Sandylands Holiday Park

Location next to the beach but a little windy but that's to be expected.

Main site looked after and tidy,touring section a dump more like a travellers site (looked like a few there) hard standings overgrown grass just churned up mud. Rubbish around people just dumping bags of rubbish next to the big empty biffa bins? Had to move bricks and wood with big screws in hidden in grass before pitching or i would have had flat tyres. Pitch stunk of fat like someone had been emptying chip oil on the stones and grass. Trainline is next to touring but its is barely noticeable so not a problem. Toilets where clean as they had a attendant in a room next to them that was cleaning them,showers had black mould around the tray. Toilet attendant creepy and just looks at you never smiling or answering when you ask where you get fresh water from,had to ask in reception chemical toilet point behind toilets. As others have said very busy with site staff racing up and down in buggies with gas bottles as the maintenance depot is next to touring.

Staff were very professional and keen to help. Pitch fees were very reasonable.

I raised a few observations about our stay with the with the staff and they were very responsive.

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Clean facilities, beach nearby

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Site was amazing, clean shower block nothing was a bother

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Great staff

Weather on Friday

Wifi worked ok.

Water point broken so could not use hose. Lots of rubbish strewn across the site. Did not see any paper picking staff for the whole 5days. Chippy was shut but restaurant were doing take outs. However it was very pricey, small portions and not as described on menu. I ordered chips with a cheese sauce with bacon bits and chives. I received a small box of chips with a handful of melted cheese and a few bacon bits. Was definitely disapointed

Clean shower/toilet block, very friendly & helpful staff. Entertainment for children was good with it being so quiet.

The pitches are quite small, not much room between awning & next van. Situated on a very busy part of site with delivery/bin lorry's early in the morning. Small park owned quad vehicles drive rather fast for an area with lots of children & dogs about. Train behind although not particularly loud.

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Beautiful site.

When arrived booking ref was wrong on the camp to what I had on email and didn’t have that we had a dog with us. Security got someone to sort out. When we got pitch number hit there and someone already on it. Luckily the Security person gave us another pitch. No toilet paper in ladies toilet.
Saturday went to reception and spoke to lady on duty to find out if we needed to move but she said no we could stay where we were. Told her we were a camper van and would. Be going off site to see family, she said that’s fine just go back to same pitch and she would change it.
My husband wa waiting for me outside toilet block and went to pick up our Dogs mess and put his foot on manhole cover which collapsed under him and he fell in it scraping his leg. Still no toilet paper in toilet block.
Went off site for the day to see family came back about 8.00pm no pitch again went to reception again security got the lady on duty who was the same lady as the night before she then gave us another pitch to go to which turned out to be a static caravan but no key to get into. By this time I’d had enough so my husband and I Drove round and found a pitch ourselves I informed Security myself and told them that we were stay in that pitch no matter what.
We didn’t go to reception on Sunday morning as we were leaving before they started work as we had a long drive home.
Apart from that it was an okish experience.

Toilet block was warm. Close to town which was good, only small but we spent quite a bit of time there.

The pitches were watered logged due to rain. The toilet block was not quite as corona virus safe as some of the other sites we’ve been to. Plus the showers were the swimming pool taps which you had to hold down. The toilets ran out of loo roll quickly also. Not their fault but most of the site activities were closed due to corona virus, so no arcade or pool but the bars were open and they shown a film at night instead of a show. The entertainment area was very badly run. They had in and outs due to corona virus but the staff made some people stick to the in and out zones and others could do what they want. They opened a fire exit open on an evening as an exit out the building but it wasn’t clearly marked and if you did find it you were greeted by a load of smokers. They also left an alarm going off all night long and had a lot of rowdy people around the site.