Blagdon Farm has many positives...quiet, rural location, yet many attractions/beaches within an hours drive. Parking just outside "lodge" and large living area/bedrooms with plenty of storage. Kitchen equipped with everything you need and towels/bedding supplied.
However, negatives we experienced were the bathroom (which is a wet room) smelt very bad. Not helped by not having an external window. The floor gets soaked with water and despite trying to brush aside, we still had to put on shoes to go to the toilet...not great with a 5 year old! The floor was mouldy and just generally unpleasant.
The wifi advertised on their website as "We've not long completed installing our new wifi system - which now covers all the lodges and caravans with a strong signal. " was very intermittent. Not surprising in rural Devon, but disappointing as they had stated it's signal was "very strong".
We were looking forward to using the onsite pool, but on arrival were greeted to a greenish pool that was dirty and cold. The owners must be changing the lights as all were out of their casings and left on the side. One side underwater pool light was still connected but the lightbulb out on the side of the water with exposed wiring! Further, the pool has no shallow end for little ones. All in all we deemed too unsafe to swim so could not use the pool. We believe it should be closed for repairs.
Games room was closed so we can't comment on that.
The patio doors are fiddly to lock at night and lastly you can hear everything in the attached lodge. Unfortunately our neighbours for the week enjoyed late nights with a blaring TV and their language was vile and obscene. Our 5 year old daughter went to bed every night listening to swearing and shouting.
I did email the hosts on the first night to complain about this via the email stated on their website and have yet to receive a response 5 days later...
Overall, yes there are positives to the site and we were unlucky with our neighbours. But with the swimming pool unusable in our eyes and the bad smell and mouldy floored bathroom we would not stay again and were disappointed.