Center Parcs De Kempervennen
, North Brabant
Kempervennendreef 8
5563 VB, North Brabant, Holland
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Center Parcs De Kempervennen Reviews
May 2011, Laney/Pricey Families
As a family with our friends we started visiting De Kempervennen when my daughter was 4 yrs old and she is now 15 yrs old. It is the best Center Parcs in Holland. So much to do - all my children have learnt to ski there. They love the activities and the Aqua Mundo... We... more
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Apr 2011, TukkerWolf
We arrived at Kempervennen Yesterday and this site was well worth booking. We priced up a midweek break at Sherwood for the week upto Good Friday and quoted not much chsnge from £700 for a 2 bed lodge for 2 adults and a 6 year old. We booked a 2 bed VIP villa with a sauna... more
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Aug 2010, Dad
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I wish I'd listened to Mrs O'Donnell. Her review was spot on. The accomodation stinks of smoke and the beds are in poor condition. The floor and sofas were dirty and in real need of a proper upholstery clean. It seemed there was a bomb scare in the local Primark judging by... more
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Jul 2010, aoife and ciara
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my family and I went to De Kempervennen last August, for one week, there was lots of stuff to do. we got our bikes which were a great, fun way to get around the park. we did the 2day ski course, it was very good but hard to do, the high adventure, it was great fun but very... more
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Oct 2009, Mrs Wilde
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We stayed at the Kempervennen in August for just under two weeks with our two children and had a wonderful time. We have previously been to Elevden, Longleat and Sherwood, and would totally recommend this one. To be walking round in shorts and relaxing on the beach in the... more
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Sep 2008, Miss M.R O''Donnell
i have recently visited center parcs De Kempervennen and we stayed there for 12 days. when we got there i was exited and saw all of the animals just wondering about the parc. however when we arrived at our chalet i was quite disapointed as the rooms all smelt of smoke and... more
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Aug 2008, Mrs M H O''Donnell
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We stayed at kempervenan centre parcs for twelve days far to long in my opinion.Four days is plenty as the park is small and is not that much to do once you have done an activity for the day,the site itself was clean but was very dissapointed with the accomodation it stunk... more
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Apr 2008, Mrs C Lopes
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My family and I (husband, 9 year old and 7 year old) have just returned from a week long holiday in De Kempervennen. This was our second trip, we last visited in 2006, and we have had a fantastic time! We hired basic family accommodation, which had been updated since our... more
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Dec 2007, Mrs J Croft
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What a fabulous holiday. We have been to six different Center Parcs sites (Elvedon, Sherwood, Longleat, De Kempervennen, De Huttenheugte and Het Heijebos). De Kempervennen is by far the best. Longleat is the best of the UK parcs. De Kempervennen had it all for us. Our... more
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Oct 2007, Miss G Raven
I have just come back from a long weekend break to De Kempervennen Center Parcs. I am a regular to Center Parcs and I often go to the one in Eleveden Forest. Me and my partner found it smaller than the ones in England but we liked how there was a big focus on nature and... more
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Sep 2007, Mr FJW Williams
Brilliant!!! I really enjoyed it and the kids did too.
Montana ski slope 10/10!
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Fab Holiday and Wonderful Site
from Donna72Aberdeen
Well this is our first experience or Centreparcs. Lots of friends have visited the UK ones with mixed reports but De Kempervennen was just the best. We travelled from Newcastle to Amsterdam by overnight ferry, and it was only about 2 1/2 hours from the ferry port, ideal when you are travelling with 2 small children (3 & 7) The weather was not the best for the first 2 days of our stay but it stayed dry the rest and warm all of the time. The rain did not stop us doing anything as there is so much to so we could of stayed another week and still not done everything. We stayed in a 4 bed villa, very nice with all the equipment and more the only thing we were short of was wooden spoons for stirring etc. Clean and very comfortable. The site has a fab snow centre, as I non skier this was one of the things that I wanted to do I was not disappointed our instructor was great and very encouraging, we also tried the water skiing, climbing wall, tennis, badminton, bowling, the swimming in the aqua mundo, pedallos and the various parks for the kids, all organised to the highest standards. And all the staff were exceptionally helpful to beginners, and they all spoke english very well and they are all really keen to improve the their English. Kids clubs were great, ours did wanna be a cook and wanna be an indian, both got great reviews the only down side from our 7 year old wa there was not much english speaking kids but the organisers both spoke very good english. We did not eat out much, we did use the main cafe area in the Dome and the Pizza takeaway was good and we ate in the Pizza nd pasta restaurant the last night as my parents in law were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversay. The staff were brilliant totally focused on the celebrating couple and made them feel very speacial and also sung a speacial song to them in Dutch and presented them with a lovely platter of puddings all decorated which was complimentary The supermarker was well stocked and sold nearly everything you need, if you want to cook in your villa get in early as the meats go very quickly. We found it very reasonable as we were 650 euros for all our provisions, food and all our activities for 6 adults and 2 kids. All in all a fab stay in a fab site. Roll on the October holidays.
