Brighton Club Campsite

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Good for families

Not the best

Having visited other Caravan club sites we would say this isnt one of the best! It is a very busy noisy site so ot ideal for a restful stay its possible that as there are a lot of Dutch/ German/French they possibly get off at Newhaven and use this site as a one nighter. Its a lot bigger site than most too and the staff dont seem so friendly. Shame but dont think it would be a revisit choice for us.

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xjr chris

Reviewed on 03/09/2016 10:01

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Not the same as previous years!!!

Recently returned from Brighton after a week at the end of July. Was down there for the PRIDE week. This will have been our 6th year staying at Brighton at the same time every year. I'm not sure what it was, but the site just did not have the same atmosphere as it has had in the past. We did find the wardens continually patrolling around the site on bikes and I have to admit I didn't have my dog tied to a rope. He was sat at the side of me as he is extremely obediant and will not move unless instructed. He lies on his bed, never barks and just watches everyone who passes by. Unfortunately I was told by one of the warden on his bike "If you don't tie that dog up I'll have to report you to the Head Warden". How pleasant!!! I don't mind that rule being enforced if you have a dog who may run off, is at risk of running up to passers-by or causing a disturbance, but not all dogs are like that. Perhaps the CC should produce a leaflet and give advice to parents of certain children: "If you don't tell that child to stop screaming and shouting, disturbing the other residents, I'll have to report you" or "If you don't stop cycling around this park at high speed on your bike, I'll have to report you"! I also found the toilet blocks not as clean as they have been in previous years. Perhaps that's due to the lower number of wardens in place and the fact that a private company now appears to come in and do the cleaning. I also noted that the CC haven't done anything regarding the hard standing pitches that I was told last year by one of the previous wardens were being looked at. I bent 5 heavy duty 8" steel pegs trying to hammer into one of those pitches. Needless to say the site office did replace them when I complained. Perhaps more caravanners need to do this. It's like trying to hammer into solid concret, so be warned if you are on a hard standing pitch. The overhead crane from the building site starting up at 7am every morning was not the best wake up call, but the CC have no control over that. We will go back next year, but I just hope there is a slightly better atmoshpere than we experienced this year!

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PaStuLe

Reviewed on 31/08/2016 16:42

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Good for families

Brighton at its best

Visited Brighton site last week with our 2 g/ children a lovely well organised site toilets / showers always clean and the showers are very efficient Nice to have the radio whilst using using the facilities !! My thanks to all the Wardens who are friendly and always helpful and to Tim who gave us advice regarding the g/ children's area to put up their tent for their stay with us . Recommend a trip on the i360 great views especially at night. No doubt we will be back to continue our exploring in the area.

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KentMan13

Reviewed on 24/08/2016 22:23

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Enjoyable visit

Stayed here this weekend. Friendly and helpful wardens. Easy access and good sized pitch. Clean toilet block, plenty of hot water in the showers but would have liked some power points to use your own hairdryer/tongs as their hairdryer was not particularly powerful. Some noise from next door football/cricket matches but otherwise quiet,we left before the college building workers commenced. Easy to get to the city centre, via Volks railway,bus, bike or a pleasant 40 minute walk. Asda and Lidl close by for supplies. We will definitely return

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Haddock2685

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 16/08/2016 20:54

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Good for families

Oh no, the "travellers" are back

We spent yet another week here towards the end of July. The building work on the nearby college means there is a huge crane looming over the upper part of the site, but further down the only problem is with a bit of whirring noise from the electric motors. The site seems pretty well run, and the access has been much better since the council introduced parking charges along the access road. However, when we returned to the site on our last evening we had to queue for about 20 minutes while a large party of "travellers" manhandled their gigantic caravans into East Brighton park through the gap in the boundary fence which they had criminally damaged as usual. Glad to be leaving the next day

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RamblingSid

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 12/08/2016 19:28

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Great site

Stayed at the Brighton CC site in early July, lovely site, well kept as you would expect with a CC site, nice walk along Brighton sea front, will be back.

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R Harrison 55

Caravanner

Reviewed on 28/07/2016 10:42

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Good for families

Pleasant Site

This was our first time here and having read other reviews we were looking forward to our week. The site reflects the hard work being put in by the Wardens. I cannot comment on attitude, other than we did not experience any problems. The site is a great launch pad to visit other places and we enjoyed meeting the many visiting overseas caravaners. The building works adjacent to the site was an issue, with 7.30 wake up from drills etc and I am not sure when the build is likely to be completed. We are early risers so it was not too much of an issue but feel there should be some prior notice at the booking stage. We found Brighton a disappointment, so wont be coming back, but that is not a reflection on the site.

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Seawall

Reviewed on 20/07/2016 17:19

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Rated 4 of 5

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Something for Everyone

A lovely site, but what would you expect from a Club Site? The site in situated in the Sheepcote Valley that affords the site good protection from the weather while maintaining an open and spacious feel. It's a busy site but the friendly staff still have time to give everyone a warm welcome and are always happy help or answer those niggling questions. The work of the staff can be seen throughout the site, which is maintained in pristine condition, the grounds are spotless and well manicured and the same can be said for the excellent facilities blocks of which there are two. Out and about, the South Downs are on the doorstep and Brighton's marina with its shops and large supermarket just a short but downhill walk and Brighton just a short bus ride away. The site provides a great location to explore this part of the country.

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firefly580

Caravanner

Reviewed on 14/07/2016 18:43

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Gone downhill

I'm not going to go on about the noise as previous comments have stated this. I loved this site last year, it was so friendly, however I am sick to death listening to the wardens when doing their round comparing notes on how they reprimanded certain people, it's like stick them in a caravan club uniform and it gives them the right to be power crazed dictators. I won't be retuning.

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rubymai

Reviewed on 13/07/2016 17:00

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Rated 4 of 5

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Good for families

Noise and poor customer service 06/07/16

We first visited this site at Easter 2015 and we were delighted with the site and our stay. We arrived this time at 12.25 on our first day, only to be told there were limited spaces and some of these in the higher part of the site were "a bit noisy" we soon found out this was an understatement. People who were due to leave that day hadn't, which didn't help finding a pitch We found the wardens to be very off hand and almost to the point of power crazy (after touring round to find a pitch, we spoke to people about noise) then going back to see if a pitch was free we mentioned that there were some unhappy people up the top end and they just laughed. Rules seemed to apply to some but not others. Building work was starting between 06.30 and 07.00 on weekdays. We will NOT be returning to this site for at least a year- 18 months until building work has finished and wardens have changed. On the up side toilets etc were always clean and tidy.

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Grovesy

Caravanner

Reviewed on 12/07/2016 10:34

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