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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
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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 |
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 Public Transport <1 mile |
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 Electric Car Charging Point |
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| Date of Visit: June 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Pitstop62 |
3 reviews from this member |
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 When we arrived we were surprised at how large the site was, as the website gave the impression of a much smaller site.
The reception area is at the bottom of a very steep hill, just walking up and down it was bad enough. We were checked in quickly and shown straight to our pitch by a site employee in a van, also very quickly.
The toilet block is adequate in number of cubicles, and the showers were warm enough, strong and not on timers, which was great, but the block had some disadvantages - a lot of broken door locks, some shower cubicles with no hooks to hang clothing, the flooring was permanently slippery and treacherous in the ladies' and the sink taps had fierce jets which soaked you even if you tried to press them gently. This area really does need looking into.
The fish and chip supper from the site's fish and chippy was truly awful! Our almost inedible fish oozed so much oil our containers had puddles in them - the fish were swimming in oil. Definitely wouldn't recommend it. We came away for a short break so didn't leave the site, and had a barbecue the following evening instead of a site meal. The grocery store was well stocked and well laid out with pretty much everything we needed.
The sea views from around the site are amazing, red cliffs and little boats dotted around.
There is nothing to stop people speeding around the roads inside the site - there were quite a few cars whizzing past our pitch, this also included the staff, the site's speed limit states 10mph speed limit.
We hadn't been to a commercial campsite like this before. Would not rush back 
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Clarkster |
12 reviews from this member |
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Just got back from a weeks stay at Ladram Bay.
We were given pitch 135 which is on the ridges area and is apparently a new area for this season. The young lad in the tractor took us round to the pitch which was quite large and had its own tap drainage and electric, unfortunately it was also water logged to the point where a small pond had formed from the centre of the pitch back onto the tarmac track. We pointed this out but the lad said that it was a large pitch and we were free to lay it out in any way we wanted to avoid the water. We were also told that this was the only other pitch available.
We moved the van on and got the awning up just in time for the rain to start which went on through the night and well into the next morning. By about 1900 hrs the pond had stretched out to cover the entire pitch and we were walking about in 3-4 inches of water. The terrace below looked like a lake. We informed reception and we were provided with 2 plastic walkways to put over the muddiest parts. Later on a member of staff came and dug some drainage ditches to channel the water over the edge of the terrace. In the morning we couldn't use our awning as the water had squelched through the breathable groundsheet and had got deep enough to get over the top of the groundsheet of the bedrooms and flood them.
After marching down to reception with a mud covered 2 year old as evidence, the staff were on the verge of offering a full refund but then asked if I would consider another pitch that might be free. I was taken round to an all weather gravel pitch which was a small one for a motor home only. I was told that I could pitch the awning on the gravel and park the van on the road. A bit unconventional but it worked and we accepted it straight away. It had a good view of the bay and was spectacular at night in the moonlight
After all that we did actually enjoy our stay at Ladram Bay. The restaurant served really good food as did the cafe and the takeaway. The shop is just fantastic and has a good range of fresh bakery produce and free range meats and also anything else you could possibly need, even wet suits! The prices of everything on the campsite were average and reasonable and a welcome surprise even the bar prices were competitive with any other pub.
The kids soft play area was really good and we had to use arrest and restraint techniques to remove our son from it as he enjoyed it that much. The pool was also good and we used it most days. The beach was not too crowded but we were disappointed to find out that dogs had recently been banned (not mentioned on website) from it so we did not use it as much as we would have liked to. The shop at the beach also had a good range of items. The showers were nice and powerful and clean. The one thing we did notice was that although the site was full to capacity, nothing seemed to crowded and there were no queues for anything.
After the disappointing start we did have a really good holiday. We would come back again but only on the understanding that we wouldn't stay on the Ridges area. Please sort out the drainage on this area its the only thing letting down the site.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Andyjulie |
2 reviews from this member |
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Holiday was a complete washout it rained constantly and we admitted defeat after 4 days. However the staff were very friendly and the site did their best to keep the wash facilities clean despite the mud. The bay was beautiful with a pebble beach down some steps.
At night the entertainment was good and catered well for the children (not the type you get at some of the more well known chain of sites).
The chip shop on site was probably one of the best chip shops we have ever eaten out of. We did try the restaurant next door for breakfast where they had a set breakfast menu of about 4 different choices and these were rigid so you were unable to change or pick what you wanted.
We cannot wait to go back next time we have that rare thing called sunshine.
