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ESTEL FARELL ROIG finds an ideal getaway for young families and friends in Wales - welcome to wonderful Bluestone

- ESTEL FARELL ROIG

AM not a fan of long car journeys. Not as a passenger and especially not with toddlers. I struggle with travel sickness, which adds to the joy that is a car journey with young children.

However, a few days away (to enjoy somewhere new, to relax and recharge) makes the effort of packing and travelling worth it. This time, we were heading down to the end of the M4 to west Wales to stay at Bluestone - a place named as the number one holiday park in Wales (and third in the UK) for the third year running by Which? magazine. Keeping that in mind, we were all very ready for our Welsh trip.

The journey there, on a Monday afternoon, turned out to be very smooth and with no traffic jams. It was just a long motorway drive in beautiful sunshine with me reminiscing of my time living in Wales when I worked there. Arriving at the site, we accidentally queued for check-in. It turned out that the platinum lodges had a different check-in area and, once we were in the right place, check-in was quick and smooth.

We drove up to 23 Merlin Crescent, our home for the next four nights. The property we stayed in was a St Govan Lodge, a three-bedroom home which sleeps six people, and it certainly exceeded my expectations.

The spacious lodge, which had the living area upstairs, had a very modern interior and was done up to a high standard. It had that unpretentious luxury feel that so many places seem to go for these days and I immediately felt this would be a lovely home for the next four nights.

I couldn’t help myself and claimed the gorgeously, but simply decorated, large master bedroom; the king size bed looked extremely appealing from the moment I saw it from the hallway and it simply had to be mine.