£43 Per night plus entertainment! (of sorts, lol)
I would like to say i now realise that i am officially getting the grumpy old man syndrome, and it's creeping up on me fast!
For some reason (and other people's opinions etc) I decided to opt for a non-caravan site in Dawlish.
Lady's Mile seemed to fit all our needs for a two week R&R. (or so we thought) This site is basically on the side of a mountain with hardly any flat pitches on site.
Holiday costs for three adults, two children and one dog £582 (including electric)
Arrival and booking in sorted, the next thing was, 'hunt the levellest pitch'. After driving around the very large site and failing on two pitches, we settled on an end pitch near to the new toilet block.
Two stone slabs under the one side of the caravan and a milenco wedge and we were very-near level. Electric card plugged in and water on-board we setted in to a nice two week break (or so we were hoping for) The ground had plenty of ant's nests dotted around
and a lot of 'black Beatles'.
First nights entertainment: A young couple going hell for leather at each other, shouting and swearing at each other, slamming thing down on the outside table, and a distinct slap of the hand on some part of flesh, slamming the car doors and her driving
off leaving him there!
Every night people 'driving' up to the toilet blocks, because there were too lazy to walk a couple of hundred yards! The fun was watching all the family get out of the car's in their night cloths, and minutes later get back in the car and drive a couple
of hundred yards back to their tents/caravans.
There were plenty of children running all over the place, either kicking a ball or hitting one with a bat of some sort. But, all the children seem to play away from their own pitches!
I had one bloke playing tennis on an empty pitch to the back of us with his 'little darling', who hit my caravan with the ball, not once but twice before he decided to walk the extra 100 yards to the massive open playing fields. He didn't even have the
decency to apologize to us.
Every night (and I mean every night) some one was either shouting, swearing or arguing with their children. I often wonder why people take their children away with them?
Every day people speeding around the site with no care for the young ones darting here and there.
The toilets were not that clean (and apparently we were next to the newest toilet block)
I was so accustomed to the regular spider I named him Sammy'. Well I thought it only polite to give him a name, after all I couldn't call him just spider for the whole two weeks now could I?
On our last day, the 'team' decided to 'jet-wash' the whole of the toilet' to clean it. But they failed to take out the toilet roles in their holders. You can imagine what you got from a soggy role to wipe your backside with!
Every tap on site was a push type, which I fine, if you have three hands. As soon as you had taken off your had the ruddy water stopped, that was very annoying.
For a very,very large site the club house was small and very often too over crowded. The swimming pools were poorly supervised and it just seemed a 'free-for-all'.
I may be doing this site a bit of injustice, but I am sure I will not be returning any time soon. Even my 15yearold and a family 17year old said it's too noisy and too many children and too much noise at night for them!
But thankfully I am getting to that stage where the children are old enough to tell me that they no longer want to come caravanning with us and we can now look for a quieter adult only caravan club site. Yeeehaa!