For the first Christmas ever, we went for a little festive stay at Bluestone National Park Resort in Wales.
In this blog post, I will share my honest review of what it’s like to stay at Bluestone between Christmas and New Year (known as a Twixmas break). I will review all the activities and facilities we used during our stay, including Kingdom of the Elves!
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We’d recently bought a Mazda Bongo Friendee with a pop top and wanted to start using it for camping trips around the UK.
It wasn’t a full camper conversion, but it gave us enough space to sleep and travel comfortably, and the idea was to use it for simple camping trips rather than anything complicated. Park up, explore on foot, and see how we got on.
For our first trip, we chose Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula and stayed at Greenways of Gower campsite. We’d never been there before, but it seemed like a sensible place to start, a well-known campsite with amazing views and scenery, coastal walking routes nearby, and a beach within easy walking distance.
We kept the trip short and went without the kids. Just one night, enough time to get used to sleeping in the van, work out what we’d packed unnecessarily, and note the things we’d want to change or add for future trips.
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