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Lisadurkin |
5 reviews from this member |
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Just spent a week at Ladram Bay - 1st week of summer holidays. Set amidst a stunning location , a really lovely site perfect for families. Not too commercial or too much of a rip off when compared to Haven or other sites. Surprisingly quiet considering peak season and certainly not too rowdy. Great facilities and the staff were all really friendly.
Nightly entertainment was also very good and the kids club and green coats entertained the kids. The pitches are all different sizes - ours were good ones (2 families) but you need to check the size of your tent will fit. The fish & chip shop on site is one of the best we've ever been too and the shop is really well stocked and not overpriced.
Good laundrette facility as well. The main down side for me was the cleanliness of the toilet block on the Ridges - the design / poor drainage of the shower area meant the floors were constantly wet / slippy / dirty despite regular cleaning. The sink taps ran too fast and spilled everywhere and there was nowhere to keep your bags / clothes dry. Wear shorts & flip flops to the showers / toilets! However we were able to get a key for the family bathroom which we used all week. I did pass my comments on to the management -if they can sort the shower block out I will give this site 100% - its great.We will definitely return to this site - missing it already!
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Shrek999 |
4 reviews from this member |
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This site was a real find. We will be revisiting without doubt. The pitches were on a terrace, nice and flat with lovely sea views. The showers were hot and had a good flow, they were clean and tidy through out our stay. The Bar / Club was excellent and the carvery in the restaurant was well worth the money. Entertainment was very good and kept the kids busy, they can't wait to get back there. The shop was quite big and well stocked.
Our only gripe was the fact that the tourers had to pay for the swimming pool £7.00 for a family of four. I think the statics can use the pool for free! This aside we had a really great time. We have visited Haven many times in the past and this site in our opinion is more than equal to them infact it is less commercialised and more personal. If you want a site with a kids club, family entertainment, private beach etc then do pay Ladram Bay a visit you won't be disappointed.
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Julie13bailey |
4 reviews from this member |
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Been to Ladram Bay for our main two week holiday for five years. Brilliant site, very child friendly, facilities fantastic and to have your own private beach is great! We have watched the site change over these years, some good, some bad. The good is the shower blocks, Pebbles restaurant. The bad is, the entertainment has gone down hill a bit, so has the kids club, the site for touring is being over shadowed by the statics and it isn't so personal anymore. We are trying somewhere different for our main two week holiday for 2008
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Saskiah1 |
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We arrived late due to car trouble at about ten o'clock on the Friday night the week before bank holiday and the guys on security were really nice, although, when it came to finding a pitch we were left to our own devices which was difficult in the dark. The following morning we realised we'd been lucky to find a space at all as the place was packed, although bank holiday weekend was a joke as people were queueing up in the car park watching people pack up so they could jump on their pitch the minute they rolled off.
The amenities were really good although the smaller shower block really needs updating. Like other reviewers I agree the shop is well stocked and a 60p charge for cashback with no purchases is reasonable when the cash machine charges so much more.
We used the take away a couple of times and every thing we tried was really nice and very reasonably priced. The sunday carvery in the restaurant was ok.
I had to use the launderette on site due to the amount of mud on the first weekend which stains everything badly. I think the price of the machines were the same as any other on the high street and the dryers are ok too. They also had irons available but I didn't use them.
My 10 year old boy loved the site as it was so safe we felt we could let him go off on his own a lot of the time. We usually found him in the arcade (his favourite part of the site)! My 5 year old had a good time in the pool area although I didn't see it and she liked the playground too. She also went to the kids club one evening and really liked that. It gave us a bit of time out too.
My partner loved the beach best as we'd got a kayak on the way down and we were out in it most days, although we will be getting a set of wheels for it because it is a steep climb back up from the beach. Especially with a toddler in tow. He also had a go at jumping off one of the towers which seemed to be a popular challenge for most of the younger (and a couple of the older) guys.
All the staff we dealt with on the site were really helpful and didn't seem at all put out with any request or question asked of them. They were also flexible about how long we stayed as we didn't have a clue when we arrived wether we were staying for one or two weeks although that may have been due to it being the end of the season.
We went into Otterton to a pub opposite the Otterton Mill and had a carvery there on the first Sunday and it was the best meal we had on the whole holiday. The portions were generous, we didn't book the table and it was a pound cheaper per head than on site. We had to go into Exmouth on a couple of occasions for petrol and supplies at the big Tesco which you can't miss on the way into the town and to the sandy beach which was ok but a bit windy the day we went. We also managed to get to Budleigh Salterton a couple of times, although that is a pebble beach, before the car started to give us cause to worry and we were stuck on the site.
Everyone of the fellow campers we met were really lovely and made our first ever camping holiday absolutely brilliant. We will definitely be going back again next year.
