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Normans Bay Camping And Caravanning Club Site
Normans Bay
Pevensey
East Sussex (Browse area)
BN24 6PR
Tel: 01323 761190
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Pitches: 200
Open: 01/04/2025 to 02/11/2025
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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 |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 No Bar |
 No Restaurant |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing On Site |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 Beach On Site |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: May 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Beardsley |
6 reviews from this member |
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 We opted to stay at this campsite on the very wet bank holiday in May.
The staff are extremely welcoming and when we arrived on the Friday the fish and chip van (every Friday) was there which made the welcome even better. We were showed to our pitch by (happy) owner, who gave us a couple of options. We stayed in the main central area which, when fully booked, (which the site was) was a bit of a car park, with little room left for kids to have a good run around. The play area is very basic but well kept.
Out location was extremely windy, which kept us away each night, if you are in a tent opt for a location where you are given shelter by some hedges. I can't emphasis this enough.
Facilities are in very good condition, my only gripe is that he shower curtains do nothing to prevent the dry area flooding, meaning that you need to get changed in the main toilet area. Water and power facilities well positioned.
The adjacent beach is very good as it is shingle and the Star Inn is about a mile up the road. They serve food all day and have a great playground in the back.
Would go back again but only if the weather is very very good. 
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| Date of Visit: May 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Sparktwinkle |
3 reviews from this member |
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We have had a lovely stay at this campsite.
The staff were friendly and very helpful.
The shop stored lots of basic items as well as a few luxury treasures! Ie ice creams and aqua shoes!
The beach was great for our child's adventure, lots of sea shell collecting and fun to be had. It was directly across a small quiet road.
The facilities were clean and tidy and we were able to access everything we needed by a short 1 min walk from our pitch.
Showers, warm, clean, and NO queue.
Toilets - clean.
Chemical disposable - excellently maintained.
Areas for washing up, and laundry - wonderful and very useful.
I truly cannot fault this site. The staff have been truly lovely to our little family.
What more can a customer want?
We WILL return
Overall worth a visit if you want a nice break by the seaside!
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| Date of Visit: May 2014 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Pop eye |
11 reviews from this member |
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The staff and camp are great, the toilet and shower`s are kept very clean at all times` the disabled facility's are quite big and are kept very clean at all times, the shingle beach is just across the road so young children need to be watched when crossing` you will need storm straps for awning at this site due to the wind off the sea. There are a lot of places to visit I would recommend New Haven fort and battle castle to start with then old town Hastings with it`s fisher mans museum and the cable car that goes up the top of the cliff what a view, there are height barriers so those with coachbuilt or high top campers forget that part of town.
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| Date of Visit: May 2014 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Twiglet123 |
1 review from this member |
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After reading reviews about what a lovely site it was I booked for bank hol weekend, have to say bit disappointed being bank hol weekend I do expect to be busy but felt crammed in! too many people squeezed in, had no privacy! pitches were not clearly defined! 3 good shower blocks thou which were clean and lovely hot showers, great location for eastbourne, bexhill on sea & hastings. I would maybe use again just not on a bank hol weekend!
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| Date of Visit: May 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Inkpen |
8 reviews from this member |
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We have been here several times a year over the last 6 or 7 years, with our rather large Outwell Vermont XL tent (and its rather large predecessor - a trailer tent), and always felt at home with the site, it's facilities and the staff - and we only live about 15 miles away.
Relaxation is surely the point of camping and Normans Bay has always given us that & our kids have learned to ride bikes, with then without stabilisers, here, cycling round & round the relatively safe perimeter road of the site.
However this visit was not good and, if we didn't know better, we would not return.
I would say that the site is pleasantly situated and the toilet/wash/shower blocks are plenty good enough, certainly better than many sites, although the older block could do with an update and more thorough cleaning. The toilets seem to have 'economisers' on their water supplies, which is a bit silly at busy times as the cisterns seem to take 5 minutes to fill up and you end up in a cycle of having to flush the toilet when you arrive and not being able to flush when you leave - a bit unpleasant.
Our last holiday was end of May (Spring) Bank Holiday (2014). We arrived Friday and learned that they expected to be fully booked. Good for them, we thought. We didn't recognise any of the staff and the former site shop had been knocked through to make way for more reception desks with only a scattering of the stock of the former stock, albeit in a cleaner environment. We gathered that the place has changed hands.
As usual, we were shown to our pitch by an chap on a bike and given what we thought were clear parameters for the limits of our pitch. With a sturdy breeze from the South (the site is usually a bit windy as right by the coast) we mucked about with our footprint groundsheet to leave us a couple of metres in front of the tent before the site road, with our back to the prevailing wind. Our tent is large at 7. 7m x 4. 8m, so we spend a lot of time & thought with the footprint as once the tent goes up, that's us.
After half an hour a friend arrived and occupied the next pitch as we started to put the tent up, shown to her pitch by the same chap who showed us ours. He asked how we were doing and we explained about the wind and how we should end up a couple of metres from the road. We exchanged a joke or two with man on bike and carried on finishing pegging out our tent, stopping for 10 minutes or so to help our friend get her smaller tent up & pegable.
