St Ives Bay Holiday Park

All that this holiday park lacks is better recycling facilities and bins for the cleaners and other smokers to put their cigarette butts in by the toilet/shower blocks. The toilets and showers are cleaned so often, security is great, the beach is "no dogs" and has hardly any seaweed and is really clean, uncrowded. Cafe good value and excellent quality food. Wonderful break.

We had a week in April (the nice one fortunately) it really is a great cheap break, we had a 1 bed chalet which having been converted from a 2 bed was nice and roomy. The bathroom was ample sized as was kitchen (not that we cooked much!) The only downside for us was the lounge chairs-hard and uncomfortable, think a small sofa & 1 chair would make it perfect!
We dont use onsite facilities as there are so many shops/pubs etc nearby-St Ives, Penzance, Redruth, Truro and are not really club entertainment people, but the clubhouse is always busy so imagine the entertainment must be ok!
April was our 5th visit and we are heading back for our 6th on Saturday - which must tell you something!! It really is a stunning beach and accomodation is always clean with everything basic that you need (apart from a pint glass and large wine glass)Go and Enjoy!!

I first went to the site many years ago and as I now have a family and we were desperate for a beach close by we thought we would go to St Ives Bay. We checked in at 3.00pm on the Saturday as our caravan had been cleaned already. The receptionists were very pleasant and sorted everything out very quickly.
The caravan (Horizon) was a bit older but perfectly fine, it was clean and tidy and had a fantastic view of the sand dunes, lighthouse and sea.
The site is very clean and tidy with litter pickers going around every so often, they have a security van driving around in the evening.
We needed a high chair and it was delivered very quickly.
The club is good entertainment, exactly as you would expect, the kids club is ok a bit hot and smelly (all those youngsters in one room) our girls especially liked the Nick Knowles look like. :-)

Just got back early from St ives bay. We stayed in a chalet, which was clean but very dated in style. Weather was appalling, so it made our children 8 & 11 very bored. Swimming was small with no slides, tennis court was always busy and crazy golf course was pathetic, really old and shabby. Dynamite bar in evenings was full of people i would expect to see in a mental home, although the magician was fab. Bistro food was disgusting, i wouldnt feed a dog what they served up. We walked to brewers fayre every evening for normal peoples company and proper cooked food. Hayle is drab too. WILL NEVER VISIT AGAIN, worst holiday EVER!

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My Mother & Father took my two Brothers and myself to St Ives Holiday Park 32 years ago for our summer holidays.....it was great then and its even better now.
My brother and i went back in April 2011 for a week to see what the holiday park was like 32 years on..all i can say is mind blowing,the views from the park are out of this world,its clean,well staffed,friendly and so much for kids to do.......
All i can say is skip the holidays abroad and get yourselfs down to this holiday park and enjoy it.
Mark

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Never had an holiday in a static caravan before. What can I say, just fantastic!! The place was clean, well managed. Staff were warm and welcoming. Facilities were not that good perhaps because we went the first week of opening whne the bars and shop were closed, though there is a nice shop just off site and a lidl five minutes away.. The pool was a tad cold but who needed it? The weather was fantastic, beech a short walk down a steep sandy hill which you have to face coming back. The site does however have a gentle stair way to teh beech. Our caravan was a three bed. Gorgeous view of the sea and the lighthouse.
My only fault is I only booked for a weel, you spend the whole week on teh most gorgeous beech if the weather was good.

