Double delight as Yorkshire family wins brace of AA awards

by Chris Jefferies
Two Yorkshire caravan sites have proved that good hospitality runs in the family, after a daughter and her parents both scooped the AA Five Pennant Award last week.
Helen Hill, the owner of Cote Ghyll Caravan and Camping Park, phoned her parents to tell them her good news, only to find out that their holiday park has also scooped the top accolade, the Northern Echo reports.
Her mother, Barbara Armstrong has been running the nearby Golden Square Caravan Park for 28 years, and this honour will hopefully boost their business, which has been “very quiet” this summer, she told Caravan Times.
“It’s been disastrous this summer,” Ms Armstrong said. “We were alright up until the end of May, but due to the weather lots of people are taking shorter breaks just or aren’t turning up.”
For this reason, the park is particularly grateful to its loyal regulars. One woman, who had visited with her husband every year for the past 20 years, quit her job in April after she was told that she would not be allowed the time off for her touring holiday, Ms Armstrong added.
Golden Square Caravan Park is situated in the North York Moors National Park, and offers deluxe all-service pitches from March to October.
Just across the Moors, Ms Armstrong’s daughter Helen runs Cote Ghyll, which boasts modern conveniences such as Wi-Fi internet connections on a small and exclusive 18-pitch site.
Neither site could be accused of rolling out the red carpet to impress the judges, as the AA’s inspectors arrived incognito and the owners were only made aware that they had visited when they heard the decision.