Southport Club Site
We have to take our caravan down to the dealers in Preston to get a warranty repair done in March. We have decided to make it a holiday and are looking at staying at the above site. We have been to the town many times but not the site. Can anyone who has been advise eg best place to pitch and is access ok ( our van is 7 mts long) also is it an easy walk in to the town.
Thanks
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Francis, we've stayed there a few times though not an expert on the site.
We've had a 7.4m caravan on that site without issues, access we found to be good and access around the site easy enough.
We prefer the older part of the site as its not so open or near the road, we try to pitch with the van against the woods/park.
Walking into Southport is easy enough access through the park.
We enjoyed our visits there as there is so much to do within an hours drive of the site.
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We enjoyed our visits there as there is so much to do within an hours drive of the site.
We usually call and see the red squirells at Formby point but we decided to go theere after Christmas having stayed from 13th December. We had bought our peanuts in shell from Morrisons as usual but unfortunately we had a surprise Chrissy present of a stinking, lousy cold. Yep with you on the new part ..... just needs some tumbleweed on it to liven it up
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We haven't been there for some time, but I do remember reading on CT not that long ago about someone who complained that their pitch, which was near the toiletblock, was constantly used by folk going forwards and backwards to the toiletblock. Or has that since been rectified, as I also remember talk of a chain being put up there or something. Perhaps someone who has recently stayed there can shed more light on that, if it was me, I'd want to avoid a pitch like that.
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We have stayed there. Yes there was a path between pitches to the new facilities. Really poor design for the this and there was only one entrance to the block so you had to walk the length twice if you were female just to reach the ladies door! 4 times by the time you leave if you're not parked by the entrance.
Easy walk to town. Easy walk to rail station be that in the town our the opposite way, name escapes me
very reasonable costs, stations right through to Chester, Port Sunlight, Liverpool, stations for red squirrel watching and another place. More than enough to occupy you for several days or much longer.
Cant help on pitch suggestions.
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The new part is terrible ..... acres of desolate loose gravel with an odd bit of grass here & there.
The so called problem pitch was next to the toilet block on the new side. Due to the club trying to cram in as many pitches as possible it meant that people tended to cut slightly across the corner of a pitch adjacent to an access point in the miles of fencing around said toilet block.
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Thanks EasyT, Bakers2 and MollysMummy for clearing that up. I knew I'd read about it, but couldn't remember the finer details.
As the advice is to stay on the old part, and the "problem" pitch is in the new part, then it shouldn't be a problem to the OP.
Enjoy your stay, Francis. As others have said, plenty to see and do.
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You'll find that, even if the new part is open, the facilities block may not be. Over the new year period, they were allowing people on but had closed off the toilet block so anybody on that part had a longish walk to the facilities in the old part.
New part is very exposed to the elements and is all Standard Pitches with Awning. Old part has Standard Pitches without Awning.
The pathway between 108 and 109 in the new part of the site has been removed.
Easy walk through Victoria Park into town or along Rotten Row. Good food available at The Fishermen's Rest - a five minute walk from the gate out onto Rotten Row.
At this time of year we like pitch 28 (possibly the highest area of the site if you need a TV signal). The only down side of that can be you often get a queue of motorhomes waiting to use the MHSP. We also like those that back onto the park in the summer months as they get all day sun.
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Like a lot of sites in the low season? it depends on staffing levels and how many pitches are open ,which will affect if all the facilitie are "needed" Sandringham is another site that we use ,also has one of the facilities blocks closed at this time of year,FM has the whole East side site closed,i think Hillhead also runs with only one facilities block open
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Sorry - should have also said only new part has 'Serviced Pitches'.
There seemed to be a mass staff change over and, on the 4th January, there was only one couple's names on the board outside reception so I guess they were reducing their cleaning workload until new staff took up their positions.
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All pitches were open when we arrived on the 27th.
I definitely recall being there, maybe last winter, when they closed off all the new part of the site; facilities block and pitches, probably whilst fairly quiet to reduce workload.
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There seemed to be a mass staff change over and, on the 4th January, there was only one couple's names on the board outside reception so I guess they were reducing their cleaning workload until new staff took up their positions.
By the 4th Peak over and less on site I suspect
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We actually counted before we left on the Friday morning and there were 32 vans on site.
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The site is fine if you like pitching up in a car park and all you can see is rows of other caravans. Definitely one CC site I wouldn't visit again!
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Do take bikes, as cycling is great there. We don't live all that far away and sometimes take the bikes on the car, park up at the far end on the RSPB car park and cycle as far as we can. Sometimes we get as far as Formby, which from the site is a lot nearer than that car park. And all flat!
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The new part of the site is, for me, soulless. However the older part is in the main not vastly different from many CC sites Nellie. I believe that you are generally a fan of CLs in particular. Main caravan club sites are indeed different. But I would say that the older part of the site is not greatly different from the typical CC site. Forgive me if I remember incorrectly but I thought that one of your criticisms was the noise from emergency vehicles? Only to be expected close to many large town centres. I choose the site for where it is, not as a destination in its own right
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ET, it was the general road noise not just emergency vehicles tht was so annoying. However, as you say, we much prefer CLs and the smaller club sites. It's all a matter of taste and what one wants from a site.
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We have been to Southport twice, once many years ago and more recently in 2014. Personally I feel the site has been massively improved when they extended the site. Any site near the coast is susceptible to weather conditions whether its in Southport or the South of France! Its a nice walk through Victoria Park to the town. We used the site to visit Liverpool and used taxi's to and from the station which were of a reasonable cost. Some pictures of the site here http://www.davidklyne.co.uk/southport_caravan_club_site.html
David
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