Waxham Sands Holiday Park Reviews

Enjoyable stay

Fabulous location next to the beach. Spacious site with clean facilities. Useful shop. Unforgettable encounter with seals basking on the beach.

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Weekend camping

Great place to stay for the weekend. Good sized level pitches, and good toilets, showers, washing up area, and laundry. Next to a great sandy beach. Friendly staff. However the downside is the site is situated miles from anywhere, and no restaurant/cafe onsite. They do bring vendors in but food on offer was restricted. Toilets and showers could do with modernising. Would stay again but would bring more food to cook ourselves.

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Happy stay

We loved our stay at this campsite. Super close to the beach, nice play area, very friendly site and staff, great facilities.

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Lovely stay

First time camping with my little one, aged 7. Had a great time. Lovely, friendly staff, great atmosphere on the camp. Great freedom, but also feels very safe with regular first-aider security patrols who are not intrusive, just good to know they're there. Facilities very good and dotted about the park for convenience.

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Brilliant campsite

We had such an amazing stay, the site itself was just everything we wanted and the beach being so close really made it so. Much more enjoyable to just being able to walk across. The only thing I would say is the showers aren't great. Definitely think it's something they should improve as everything else was perfect . This would really make it better. We had a great stay and will definitely be returning. The staff were so friendly too and the little shop had everything we needed 😀

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Lovely time

Great campsite and shop, the location is amazing. The only downside is the shower blocks, which I heard were being upgraded soon.

Great location

Great location, bit busy but dog and family friendly.

Lovely camp

What a lovely campsite! Great find right next to the beach. Staff were very helpful, good facilities. Only downside, which did spoil our stay - there is quiet time from 11pm-7am. However, there is no one onsite to enforce this. Every night of our stay people had loud music playing until 4am. I saw security do a drive through at around 9pm but then nothing after that, so no one around to ensure people were sticking to these rules. Camping with 3 children, this then kept them awake which lead to us all not getting a lot of rest! We would love to visit again as time campsite is beautiful, but would be hesitant to because of the noise issue. Parties until late are not ideal!

Site's response

Thank you for your review, apologies for your experiences this stay with us. We are ensuring our wardens are taking on extra patrols.

Good site

Amazing location. Showers were slow and could have been cleaner. Overall, would definitely go back!

Site's response

Thank you for your review, all the facilities will be having their much needed upgrades over the winter.

Loved this location

We loved this location right by the beach with seals, which we saw everyday. Has a park for the kids and the others who stay there are very friendly, so great for families. The shop is basic with not many options but basics are provided, so best to get bits at the local Tesco, which is a short drive. Has showers and toilets but was not that clean but manageable, given you're camping. Great for walks and a visit to the local lighthouse. Security on site was good and quickly dealt with issues. Overall we loved it and will be visiting again,

Good location but poor facilities

Great location but only one shower block to serve whole site with 2 showers in the ladies block out of order. Pressure very poor so barely a trickle, certainly unable to wash hair. Shop also very basic, needed more choice especially in bakery selection.

Will come back

Will return. It was sad for them that they were having sewage issues. Love the improvements since we last went. Would be nice for showers to be open all day as it is tricky if you have cold sandy children at the wrong time.

Amazing location!

Thank you for a really lovely week's holiday. The location cannot be beaten. We loved being able to have such easy access to the beach; sunset from the sand dunes cannot be beaten and we also snuck a sunrise over the sea from the top of the dunes - amazing. We saw seals within a minute of getting to the beach every time, a beautiful setting.

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Weekend away

We really enjoyed our stay. Our only criticism is that there is only one shower block containing around 6 showers, leading to them being heavily used and queuing at busy times. It would be really good if there was at least one other shower block a little more central to the site.

Amazing place

Amazing place. Stayed 2 nights. The beach is just a few minutes walk. Highly recommended.

Family camping trip by the beach

Overall a really good site. Really good size pitch, location in comparison to the beautiful beach is amazing. Overall good facilities, but the showers facilities need upgrading. All staff very friendly, good shop onsite for key items and a great play park. We will be back.

What a great place for camping!

Greatest holiday park in Norfolk for camping. It's just at the beautiful sandy beach. Very helpful staff, with high quality service. Very clean too. It's not expensive and lots to do around the area. Also, it's a child friendly, pet friendly, safe place. Definitely gonna go again. Thanks for everything, will see you soon xxx

Great break

Wifi access needs improving. Shop needs a much bigger selection of groceries as it's a 15 minute drive to nearest shop and when you are doing basic camping with no or little fridge capacity, it is very annoying. Some/many other campers use higher very loud televisions which is very annoying. Great staff and a great location.

