STRIKING GOLD WITH AA FIVE-STAR GRADING

LOVE2STAY JOINT MANAGER Charlie Ward with the new AA Five Star grading plaque.

Shropshire’s Love2Stay touring and glamping resort is celebrating after earning a prestigious Five AA Gold Star rating in the 2025 AA Caravan and Camping Awards. Located in Emstrey, Shrewsbury, the luxury resort received an impressive 95% quality score following a recent inspection by AA Hotel and Hospitality Services.

AA inspector Stephen Wilkinson praised the site’s thoughtful layout, top-tier facilities and scenic setting, stating: “The BBQ and pizza oven areas are a great feature, and the open water pool, beach and paddle pool were well used and clearly enjoyed by guests during my visit.”

AN AERIAL VIEW of Love2Stay resort.

Joint manager Charlie Ward welcomed the award as “fantastic recognition” of the team’s hard work and investment. “We pride ourselves on our high standards, customer service and range of facilities that allow guests of all ages to unwind, stay active and reconnect with nature,” he said.

Celebrating its eighth birthday this year, Love2Stay has recently invested £750,000 in five new Severn holiday lodges, adding to its glamping village of safari and woodland lodges. The 22-acre site, set next to parent company Salop Leisure, offers panoramic countryside views and access to a bio pool, cinema, wellness services and outdoor activities.

WISH YOU WERE HERE

WISH YOU WERE HERE

Snapsots from Islawrffordd Caravan Park, the best caravan park in Wales...

A luxury caravan park on the Southern Snowdonia coast was named the best in Wales in the AA Caravan and Camping Awards 2022-23. Islawrffordd Caravan Park at Talybont, near Barmouth, has been owned and run by the Evans family since 1957, and won the prestigious award for the second time, having previously triumphed in 2012.

The 25-acre park has 12 staff, 201 holiday homes, 75 fully services pitches for touring caravans and motorhomes, an indoor swimming pool, sauna and jacuzzi, Nineteen.57 Bar and Restaurant, an entertainment complex, luxury shower and toilet block, children’s playground with a pirate ship, car hire and a private slipway onto a sandy beach.

Luxury Super Pitches at the destination include a courtesy light, electric hook up, fresh/waste water and elsan point, TV connection to a bespoke digital free-view network and gravelled hard standing for each individual tourer and awning. In a double celebration for the park, Nineteen.57 Bar and Restaurant was runner-up in the Best of North Wales category in the Welsh Restaurant of the Year Awards 2022.

The bar and 40-cover restaurant are leased by Chris and Emma Statham and Sion Wellings. In the assessment of Islawrffordd Caravan Park, the AA Inspector said: “Situated on the coast between Barmouth and Harlech and within the Snowdonia National Park, this site has clear views of Cardigan Bay, the Llŷn Peninsula and the Snowdonia and Cader Idris mountain ranges.

The park, which is an AA 5 Platinum Pennant Campsite, is open all year around and includes former British motor racing champion Nigel Mansell as one of its holiday home owners. The Mansell family has been enjoying holidays at Islawrfford for 65 years and the Evans family lays claim to setting Nigel on the road to stardom by starting him go-karting as a boy.

Islawrffordd Caravan Park
Tel. 01341 247269
www.islawrffordd.com