De Kempervennen and others
from amandaksmith
Center Parcs Junkie - 25 various visits so far (UK/Holland) I have been with my family to De kemp 3 times and found it excellent. If you ski there is a reasonably big real snowdome with kit hire in the price plus in summer there is a PADI scuba diving course in the lake where you can obtaqin your basic licence The prices are good especially if ours and the dutch half term dates don't match (as in this coming October), you can always Google it to find out. As for the massive difference in prices, the company that runs the european villages is NOT the same as the one that runs the UK. There is a bit of grudging co-operation between the two, but not much. At one time the european villages were in the same brochure. You have to use the link www.centerparcs.com or www.centerparcs.nl to book or order a brochure in English. They used to add a small premium to the cost owing to issuing the documentation in english, but this seems to have stopped. Been to De Emhoff as well, its good but a bit smaller, booked for Het Hiejderbos this Oct, the price is 25% **£££!!!!!!!! of Sherwood for the same week. Even adding in the Hull-Rotterdam ferry price, the total is still only about half. If you live in the south east, Ryanair flies from Stansted to Eindhoven, which is only 25 mins from De Kemp via Valkansward. I tried this once but the four hour overnight drive from Manchester meant we were all very tired the next day. I find the Dutch sites more relaxed, if you want to go down the slides in a train (the signs say you cant) but the lifeguards dont seem to mind. Plus when was the last time you looked out of the patio to see a huge mother pig and her 11 porky pigletts looking in through the window (they turned out to be useful organic waste disposal units), makes a change from the ducks. The restaurants are much cheaper even though some of them are not open all the time. The Parc markets are smaller, with not as large a range of goods, plenty of beer though which is the important bit, plus most items are in dutch. It took me three attempts to buy fresh orange juice (men never ask) but my wife discovered the nature of the fresh meat by asking using animal noises !! turned out to be horsemeat so we quickly switched to the beef MOO! well you have to improvise. Let you know how the next trip goes.
Cheaper than England, but no corners cut!
from sair1985
Me & my friends had a lovely time at this Centre Parcs. We are a mixed group of friends in the age region of 21-24 One of the main reasons for choosing this parc was the price and the snow dome. I am amazed at how cheaply we had our trip. We stayed in a 3 bed VIP villa, which was in an amazing location close to the snow dome, market dome and sports centre. We paid £80 each for this, plus Ryanair flights totalling £42. AMAZING... I took £200 spending money and didn't have the need to take anymore money out and was able to do everything I wanted to do. The instructors all speak fantastic English... only downside was the language barrier when it came to reading certain menus and tickets. But this was minimal. We wasn't told and couldn't read that the receipts including in our check in pack were for the swimming pool and we ended up throwing them away. The charge is then €15.00 each per day to use the swimming pool, so we bin raided to find our tickets!! So make sure you don't make the same mistake we did!!! :-)
Lovely Place
from bluebell101
We stayed here for 3 nights (fri-mon) as we tagged it onto the end of our stay at another cp site 30 mins up the road in belgium. De Kempervennen has a lovely long driveway approach to it. We stayed in a 2 bed vip cottage, and were not disappointed. It was lovely, clean and spacious and had what we needed. With the vip cottages the only extras you really get are a voucher to spend on groceries in the parcmarket and fresh bread, rolls and croissants delivered every morning to your cottage (which was a nice touch). The cottage had a double and twin bedroom, cloakroom, bathroom, good sized living area with dining table and well equipped kitchen. Again there is no oven in the kitchen, but just a hob and microwave. We hired a fondue one evening which the kids really enjoyed. We find the parcmarket to be well stocked and not too expensive. The dome itself was ok nothing special. The pool was not as good as De Vossemeren where we had stayed 4 days prior and the only downside were the poor changing rooms which were not particularly clean. Good facilities throughout CP, we took our own bikes and ventured outside for a cycle ride into the nearby village. Very small with not much going on!! Would recommend CP Europe purely because of cost. Our week away in the 2 different parks cost us 749 euros (delux & vip accomodation). For 5 days in CP UK they wanted £900 for basic villa.
center parcs NL- third of the cost of UK
from Essex7
Spent a week here with 2 adults and two children. The cost for the stay is a third of that which the same company charges for UK center parcs. Travelled Harwich - Hook of Holland and still found the whole holiday a lot cheaper than the UK. Smoking onsite and in restaurants is a problem if you don't like it as there are limited no-smoking places. The food onsite is pretty awful (except the snow centre where the food is reasonable). There are plenty of places to eat in nearby Valkenswaard. There are various activities for the children. All worth a go. The snow centre is excellent value and is worth several visits. If you book online the price for your booking is different depending on where you are coming from. We met someone who used a french address saved over 280euros and received vouchers for activities and tokens for the shop. We did not get the same benefits. Rip off Britain yet again??? Well worth a visit but don't take too much stuff and take or hire a bike so that you can get around the site quickly. some villas can be a good walk from the market dome (especially if you have small children) The mosquitos this year were terrible so take your own repellents. The ones in the shop were very expensive.