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| Date of Visit: September 2007 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Helenst |
5 reviews from this member |
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Visited the site in mid-September 2007. We were touring by bike and had not pre-booked. Reception was closed when we arrived at about 6:30 but the owner of the cafe told us where we could pitch our tent, and we could pay at reception in the morning. Charge was £8/night (including £2 discount for no car) which we found quite good value.
We stayed for three nights and mostly had a nice stay - aside from a problem with a couple having a screaming row in the middle of the night, which wasn't really the campsite's fault, and they did leave the next morning.
Couple of other noise issues: in our rush when we first got there, we made the mistake of pitching close to the shower block, which has a noisy extractor fan and the lights stay on all night. We moved our tent further up the terraces for the following two nights and no more problems. Secondly, you might not want to stay here if you don't want to be woken at sunrise by screaming seagulls - the joys of the seaside! On the tent terraces, we didn't hear much from the bar / entertainment centre, which is at the other end of the site.
Ladram Bay itself is a beautiful little piece of coastline, beautiful sandstone cliffs and stacks, lots of nice rock pools at low tide, and good access to fantastic views over the bay and surrounding coastline.
The toilets were fine and the showers were fantastic, lovely and hot with excellent water flow, just what two sweaty cyclists needed after riding up from Sidmouth.
The ground on the terraces is a bit hard and quite tough to pitch a tent onto, but they are re-doing this area in Winter 2007 anyway.
Bags of rubbish and food need to be well stored here, as the seagulls are always on the lookout for a snack. We were mystified by the disappearance of our rubbish bag until it became apparent that a gull had managed to pull it out from under the entrance awning of our tent. Watch out for bunnies chewing the guy ropes too.
The shop wasn't very well stocked with fresh food, no meat apart from Wall's sausages and bacon (ugh) and very few fruit and veg, perhaps that is just what you get off-season. It was, however, great for camping supplies, flip flops and tacky souvenirs.
Ladram Bay has a cafe and a restaurant. The cafe is cheap, not particularly nice but it's OK for a quick snack. The restaurant was quite decent, and reasonably priced.
From a cyclist's point of view, it's not the easiest place in the world to get to, coming out of Sidmouth there is a huge 20% gradient to ride over towards Otterton, a long descent and then another quite steep hill up to Ladram Bay. We were a little disheartened by the
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
Unit: Static |
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| Reviewer: Ness.sam@virgin.net |
2 reviews from this member |
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Visited for a week in August. Private static a bit in need of tlc but on site facilities ok. Entertainment in the evening sometimes a bit cheesy but they tried hard! Overall we had a good time and would consider going back hopefully to a newer caravan. Didn't like the look of the tent pitches though very crammed in over the Bank holiday so would probably not take the tent.
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Jasool |
2 reviews from this member |
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Excellent site for kids! We spent 9 nights in a trailer tent here, experienced some horrendous weather, but would still definitely return - our 10 year old son described it as his best holiday ever! Basically I think that is because we felt it was a really safe site and he had the freedom to come and go as he pleased.
The camping pitches are terraced into a hillside and to be honest were the smallest pitches we've ever been on - you couldn't fit a car and our table and chairs at the side, so we chose to leave the car in the car park on the couple of nice days we had. We had to accept though, that Devon had just suffered some horrendous flooding, so the owners were having to move bookings around according to what pitches were usable. There is major refurbishment of the campsite being done over Winter 2007/2008, with some super pitches being developed, so it will be interesting to see if we fare any better for a pitch next year.
The play area for the kids is fantastic. The indoor pool lovely (although the restrictions on, jumping, diving, bombing, etc, etc mean kids can literally just swim, so my two at ages 10 and 12 weren't too happy!). The arcade was a lifesaver with the weather - with the table tennis and bowling alley being well used. There is a social club, but that isn't our thing at all, so can't comment on what it was like. The restaurant, cafe and takeaway were all really well priced and good quality food. The onsite shop is really well stocked and I didn't feel I was being ripped off.
The beach is a pebble one, but is lovely when you get the weather to enjoy it! There's a small refreshment hut, and a guy hiring out canoes/boats, which the kids loved.
The showers were always hot, but if anything were a little too powerful, and since you had to get changed in the cubicle (they are very large) and hang your clothes near the door, the shower spray always hit your clothes, and the floor was permanently under 1/2 an inch of water, making dressing a balancing act! The toilets/ showers were regularly cleaned, but did get a bit muddy between times - though the weather was awful and I honestly don't think the site owners could do anymore.
All in all, I would definitely recommend this site, and hopefully the planned improvements to the camping areas will make it less hard work next year.
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