Isle of Wight
Adgestone Camping Park
Adgestone
Near Sandown
Isle of Wight
PO36 0HL. Tel 01983 403432 or 403989
The site is on the gentle lower slopes of Brading Downs.
Many pitches are level. The site has an outdoor heated swimming pool
and paddling pool, Children's adventure playground, and one of the best
stocked camping and Caravanning accessory shops on the Island.
Showers and washing facilities are excellent, with some 'family shower
rooms' big enough for 4 people, baby baths and hair dryers in both of
the shower blocks. There is a coin-op launderette, irons and spin-dryers.
My parents live on the Island - barely 2 miles away from the site, yet
we have returned there to camp for 5 years! The site has a dog walk
field with poop scoops, and many hook-ups. There's a stream adjacent
with fishing, horse rides in one of the adjoining fields, and some children's
activities on various days of the week - punch and Judy show, magic
show. The site has a small take away, but no bar (nearest pub 1 mile),
so is quiet at night.
We think you'd have to go far to find a site as good as this one, and
will probably be there again for part of this summer.
Sent in by fran@faulkner.vossnet.co.uk
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Lower Hyde Holiday Park,
Shanklin,
Isle of Wight,
PO37 7LL.
Tel. 01983 866131
We Traveled down to Portsmouth on the Thursday morning and made really good going, the journey only took 2hrs 30 mins. We were booked on the 1500hrs ferry but arrived at 1230hrs and got straight on.
The
drive from Fishbourne to the site took about 35 mins. We had a warm
and friendly welcome at reception and after booking in we found the
pitch with no problems, just as we had set up a member of staff came
to make sure everything was ok and offered to show us all the facilities.
The touring pitches are below the pool and children's play ground. Most
of the pitches are flat but some do slope a bit.
We
had pitch 11 which is fairly close to children's playground which at
times made it quite noisy. We also pitched under trees which was quite
picturesque, but the dawn chorus was deafening at 6am ever morning. The
non electric pitches around number 114 are along way from the club and
pools so they are very quite.
There
is the obligatory club house, with bingo tickets on sale every night
and we won !!!!!! An out door heated pool with water slide. Small indoor
pool with a spa and sauna. All weather Multi sports court. Tennis Courts.
Shop and Launderette. The kids have their clubs, Tiger 5 to 7 year olds,
Jungle Rangers 8 to 11 year olds and ATR for 12 to 17 year olds.
The
toilets were clean most of the time although not up to the standard
of the camping and caravanning club they were acceptable. There is a
family/Disabled shower room, with a small bath, toilet, sink and shower.
A five pound deposit is required for a key.
The
kids spent most of the time in the pool apart from when they were in
their clubs, this kept the kids happy but meant that we did not see
much of the Island.
There is a summer fields with in 10 min walk of the camp and a co op on the shanklin main street so if you wanted to you could avoid using the car. A weeks parking permit can be bought from the tourist information for £14. This entitles you to park in all the council Pay and Display car parks.
There is quite a lot to do on the Island, unfortunately the kids enjoyed the site so much they did not want to leave it, so we had little chance to explore the island. We did walk into old Shanklin which has some thatched cottages. We had a pub lunch at The Crab, which was quite good.
Over all we thought the site was really good, perfect for people with kids. The only negative comment I can make is that the Bar price's were a bit to high. What we saw of the island we liked and we hope to go back next year to see more of the island.
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