Wonderful stay

We had a wonderful stay at Waxham Sands. Such a great location, beautiful beach and so many seals! Facilities were a little tired but kept very clean. Just wish the showers would open earlier than 8am.

Perfect weekend

Never camped at Waxham Sands before but I will definitely be returning. Myself and my sister had a lovely weekend camping with our dogs. Perfect location, brilliant staff. Toilets and showers clean.

First visit under Lovat Group

We have stayed at this site many times before, but this was the first under the new ownership. Everything is still pretty much the same, the shop, the showers (although these are now free and not 50p tokens). It was disappointing for hubby to arrive on Saturday, only to be given the first pitch that still had family on it and there was a mix up with them leaving. After a wait, the second pitch he was given had a caravan still sited on it, as it hadn't been towed to its storage pitch on site! He left the car & caravan and went back to reception to get it sorted. It caused unnecessary hassle and delayed him getting onto a pitch and setting up our caravan as he had to wait for someone to be contacted who was able to remove the caravan to give him access to the pitch. This wasn't an issue previously. The new addition of visiting food vans was good, especially the ice cream roll lady!

Not for people with walking difficulties

Nice site with spotless toilets. The one I went to was closed at 9am for about an hour for deep cleaning and I didn't want to risk walking round site to see if other blocks were open. The electric kept tripping when kettle turned on due to electric circuit being only 6amp - camping kettle would of been fine but a lot slower. The biggest let down was the climb to and from beach as, being disabled with bad hips, I didn't expect to go mountaineering to get to and from beach. I wouldn't have booked if I had known this was the case. Once on the beach we loved it and saw loads of seals some getting really close and seemed to love having their photos taken.

Loved our stay

Enjoyed our stay, see you next year!

A fun family site

This is a good family site, in a good location for a beach with seal watching and the Norfolk Broads. Well organised with cheerful reception staff. Facilities are more than adequate, although don't provide full motorhome services such as grey waste disposal. Our visit was the first weekend of the summer holiday, so very busy with children having fun. While pitches were reasonably tight, it was still peaceful overall. My recommendation is that it is a family site and great for the kids, however as a couple, I would recommend going during school term if you want a quieter site.

Good site - stay spoiled by a large group booking

The best thing about Waxham Sands is the location just over the dunes from long, sandy beaches. The sea was great to swim in, and there are seals! The toilet facilities are good. Basic but adequate. Enough for the large site that we never had to wait, and always really clean and stocked with paper, soap etc., with decent working dryers and hand sanitiser. We think the cleaners came round at least 2 or 3 times a day, possibly even more often. The site is a big open area, with well-marked pitches and good access tracks between rows. Pitches are generously sized. There is no separation like hedges or fences between individual pitches or rows of pitches. That led to our main problem with our stay... After our first night, a large noisy group arrived and had been allocated 4 adjoining pitches but not in a square together - they were offset so that our pitch was inset into a corner of their group and we had their group both to the side of us and behind us. That wouldn't have necessarily been a problem (apart from feeling a bit weird) but they then fenced off their whole area with windbreaks right up to the pitch boundaries except for a small gap they left going directly on to the back of our pitch so they could use it as a corridor to get to the toilets. With about 25 people in their group, we had a constant stream of people walking directly through our pitch day and night. They came straight through the middle - sometimes between our tent entrance and us sitting just outside eating, or would just wander right across, stepping over our gear. They could easily have accessed the loos by walking through the pitch next to us, which was one of their group's but they chose instead to fence it off up to the boundary and use our pitch as access. While we were out one day their kids helped themselves to some of our beach toys, which had been tucked away under the side of the tent. We got given one water pistol back after asking but ended up having to retrieve the other from their pitch ourselves. With that and them having shouted conversations across our pitch, we just felt mostly uncomfortable at times we were around our tent so we spent as much time as possible away from it. Other positives about the site are the friendly and helpful staff at reception and in the shop. The shop was useful and the food vans in the evenings were good. We were grateful for the large dining tent (like a small marquee) that was open for general use as it was somewhere shaded to sit with ice creams and drinks on the hottest day. It would have been useful on a rainy day too! Overall we would stay again but only if we could choose a pitch in advance, and possibly not in peak season as it is a large site and was very full. We also felt that the group booking could have been better organised. They could have been allocated an area not right on top of small, individual units, or at least just have been given pitches arranged in a square rather than surrounding other pitches. Also, leaving defined gaps between pitches to allow people access through the rows would help people from the back of the row to access the nearest toilets without having to walk through someone else's pitch or go all the way around to the end of the row. Some physical separation between rows would be nice for a bit of privacy, even just along the back of the pitches. More hedges or trees would help with providing some shade too.