We stayed in the little holiday park in Combe Martin, lovely gardens and wonderful view. It looked primising and much nicer than the caravan parks. However, the cornflower chalet was horrible, damp, smelly, dated, tasteless, car boot sale decoration, disgusting carpets, bad lighting, not a single reading lamp in sight. Generally speaking crappy and shabby. And the shower was an insult. The bar looks equally dated and dark. And there is no laundry service at all. I hope someone takes over the thing and makes something nice out of it. It was not cheap at all and no value for money either. And the free linen is also horrible. I'd rather camp any time! Do not go there! It is depressing, we paid for a week and left after two days! ...
Advantages: None Disadvantages: To many to list - complete waste of hard earned money
We went to JohnFowler, Illfracombe holiday park during August 2008 and paid over £850 for a week in their "Royal Gold Bungalow" accommodation. We booked after looking at their holiday brochure - what an absolute waste of money and i would not recommend this "park" to anyone, i came away feeling i had been taken for a fool for parting with £850 to stay on this so called holiday park.
1. When you book a holiday for your family and you are paying for the "top" accommodation available on the holiday park, you have certain expectations about the type of holiday you can expect and the JFH brochure makes a good job of confirming those expectation - until you get to the holiday park and the reality of the situation very quickly kicks in and you find you are on the worst, most child unfriendly holiday park ever.
There is one very big ...
Advantages: Cheap and cheerful Disadvantages: none so far
We have stayed at three different JohnFowler holiday parks in Cornwall (ang again next week) and have had a really good holiday. For us, we just want a base to come home to at night, as we spend the days out and about sightseeing.
There are 15 JohnFowler Holiday Parks in Devon and Cornwall. Some of them in woodlands, some of them near beaches. All of them conveniently located.
I am only going to mention the three that we have stayed in.
ST IVES HOLIDAY VILLAGE
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St Ives is about 2 miles away. This park is near Hayle. We stayed here in September 2003. We payed around £70 for a four night break, Mon-Fri.
The chalets are set in over 100 acres of woodland, and there are squirrels running around outside your front door.
When you check in at reception they give you the usual pack of key, map ...
