If you’re trying to find a household vacation in Devon then it’s extremely seemingly Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park has come up in your search. It’s a family-friendly resort on the coast brimming with actions to maintain all ages entertained regardless of the size of your keep.
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We have been invited to assessment Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park. But it surely’s a little bit of a protracted hop from Oman the place we’re presently dwelling. So as a substitute I despatched alongside my buddy Lauren Heath, who additionally writes for the award-winning Eating Devon web site.
Right here’s what Lauren and her household have shared about their three evening mini-break on the North Devon coast:
About Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park
Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park is certainly one of three Devon vacation parks in Woolacombe, all owned by the identical household. A perk of staying right here is you should utilize amenities throughout all three.
The opposite two parks are Twitchen Home and Easewell Farm.
Woolacombe Bay is appropriate for households of all ages and sizes. There are static caravans, lodges, a surf village and residences, in addition to loads of issues to do and leisure.
If you wish to convey your personal tent or caravan you possibly can keep at Twitchen Home or Easewell Farm with the identical advantage of utilizing the amenities on the neighbouring parks.
Staying within the Surf Village at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park
We have been booked into Woolacombe bay’s Surf Village in a Surf Lodge. S10 to be actual.
This is likely one of the vacation park’s latest lodging choices and is on the premium finish of the value vary. So what do you get to your cash?
Bedrooms
Our Surf Lodge slept six folks. There’s an eight mattress lodge obtainable too.
Ours had a king-sized bed room, a twin room, and a second twin room with 2’6 beds (these are barely slimmer than a standard single mattress).
All of the rooms had good sized wardrobes and aspect tables.
Loos
There was a important household lavatory and the master suite had a dressing room, which you walked by means of to get to your en suite bathe room.
Each loos had heated towel rails – excellent for drying damp towels but additionally swim gear – and the lodge had loads of radiators, which we discovered to be actually attentive to being turned up or down.
Residing house
There was a TV within the lounge and all of the bedrooms. There’s a Blue Ray participant, however you have to bear in mind to convey your personal DVDs.
Decor-wise the inside was actually calm and funky, the sofas have been tremendous cozy and there was an electrical hearth for a little bit of atmosphere at evening.
The kitchen was actually well-equipped with a full dimension fridge freezer, an oven, microwave, dishwasher and a washer dryer.
We discovered loads of cutlery, crockery and even plastic prosecco glasses for the recent tub!
Plenty of nice lighting choices indoors and out added to the chilled out vibe.
Out of doors dwelling and scorching tub
All of the Surf Lodges have a big gasoline BBQ for outside cooking on the decking. We seen different lodges and statics within the vacation park had smaller gasoline BBQs as effectively.
We actually loved having the recent tub – it was improbable. The Surf Lodge additionally has an outside bathe for cleansing off earlier than the recent tub and once you come again from the seashore.
There was picnic desk and deck chairs as effectively.
The one small enchancment we thought might be made to the lodge was an even bigger mat on the door onto the decking.
As you stroll in from the decking there’s a coir mat however it’s not large and we dripped fairly a bit from being within the scorching tub. We used a shower towel or tub mat to catch our drips.
In any other case within the lodge value vary, robes would have been actually good and a few lodge slippers!
Extras along with your Surf Lodge at Woolacombe Bay
Reserving a surf lodge comes with some added bonuses.
Inclusive tools
Surfboard and wetsuit rent is included. We didn’t make use of this because of our brief keep and the sometimes English climate.
One thing we hadn’t anticipated within the lodge was the cordless hoover with spare battery. This was a stroke of genius and actually helpful to have a fast clear up of crumbs or mud from boots.
Inclusive welcome packs
You additionally get a welcome pack once you e book a Surf Lodge. This features a bottle of white wine, a big bottle of native fruit juice, Devon shortbread, Devon fudge and filter espresso.
There’s additionally a cleansing pack to get you began. This comprises dishwasher tabs, a garments washing liquid tab, a material and a small bottle of washing up liquid.
Free electrical car charging
Every Surf Lodge has an electrical car charger constructed onto the surface and charging is included in the price of your break, which is wonderful. There are two parking areas per lodge.
If you’re in one other kind of lodging, then you possibly can cost in the primary automobile park for a payment. There are many chargers at Twitchen Home.
Issues to do at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park
Once you affirm your vacation you’ll obtain emails from the vacation park to say when you possibly can e book totally different actions, which is helpful for serving to you benefit from your keep.
You’ll be able to e book prematurely in your on-line account or at reception once you get there.
There’s a mixture of free and paid for actions.
You too can use the amenities on the different websites – Twitchen Home and Easewell Farm – together with indoor water slides, pottery portray, geocaching, and different nature based mostly actions.
Free actions
Right here’s the issues to do without spending a dime at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park:
- indoor important pool and toddler pool – e book a one hour slot
- there’s additionally a heated outside pool (opens in the summertime season)
- spa with two saunas, chilly pool, 2 foot spas, jacuzzi, 2 steam rooms, ice bucket, and heated loungers (12 yrs and over, 45 min classes)
- tennis court docket
- disc golf play space
- small indoor delicate play within the restaurant
- loopy golf
- nightly leisure for kids and a wider household viewers.
Paid actions
Right here’s the actions you have to finances further to do:
- arcade (2p machines, air hockey, racing video games) the arcade was very clear and vibrant!
- cinema
- segway
- bungee trampoline
- climbing wall
- gymnasium
- make a bear station.
