Portrush Aire update

100% ntg

there is a motorhomes only sign here, but the aire station is still fenced off so it cant be used, there is no work being done to make the aire usable, more vans came and left when they saw this than actually stayed the night ,we left the following morning as we felt we were not wanted more council money wasting or are the campsite oweners getting their way

We stopped at the aire yesterday to have a look and although we parked up for an hour or so while we had a walk we certainly would not feel comfortable staying here overnight . We mostly wild camp and use our instincts if we feel safe we stay if not we drive away , this is what we would do at Portrush Aire .We did not like the public walkways which run along the back of the parking bays and a bus terminal . Its location lends its self to a busy area especially at night .So we will not be adding it to our list Emily & John .

I have been away for a while and missed out on a lot here. Maybe it is time to start telling the people arranging all these aires about the problems. If I remember correctly the representative from the motorhome association was quick enough to call some people on here whingers and then close his account. I see from their website they claim involvement in getting this aires. Instead of us telling each other how bad it is why not tell them by email.
www.themotorhomeassociation.org or email chrisquinn@themotorhomeassociation.org

True to form then.

If you don't like it here there is a better place up the road which you can pay for.

The Aire is a token gesture to suggest they welcome Motorhome but they actually want them to use campsites.

Visited it briefly myself over the weekend and took a few photographs for information.

Not overly impressed myself. Still being used for coach parking and although I don't need to be entirely level, as can be seen there is a problem for most people. If you want to hook up, I guess everyone will be driving over your lead, or might even unhook it!

I wouldn't stay, but there again I wouldn't park up overnight at Ramore either if it was still available. I just feel it's too vunerable a location for some prat to decide to chuck something at your van. You can zoom in on the photos for a good look.

If you are not sure where this Aire is located, it's close to the Dunluce Centre before the main part of the town. You can see members of the public cutting through the Aire for a shortcut in one of the photos. One of the Motorhomes has what appears to be an expensive generator bungeed on a rack at the back. I' be worried about the temptation of theft with such an open location.

It was the look of your bake that scared them off. If Marty Feldman asked you to move on in a friendly way would you not move !

Yeah. Bus drivers you should park over where I'm looking

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Park in a car park for £12 for 24 hours.

Alternatively, park in Tollymore Forest Park for 24 hours for £12.00 or £13.50 with 32amp EHU - showers and all the facilities, surrounded by beautiful scenery and walks.

I know where I will be going

£12 for Portrush Aire is too much, I went there to empty my toilet and it was empty, not the toilet the Aire.

Not surprising Ally that it was empty. As afar as Im concerned I hope its always empty as they they deserve it.

In the past I have praised Portrush Aire as it is better than nothing and we should make use of it or lose it. But after visiting not that long ago I won't be near it again, except perhaps to empty my toilet on the way through to a nicer place.

Awful place and the gentleman is correct about the cassette emptying and the graffiti, I think I was in support of it as I never parked at Ramore head in a Motorhome so never really missed it. But now looking at Ramore Head and how we were put out of that lovely area close to the town and put into a car park overlooked by apartments and a graffiti clad toilet block I can understand everyone's anger.

The way over the top pricing structure was the final nail in the coffin, I can only assume this was implemented to appease caravan site owners, why pay £12 with no EHU or showers etc when you can go up the road and pay for a site with full facilities. They just don't get it!

Aires in NI:
Carrickfergus - Free
Broughshane - £5
Dongahadee Free
Whitehead Free

Portrush £12.00

Is the idea of an Aire not to support local business? get tourists into that area and hopefully they will spend money on all sorts of things, also spend very little money attracting those tourists in Motorhomes by having the basic facilities of fresh water and somewhere to empty a toilet. Not fancy French styled units that we do not need.

Fresh Water - Access to a sewer = simple and cost effective

Portrush has priced me out, not because I cannot afford £12 to sit beside a graffiti clad toilet block, but for the simple reason I would rather give that £12 to a local business where I can park in a nice area.

Take a look at Donaghadee, beautiful scenery, friendly people, tidy town and the same goes for Broughshane - both great places to stay in and both great places that Motorhomers spend money (fact)

Yet we have "Northern Ireland's Favourite Holiday Resort" the tourist destination for the majority of tourists and we get stuck beside a graffiti clad toilet block, made to pay an over the top charge and treated like "nuisance tourists"

Get a grip!

Thanks guys.

Bob did hit one thing that the man I mentioned had also said. Grey waste disposal was virtually impossible.

Designed to fail then?
Maybe on purpose?

I don't know as I haven't been but it looks like I will give it a miss.

Has anyone on here used it ?

Coleraine council have not taken into consideration the fact that Motorhomers use there vans all year round,there town (Portrush)will be the looser due to this pathetic description of an Aires.

Carpark off causway street is the ideal place for an Aires but that would seem to reasonable for a council who are at pains not to annoy the local caravan site owners.

I have no problem going to other towns where we are welcome and spending my money.

Did you ask the person who squeezed in to move elsewhere, in the interest of health and safety and all that?

£24 in change ??? Handy. LOL

These ones...



Not sure what the rules are there, but they seemed to be annoying no one.

Like john I park in Portrush at a friends holiday home in Parker Avenue and often take a nosy past this bunch of motorhomes at lansdowne .
I notice they all have disabled badges if that makes a difference.

Maybe we all should go early some Sunday morning and fill the whole street to see what happens?