Cheshire, Wrenbury, The Cotton Arms Review

Overall Rating

Great location in a small village in Cheshire, right next to the canel.

The website says that the site has toilets and showers, there is one toilet for the whole site and it is disgusting, it smells, it is filthy and it's dark and dingy. I didn't use the 1 shower, but if the toilet is anything to go by, I wouldn't bother! Save your £1!.

Other facilities advertised was take away food, we imagined a chip shop or curry house, but the only take away offered is from the pub, until 9.30pm at night.

The Cotton Arms camp site is located in a lovely area. We booked after finding the site on the internet. The Onsite facilities advertised were: Toilets, Showers, Pets Allowed, Children's Play Area, Bar/Pub, Restaurant, Takeaway Food, Games Room and/or Amusements, Fishing, Crown Bowling Green, Function Room Available, Canal Side Pub. We thought this would be perfect.

We arrived and pitched our tents. The grass was in need of a cut, but that didn't really bother me. We then had a few drinks in the pub and played bowls (I think it was a charity event), we had a laugh as we had never played it before, everyone was really friendly and understanding!

I then decided to check out the toilets, there is one out side toilet and its disgusting! I wouldnt even let my dog go in there! It smelt like they havnt been cleaned in years - or painted. The floor was sticky, the sink only had cold water to wash your hands in - yuk! The pub toilets are a lot better, I suggest to use them if you need to go!

The site has no facilites to wash dirty pots. We brought a small BBQ with us, half way through the night we were told that we shouldn't really be using it as the land lord had banned BBQ's as a lady set fire to some bushes on the field when she through hot coles into them.

The childrens play area is at the back of the pub in the beer garden. It has 2 swings, and a climbing frame. There is a tree house but its closed, it looks like its about to fall down!

We had breakfast in the pub in the morning - its £3.99 for an English Breakfast and a brew. This was ok, but the coffee wasnt up to much, it looked like they had put one teaspoon of coffee into a large pot of water.

I would recommend the area to others, but not the campsite.

Members' Comments onlittlemissdrunk's Review

• the cotton lovers on 29th Aug 2004

  As reference the Cotton Arms is advertised as a quaint village area would you really expect a fast food take away to be situated in the middle of a rural village? we are frequent visitors of the fore mentioned pub and find its facilities more that adequate, the landlord is very jolly and an extremely good golfer his wife (the land lady) is very pleasant and knows how to have her a good time although partial to a glass of red wine or ten....... all in all I would recommend this site to anybody. The young chef is superb and very pleasant in fact quite attractive if I do say so my self, but going off the lines now on a serious note I can not fault the establishment or the village both of which are kept to an extremely high standard and the pub is a joyous night out......

• littlemissdrunk on 27th Sep 2004

  If you see something advertised on the TV, you expect to get EXACTLY what is described. I am just outlining that he should not advertise there is a takeaway, if there isn't. Or outline that it is a takeaway service from the pub ONLY where you can expect to pay £11 for a steak. I find this to be false advertising. I agree the the land lord and landlady are very nice, but I will not be going back, that toilet looks like it hasn't been cleaned / painted for centuries!