Segways at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park
We paid for the segway and completely loved it. It was very drizzly however this didn’t detract from it.
We had a bit observe on the segway hut then off we went across the park and up the very prime the place we crossed the street and went into the park’s segway area.
We acquired to have extra free reign and go for it on some paths and between the bushes.
The session was one hour. Steve and I’ve completed this twice earlier than however Kyle had by no means completed it. He took to it rather well!
It’s an excellent exercise for {couples} or these with kids aged 12 or over. We cherished it!
The spa at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park
The spa at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park is a free, bookable exercise. We thought it was beautiful. It’s small however completely shaped and 45 minutes is sufficient time to get pleasure from what’s on provide.
It was nice to have the ability to have Kyle with us because it’s appropriate for 12 years and older as effectively.
We loved a soothing time collectively. There have been solely 10 folks in our session, so everybody may use one thing within the spa and rotate simply.
You want a pound for the locker (refundable) however you can too put your stuff on the benches within the spa.
The swimming pool at Twitchen Home
We booked a swimming session at Twitchen Home because it has two indoor waterslides.
One permits an grownup and youngster to trip down collectively, and the opposite sooner one permits one individual at a time.
That they had cool lighting inside them and all of us cherished this!
The pool was a pleasant dimension and heat, with a toddler pool subsequent to it and a viewing space.
The one draw back was once you arrived and left your booked session it was fairly chaotic. This actually might be improved because the altering rooms turned a bottle neck.
A number of the lockers additionally didn’t lock so it took some time to seek out one which did in amongst numerous different folks.
Having mentioned that, there are many altering rooms together with family-sized ones.
Geocaching
We additionally booked geocaching at Twitchen Home.
This concerned a clue sheet with photographs and coordinates. We used this and Google Maps to seek out the caches inside the park. Every contained a letter to make up a phrase.
It was an excellent team-building exercise as a household.
Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park night leisure
On our first evening we went alongside to the leisure corridor round 8pm. That they had some child-friendly enjoyable sooner than this for the younger ones.
Subsequent they’d a enjoyable session the place the leisure group inspired households to bounce or do humorous strikes.
We actually acquired concerned and laughed so much. The leisure group have been nice with younger and previous alike.
After that was Matt Grindley’s Magique present, which was mixture of magic, phantasm and jokes.
He acquired some kids as much as get entangled after which additionally some adults together with me! Why did we sit on the entrance?!
It was actually good although.
The tables within the leisure corridor have QR codes so it’s simple to order meals or drinks with out having to go away your kids and queue at a bar.
Issues to do close to Woolacombe Bay
Woolacombe is a good place for a vacation with loads of family-friendly issues to do.
Right here’s a variety:
Woolacombe Bay seashore
You’ll be able to stroll right down to Woolacombe Bay however bear in mind it’s a bit steep. You must undergo fields and down a lane, so the stroll again could be fascinating. It’s undoubtedly not pram pleasant.
It was a 5 minute drive down and there’s a mixture of all-day or hourly parking.
Within the peak of the summer season, the stroll could be a helpful choice because of how parking fills up quick by the seashore.
Go to Ilfracombe
We drove to Ilfracombe for a wander and had some yummy takeaway loaded fries from Slice of Devon who’ve a small seafood hatch subsequent to their pizza providing.
We completed off with ice cream from Joey’s, which we extremely advocate. We’ve been to them earlier than on day journeys. They’ve a great deal of ice cream flavours, all made by them!
Rockpooling at Lee Bay
We additionally drove to Lee Bay for a rockpool ramble.
There’s a free small unmanaged automobile park reverse.
Extra issues to do in and round Woolacombe
Nationwide Belief Arlington Courtroom and Combe Martin Wildlife & Dinosaur Park are close by.
Check out the Devon with Children web site for urged issues to do close to Woolacombe and locations to go to in North Devon.
On-site store
The comfort retailer on website has actually something and all the things you want.
It’s clearly a bit costlier than an off website store. However for those who neglect something it has it, from nappies to flip flops, and tea towels to medication.
There’s some nice native produce as effectively together with wines, gin, beer, shortbread, and fudge.
Are canine allowed at Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park?
Sure. There are dog-friendly lodging choices throughout the vacation park.
Sadly the Surf Lodges and different lodging within the Surf Village are usually not dog-friendly.
Canine are welcome throughout outside areas within the park, in addition to inside within the designated pet-friendly space of Bait Ball Bar & Restaurant and out of doors terrace.
Canine are welcome on Woolacombe Seashore all 12 months spherical, however there are some space restrictions over the summer season months.
Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park assessment
Woolacombe Bay is a improbable vacation park with loads of free actions for the household in addition to paid further enjoyable.
With entry to all three websites, there’s something for everybody and fairly frankly, three nights wasn’t sufficient. You received’t wish to depart!
We actually may have stuffed seven days with all of the actions on provide, so I feel it’s wonderful worth for cash. There’s sufficient free stuff to maintain households busy and the paid choices are good additions.
When it comes to costs, there’s lodging for all budgets.
The Surf Lodge is likely one of the priciest lodging choices, however it’s consistent with different premium lodge holidays with scorching tubs throughout peak season.
Disclosure: Lauren and her household have been on a press journey for Tin Field Traveller and obtained complementary lodging in change for this Woolacombe Bay Vacation Park assessment. All opinions and pictures are her personal.