45 minutes after starting, our tent was nearly finished and we were about to start 'nesting' when a different man on a bike came & told us that we were 'too far back' as they were full this weekend and would need to get someone in behind us. Remaining calm and polite, I explained that we were within the parameters we were given and, when finished, the front would be quite close to the road. We didn't win the discussion and were told we had to move. Apparently, he was the boss & the other chap was just learning.
Despairing of the time wasted (as it was time return home to pick up the kids from school & bring them camping) he offered to assist in moving the tent. 40 tent pegs and 10 minutes later, we had collapsed the tent & got it off of its footprint, so that we could move the footprint 3 metres further forward. I pointed out that we would be over the road and asked if he wanted me to peg out the front of the tent onto the road and we negotiated a metre or so back so our tent just opened a few inches short of the road.
We spent the holiday with passing cars, caravans & motorhomes narrowly missing the front our tent and spraying puddles of muddy water in our faces if we sat with the front of the tent open and our little westie on a short lead, not allowed out. Fortunately our kids are not toddlers any more, but we all had to be careful not to get run over coming out of our tent. Obviously we would have pitched into the wind if we had known that we would be moved onto the road.
In the 4 days of the holiday, nobody pitched closer than 30 metres from the back of our tent. Maybe the weather kept some away, but it didn't help! I wouldn't let it spoil our holiday, but it certainly detracted from the relaxation we paid for and expected and left much of our tent sprayed with mud.
Our friend & neighbour was also moved, once she had finished pitching, despite her tent barely being 1/2 our size - officious, pointless and stupid. Maximum tent size for a pitch here is 9m x 5m. Whilst we fill most of that, she was moved so far forward, that she couldn't put her front canopy on and had no kitchen for the duration. Again nobody parked or pitched within 30 metres of the back of her tent.
Anther gripe, apart from the reduced facilities of the shop (ice lollies now £2 each!), where there were previously four or five rubbish bin points, now all rubbish has to be taken to reception - for 200+ pitches? Rubbish!
We will nervously try again, maybe next year, but not again this year as we get too little holiday for it to be rubbish again. Perhaps the new managers are still learning customer service and where their pitches are but, if they don't want arguments & upsets, they should probably mark out the corners of the pitches definitively - not difficult, really.
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| Date of Visit: April 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Gonediving |
8 reviews from this member |
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Spent the weekend at Norman's Bay - what a gem. Wardens were very friendly, site clean, tidy and shower blocks very clean. The beach (pebbly) was a short walk across the road and the sunsets were stunning. Great for cycling both into Eastbourne and to Hastings. If you want a quiet location then this is the place to come to but bring your supplies with you as not much in the way of local shopping. We will be returning.
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| Date of Visit: September 2013 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Oldcodgers |
21 reviews from this member |
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Wardens were warm and welcoming, we were shown to our pitch which was a good hard standing. It was quite busy, there did not seem to have an order to where caravans were pitched on the grass. The toilets were clean and tidy. The site well kept. There is a small shop selling most items and newspapers, although you needed to go early or the papers sold out. The dog walk was OK but would be pretty muddy if it rained a lot. No problem as there was a walk across the road. The beach is thick shingle until the tide goes out. No good if you are disabled or unsteady on your feet. The Star Inn offers a discount but it is a fair walk from the site, we were told by others that the food was good. Eastbourne is very close, they have an Asda and Tesco. If disabled this is not the site for you unless you want to just stay on site or have transport. Bit bleak not a lot to see on site.
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| Date of Visit: September 2013 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Reviewer: Tlck9 |
32 reviews from this member |
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We arrived on a dull afternoon, and was promptly shown our pitch. Pitches were well spaced, tidy, level, we didn't need chocks.
Location wise, you go over a private road and you are on the pebble dunes! nice little beach. There is a pub in the small village although we didn't visit - it was a bit of a walk from the site, but there is a pavement, rather than a winding country lane.
Facilities were as you would expect from a club site, clean and tidy, I like to see a mop/bucket available and this site didn't disappoint. They had wipes for the sinks which I think helps people keep things tidy.
Even towards the end of the season the site was kept clean.
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| Date of Visit: August 2013 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Essextenters |
2 reviews from this member |
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We visited Normans Bay during the summer holiday 2013 and had a really enjoyable stay.
Very clean facilities and good washing up etc.
Nice size pitches and friendly staff.
The beach is really nice and just opposite the site so it's really handy for dry weather.
The only small issue I had was that there is a train line running directly behind the site which has high speed trains running at night. I found they did keep me awake a bit but my husband and kids spelt through it. This is not a fault of the campsite probably just me being a light sleeper!
We didn't really venture too far from the site but there was a supermarket close by for topping up on provisions.
Overall a night site with a great beach.
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| Date of Visit: August 2013 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Juliabyforest |
1 review from this member |
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Had another lovely week here - our 5th! We were camping with our two daughters and their families and the wardens did their best to put us as close together as was possible. We had hot sunny weather - not the usual wind though the children were able to fly their kites on the beach one evening. It is wonderful having the beach just across the road. The dog walking area could do with a trim to make it a bit wider! Good carvery at The Ship. Toilets cleaned regularly. Hope to be back in 2014.
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