Location, shop, restaurant, pool

Camping facilities

June 2025
We booked from 28/06 to 05/07 for our first trip to this part of the country.I can imagine a stay in a caravan on this site is quite good and worth booking due to the shop, entertainment, restaurant and nearby town/ beach.
Unfortunately we were staying in our campervan.
On arrival our pitch was occupied by the neighbours cars which they did move and made us feel a nuisance to them. Space was tight but we just had room for the awning.
Fortunately the following day (Sunday) most plots had left so we were happier with the space. One large group which had departed on the Sunday had left various bits of rubbish behind which the parkdean staff cleared after 3 days. On walking our dog he sharply lifted his rear paw and I found a tent peg. There was no injury thank god but on further inspection found another 10 pegs which I pulled out saving any further injuries to children,pets or car tyres..
The toilet block was awful.
1. The urinal stank. Especially in hot weather. As a former maintenance manager in my opinion this is due to inadequate flushing as a result of the water saving device fitted to the cistern not providing enough flushes which has now proved it necessary for a professional descale and clean.
2. Relating to the above the end cubicle was overflowing continuously into the toilet bowl. I pointed this out to the cleaner as it was wasting more water than the urinal would if flushing normally. This was not repaired.
3. On the subject of cleaning you would benefit from a signed daily schedule sheet being hung in view as the cleaning was not regularly carried out and if it was there was the same piece of soggy toilet paper on the floor of one of the cubicles for 5 days until I removed it . You could tell the cleaning was not sufficient and as such I felt the area was unhygienic.
4. The end shower cubicle door was badly warped and hanging off its hinges for the duration of our stay.
This too was mentioned to the cleaner who said he had reported it to maintenance.
5. The shower cubicles are a design disaster. The door opens over the tray which makes entering and exiting laughable regarding outside footwear. This is why the trays have dirty footprints. There are two hooks and no shelves. Space is at a minimum and it would be benificial if the site manager used a shower to see the difficulties.
6. The basins are too small for a morning shave and wash with no hooks or shelves to place dry equipment.
7. My wife was also not impressed with the condition of the ladies facilities reporting that it smelt damp and unhygienic.

The site generally needs more drinking water supply taps.

Other campers I spoke to said it was the worst Parkdean campsite they had been to and a couple left early as indeed did we. We also noted a lot of people found the 10.00 am leaving time unachievable, especially with children involved.
As a result we will not book a Parkdean campsite again.

Absolutely nothing as we left after 1 hour

Rubbish strewn all over the pitches, toilets dirty and badly maintained, 4or5gypsy families staying on the field with scrap caravans and toys and bicycles etc scattered all around, l was threatened by them for taking photographs , we complained to reception about it and they said they were aware of the mess and the gypsies and neither site officials or security had the powers to do anything about them, we immediately left

All the staff (but particularly the out of hours staff) were lovely.

The pool was freezing and very limited in the amount of time you could access. Lights on electrical hookup outlets made the tent too bright. The toilets were always unclean and disgusting. Wouldn't stay here again

Size of the pitch.
Proximity to bathrooms
Very helpful staff

Very noisy inconsiderate neighbours til 3am .
Ladies bathroom floors not nice could do with a re do

Everything

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Proximity to the beach and town centre
Friendly staff

Lack of cleaning staff available to monitor toilet/shower area
Water pressure on toilet flush not very good which led to lots of toilet paper being left down the toilet

Not a lot!!

If you want to be dive bombed with footballs and the like with hordes of noisy children, then this is the place. If I had known what the site was about I would not have gone. The site also is in desperate need of a revamp.
Anyway, if you don't mind poor facilities where the kids can have a wonderful time, then this is where you will have a good time.
I do think more information from Pitch Up would do them more good than harm.I'm not being a grumpy old git, just telling it as it is.

The surrounding, proximity to the beach amenities lovely friendly, helpful staff

The dated toilet block

Friendly, helpful staff, great facilities and entertainment. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay.

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Location was good on site, close to the amenities. Entertainment was good.

Mens Toilets needed cleaning more often. Could benefit with stricter rules for noise pollution from other campers after a certain time of night. Some campers were still noisy at 2:30 am.