Haven holidays

[Peabody25]

Anyone been to a particularly good haven holiday park please? We're in West Yorkshire and probably want to travel no more than three hours.

Looking to go next May half term for the week. We've already done a few on the east coast and happy to go back, but would like to try others as well.

Needs to be a coastal site ideally, with plenty to do on site but also nearby too to entertain 8yo DS. He loves swimming, climbing, anything outdoors really and needs to be constantly moving.

@Pinkandpink

katienana Yes I was going to say Berwick you can walk into town for a bar lunch or a walkabout. I think haggerston is a better site though. Your so lucky to have a caravan there

I know it was a lockdown purchase and we feel so lucky to be able to have holidays whenever we like. The kids absolutely love it.

Thanks all! Narrowed it down to Thorpe park, golden sands and hafan y mor!

@Peabody25

Thanks all! Narrowed it down to Thorpe park, golden sands and hafan y mor!

Haggerston castle I mean not hafan y mor!

Primrose Valley at Filey is lovely, if you go on Facebook there is a group called Primrose Valley & Reighton Sands Private Caravan Hire, the caravans are excellent, most are owned by one man, he is lovely & his caravans are top of the range ones with Sky TV & WiFi.

I've been to Devon Cliffs, which was great and the beach is nice. I came back from Weymouth not long ago and it was fucking awful. They closed the three sites due to a wedding party misbehaving at one of the sites (there are three) so they closed all the facilities as they "could not guarantee our safety" at all three sites and said we could stay for 25% refund or leave for a 100% refund. We haven't had it back and it was a month ago we went. They have been saying my refund is "processed" for about 3 weeks now.

The sites still have COVID rules in place, so you have to book activities, but some reviews online say there aren't enough to go round, so people are purchasing stay and play packages, but reporting they aren't able to "play". Some reviews are reporting facilities not even opening due to staffing issues too, so limited entertainment and restaurant places. I certainly wouldn't book Haven again, despite having a brilliant time at the Devon Cliff site. There are lots of bad reviews out there about their customer service. I think they are going through a bit of a bad patch at the moment.

There are some great parks that offer similar facilities, which might be worth checking out, but I think we are booking something a bit more low key after this experience! Sorry to put a dampener on your plans, but I've wasted so much time chasing people on the phone for a holiday I didn't even get and am still waiting for a refund for, that I thought I'd best warn you.

Haggertson is great we go often!

Craig Tara and Berwick score high on my list.

We live in West Yorkshire too and we've done Primrose Valley and Blue Dolphin a fair few times

I'm off to thorpe park on monday been several times and we like it. Tried primrose valley too, washed but too big for us as a long way for kiddies to walk