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Waldegraves Holiday & Leisure Park
Waldegraves Holiday Park
Waldegraves Lane
West Mersea
Colchester
Essex (Browse area)
CO5 8SE
Tel: 01206 382898
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Pitches: 150
Open: 01/03/2024 to 30/11/2024
01/03/2025 to 30/11/2025
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 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 Holiday Homes for Hire |
 Holiday Homes for Sale |
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 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 Rallies Welcome |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| 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 |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 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 <1 mile |
 No Indoor Pool |
 Outdoor Pool On Site |
 Horse Riding <5 miles |
 Cycle Hire On Site |
 Golf On Site |
 Tennis <5 miles |
 Beach On Site |
 Watersports <1 mile |
 Boat Launch / Mooring On Site |
| Other Features |
 Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Lakeside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
 Electric Car Charging Point |
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| Date of Visit: August 2024 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Donnydeadlight |
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 Have visited Waldegraves several times over the years, and always had a great time.
This visit I could see they have invested in adding more static caravan spaces, and have modernised some aspects of the park.
Always very clean and tidy with really hard working staff who strive to give you a good stay. Plenty to do for the kids, and the heated outdoor pool is great.
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Clean and tidy and very well presented
Free evening entertainment
Well stocked on site shop
On site restaurant (traditional pub grub) with good portions at very reasonable prices
Lots of activities (pitch and putt), playgrounds, nearby beaches with excellent walks
Cons :
It's a popular location and so can get very busy, especially so during school holidays
Booking for certain activities essential e. G swimming sessions
Often frequented by large groups with children and so can get a bit noisy 
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| Date of Visit: July 2024 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: RoseRabbit |
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Not been here for years, but very little has changed. Plenty for the kids too, but it’s your typical holiday park, lots of static caravans and lots of pitches for motorhome/caravans.
A little work on the handstands wouldn’t go a miss. Only a 10amp supply so it kept stripping when I put the coffee machine.
Toilets and showers get dirty very quick, but cleaned just as quick.
It’s only a short drive from home and here for the wife’s birthday, not a place I would touch to stay for a week, weekend is just about right.
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Date of Visit: August 2023  |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Sarah9 |
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The site was so clean n tidy.
The pool was very nice temperature for the babies we had too.
Driving range was fun snd the sweet shop was so good kids loved it. Our very first time camping.
Looking forward to maybe going back next year when we know if they are redeveloping the field we stayed in as it was so close to everything where as the others are little walk.
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Nights stayed: 8 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Kath54 |
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Lovely site, beach easily accessed, entertain fine, facilities good,
Local town Colchester steeped in history, colchester zoo worth a visit, vineyard in Mersea also worth a visit for real ale and a good selection of local wines,
Good as base to explore this part of Essex
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Steven |
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Great 4 nights away clean and tidy, and staff were so helpful on arrival and are stay.
Great toilets and showers plus food shop well stocked and very clean and helpful,
Many thanks for a lovely weekend.
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| Date of Visit: October 2021 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Lozzorella |
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First visit to Waldegraves in October Half term and have booked to come back this Easter!
We went with friends and had a great pitch facing out to a grassed/hill area, great for kids to run around. Check in etc all smooth. Campsite toilets/showers clean.
Great playground area, optional softplay £2 a go for younger kids. Lots of tables and heaters outside for those with dogs or watching kids.
Clubhouse was great, just what you want for a few evening drinks and kids entertainment and bingo. Was quite busy so had to time it to get a seat for us all. As it was Halloween there was lots of children's activities, a treasure hunt, fancy dress comp, build a bear or kite, wild birds visiting, arcades, mini golf, driving range and there's an outdoor pool which we can't wait to use in the summer.
There's a restaurant but we didn't have time to eat in there, ordered some pizzas to the clubhouse bar which you could do, as we didn't want to miss the bingo! :) they were nice. Hopefully will will eat in next time. There's a well equipped shop and separate traditional sweet shop which was a novelty.
