Southerness Holiday Park

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Touring and Camping
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Swimming pool
Swimming pool
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Direct beach access
Touring and camping
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Touring and camping
Swimming pool
Swimming pool

  • Family-friendly park with spectacular Solway Firth views
  • Kids' and teens' clubs, soft play, amusements and outdoor playgrounds
  • Showbar, bar-restaurant, takeaway and 25-metre indoor pool with flume
Northerners, fear not: southern-ness is not a prerequisite to enjoyment of a stay at Southerness Holiday Park at the foot of the Galloway Hills; the superb sea views and great facilities on site should please all comers. The pitches at this family-friendly park look out over the windswept beauty of the Solway Firth towards the English Lake District; and the surrounding countryside is teeming with wildlife, from the tiny creatures that inhabit the rockpools on the neighbouring beach to the great stags stalking the Galloway Forest Park further inland. Amphibian admirers will be interested to know too that the site is next door to Scotland’s largest breeding colony of Natterjack toads… When it comes to your own wee beasties, Southerness serves up a generous dollop of fun for kids too: buzzing clubs catering for the very small to hulking teens; an indoor pool, a flume, fountains and toddler pool (and a Jacuzzi for the grownups); a soft play area; crazy golf; amusements; outdoor playgrounds – plus of course the lively schedule of evening entertainment for the whole family in the Sunset Showbar. There’s a good choice of menu options in the bar-restaurant, as well as fresh Costa coffee; or you can opt for a takeaway if you just want to chill out in your own space and admire the views. There’s free wifi in designated areas of the site.

Site type

Caravans for hire 103
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 3
Tent pitches 50
Touring caravan pitches 50
Motorhome pitches 50
Open now
Opens 14 March

Tourist board rating

Please note
  • The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro).
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.
  • Single-sex parties of three or more people under 25 are not permitted on site. Swimming pool access is included: please show your Entertainment pass. Entertainment passes are included in the rate. If the site asks you to do so, you must complete an online ID verification process before you arrive. Your booking may be cancelled if you do not complete, or if you fail, the ID verification process.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Fri, 14 Mar to

This site is a member of Parkdean Resorts group.

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Pitch types & availability

Accommodation

Tent pitchesTouring caravan pitchesMotorhome pitchesLodges, cabins, pods or hutsCaravans for hireRent a tent
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2 adults
0 children
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Reviews

7.4

Overall rating from 277 Pitchup.com customers

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Location
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Remote locationPeaceful

68% would recommend this site to a friend

64% would stay here again

What customers say

This park offers a great location near the beach with friendly, helpful staff. Facilities including pitches, toilets and showers are generally clean and well-maintained, though some find them dated or needing more frequent cleaning. The site is popular with families, with plenty of activities and entertainment for children. Some visitors noted the site could be busy and noisy, particularly at weekends, and experienced issues with Wi-Fi connectivity and booking availability for some activities.

Summary AI-generated from Pitchup.com customer reviews

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Arrival date (latest first)

All round we had a great time and would visit again

Overall

8 out of 10
Location
 8
Value for money
 5
Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
 10
Cleanliness
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Wifi
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craig S.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked Plenty to do around the park for the kids, nice walks along the beach and the golf course right beside the site. 3 pubs within walking distance one that does nice meals and you can take the dog in. Entertainment was good for the kids and the arcades kept them busy for a while.
The toilets and showers for camping were clean and well looked after, there was a guy there most of the day every day keeping the place clean and doing a great job, some of the people staying there obviously weren't as bothered about the place being clean but there's nothing that the park or staff can do about that.

Disliked Swimming pool on site was closed both times we tried to go, once for a leak which there's not much they can do about but the second time there was just a sign out saying pool closed. I don't think the pool can handle the amount of people that want to use it so if you are big on swimming then its something to look out for

Recommend to friends Visit again

Good space and facilities

Overall

9 out of 10
Location
 10
Value for money
 10
Accommodation
 9
Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
 7
Child friendliness
 8
Cleanliness
 5
Wifi
 4
Anonymous

Electric grass touring pitch

Liked There was a nice amount of space between pitches and the on site facilities were really good.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Facilities were clean, friendly staff, pitches near everything.

Overall

8 out of 10
Location
 10
Value for money
 9
Accommodation
 10
Facilities / Activities
 6
Customer service
 10
Child friendliness
 7
Cleanliness
 8
Wifi
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Mandy H.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked Toilet and shower block was always clean, the man in charge of the camping and touring area was always about, making sure everything was running well. The camp area is quite close to everything, shop less than 5 mins away and entertainment was about 10 minutes away. We had food in the restaurant and it was really nice bit expensive but always the same when at a caravan park. Kids absolutely loved it. Our first camping trip as a family went well.

Disliked Nothing to do with the pitches but we've never been to a parkdean resort before and can say it was poor in terms of activities for the kids, over priced things and swimming was fully booked. We left a night early due to the weather but would've definitely have stayed if it wasn't for heavy rain fall.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Pathetic!!

Overall

1 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
 1
Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
 1
Cleanliness
 1
Wifi
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Kyle L.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked Pathetic

Disliked Pool was closed most of the week. Due to ongoing issues with seaguls. Why this was not fixed before holiday season is pathetic. Manager is useless. Maintenance rude! Ablutions dirty, taps that don't switch off especially the hot water which is dangerous to children. Would give negative stars if I could, will not recommend to anyone

Recommend to friends Visit again

Toilets and shower block always kept clean

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10 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Pamela T.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked Excellent park will definitely recommend to other friends and family staff very friendly and helpful thank you for a great experience

Recommend to friends Visit again

We had a good relaxing week…

Overall

10 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
 10
Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
 10
Cleanliness
 10
Wifi
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Llewellyn B.

