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for Smugglers Haven, Newquay

Rating Summary based on 39 reviews

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  • 2 Stars
    		1
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  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 charliebecca

    Member since 12/07/2007

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star Not Such A Haven 12/07/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Close to the beach

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Loud, pissheads, druggies, abuse, unclean, not much to do

    Nothing says good morning quite like a fresh dump on your car! If you were thinking this site was a low key, relaxing, student friendly atmosphere, you and I were sadly mistaken. 18-30?!, read the small print on the site because they allow 16 years olds onto the site as long as there accompanied by an adult and they don‘t even ID so I can safely say there were younger than that. For us that meant 3 caravans next to us full of screaming chavs, with a small tent with 2 20 year olds to keep an eye on them. Expect only peace and quiet from about 5am-7am when everyone is passed out. Weekends the ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 mp1234567

    Member since 22/07/2009

    Reviews written: 1

    3 Stars Smugglers Haven.. 2009 Review 22/07/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages cheap,good transport provided, party atmosphere

    Disadvantages Disadvantages users too young, unclean, lawless

    The site. The site its self is located about 2 to 3 miles away from the centre of newquay, tucked away where you cant be found. It is not one site, the whole complex is called Travelgue, with the "roudy lot" being tucked away at the back of the site, that end being called Smugglers Haven. The front of the site has the families only section and doesnt have much in the way of exciting facilities for the general 'smugglers' user. Smugglers its self comprises of a section of static caravans and camping areas. The Facilities. There is a shop/off licence on site which seems pretty well equipped for ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 sanajo

    Member since 15/08/2010

    Reviews written: 1

    4 Stars Fun for the Young 15/08/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good location, fun and friendly, great for Boardmasters

    Disadvantages Disadvantages dirty bathrooms and long queues, can be loud

    This was our first visit to Newquay, and I don't think it could have been much better! A group of three 23-year old girls, surrounded my hundreds of fellow youngsters all up for a good camping time. If you're looking for a relaxed, peaceful, luxury campsite, this is definitely not it. However, we didn't really find it that loud, although it does depend where you are situated - because some groups do blast music into the early hours. We met loads of friendly people, and you get talking to them wherever you are on the campsite :) We met several people that had been back a few years running, so ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ukedge87

    3 Stars What Were They Smuggling? 13/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very cheap indeed. Great buzzing atmosphere.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Facilities are very basic, and of low standard. The wardens are not very good at their role.

    Smugglers Haven is a static caravan site in Newquay, Cornwall. Aimed at the 18 to 30 market, it attracts the people who gave Newquay the name for being the best club scene in England. With that in mind, me and 8 friends went down in July this year for a week of drinking, and partying. We went for one week, during July's awful rain period and suffered from the weather, but we were determined to not let that ruin our stay. +++ Location +++ It's quite tough to get down to Newquay, from where I live, cost effectively. We decided to split up into 3 sets of 3 travelling down, and as I was with two ... more
  • 10 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 jonesy787

    Member since 08/08/2009

    Reviews written: 1

    3 Stars Haven it ain't 08/08/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Some caravans are clean and modern. Good bus service. Good shop. Newquay's not too far by road

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some caravans are uninhabitable in my opinion. Extreme rowdyness by a minority

    When you first arrive at Smugglers Haven or Trevelgue Park as it's also called, you go to the main office and it all looks quite smart and the surrounding caravans are all clean and modern. Then they send you up the lane to the Smugglers Haven area and the contrast is vast. The first caravan we were shown to was a complete disgrace and I can only assume it was a cock up as it wasn't fit to live in for an hour let alone week. Outside was a mud bath resulting in cars getting stuck. Then there was a used condom by the main door, something splashed all down most of the windows (don't really want ... more
  • 9 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 Joethumb

    Member since 13/08/2007

    Reviews written: 1

    4 Stars Smugglers is awesome!! forget the crap reviews! 13/08/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages location, fun factor, bus service, perfect for lads/lasses on holiday who want fun.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages cold showers, bit disorganised, dnt take your family there!

    Forget the crap reviews, i came back from smugglers haven 2 days ago-(6-12 august (boardmasters week)) we camped and it was a simply awesome week. Smugglers haven has to have made our newquay holiday (8 lads) one of the best holidays ive ever been on. Compared to the atlantis bahia hotel i stayed in last year, its luxury levels are near zero, but its perfect for groups of mates going to newquay to have an amzing time and to party hard. Beach in the day time, (fistral or newquay beach just a 10 mins bus drive away-£2 return, till 3 30 in the morning!), clubs and bars at night, bus back for more ... more
  • 2 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 Jadeyroo22

    Member since 19/09/2010

    Reviews written: 1

    5 Stars Smugglers Haven 1 word- AMAZING!! 19/09/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages EVERYTHING

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Bad phone signal :(..... Seagulls

    Me and 3 of my friends decided to go to Newquay to celebrate one of our 18ths, and she decided to go camping. I have never been camping before and after reading the reviews of Smugglers Haven tried to do ANYTHING to get out of it! I even looked up train routes from newquay to get home if i wanted to. We booked to go down on the thursday, which is a must as it gets stupidly busy on the friday afternoon, we left at 7am thursday morning and took us 8 and a half hours to get down to Newquay. Should of been less, but thankyou to a stupid sat nav it decided to take us on its own road trip!! We ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 LittleHB

    Member since 22/08/2006

    Reviews written: 27

    4 Stars The equivalent of an 18-30's holiday in England! 23/08/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap accomodation and really friendly site

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Caravans are pretty basic, and avoid the hollow bungalow!

    I went to this caravan park with a group of friends for 1 week in August when we passed our A-Levels and, after sorting out our accomodation, we all had such a fantastic time we didn't want to come home. We had booked to stay in a 12-berth house called the 'hollow bungalow', but when we arrived there it was in such a state that we refused to stay there. We weren't expecting the Ritz but it was literally falling down and looked like it hadn't seen a cleaner all summer. Conveniently, they happened to have 2 vacant 6-berth caravans right next to each other which they moved us to, and we ended up ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 Carter1992

    Member since 19/04/2012

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star Extremely Poor. 19/04/2012

    Advantages Advantages One good club in town, 30 minutes away.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages EVERYTHING.

    If I could rate this place any lower than one star I would, it was by far the worste place I have EVER been to. List of complaints: - Tiny beds. - Unnacceptable heating. - Poorly decorated. - Wasn't kept clean, upon arrival we were disgusted. - the shower could only be classed as acceptable in a third world country. - The site wasn't kept clean, there was cans and empty wrappers everywhere. - On site pub/club closes at 11pm which seems silly as its an 18-30's site. - The staff aren't friendly, it seemed they would much rather be anywhere else than there. - The fridge temperature wasn't cool ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 1 honestreview1

    Member since 11/08/2008

    Reviews written: 1

    1 Star DONT GO TO SMUGGLERS HAVEN!! 13/08/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages none

    Disadvantages Disadvantages encluded in report (there are alot)

    DONT GO TO SMUGGLERS HAVEN!!! its more like smugglers hell,we lasted 1 night, we arrived and realised any facilities i.e pub,take away and swimming pool are half a mile down the road from the 1st field and we were told to drive to the overflow field and pitch up where we want so we made out way through the muddy fields(atleast 3 inches of mud everywhere) peolples cars where stuck,there was a jcb digging out mud, we passed people leaving in there cars crying, we drove onwards through rubish that other campers hade left! what a cheek it is to take £25 off you incase you dont leave the campsite ... more
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