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Ladram Bay Holiday Park
Otterton
Budleigh Salterton
South Devon (Browse area)
EX9 7BX
Tel: 01395 568 398
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Pitches: 200
Open: 15/03/2024 to 30/10/2024
17/03/2025 to 30/10/2025

Rating:

8/10 from 108 Reviews

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Who's it for
Families Welcome	Not Members Only	No Rallies	Not Naturist Site
Dogs Welcome	No Dogs Allowed	Groups Welcome	Motorbikers Welcome
Facilities
Toilet Facilities	Hot Showers	Washing Up	Bathroom
Baby Changing Facilities	Laundry On Site	Drinking Water	Disabled Friendly
Chemical Disposal	No Battery Charging	Gas Exchange	Recycling Facilities
No Kitchen Facilities	No Freezer / Fridge	Motorhome Point	Wifi Access
Shop On Site	Bar On Site	Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site
Activities
Kids Playground	No TV Room	Games Room	Evening Entertainment
Fishing On Site	Wild Swimming On Site	Indoor Pool On Site	No Outdoor Pool
Horse Riding <5 miles	No Cycle Hire	Golf <5 miles	No Tennis
Beach On Site	Watersports On Site	Boat Launch / Mooring On Site
Other Features
Sea Views	Not Working Farm	No Campfires Allowed
Coastside Pitches	Public Transport <1 mile	Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access
Electric Car Charging Point

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Date of Visit: September 2016

Unit: Motorhome

Reviewer: Bodiddly

29 reviews from this member

We booked two nights at this site but only stayed one. The website gives no indication of how steep this site is, yes we expected terraces but not the sheer scale of the site. Check in was very abrupt with no info at all on the site, just told to wait in the car park to be sited.

If you have a caravan you have to have it towed to the pitch by their tractor, in a motorhome you just follow the tractor. We were allocated a pitch at the very top of the site, nice view, but still obstructed by the van in front and trees, the toilets and showers were two tiers down the hill, very modern and lovely but quite a trek down the very steep hill, we were also right next to the entrance road which was very busy all day.

The worst bit was there are no bins anywhere on site except down at the bottom of the hill in the car park, so you had to keep the rubbish in the motorhome or walk to the bottom of the hill to bin it, they said this was due to seagulls, but many other sites use gull proof bins with no problems.

Our main gripe with this site is it claims to be dog friendly, it is not, they obviously don't really want dogs at all. There are no dog bins until you get to the coastal path, there is no proper dog walking area, (as we left site I saw a small sign saying Dog Walk in a field which was full of parked cars up by the site entrance, hardly a safe environment).

There are signs everywhere saying no dogs, no dogs on the beach, OK I get that, but that also includes the beach bar terrace on the slipway down towards it, there was also one on the path up to the main bar terrace, but most people seemed to ignore that.

If you are staying in one of their properties at the bottom of the hill, and don't have a dog I'm sure you will find this site brilliant, but it was definitely not for us.

Date of Visit: June 2016

Unit: Touring Caravan

Reviewer: PaulD and Family

2 reviews from this member

What a great site this is. At first I was thinking this could be a difficult site to actually drive to, however, on the final approach there is a steep decline down to the Security and reception area. We were greeted by a very happy Security man who directed us to park up and unhitch the caravan, and a tractor will come along and take the caravan to the pitch. The family went and checked us in and 2 minutes later we are following the tractor to our pitch. It was amazing, the view from the pitch was superb, the pitch was clean and fully serviced as per the advertisement. In reality we could have stayed on the site all week without having to leave for anything. We had a really stress free stay and thoroughly enjoyed it. Entertainment was good, the beach and facilities fantastic and the bars and food in the restaurant was again very good indeed. We will book again. We tried to book for the summer but the weeks we wanted were booked. Shame.

Date of Visit: May 2016

Unit: Tent

Reviewer: Tubby2

79 reviews from this member

This is a large caravan and campsite, can feel lots of caravans, but when we were there not that busy. It has very modern well maintained facilities. In fact they are excellent. The site is sloping down to the sea so there is a view of the sea from most sites ( that my guess) The SWC goes through the site. There is a decent bar and restaurant in the main building. There is also a takeaway. Phone signal ok, mobile data very slow.

Wifi in main building. Swimming pool, but not used by us says Samna and steam room, extra charge pool, minor charge. Staff friendly. If walking idea for a lay down day, with laundrette and shop.

Disappointed with some selfishness of some campers being noisy, ie TV on in tents till very late at night and some drivers too fast on campsite roads. Not managements fault, but not spelt out in booking.