Electric grass touring pitch

Liked We had a good relaxing week

Disliked None

Recommend to friends Visit again

Everything. Lovely site. Nice walk to the beach. Nice meal in the…

Overall

8 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Carol R.

Electric hardstanding touring pitch

Liked Everything. Lovely site. Nice walk to the beach. Nice meal in the pub down the road. Showers nice. Clean.

Disliked Couldn’t take dogs into the entertainment area.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great site, clean facilities and the ground was great for trailer tent

Overall

10 out of 10
Location
 10
Value for money
 10
Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
 10
Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Sean S.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked The pool was great with lots of room and a good temperature. The kids entertainment staff were great as well.

Disliked N/A

Recommend to friends Visit again

it worked well as a one night away from from home.

Overall

6 out of 10
Location
 9
Value for money
 9
Accommodation
 7
Facilities / Activities
 5
Customer service
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Child friendliness
 5
Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Andrew M.

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked decent pitches and great leisure pool. toilet facilities well maintained. soft play area was good too.

Disliked fir a family orientated site with lots of young children around my daughter was really disappointed by the outdoor play facilities and compared to other places I agree. all the amusement machines that eat money uf you let children use them. Southerness is not Blackpool promenade. w ysed it as a one night change of scene and a wee treat. wouldn't choose it for a proper holiday

Recommend to friends Visit again

Would definitely stay here again.

Overall

9 out of 10
Location
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Value for money
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Accommodation
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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dave n.

Electric grass touring pitch

Liked Location of pitch was ideal.
Right in the middle of the campsite pretty much.

Disliked We found this a very good site that was great value for money. Lots of facilities to keep kids and adults entertained.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Features

Dogs allowed

Leisure on site

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Games room Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Play area TV room Take away Tennis Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available Car parking by pitch/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Peaceful Spectacular scenery

Utilities

Charging facilities Chemical disposal Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Public transport nearby

Type

Large (51-200 pitches)

Accessibility

Disabled facilities

Nearby leisure

Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horse riding nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Drainage hook-up points for tourers Seasonal pitches Tourer storage facilities Water hook-up points for tourers

Location

Southerness Holiday Park

Southerness

Dumfries and Galloway

Scotland

DG2 8AZ

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

54.8739°N
3.5974°W

Route directions

By bus There is a bus stop within 100 yards of the park gates, with services running to Dumfries and Dalbeattie. The service is infrequent, running approximately every two hours. The approximate cost of a taxi fare to Dumfries is £12.

Nearest transport

Coach
13.5 mi Whitesands
13.5 mi Whitesands
14.1 mi Carlingwark Street
Rail
12 mi Maryport Rail Station
13.1 mi Flimby Rail Station
13.3 mi Aspatria Rail Station
Ferry
26.2 mi Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
26.6 mi Keswick Ferry Landing
26.8 mi Hawes End Derwentwater Ferry Landing

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Assuming the weather is kind, the area surrounding Southerness Holiday Park is tiptop for anyone looking for an active holiday; do your own thing or shake off the cobwebs and try something new at one of the excellent activity centres in the Dumfries and Galloway region. Golfers are in for a particular treat, given the enormous choice of excellent courses nearby (the closest championship course is on the doorstep, in Southerness). If you fancy getting out and about, there’s a plethora of attractions to choose from: tickle your taste buds with a trip to the Cocoa Bean Factory or nearby ice cream factory; rattle around on the barrel train at Mabie Farm Park, a great value attraction packed with activities to keep the kids entranced all day; ramble around the romantic ruins of Sweetheart Abbey; clamber around a couple of castles, or visit the Robert Burns Centre in Dumfries. Or you could head to one of Dumfries and Galloway’s 'themed' towns: Wigtown for bookish types, Castle Douglas for foodies, or the artists’ town of Kirkcudbright.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020201920182017
Southerness 0.1 mi Sea N/AGoodGoodExcellent
Sandyhills 5.1 mi Sea N/AN/APoorPoor
Rockcliffe 7.9 mi Estuary N/APoorPoorPoor
Allonby 9.8 mi Sea N/AGoodGoodGood
Dhoon Bay 19.9 mi Estuary N/APoorPoorPoor

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

John Paul Jones Cottage Museum & Visitor Centre 1.6 mi

Robert Burns Centre 13.4 mi

Mirehouse Historic House and Gardens 22.8 mi

World Famous Old Blacksmith's Shop Centre 23.1 mi

Whinlatter Forest & Visitor Centre 24.3 mi

National Trust

Wordsworth House and Garden 17.1 mi

Buttermere and Ennerdale 24.2 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

MERSEHEAD (CURRENT BOUNDARY FROM 04/11/2003) 2.9 mi

Carsethorn - Powillimount - Arbigland 3.5 mi

Sandyhills - Rockcliffe - Kippford (and back?) 5.3 mi

Criffel 5.6 mi

Caerlaverock Castle and Nature Reserve 7.2 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Nearest sites

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable sites.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Southerness Holiday Park have a swimming pool? Yes View all features
  • Is Southerness Holiday Park dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Southerness Holiday Park? Assuming the weather is kind, the area surrounding Southerness Holiday Park is tiptop for anyone looking for an active holiday; do your own thing or shake off the cobwebs and try something … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Southerness Holiday Park?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  11 p.m.
    Depart by:  10 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Southerness Holiday Park? From £10 (for 1 night, 4 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.