Daleacres Club Campsite

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Excellent in October!

We’ve just returned from a week at Daleacres. It’s quite a big site and the layout gives the impression of plenty of space - no regimented rows - but I rather think it may be quite congested and busy in the main school holidays. The staff are friendly and the toilets immaculate with Radio Two gently playing. A good site for a stop over on the way to/from France or a weeks birdwatching or sightseeing. Dover Castle, Rye and Canterbury are all in easy reach.

Dumpling2

Reviewed on 10/10/2018 18:20

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Friendly staff, well maintained.

I must praise the diligence of the staff in keeping the toilet block so clean and tidy, and also for their friendliness and good humour. Their warmth certainly enhanced my stay. Thank you all.

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Ideal location for some of the best of Kent

We stayed at Daleacres for just over two weeks at the beginning of September and had a really enjoyable time there. It is an ideal location for exploring Dover, Dymchurch an Dungeness with loads to see and do. Dover castle is an excellent historic location to visit. The staff on site were cheerful, polite and helpful. They do an excellent job of keeping the site clean despite the unsanitary and disgusting habits of some of the other campers on site. The staff are a credit to the club. The site is quite large and was busy during our stay but it was peaceful and quiet and there was no need to queue for toilet or shower even though there is only one large toilet block for the site. I would recommend the site for visiting the area and plan to return there in future

WanderingDave

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Reviewed on 27/09/2018 22:58

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No problems - recommended

Compared with some of the previous reviewers it seems we were lucky. We stayed for 8 nights 9-17 September 2018. This was our third visit to Daleacres and we had no problems again. We pitched up on grass in the centre of the site away from the road and the play areas and it was great – very quiet with no traffic and no kids passing by. The toilet block was spotless as usual and the wardens we had contact with (two ladies and a gentleman) were very nice. The location of the site is also very quiet and excellently placed for visiting loads of great places including castles and cathedrals, wildlife parks, beaches, pubs, vineyards and breweries, trains, picturesque villages, a brilliant fish and chip shop in Hythe, an amazing fresh seafood shop at Dungeness etc etc etc..... there are endless things to do in that part of the world or you can of course do absolutely nothing. We just keep going back and Daleacres is ideal. We should add that we always avoid the school holidays so the only kids were of the pre-school variety and the usual shouting, screaming and grizzling was minimal!

Westman1

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Reviewed on 22/09/2018 15:18

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Nice stay, but......

Stayed at Daleacres for four nights in early September, generally had a nice stay, the wardens were polite and helpful on my limited contact with them. The dog exercise field is excellent and with access to a public footpath directly from the site for those longer walks over the adjacent fields. I would make the following negative comments. The site is quite large and open and hence when it was full on two of our nights there it felt a little crowded. The toilet / shower facilities are not really adequate for a site of this size, just five toilets, six showers but seven washbasins. I never understand why the washbasins don't get converted to showers as they seem to be underused whilst six showers for over 140 pitches means queues at peak periods. The facilities were nice and clean after the wardens had been cleaning them but I cannot get over how disgusting some members are with their hygiene! I often found toilets not flushed and / or in a filthy state, perhaps some members have never mastered the skill of flushing a toilet or using a toilet brush! My wife advised me that the female toilets were also often in this condition, one occasion four of the six toilets being left in an unusable condition by previous users without the need for them to be cleaned. Why should the wardens have to clean up after such disgusting individuals. Not sure why the Caravan Club is going in to Yurts for hire. What next? Fleets of static caravans. Aren't we meant to be a club for tourers / motorhomes? Sorry but not one of my favourite sites.