Date of Visit: July 2015

Unit: Touring Caravan

Reviewer: Sv246

22 reviews from this member

Stayed for a week in the school holidays as a group of 3 tourers. Arrived via some very narrow lanes with steep hills! Caravans are pitched for you as the site is very steep. Toilet block exceptional. Huge on site shop at reasonable prices. Takeaway is the usual fare but service is slow. Entertainment is the standard stuff including bingo. Bar a bit pricey. We ate in the Pebbles restaurant and as a group of 13 we booked our table and pre ordered our food. The food was good but the service was shocking. This was made worse as one pitch in our group had received a voucher for the restaurant as they had to constantly complain about a poorly fitting drain cover in the middle of there awning which smelt awful in the heat.

The beach is only a couple of minutes walk from the pitch. It is a pebble beach with nothing for kids to do unless you hire a kayak or motor boat. We drove to Exmouth which has a lovely sandy beach. Kids are banned from bikes/ scooters and skateboards due to the steepness of the roadways. They can us them but only in the play area which is nowhere near the pitches. This park is predominately for static owners with boats.

No shops or pubs near by and supermarket shopping is in Exmouth, however we had Tesco deliver direct to the pitch. Very poor phone and Internet. One of our party paid for wifi and that wasn't too good either.

Date of Visit: July 2015

Unit: Touring Caravan

Reviewer: Sam h

2 reviews from this member

Just left this site pitches on a hill but staff take your caravan too pitch which is excellent and the views are superb. Toilet block and laundrette best we have had in a long time, plenty hot water and very clean, was only here for two nights an can honestly say the noise of the seagulls from 4 o'clock in the morning onwards was horrendous for that reason wouldn't return which is a pity as a nice site

Date of Visit: July 2015

Unit: Tent

Reviewer: Wendy12miller

12 reviews from this member

This is the first time we had visted this site which is in a lovely beautiful part of devon - we had a pitch on smugglers which i booked only after lots of research to ensure that our tent would fit as tent pitches advertised are rather small, however after a couple of phone calls was assured by jamie that we had been allocated their second largest pitch 173 and this would be more than adequate for our tent

On arrival and after being shown to our pitch by groundsman - we had been allocated pitch no 154 which was only approx 10m x 7m, there had been a mix up in the office and someone had changed our booking - as they were now fully booked we couldn't change !

We couldn't pitch the extention to our outwell tent so my husband and i slept in the living quarters for our holiday

The seagulls are a complete nuisance - they raid your bbq and steal food, poo over everything !

They wake you up at 4. 30am in the morning by screaching and fighting on the roof of tents and caravans

The family next door to us had food stolen from them while eating on the terrace of pebbles restaurant.

While at your tent your are constantly watched/stalked by the seagulls looking for opportunities to steal food

However, there are many nice things about this campsite/holiday park

- great swimming pool

- the showers and toilets block are lovely and modern and always kept very clean

- views of the sea from your pitch are great

- you can buy fresh lobster and crab caught from the bay from the crab shack on the beach at a very reasonable price

- staff are very friendly and helpful

However i doubt we will go back due to the seagulls and the ridiculously small tent pitches

Date of Visit: July 2014

Unit: Touring Caravan

Reviewer: PercyVolvo

13 reviews from this member

Our second stay at this very nice holiday park. If you have a family, this is a must. However, we do not and this is still a really nice site. The pitches are clean and well tended. The staff helpful and all were very pleasant and helpful. We pitched on the Ridges with spectacular views of the sea. Enjoyed sitting out each evening as the sun went down and the site gradually fell into a tranquil evening darkness. The pool area is newly refurbished and the site has done well. The changing village is clean and has many nice touches. So, what about bad points? To be honest, there are not many. However, I can name three here:

A)we bought wifi for the week and this was expensive and not reliable and only works on one device.

B) There were no hooks outside the shower area for towels so we had to put them in a pile and hope they stayed dry while we showered after swimming.

C) No bins in the touring fields was a little annoying.

Would we go back? Yes, most certainly. We would highly recommend this site.

Date of Visit: July 2014

Unit: Motorhome

Reviewer: Hines79

3 reviews from this member

We were looking forward to staying at this site, with a wonderful beach location and all the facilities, however, was bitterly disappointed.

We stayed in The Ridges which is very steep to enable the views of the sea, but this was actually not much of a view when you have vehicles in front of you and you also have the full view of the main blocks which house the restaurant/ entertainment etc. This is also located next to the main drive which from 6. 30am until late at night has constant traffic, not the tranquillity we expected. I didn't see one caravan site themselves this was always done by the tractor. No local bin sites for your rubbish which was also located at the bottom of the drive.

There is only one main child play area, which is very good for the kids with a zip wire etc. But this is located at the bottom of the main drive out of sight. Very disappointed no smaller parks/playing areas dotted around the touring or caravan park, so your not able to relax around your own residence. Luckily our children were old enough to walk around unsupervised to this area but I felt really sorry for the couples with younger children. Not enough seating around the area for all the families to sit around while watching the kids therefore you had to stand or if you decided to stay by your residence you had bored kids with nothing to do (no bikes/ scooters/ skates allowed) or you were constantly telling them to keep out the road because of the cars if they tried to play.

