Filey Brigg Country Park Reviews Summary

Parking

Pros:

• "Always plenty of space to park. Machine takes cash or app."
• "Nice big space to park."
• "Parking free from around end of Oct to March."
• "Best place to park if you're visiting Filey, make sure you have the right amount of cash with you for the machine, coins only and it doesn't give change."
• "Although there is more than ample parking, on BH’s & sunny days it is very well populated, so early arrival is advised to avoid the crowds at these busy times."
• "Plenty of open grassy parking space, or hard standings if you prefer."
• "In summertime you can park for free after 6pm and still plenty of daylight for a nice walk with the dog."

Cons:

• "Parking £5.50 for 4 hours, £7 for 6 hours - but the pay machine when I went was only accepting coins or Ringo app, which was causing quite a problem for people trying to park."
• "Very busy, not much parking for disabled, had to park in country park luckily my father had mobility scooter or could have been issue."
• "Parking was reasonable but certainly not cheap."
• "Lovely place but the parking is a bit expensive."
• "Parking is ridiculously expensive, parked for 2hrs £3.50 just to walk on beach."
• "Plenty of parking only downside is the odd time slots. Had to pay for 4 hrs but only used just under 3 1/2hrs."
• "A good starting point for visiting Filey. Ample parking (albeit a touch expensive £6.00)."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Both girls are so helpful and polite."
• "The staff in the reception are EXCELLENT and can't do enough for ya."
• "The staff at the café were very friendly and helpful."
• "Really lovely welcoming staff been on 2 occasions will definitely go back."
• "What an amazing site, the cafe was clean, the food was homemade cakes, the staff were helpful and friendly."

Cons:

• "First impression not good the receptionist has a charisma by pass luckily the girls next day were excellent."
• "Fair clean site with cafe and play park and nice walking areas - just a shame the staff are really rude and ignorant with no intend to help with request or info so this let's the whole stay down and put me off!"
• "Although I found the campsite & it's facilities to a decent standard on our last visit... Just terrible customer service."
• "Not a great time, staff were the worst."
• "Staff really need to make more effort to be polite."

Facilities

Pros:

• "Lovely and clean toilet and showers."
• "Good play areas for children. Masses of space to play and picnic."
• "Fabulous place, lovely clean showers and toilets, with hand sanitizers in every cubicle."
• "Clean toilets all supplied with toilet paper and hand soap."
• "The adjacent camp site has a small shop."
• "A cafe on site that serves good food and sells last minute beach essentials."
• "Public toilets and cafe on the cliff itself."

Cons:

• "C'mon if you make an attempt to fix it, fix it somewhat properly."
• "The toilets have not seen a lick of paint in, I guess 20 years."
• "Just one public toilet block which needs upgrading."
• "Good location right on the cliff top, pitches nicely spread out very well organised but unfortunately the shower/ toilet block wasn't up to scratch."
• "Where to start shower blocks not clean grim shower sprays for 20 secs then stops poo on walls."
• "Chemical toilet area leaves a lot to be desired."
• "Booked a GRASS pitch what I got was a DRIED MUD pitch."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "The park is also very accessible, with a large car park and a number of paths and trails to suit all abilities."
• "The beach is only a short walk."
• "Beach accessible (subject to tide) via a very steep path, or various paths down to sea front and town in the other direction."
• "The walk to town is 10 minutes away."
• "A lovely open space suitable for everyone from youngsters in pushchairs to any age in wheelchairs."
• "Access to the beach via path which can be very steep in parts."
• "Short walk on high cliff path, Main path safe but paths around northern edge can be dangerous in high winds."

Cons:

• "A bit of a hill or a fair few steps though for coming back from the sea front depending which way you go."
• "At certain places we had to walk carefully because of the cliff fall."
• "Me and my friends wanted to stay at this caravan site... We got turned away and they told us that they do not allow camping with a tent until 1 July."
• "There's access down to the beach but it's very steep and mum's not confident enough to go down steep hills with the scooter."
• "Amazing, amazing place to visit for the day or even a nice break away although its hilly and it has so many steps everywhere as well as uneven and in some places unsafe pathways."
• "Steep hill to beach needs to be made safer for people to get back up."
• "WARNING IT'S VERY STEEP AT THE BOTTOM."

General Experience

Pros:

• "Filey Brigg Country Park is a unique and rugged coastal park located in the seaside town of Filey, North Yorkshire."
• "It's a beautiful place to go to. We make it one of our first and last journeys in our beautiful motorhome."
• "Beautiful place for views and tranquillity good old fashioned sea side town."
• "Fantastic day out for children."
• "Beautiful views across Filey Bay and as far as Flamborough."
• "Lovely big open space to have a picnic, walk or run the dog and take in the lovely scenery of Filey coast line."
• "The country park at Filey is a beautiful place for day trippers & holiday makers."

Cons:

• "Cafe food is 10/10."
• "Quite pricey for just a sandwich."
• "Sun was shining, tide was out and so it made for an excellent walk. Plenty of parking and a cafe close by. Perfect. Watch for dog-poo though. Saw quite a bit near the benches and bins. Spoilers!"
• "Beware that when the tide is in there isn't much beach at this end of the bay."
• "Only criticism is DOG MESS plenty of bins provided what a shame some people don't clean up usually within 100m of car park is the worst."
• "It's a shame but these simple things infuriate me. We get visitors from abroad for god's sake! What does this say about us 🤦🏻"
• "Tide times were not shown."