Reviews of St Ives Bay Holiday Park, Cornwall

Just go back from 2 weeks in a Sirocco caravan with my wife an 7 year old son. (our sixth holiday hear in a row). The Caravan was very good with great views and very clean, the food from the site diner BAY BISTRO was the best food the site has ever had! big portions and very nice, entertainment this year was very poor and seeing people queue up for bingo 1 hour before it opened and argue over who was first was sad. The swimming pool was very overcrowded one hour after opening, teenagers made the learning pool unsafe so it was better to use the main pool, would have been nice if the life guards stopped the use of large inflatable toys and made it safer for children who cant swim, beach and shop were great but the family room near the bar was depressing, quite a bit of dog mess about the site from people passing through with dogs, much of this stood about for several days on main paths! I will holiday hear again, hope they listen to some of this feedback.

stayed in st ives bay holiday park for 2 weeks. with my wife and our two girls ages 6 11. we absolutly loved it from the moment we drove onto the site till we drove off it.

everything was beautiful. hayle sands is gorgeous white sand clear blue water. if you like body boarding or surfing your in for a treat. high tide the surf is amazing. sunsets are stunning. and it gets better. wait to you go to st ives town. thats even better. porthminster beach and carbis bay are are better than most of spains beaches. white sand blue water surounded by green rocky cliffs. great for the family. go to porthmeor for surfing you cant go wrong. another must is philips pasties in hayle they are the best. one thing though BEWARE OF THE SEAGULLS they are theives they stealm your ice cream out of your hands. be careful of little ones they prey on the kids ice creams etc. going back next year for three weeks this time. good luck

Myself, husband and 2 children 7 and 9 years arrived at St Ives Bay Holiday Park on the 1st August 08, we had not booked and hoped that there would be a pitch available on arrival, we did have a contingency plan should there not have been any available, however we were luckly and had the last pitch on the camp which they call 'unbookable'. The site is brilliant, the view, the beaches, the food, the staff, the facilities were all fabulous. We travelled down from Essex on our maiden voyage in our 1979 VW Campervan, we had an unserviced pitch on the top field of the camp (pitch no 43), no tv, no luxuries just good old fashioned entertainment and real quality time with the kids it was superb. The kids loved it and did not want to come home. We left the camp for home on Saturday 9th August at 10am..... the van broke down just outside Yoevil, Somerset and we had to be taken the rest of the way home on the back of a recovery lorry we got home at 12.20am Sunday..... all part of the adventure and cant wait for next year, but will definately book our pitch to save disappointment as we may not be as lucky a second time and most importantly make sure our RAC membership is up to date!!



We can highly recommend this site for all ages. Have fun!!!

first went to st ives bay holiday park in a chalet back in the early 90's then the chalets were very basic. Then went again in 2006 booked a seaking caravan loved the park itself and the location to the beach but had to get the cleaners back to clean the caravan and change one of the mattress which had a large stain on it also the kitchen was dirty but at least the head housekeeper came over and sorted it. Then went back again august 2007 booked atlantic caravan.the atlantic is suppose to be the top of the range very dispointed again with the lack of cleanless the shower and toilet were filthy i dont like paying £800 plus per week then have to go in and clean up someone elses dirt this year we are going some where different because i dont fancy entering a caravan that needs cleaning. reception were great but everything should be 100% when you get the keys and shouldnt have to waste time back and forth to reception complaing. Perhaps st ives bay should take a security deposit from each caravan and if its not left clean and tidy they will lose there deposit. But must say the beach is great even if it is a trek up and down the sand dunes. Would love to go back but still have the memories of the shower plug hole full of hairs and the toilet dirty.

We have been going to this park for the last 4 years (with my wife and son) and i will be going again this year, Great beach and views, the site gets better every year with noticeable improvements, real ale,

better seating in the conservatory, better food, better security, better caravans, what i have found is that it does pay to splash out on the top of the range caravan, more space and comfortable, and yes nice beds, we have tried the mariner caravans but with horrible beds with blankets, and mould in the bathrooms, loose taps and grotty cookers, broken window catches and just generally dirty and smelly and grotty.