It is NOT dog friendly. They are not allowed on the beach at all, and there is not a signposted 'dog field'. We had to ask staff where we walk him to be told either across one field into another (which had stingers all over the place and cows on it) or another field which was located at the bottom of the drive and round the back of the facilities, this was the better field to use. Apart from by these fields there were no Dog Poo bins located around the site. Staff explained the nearest Dog Friendly beach was 3 miles away (Budleigh Saltington) around the coastal walk which we decided to do on one day, this turned out to be a 4-5 mile walk, it was tiring for our dog but we made it and had a really good time. Got a taxi back. We then decided to alternate staying on site and going to the beach. The 2nd and 3rd times to the beach we went to Exmouth which is sand and lovely. Loads of motorhomes park on the front and very reasonable charges for the day.

This kids did enjoy themselves as they used the swimming pool, crazy golf, park and arcade, unfortunately we were unable to enjoy these as a family.

On our last day we were at Exmouth Beach and decided not to bother going back to Ladram Bay and went to a little campsite called Pooh Cottage, this was tranquillity and for one night had total peace of mind of being able to see the kids while they played, was able to join in with them and keep an eye on our vehicle and dog at the same time. They could also play on their bikes etc.

Needless to say we will not be going back.

Date of Visit: June 2014

Unit: Tent

Reviewer: Tinks35

1 review from this member

Just back from our first camping holiday as a family (2 adults, 2 kids aged 5 and 1). I feel we have possibly been spoilt for our first camping holiday due to the weather was glorious and the site was absolutely fantastic! We we're in the Smugglers campsite side and the pitches are tiered with lovely views over the campsite and sea. Each pitch comes with electric hookup and water tap. The toilet blocks we're not to far to walk to and all modern and I always being kept clean. The hairdryer you do have to pay for which is 50p which I feel could have been free (this may be a standard on all campsites?). The beach area is lovely though is pebbles and you will need crocs/beach shoes for walking on and into the water. We hired a motor boat for £20 (1hour) and had a great time viewing the coastline and general mucking about on the water. You can also hire kayaks. The outside play area for the kids is brilliant, just off the show bar and cafe/restaurant. The views are spectacular form here too. There is lots for the kids to do (however ours didn't want to get involved and was happy playing in the park). We didn't try the swimming pool however judging by all the other facilities we tried I am sure this would be a lovely pool too! The on site shop is well stocked if you need anything. The receptionist was really helpful too. This site is quite big and reminded me a little bit of Haven as very geared up for families but better! Dogs are welcome on this site too. I'm not sure what more I can say is that we would thoroughly recommend this site and are definitely looking forward to going back.

Date of Visit: May 2014

Unit: Motorhome

Reviewer: SandraScot1

35 reviews from this member

Just returned from 2 nights at Ladram Bay. We normally opt for smaller quieter sites but this site is ideally situated on the Devon coastal path so if you like walking the location is perfect. The site itself is huge with lots of mobile homes. It obviously attracts lots of families and there is a pool, bar and restaurant and an entertainment complex. We didn't use any of these but had a drink at the bar on the terrace which overlooks the sea with great views of the private beach. We have a dog so could only use the Terrace area - however that's fine. There are a couple of dog walking areas but note that dogs are not allowed on the beach. There is a well stocked small supermarket on site.

The facilities for caravans and motorhomes are very good. We were situated on No 126 which is the new section. Immediately on the left as you come into the holiday park. Terraced, hard standing, with electric and water. Wonderful views out to sea. The toilet block is obviously brand new and was immaculate. Large showers, lots of hot water and hair dryers available in the ladies loos - there is a charge for these. This section also has Chemical loo facility and the laundry area.

Staff were friendly and polite and check in was quick and efficient. They also take the ACSI card at Ladram Bay which means in the low season you can save about £10 for the 2 nights which makes it very good value for money.

The Coastal path walks are accessible from the site. Sidmouth is about 2 miles but be warned this is a fairly steep route so wouldn't be classed as an easy walk.

The other route is to Budleigh Salterton and this is about 3. 5 to 4 miles from the site. Fairly flat, easy going and only a couple of sections with a little bit of a climb. Good views and you will also come across Brandy Bay WWII observation post used in the second world war. Behind the observation post was the cannon/ammunition testing range for Spitfires and Lancasters who used this range to check their weapons were calibrated when taking delivery of their new aircraft.

It's a decent walk and well worth doing.

When you leave the holiday park on this path, about 1/2 mile from the site there is a public footpath to Otterton. This brings you out at the Otterton Football club and you take a right to go into the village. The Kings Arms does a decent lunch and dogs are permitted in the bar area. If you walk further down into the village past the pub there is another café and shop selling crafts and local produce.

So we were pleasantly surprised by our stay here. Although they cater more for families staying in the mobile homes and lodges, it's a very well organised site, immaculately clean and tidy and well situated. We will visit this one again.

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