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It was my third visit to the site in the last fifteen years and our adult daughter and my wife and I have just got back from a week in the 8 berth caravan number 609 that has a brilliant sea view.
When we arrived we moped up some stray water that was snaking across the floor from the switched off fridge (how they clean all the caravans on site in the time allotted is a miracle), unpacked our folding chairs, Frisbee, eight gallons of cider, and thirty nine bottles of wine, and settled in nicely as a monsoon broke.
Now I am not a caravan lover and I moan all the time; finding a small bedroom with six inches to spare all around a low double bed; disconcerting. Even my ability to stand on one leg whist donning underpants is not an advantage here, also a loo in a cupboard with a sink positioned at chin level two inches away I find a little uncomfortable (unless one has gastric problems, when it may be ideal), and I discovered that a shaving mirror lurking in another flimsy cupboard in dark shadow can be very dangerous (nearly lost half an ear), however, it is not supposed to be a five star hotel and we loved it!!!
The club is more Fizz-puff than Dynamite, but nevertheless most acts were really entertaining, we loved ‘Celtic Storm’ - Irish dance and illusion (now you don’t see that everyday) and other acts were most enjoyable, one perhaps for the wrong reason (a singer who mid song suddenly delighted in doing a twirl followed by the splits!). Additionally the Entertainer-Audience manipulation was so madly irritating that after a while it became fun. And whist you are applauding, being gently disrespectful under ones breath, and waving ones arms in the air upon demand; try the Cloudy cider, it tastes better each pint.
Small kids were mostly abandoned in the kids club for the evening, occasionally escaping to show their minders the foam that they were now covered in, or the bendy balloons rammed upon their heads, and even the odd feral family is controlled well (thank you darlin’… keep off the stage please snotty boy).
We swam, danced, paddled, waved-jumped. Once we played Chris’s speed bingo (it was ok. but once was enough – it seemed such a serious business for those playing - silent concentration, pens flashing like sabres!). When we went for a ciggy we listened to the wisdom of Peter the big bouncer (‘this site used to be two and they made it into one you know, Princess’).
We all ate well – despite liberties being taken with dish description - the prawn salad in the Beach bistro turned out to be the biggest prawn cocktail I have ever eaten.
We spent hours on the wonderful beach. We had a sand dune based barbeque high above the waves when we stuffed our faces with barbequed belly pork, sand, beef burgers, sand, sausages, and more sand. We gazed at the cobalt and kingfisher-blue water below with its white plumed rolling-roaring surf rushing in, and we got sunburnt in September.
The place is wonderful, well managed and the roaming rabbits are free, despite me breaking two toes on the holiday – beach accident (no I was not drunk!) I loved it and will be back.
Ignore the fault finders and enjoy your holiday (St Ives Management - any freebees for a good write-up?)
Peter.

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Why oh Why didn't we book for two weeks. The sirocco caravan that we stayed in was brilliant, the views from the caravan were really good, better than expected. Plus Hayle Beach which the resort is situated on, was one of the best beach's, crystle clear water stretches miles. St Ives was about a 15min drive away, which was a lovely place to go shopping and best cornish pasties I've ever tasted. We were very lucky to see a wild seal in the bay came right up to us while we were fishing for crabs. Most places to visit south of Hayle was only 30mins drive away good spot to go exploring.
Will go back for sure.

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Have just returned from a weeks holiday at southview leisure park was orginally booked to go to the Isle of Wight Nodes Point but was put of by the reviews of the holiday watchdog so changed out holiday so glad we did my friends brother has just returned from Nodes point(park resorts) and said the site was filthy and the chalets were dirty so having already paid a deposit with park resorts had to stay with them I picked southview because it was new to park resorts and must say the caravan was a gold brand new unit and was very clean there were only a few minor things the toaster didn't work and there was no dustpan but after reporting this to reception the items were bought to our caravan very promptly the only gripe I had with the caravan it was a 6 berth but only had 4 dining room chairs and the top of the cupboards in the bedrooms had not been dusted so a little more house keeping would make them perfect. The machines in the arcades were a bit run down and had to get the staff a couple of times to get our money back the shop didn't stock a lot for a site with over 1.400 caravans on it but I think most of the caravns are owned. Eat at the site a couple of times and the food was fine always served quickly and hot. Another small issue on the Friday (6th) before we left a couple of staff came to the back of our caravan to do something with the electric box but turned of the electric supply without even telling us a mention that they were going to do this wouldn't have hurt. I just hope that the standards remain on this site know that park resorts have taken over because I did use them once before at Heacham Beach and again the cleaniless wasn't great there thats why I was a bit worried about booking with them especially has the reviews for the Isle of Wight were correct and its park resorts that have the most camps on the Isle of Wight so unless Haven take over any sites on the Isle of Wight I won't be going there. So park resorts keep up the good work at Southview and try and bring your Isle of Wight sites up to scratch because you do charge a lot to go to the Isle of Wight.

Just got back from week away in st ives holiday park the only problem i had was the beds are as hard as wood ?