From the site you can walk along a lovely beach walk and to the pastel beach huts and there is a pub/restaurant with playground (think its attached to the next site) and cafe/chip shop along the way.
We also drove into Mersey to the oyster huts and had lunch in a lovely restaurant, there's a few to choose from. We also went to Colchester zoo for the day.
Overall I think its a family orientated site, maybe not if you like the quiet life. There are static caravans there so you do get a mix of people, but for us in our first caravan with the kids a cheaper than Haven for few days away but still with activities/entertainment you want with a more friendly feel.
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| Date of Visit: August 2021 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Extended family |
| Reviewer: Bridol |
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Been to this site for a few years and will go back as it feels like I am a long way from home when I am not!
I like the way you can group together when going with friends and not fixed in pitches. (we go non electric).
The bathrooms and showers are generally clean and mostly enough not to be busy (although not always with a plug so you might want to pack one). Definitely more staff around cleaning more often this year due to Covid which was reassuring. Washing up facilities reasonable with hot water although can struggle with water pressure.
If there is a group that is noisy do report it to security, they do come down and sort it out, but only had this problem one year.
There is kids play area and swimming pool (although it was shut this year due to Covid) and the site is right on the beach which is nice - walk to the right for easier access and a more sandy bit.
There is evening entertainment of a sort, never used it as we prefer watching the camp fire and chatting ;) but it seems popular. There is a launderette, place to charge phones if desperate and freezers to freeze ice blocks (no charge for freezer). Reception staff always been helpful. Remember to take £10 for the deposit for the car barrier key which is refundable
If you are planning arrival time or outings watch for high tide as The Strood does go under water and make the island a real island.
Nice quiet break from the rat race, just shame about the tropical storm this year which was a bit of a nightmare and we had to repitch the tent in a less exposed location on day 2, never had this problem before.
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| Date of Visit: June 2021 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Twillingham |
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Appallingly Noisy! Waldegraves has rules about noise and (unusually for a campsite) security staff who patrol from time to time. The rules were not enforced. On our second night our motorhome was on a pitch next to someone who had brought along a mobile sound rig with 3 or 4 huge speakers, complete with disco lighting, playing outside their van all day up to midnight. It was loud enough at times and had enough bass to shake our motorhome walls, When we complained the next day, we were told that we should have phoned security. Surely security should be proactive against a noise which could be heard throughout the whole site. We moved to a different pitch the next day, but that night we had neighbours playing loud music and having a singsong until 1:30am. We couldn’t phone security because there was no mobile reception, so we went to another part of the site to phone. Only after that did the noise stop. This was not my idea of a restful few days away!
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| Date of Visit: September 2020 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 6 |
Travelling as: With friends |
| Reviewer: RobbieRedcote |
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Stayed here last weekend (4th Sept) and COVID planning in the restaurant, bar and shop well exercised, in general and the staff were trying to ensure customers adhered, but on the Sunday control was lost in the bar when a group of lads (20 - 25), with their dads on the next table, were just manic, one even seemed to have wet himself and was keen to pull his mates faces into his lap.
Bar staff were efficient though in serving to table as required.
Restaurant staff were efficient and food was promptly served at good prices.
Blaming COVID, (what will be blamed for inefficiencies when COVID is beat) seems a new rule introduced that tourers not allowed onto site until 3:00, even though their pitches were empty.
Understand this was not implemented from July 4th but a "New Management" directive last 2 weeks.
By 1:30 there were 12 units parked down the road and eventually at 2:05 the reception staff relented and took the sensible decision to let people onto their pitches. Crass earlier management directive clearly.
Toilets and showers were very clean and regularly cleaned.
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| Date of Visit: July 2020 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Tonyt6 |
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We had a really good time, very clean site and a very good price.
The kid were either fishing playing golf or playing football.
The restaurant done lovely food,
We loved it here and will be returning.
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Is Waldegraves Holiday & Leisure Park child friendly? YES, it accepts children & has a playground View all facilities
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