PaulHarry

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Reviewed on 12/09/2018 20:41

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Very unfriendly

Very unfriendly staff especially one older gentleman that thought he was better then everyone else and shouldn’t be there if he doesn’t like the job .I said good morning to another staff and was totally ignored.The dog walk has now been moved which means that people walking there dogs have to walk through the children’s playing field and so the dogs are messing in there before they get to the dog walk yet the original dog walk which was perfect as they didn’t come into the field is all over grown.The office seemed to be closed more times then it was open and this was August bank holiday and when we left the office was shut and had to leave the barrier key through the letter box which I think is totally rude there needs to be a big shake up in staff and put people in there that are happy to work there we were very disappointed.

bumble

Reviewed on 06/09/2018 22:56

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Nice stay

It was a very nice place.

2Malteser

Reviewed on 04/09/2018 21:13

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Nice site ruined by noise and one warden with a chip on his shoulder

Arrived on the site before the bank holiday and settled in nicely. Over the period toilet block was immaculate for the sites size and the wardens cleaning were to be complimented, hedge cutting back and grass mowing was in evidence all our stay. The wardens (99% of them) were wonderful and in the day make your stay enjoyable. The site was clean, well kept and you could see time had been spent to keep it clean. Having said all that there were two issues that let this site down. 1. I am not against children enjoying them selves at all that is what holidays with families are all about, however the road around the site is a reproduction of a mini M25 for pushbikes. During the day it is acceptable as that is the rule, however many kids want to ride around in circles, and at one time we had (counted) over 25 on bikes going around and around, both ways against the one way system and with it, shouting and generally noisy, however let them enjoy themselves in the day. Come night time when the rule say's no bikes,there were also no wardens to put a stop to exactly what was happening through the day, up to and past 10:30 at night, some cyclist's did have lights on the bikes, the scooters and segways did not. This was not a nice time to sit outside with a vino or two, listening to all the shouting. 2. I see that one warden has been mentioned in the reviews previous, and he stuck out like a sore thumb, he should have a hat with "Jobsworth" written on it. All he seemed to do was (try) to march around the field as though he had swallowed a wasp, picking up on the smallest issues and making them out to be the start of WW3, he needs to get a life or at least take some social skills course, his manner was I must say the talk of the campsite, how rude he was. One instance which we witnessed was, the owners of van opposite us returned from a shopping trip, and pulled up to their van by driving over the grass that everybody else has to drive over on that particular part of the site, he tore into the driver telling him he should have driven the full circuit of the site to get into the last pitch by the assistant wardens area, why he singled this guy out is a mystery as people were driving against the one way system to go over the grass at this part, and all the other vans had to drive the same way this driver went to get to their pitch, why did he rant at this guy, We decided that we loved the cleanliness of thew site, the location of the site, but for the stated reasons we would never go there again, in fact it resolved us to only ever book adult only sites in the future.

magiceye

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Reviewed on 29/08/2018 13:51

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Not impressed

Where do we start! We found the staff very unfriendly especially one gent who clearly loved the power the job affords. He was vindictive and rude. Not one member of staff spoke in a friendly manner although to be fair we mostly had dealings with the afore mentioned gent. Dogs were running around off the lead and it was down to us to explain to the campers that our 20month old granddaughter was covered one day in dogs poo. "When we approached the warden about this incident, and pointed out the "mess" he replied "I'm off duty and anyway I don't have any disinfectant". He did however, sort of clean it up at our request We were separated from our family due to them having to be in the Tent field. We do understand this but it was difficult for us as a family. The toilet blocks were extremely clean, which during holiday time is quite a feat. We applaud them for that. We will not be visiting this site again anytime soon. We will certainly recommend Canterbury Camping and Caravan club as a much better alternative. Michael Ryan

trish1ry

Reviewed on 24/08/2018 09:22

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Brilliant place and staff

What a great camp site. One couldn’t have asked for a better site. Clean. Well presented. All the Family’s with children seemed to have a great time. The staff were constantly in attendance. A special thanks must go to camp wardens Billy and Terri Hugh’s so helpful. Could not have asked for better. I would definitely recommend this site and I certainly will return.

condon

Reviewed on 23/08/2018 20:53

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