Widemouth Bay Caravan Park

* The tent site manager very thoughtfully upgraded us to a hard pitch due to the bad weather and was very helpful with advice of places to visit and things for the children.
* The location was idyllic, not too far from the beach and had a beautiful nature trail on site.
* The onsite park was nice.

* The children's entertainment says 6pm until 7pm which even though is less time than similar sites with entertainment did not last more than 40 minutes on any night. Very disappointing that on the birthday night for my 8 year old not only did it only last 30 mins but 10 of which were songs such as wheels on the bus, which would be acceptable if this was catering for younger children also however out of the 24 children there only 1 was under 6!
* The amusement arcade was small and most things didn't work.
* The boiler was broken so the swimming pool was closed for a few days however when it re opened it was freezing cold so should've stayed shut rather than allow us in and all have to get out in 5 minutes when we turned blue. Also as you cannot shower by the pool you have to get dressed at the side then go to a toilet block to shower.

The gentleman that booked us in was so so helpful even though the park were unable to find the payment I'd made to you.
The guest singer was very good.

The hard standing pitch was full of moss and over grown grass. It was sodden, boggy and muddy.
The pool was closed because the heating had gone in it.
Appeared disorganised.

friendly atmosphere
The shower blocks were kept well clean. It's a lovely site that has all you need to stay on.

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Pool was warm
Food was nice

Entertainment could have been better
Arcade was crap most machines broken
Pitches were sooo wet
Not great shower facilities
No showers or dressing rooms in the pool
Wifi was crap

Entertainment staff aka the stripeys were amazing fun friendly made us feel very welcome
Park clean well kept and served every purpose needed for a good break

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So disappointed with this site, Touring Caravan pitches were advertised as hard standing,
There were NO hard Standing pitches.
the pitch we were given was grass on a slope, given another pitch again meant to hard standing, a complete mud patch, the whole place was water logged.

everyone was heart broken, this holiday was paid for by mother in law to give daughter and family a nice holiday and with young baby 2 month old.
children had to play in mud yes weather,
John fowlers should have checked this site before bookings . Not like brochure
All the hard standing needs to upgraded. Grass on site was so long it hadn't seen a lawn mower for ages, saddest thing is to see people with brand new tents, throwing them away as ground so wet pegs kept coming out and they were trying to pitch on sodden water logged ground.

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Local to bude for shopping staff were friendly

To much on a hill not enough toilet blocks .long walk to toilet blocks .pitch got water logged

Everyone was very helpful and friendly, the facilities were better than I thought they would be and with the amount of people using the showers etc the staff did well to keep the clean even though some customers had no respect for them.

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Everything ,from the foxy club ,the stripies,club house pitch area etc

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We camped on the overflow pitch and found the views to be glorious. We had a beautiful view of the sea. The difficulty was finding a flat area to pitch, but we made do being on the hill. The pool was lovely and very clean, and the lifeguard on duty was very helpful and good at monitoring the numbers of people coming and going (max capacity is 33). The food in the restaurant was lovely and the bar well priced. The arcade was a little old fashioned however the kids were happy, and so were we as there was none of this "ticket" nonsense (collect 1000 and get a pencil!). We only used one toilet/shower block however found this to be nice and clean and tidy. Entertainment was ok, the children's party dances were fun for the little ones.

On our arrival, we overheard two members of staff discussing the fact that syringes had been found in the second toilet block and we made sure our group stayed well away from this block!

On our second night we were woken to the sounds of a fist fight going on in the main camping area. On getting up in the morning, there were police cars on the site, supervising 2 families who were being kicked off.

Although it is appreciated that the management were doing everything they could to prevent any more trouble, and had closed off the toilet block to dispose of the used syringes, it did not sit well with us as a family with small children. We will not be staying here again.