I guess its you get what you pay for and it is well worth paying the extra, the trouble is 2 weeks is never enough in the summer, have a good holiday perhaps i will see you in August 08 we have booked the sirocco again.

This site really does tick all the boxes. The location, accomodation, entertainment, food is all second to none. Cornwall boasts the best beaches in the UK and the 3 miles of golden sand will not disappoint.



I travelled down on the Saturday morning with the wife & 2 kids (2yrs & 4yrs) and got to the site around 1pm. Our caravan had already been cleaned and the keys were available straight away.



Inside the caravan, there was a small TV, gas fire, lounge area with pull out beds, a kitchen diner, shower room, wc and 3 bedrooms. The bedrooms get a little cramped, but it is well worth putting up with. This year, our caravan also boasted wooden decking and a picnic table!



The sea views from the caravan were amazing. We had a great view of Godrevy Rocks and the Lighthouse at Gwithian.



The beach and swimming pool are enough to keep the kids entertained, but there are also a couple of play areas and arcades should they want something else to do. The beach was a minute walk from our caravan, as were the sand dunes. The swimming pool is nice and clean and was also very warm during our stay.



Due to the location of the site, all of the other tourist destinations in Cornwall are only a short drive away and we had a great time in St.Ives, Penzance and Praa Sands.



There is a club on the site that provides evening entertainment and also an act for the kids in the childrens room. It is pretty much standard stuff, a couple of comedians, groups and bingo every night. In the kids room they had clowns, magicians and disco's. My kids are very young but loved it.



The big bonus for us was that the weather was great - didn't see a drop of rain all week - and came back with a nice tan!



This wasn't the first time I've visited St.Ives Bay Holiday Park and it certainly won't be the last.



Enjoy.

this place has got to be my must utter favourite place to holiday, i have been coming to this campsite for 15 years with my parents, i have seen this place transform gettin bigger and bigger each year i came, we came in a tourer every year apart from once when we stayed in a static caravan, but the fun we always had from morning till dusk there is always something to do, kids will never be bored neither will the adults,but sadly i wont be coming back due to my dad dieing,but its a place ill always remember as one of the best places ive holidayed with my parents.you have got to go to st ives holiday park it is brillant once there youll never want to come home.

We visited St Ives Bay Holiday Park in June 2005 and all in all I can say it is the best holiday ive had in many years. We stayed in their MERMAID Caravan and although you couldnt see much of the park it was still a good view though, Stayed in their SEAKING Caravan in June 2002 which was far superior but nevertheless all caravans are the same to me. Entertainment was brilliant The Sands Bar and The Dynamite Club were both good places for a great night out. The staff on the park were fantastic they were really helpful in getting things for us about the area and dealing with our faulty light in our caravan. Great Security presence also, As for "The Beach" it was like something out of the film "The Beach" and had the All Saints song "Pure Shores" feel to it thge sand was clean and the water was as blue as the sky. All in all St Ives Bay Holiday Park is well reccommended and Id actually like to rate it 50/10 if I could.

My family and I have been visiting St Ives Bay Holiday Park for Five years now. We love everything about the place(even the mattresses). We have three children aged between 9 and 15 who cant wait to go every year.



The beach is beautiful, the pool clean, warm and lots of fun. We spend our nights in the Dynamite club enjoying a variety of entertainment suitable for adults and children. Theres bingo every night with good prize amounts(we've even won a couple of times).



We have become good friends with many of the staff and people from all over the country who also are regular visitors to the park. We love the place so much, we have booked for two weeks next year, even though I am still ironing the clothes from this holiday. Why go abroad when all this is on our doorsteps(Eight hours in the car but worth it!)

Two adults and children 5 & 2 in a tent. St Ives bay is lovely, beach fantastic - even better if weather was guaranteed!

