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Advantages: Great south coast break Disadvantages: can get busy
Bantham is a great beach; we moved to about five minutes out side of it a few years ago and have been going to it whenever posable since.
SURF AND BEACH
Bantham is probably the most consistent beach on the south coast. Surf there tends to range from fairly flat to about eight foot. However in larger swells it can get a bit choppy. The sand banks are normally spread out enough to give a good range of wave sizes, larger further out and then building up again slightly smaller nearer the beach. The beach itself is a fairly large sandy bay with small dunes towards the back. There are rocks on the right hand side of the beach where people sit to gain a bit more privacy as the beach does get busy in the summer. Further around the corner to the right of the beach is where the river Avon reaches the sea.
PEOPLE
Those of you ...
Advantages: Active pensioners and seagulls will love it Disadvantages: No help if you're disabled
hundred yards from the entertainment complex. Most nights as we lay there trying to get to sleep, we had to endure the rowdy sounds coming from the nightclub, which went on until after midnight. This would then be accompanied by the drunken sounds of people tottering out of the club and walking directly past our window, laughing and singing noisily. Too bad if you wanted an early night, especially as we weren't getting much sleep on the uncomfortable beds.
We've stayed at several caravan parks in Devon over the years, and have also stayed at the sister sites owned by the same company that runs Riviera Bay. We've never had complaints before about any of them. But the basic accommodation on this site can't be recommended. Most of the people staying in the cheaper chalets were elderly, perhaps because these are a cheap option if you have to ...
jools61 08.08.2005 (15.11.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Devon (England)
Advantages: Friendly people, lovely views, quaint cottages, summers Disadvantages: Bit of a ghost village in the winter
I can hear you all saying 'Appledore? Never heard of it.' Well, neither had I until just over 5 years ago.
How I came here.
My family have always favoured North Devon and Cornwall for UK holidays and we had all spent many happy weeks in these areas relaxing and wishing that we didn't have to go back to our humdrum daily lives. Like many we'd trawled the local papers whilst on holiday, checking out the job and housing situation, and like most we'd return home with regret and dream of our next holiday.
Well, everything changed for the whole family within the short space of 18 months. In that little time slot my husband, both my parents and my grandmother died leaving only my brother's family and my family to carry on. It was a devastating time for all of us and one which made my brother and myself take stock of our lives ...
jackyann53 20.11.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Appledore, Devon
