Having written a review for Watermouth Castle, I thought I should add a bit about the accommodation that is available at the Castle. Mid way through last July we visited and stayed at Watermouth Castle in North Devon. The Castle is not only a theme park but also has six apartments as well.

***** The Apartment *****
A you enter the foyer there are two staircases one going up to the left to a small balcony over looking the theme park and then leading to three apartments. The staircase to the right takes you up to another three apartments one being the Penn-Curzon. As you enter Penn-Curzon there is a place to the right to hang coat and things, and also a locked door, or least it should be locked. While we were staying there it wasn't locked, and being the inquisitive family that we are, we had to open it. We came face to face with a suit of armour! The door leads into the castle museum.

Next to this room is the bathroom, containing a toilet, sink, small bath (I could only just lay in it and I'm 5ft 4) and a shower over the bath. The bathroom also houses a very effiecient airing cupboard and a heated towel rail. A word of caution the towel gets VERY hot and is located on the floor so if you have little do not let them in the bathroom while the towel rail is on. We only used the towel rail to dry swimming costumes and usually in the evening when the children were safely tucked up in bed.

Further along the corridor you enter the dining/living room with a small (I do mean small!) kitchen. The kitchen reminded my of a galley kitchen on a narrow boat. The kitchen is well stock with utensils and you can, if you really need to, cook in here; however I would not recommend it.

***** Facilities *****
In the foyer is several highchairs that you borrow and take back to you apartment at no extra charge. There is also a large chess board table inside the chess board you'll find in the chess pieces. In an evening my husband would take the table out onto the patio area and teach my oldest son and my brother (who is autistic) how to play chess. James my eldest son, really enjoyed learning this game, so much so that he is now asking for his own chess board. Also, in the foyer is a notice board that holds information about the surrounding area. Across from the notice is a table where you can order daily newspapers from. The local newsagent then delivers them every morning to the table where you collect them from. At the end of the week they leave your paper bill and you leave the money in a secured box for the newsagent to collect.

There is an indoor heated swimming pool that residents of the castle apartments can use. Most morning my mother and I took the children swimming before breakfast. This became so popular that the boys were always up by 7am locating their swimming costumes and dragging my mother and I out of bed. The swimming pool is open between 7am and 8pm everyday. Inside the indoor pool are several sun loungers located under the glass roofed area. As the pool is located just off the sun trap patio the indoor pool can get very hot during the day. There is also an air hockey game which you can play, instead of swimming if you so wish.

As I have said previously I wouldn't recommend cooking an evening meal in the small kitchen. The gas BBQ was very helpful for evening meals. However, if you don't fancy cooking you'll need to locate a pub or restaurant to eat in. The closest for this would be a you're heading towards Coombe Martine there's a pub about a 1½ miles away on the left hand side. Alternatively, if you don't fancy driving you could always walk the two minutes it takes to get to Watermouth Lodges. This has a small shop in it which sells the basics like milk and bread. It also has a restaurant and bar. The food isn't spectacular but after all you do get what you pay for and this really isn't that expensive.