Toilet blocks clean and well maintained - very hot water in showers, too hot for my 2 yr old though (plug sockets in toilets and always plenty of soap and loo roll). Regular security patrols.



Large pitches, plenty of room for a 9 man tent and car, shop provide ice packs at £1 deposit each and will give you freshly frozen ones each time you need them at 50p a go - they won't freeze your own though - on to a winner there!



Shop well stocked with food, drink, camping gear and beach stuff, bit pricey though, Lidl just around corner from site entrance- much more reasonable. Didn't use launderette.



Swimming pool large and clean but minute changing room and only 2 extremely cold showers at side of pool, take a towel and a coat or jumper and run for the shower blocks, it's quite windy there most of the time as the site is built on sand dunes so it can get a little cold and draughty, especially when your just out of a nice warm pool!



Conservatory and bar next door to pool do great food reasonably priced and most of it's available for take away or if you prefer there are lots of curry houses and Chinese takeaways in Hayle.



There is also a pizza van in the car park on weds evening 6-9, we went at 8pm and they'd sold out so get there early.



Bingo and entertainer on most nights in main bar with separate area with children’s entertainer and disco - our kids loved the magician - zim zam harry kazam! - haven't stopped talking about him since we got back!



Beaches in this whole area are great, go to porthcurno near lands end or carbis bay ( £5 to park the car for the day here though). Don’t take the car into st ives, drive down the road to lelant and take the train, £4 return and you can come and go all day if you want.



All in all lovely area and site - we all enjoyed it, only down side was lack of indoor children’s play area for those not so nice days.



We would definitely go again - even with the seven hour drive to get there!!!

Got back today. 7 of us in an 8 berth caravan. Week self catering.



Caravan a little cramped but liveable. Must supply hoovers. Sand everywhere!



Rabbits everywhere but edible. The bars are either not open in the afternoon or close at 2 which I thought daft as we had a few rainy days. Put in Sky. Weather unreliable. £1 a day not a deal breaker.



Shop fine. Didn’t use laundry. Pool fine. Hayle drab. St Ives all pasties and fish and chips. Went there once. Nuff said. Flambards in Helston has good points but dear and closes half 4. Don’t care what their ads say. We were there and it’s a rip off.



St Ives bay worth a re- visit though. Beach is quite magnificent. We were there on hot days and loads of room. Sunsets lovely.



Totally unsuitable for disabled people and difficult if you have very small children with buggies or prams. Up and down to the beach is knackering. Enjoy.

Everything is great and the beach is divine as mentioned above in the other letters, but I am amazed no one has mentioned the hard thick-plastic covered beds. They are so uncomfortable. They supplied nice clean linen for the A6 chalet, which was great, but it just slid off of the plastic covering on the mattress and was hot and very sticky in the night. The rooms had a bad damp smell, so we had to run in and open up the whole chalet to let the air pass through.



I would not say it is the cleanest of places. I am not really a clean freak but the windows inside were full of sticky children's fingers all over it at about 2 ft from the floor. That should have been cleaned off. The toilet brush was so foul and soupy yucky inside the holder, that I threw it away and went and bought them a new one. That helped to stop the smell somewhat in the toilet, but I think it was from whatever lived under the lino! They do not supply a Hoover so the sand and other bits get all over the dark carpet and in the beds.



Two men with big canisters sprayed insecticide outside the chalet without letting us know and we were in the chalet with the windows open at the time and it was hard to breathe for a few minutes, but at least they spray for bugs. The launderette is great with what looks like new machines, but is expensive: £8.00 for 2 loads (£3 washing machine and 20p for 4 minutes drying time.) The machines do not wring the clothes out very well, so it takes at least £1 to dry a load but things are still quite damp afterwards.



The park staff are helpful and plentiful and will go to extremes to make sure your stay is a pleasant one. The park is kept safe with many uniformed security staff patrolling all the time, but it could do with a better clean after guests leave and a Hoover would keep you from sleeping in sandy beds. The hard plastic covering is a bit much though. Like sleeping in Tupperware.

