Advantages: Good family centre with lots of on-site facilities. Disadvantages: Not as good in the cold wet weather of UK
...have been to the wonderful Sandford Park in Poole, Dorset, three times now. I went twice when I was younger, with my dad and brother and then returned as an adult, in 2001, with my husband and our kids. My husbands mum and dad also came with us and I will base this review mainly on my experiences there in 2001.
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Sandford Park is set in 64 acres of woodland, close to Purbeck Hills. They cater for all sorts of holidaymakers and their ... ...literally loads to do at Sandford Park. During the day, there are both indoor and outdoor pools. Both are really nice and large. When we went in October only the inside pool was open, which was a large pool, with swimming lanes, play area and a whirlpool effect round the edges of one side. There were changing rooms and lockers here too. This was free for people staying on the site, although you had to show your card (which you are given on check ...
wendybull 06.06.2007 (07.06.2007)
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Advantages: good range of facilities Disadvantages: poor hygiene and maintenance and aloof management and staff
Sandford holiday park has to be without a doubt the worst site that i have ever encountered. The toilet facilities are notably poor and dirty. There is usually insufficient hot water for the numbers of guests. There are two shower blocks with consist a total of sixteen showers which in peak months have to cope with up to 2000 guests, work out that for yourself!! I found the level of hygiene completely unacceptable and would honestly not wash my dog ... ...prevent anyone from coming into Sandford Park. Because of the noise and cleanliness issues I would not recommend this park for families or indeed anyone else. This park claims to be family run, however the family that owns this park also own three others and live miles away, this park is a goldmine for them and is run in a maximum profit/minimum expenditure fashion ...
potatohead 29.04.2003
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Advantages: None Disadvantages: Poor Hygine, Poor service, ill thought out.
From the moment we arrived at the site the omens were not good. Someone decided to place a youth at the entrance to direct new arrivals. Unfortunately, despite lots of room inside the park, this bright spark decided to stop everyone in the actual entrance, this resulted in the small road outside becoming gridlocked in a matter of seconds.
Once we managed to finally get into the park we were confronted with what appeared as a ghetto for caravans! ... ...and not helped by the fact that most occupants were forced to park their cars half on the narrow road due to the small pitches. The next problem was trying to reverse the caravan onto the pitch! Some conifer trees planted between the pitches combined with the narrow road and parked vehicles meant it was impossible. Luckily helpful souls from a nearby pitch manually pushed out caravan into position.
A trip to the toilet blocks revealed that they ...
mottsy 29.08.2004
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