Rip off Britain
from reynards
Six of us stayed in Kempervennen during the May School holiday. We had previously made enquiries about the English sites but the cost was prohibitive. We couldn't believe the difference in the price, bearing in mind that they are the same company. We travelled by Stena overnight using our Tesco Deal Vouchers so the only cost for travelling we had to make was for fuel. We missed having a cooker, as we were self catering but we managed with the hob and the microwave, together with eating out. We weren't terribly impressed with the food that we did try out but in the nearby village there were some lovely restaurants. The snowdome is fantastic with the cost of a weeks skiing or snowboarding for 60 Euros including equipment. In the UK you would pay that for a couple of hours. The children were there all day virtually every day - they would come back to the chalet for something to eat and stay there until the centre closed. The accommodation was fine if a bit cramped with so many of us, with not much storage for clothes but, hey, we had a great time and are aiming to go back in November with an even bigger party in tow.
Center Parcs De Kempervennen
from holidayvalley
Just returned from Center Parcs De Kempervennan, we flew from Stansted 40 minutes - nice!!, taxi from the airport was 140 euro return (7 seater with tip). We found this parc not as good as the Elveden Parc we went to earlier in the year, the swimming pool did not have the lazy river and the rapids not as good. The skiing was great, as was the zip wire, high ropes and Scuba with all the teachers speaking great English. We opted for half board - DON'T, unless you are on a short break, the food was very repetitive, after a few days we were not looking forward to our breakfast or evening meal :(. The market dome was a big disapointment, unless you enjoy passive smoking and long for the days before smoke-free pubs in England. It was very muggy with no outdoor seats to enjoy a drink or meal. The Villa was pretty much as the one in the UK, clean, plenty of crockery with a dishwasher, but no oven? (not that we needed one because we opted for the half board - don't do it!!). Would we go back - the short answer is No, we much preffered Elvedon Forest, De Kempervennen is meant to be 5 star, we'd give it a 3 star rating - If they improve the food, have more outside dining, and ban smoking in the Dome/eating areas, then the rating may go up.
Great park - shame about the cottage
from kolomum
We went to DeKempervennen during the Easter holidays - 2 adults & 2 teenage boys. We'd been to DeVoosemerren before and had a great time. We booked a 2 bedroomed VIP cottage as a step up from the one we'd been very happy with at Devoosemerren. Unfortunately the cottage had filthy carpets - so bad that we had to keep our shoes on to stop our socks from getting black! There was mould up the wall of the lounge and also in the shower cubicle, and the patio was filthy with cigarette ends and rusty beer bottle tops, and the patio furniture was very dirty and partly broken. The duck pond just in front of our patio was full of rubbish and plastic bottles. We mentioned some of these things on the first day at reception, but nothing was done. The facilities in the park are really good, and we thoroughly enjoyed our time out and about in the park, paarticularly the snow dome and pool area. It was just such a shame that we had to go back to the cottage at the end of the day! Wrote a letter with our concerns to CP's head office over a month ago, but have not even had an acknowlegement yet.
excellent first stay ar center parcs netherlands
from voyager51
after reading previous review thought i'd add my comments. we stayed at kemperveenen in may 2005 our first center parcs holiday and it was excellent. So good in fact, in May 2006 we went to het heijderbos, netherlands - good again but not as good as kemperveenen, but didn't put us off because we have again booked for May 2007 to Port Zelande (Netherlands/Belgium border) This really is an excellent family bonding holiday - we can't wait to go
Childrens Paradise
from UK_CBGB
If we win the lottery and our kids could choose a holiday - where would they go - Florida maybe? No - De Kempervennan! What a wonderful holiday. Don't be too put off by the bungalows, they look like breeze block huts from outside, but when you are in they are great. We hired a deluxe 2 bedroom for 1 week, this had its own sauna, 2 bathrooms, pation with our own ducks, real fire if it gets chilly and best of all - warm croissants and bread delivered fresh to your door every morning. This was in with the cost. Our English neighbours complained about the carpets in their bungalow, they had a crawling baby, they were washed the same day! Our carpets were fine. We travelled by DFDS Seaways, that was a mini holiday in itself, no sea sickness. Try to get a cabin that is around deck level, this stops the sway from the top decks and you can't hear the enginge noise like the lower decks. You don't need a car unless you want to explore Holland in detail or Belgium (right on the border). Hire a bike for the week, there is too much to do on site, you really are spoilt for choice. A must is the skiing fantastic value for a full week, we played all day and skiied in the evening. Close by- a lovely town with good shops if you need pressies, a coffe shop with outdoor trampolines. Head for the Belgium border and you will come accross a war memorial yard with many graves, very moving and a windmill that isn't signposted. The Dutch speak excellent English and are very friendly, we will be back soon. Eftelling theme park is great, around a 40 minute drive north.
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- Always book the sking - speak to the Montana Snowcenter directly as they will give you all the up to date information that you need. - by Laney/Pricey Families
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Firstly I must confwess we are addicted to centre parcs. We've been to Eemhof, Heijderbos, Vossemerem, Meerdalas well as de kempervennen. Travelling all the way from Swansea(Wales) to go to De Kempervennen must either mean we are nuts or theres something worth returning... more