Haldon Forest Holiday Park

The excellent choice of pitches in a very scenic location. The facilities and the shop. The warm welcome from the owners and the peace and tranquility whilst we were there.

Some noise on one evening that went on until midnight.

In the top field with out electric, lovely friendly spot, plenty of space, peaceful.

a little bit of a slope, but nothing too difficult to cope with. Showers ok.

The large pitches and facilities

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The pitches are large and so you don't feel on top of your neighbours.
The setting and views are wonderful, peaceful and quiet.
The family owners are friendly and helpful.
There is a well equipped shop on site and the prices are very good.
There is an outside bar on site, under cover serving a good selection of drinks and very good quality food.
Large play area with climbing frames and swings.

Not so much a dislike but, the shower and toilet blocks are in need of refurbishment.
No floor broom wiper blades for users to sweep over the floor after using the showers.
Water to the showers are controlled by a push button and only provides water for some 5 seconds before needing to push again.

Fantastic sites with massive pitches and friendly staff.

Could do with more and better shower blocks.

The pitches were a good size and the kids playground was a welcome location for the kids to be. Having the central 'pub' with live music made it festive on the weekend. The bins were emptied frequently and the bathrooms cleaned regularly as well.

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Nice bar shower and toilet clean

Wasps a lots children screaming

Good size marked out pitch, didn’t feel on top of other campers, plenty of space. very rural, lots of trees. Good playground for children.

Noise from traffic on A30? Only 4 ladies showers for whole site. More attention needed to cleaning of toilets and showers. Need recycling bins.

The shop

Wasps everywhere, could not just sit and relax. The noise way too loud / no respect from other campers. No privacy you are amongst so many ppl. The toilets and showers were dirty. Don’t Look up!!

I was really impressed with the size of the pitches, they were huge! Great space between the pitches and loads of room for children to play safely. The park was fab too, popular by the younger children. The football pitch was an added bonus, even if it needed some attention.
Having the onsite pub was fab. The pizzas were a winner with everyone. Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening there were singers performing, they were fab and had finished by 10:30pm which is the curfew for quiet time. However there was no-one patrolling and one night I had to go ask our neighbours to be quiet at 12:30am!!!
Shop sold the basic supplies and opened twice a day.
there were water taps everywhere so getting water was easy. Loved the fact that there were fire extinguishers every few camping pitches.

The showers and toilet blocks were awful. Really dirty, toilet roll on the floor, hair in each sink, cobwebs with dead flies and spiders (I know we are in the countryside and can expect spiders, they do not bother me its the fact that they had been there for months that did). I only knew it had been cleaned once, could smell the bleach and see the wet floor (I was there 9 nights). The corners hadn't ever seen any sort of cleaning product, the showers had hair in the drains, the slip mats were filthy dirty, there was shampoo (or at least I think it was) on the walls of the showers.
The taps had to be held down consistently for water, which is quite difficult when you're trying to wash.
There were 2 toilet blocks, 1 with just toilets in in the bottom field and 1 in the top field next to the pub with 4 showers, 4 toilets and 4 sinks. This was no where near enough for the amount of people camping there. people were queuing to use the facilities.
I dreaded using the toilet/shower facilities.