2022 Competition Winners Maxine & Stuart Franklin's 7 Night Holiday in Chew Valley.

"We were surprised and delighted to win this holiday," said Stuart. "We've enjoyed staying at Tranquil Parks in Yorkshire, but this is our first time touring in Somerset".

"It's also the first long distance outing for our new Swift Accord caravan". Stuart continues, "I can't walk far since a knee operation, so our first concern was being close to the park facilities". "We needn't have worried", says wife, Maxine. "When we explained this to the receptionist we were given a pitch just a few paces from a 'Blue Badge' parking space opposite the facilities building. A warden parked and levelled our caravan for us as soon as we arrived".

"The park is very nicely kept and everyone is really friendly", said Stuart, "and it looks exactly as it does in the photos. The facilities are cleaned all of the time, and there's never a queue".

We ask the couple about visting places and attractions around the park...

"No problem", said Maxine. "We drove into Bath and found Blue Badge parking spaces right in the centre at Avon Street Car Park. So we could reach Bath Abbey, Parade Gardens and some of the shops without difficulty."

Stuart is proudly a Governor Member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, so a visit to Weston-Super-Mare was a must. The couple found Blue Badge parking along the esplanade and at the Car and Coach Park close to the town's abandoned Lifeboat Station on Birnbeck Pier. Next up would be a visit to Bristol Harbour. Although the Bristol Harbour Festival was in full swing, Stuart found vacant blue badge parking bays at Wapping Wharf Car Park behind MShed Museum and docks.

Maxine and Stuart drove to some of the viewing areas around Chew Valley Lake, and particularly liked watching wildfowl at Herons Green car park on the lake's western shore. It's a popular viewing point for birdwatchers. In addition to swans and geese, little white egrets and a few great white egrets can usually be seen fishing here through summer.

Understandably Stuart couldn't walk any of the new paths and cycle trails around Chew Valley Lake on this visit. He did give credit to Bristol Water for having installed Blue Badge parking bays at the picnic spots close to the caravan park, beside Chew Dam and at Woodford Lodge."

It has been our pleasure welcoming Maxine and Stuart to Bath Chew Valley Caravan Park, so we have another surprise for them. They will shortly receive a professionally printed photo of their caravan on its pitch at Bath Chew Valley Caravan Park as a 'holiday memory' of their stay.