We went on a weeks holiday to St Ives Bay in August 2004. I have never had such a good time in my life!



Where we stopped was amazing, in a caravan park, there was entertainment on every night and I loved it as did my little brother and the rest of the family :D



The beaches were gorgeous! It was almost like being abroad, the weather was superb.

We also visited lands end, which was amazing, somewhere I’d always wanted to go - a great day out, well worth it! :)



I really enjoyed my visit to St Ives , and I really want to go back again.

Excellent place to stay, we camped for the week, and though we were lucky with the weather I'm sure it would have been a great holiday if it had poured the whole time. The facilities are excellent, even campers can use the pool and all the outdoor areas (such as the crazy putting and tennis), though I think there's a charge for tennis.



They charge your mobile phone in the office for £1 which saves the hassle of trying to find a way of getting it charged when camping for a week (really handy service). It's a 20 minute walk from Hayle and there are regular busses to all the main Cornish attractions. Plus there's a train station in Hayle also.



We spent a couple of days in St Ives (by 20min bus ride) which were great fun, but the best place we went was paradise park in Hayle itself, it wasn't what I'd normally pick for a day out but it was close so we gave it a go. It's a wildlife park themed mostly on birds, there's a parrot show, a falconry show and you can see them feed the otters. It doesn't sound like much but it's just a nice way to spend a day out, plus they even let adults have a go in the petting zoo, feeding goats etc. which lets you feel like a kid again:)



Also look into a trip to the Minack theatre (they have a web site) it's on lands end and it's an open air theatre, it's beautiful, took my girlfriend there for her birthday (which happened to occur while we were staying at St Ives Bay), it's just such an interesting experience, just look for the web site and you'll see what you're getting. A local taxi and mini bus firm runs a bus which goes past St Ives Bay (so yet again no need to drive). Tickets and transport totalled £20 each.



Information on transport is on the Minack theatre web site. Anyway, just wanted to say how great a place St Ives Bay is and how convenient everything is. Also worth noting is the food outlet, it's not gourmet fayre or anything but it's great food for all that, plus you get to eat looking out over a cliff to scenic view of St Ives bay and depending on the time you can stick around and watch the sunset from the bar next door.



There's also a cinema to keep kids occupied for the evening (we've not got any but it looked handy and worth mentioning). Anyway, save some hassle ditch the car, relax, save some money and go for a week in St Ives bay, it'll relax you perfectly, just what a holiday should be!

Around £200 off season for a 2 bed chalet with views of Godrevy Island and Hayle towans -cute Bunnies outside chalets included. Onsite facilities include free use of indoor pool (opening hours are shorter later in the year) a well worn but free crazy golf and use of tennis courts also.



Until September there is a well stocked camp shop and a fab takeaway and family friendly bars. There are numerous safe play areas on site for kids and private beach access. This site is fantastic we go off peak several times a year (we don't even have any kids)and we keep going back. It is fantastic value for money and has several miles of golden beaches on the doorstep which are also popular with surfers. Well worth a visit locally are the Tate in St. Ives, the Philips pasty bakery in town, Paradise park bird and animal sanctuary and Godrevy point for seal watching, we're never disappointed.



Transport links are also great, it is not far from the A30 if travelling by road and is also accessible by intercity train. A bus service to Truro and St. Ives also stops nearby. If the campsite shop is closed there is a really helpful well stocked local newsagent that sells everything and a Lidl at the bottom of the road. Additionally if you are in need of a junk food fix there is a McDonalds at the A30 junction a few minutes away by car.



The site is open for camping and caravanning as well as static caravans, chalets and a few modern properties to rent that can accommodate larger families.

Campsite staff are extremely helpful and accommodating and entertainment is laid on throughout the summer season.



In Hayle itself there are a few restaurants including an Italian and Indian and several fantastic pubs. The local library has internet access which is free for an initial period and has a small charge thereafter but avoid after school time as school children have priority then for their homework.