the usual C&CC standards.

There are good views over the Spey Valley from majority of pitches, plenty of wildlife to see, there is a board to register sightings - varied from deer to plovers and lots in between, there is also a resident colony of bats at one end of the toilet block.

The showers are rather dated but the C&CC is constrained by the fact of the building being so old - don’t think they would be allowed to knock it down.
There are four showers each for ladies and gents plus a unisex large disabled washroom, plenty of toilets and handbasins. Two washing up sinks and a washing machine complete the facilities.

There is a good sized children’s play area at the top of the site - complete with swings and a climbing frame plus lots of space to play with balls etc.

This is an ideal site for families as there is plenty of space for the children to run around plus you are within easy driving distance of the beaches of the Moray Firth and in the other direction the Cairngorm national park.
There’s a Co-op supermarket in Aberlour, about 5 minutes drive away, plus a very good butcher and a superb delicatessen. There are also several eating places in Aberlour and a new one has just opened in Archiestown (3 or 4 minute drive away).

You are also in amongst the Whisky Trail - Aberlour distillery is very close and has one of the best tours and, of course, the whisky is superb!!!!

Jan Bain. CLIC. August 2009

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