White House Beach Club Campsite

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Good for families

A good site near the sea.

I will go here again. The wardens were friendly and welcoming. The site is near the sea. It was good to have a tv aerial point on the hook up post. The toilet block was great. There's a good chip shop, restaurant and pub within walking distance - though the restaurant was booked up for the weekend. There are good walks along the coastal path.

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Azalea

Reviewed on 07/08/2019 13:46

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A great site

This was our second visit to this site,with a choice of either beach pitches or main site with various pitches available. Very friendly wardens welcome and orientation,the site was well maintained and very clean. the site is well placed for visiting the local area, and a trip to Southwold & the Adnams brewery shop is a must along with booking a table at the Waterfront restaurant a must. We will diffidently be going back to this lovely site.

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Kev cottee

Reviewed on 30/07/2019 11:58

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Could be so much better

Chose this site for its location and proximity to the beach. Very narrow roads on approach to the site, with a very sharp bend. The beach was great for the dogs, literally a stones throw away, but that's where it ends. Wardens greeted with a warm welcoming smile and all the information. After booking in chose a pitch at the side of the beach. The site is divided into 2 sections, 1 by the beach and another a little inland. All the grassed areas looked dead and uncared for. This surprised me bearing in mind the amount of rain we have had recently. even the main site grass looked very sick. Toilet block whilst kept clean on a daily basis did lack the usual caravan club standards I have seen in other sites. There was a lack of toilet facilities in the gents, having to queue most mornings to use the facilities. 3 urinals and 2 toilets and 3 sink cubicles and the smallest hand wash sink i have ever seen. Decor was very dated and i imagine very difficult to keep clean. What i found really off putting was the drinking water tap was right outside the window to the gents toilets so you can imagine what you could hear and smell whilst emptying waste water or filling the water barrel. Overall the site looked very baron and old and worn Saying all this we did enjoy our week there. Watching the ships on the sea and the many forms of wildlife. It has been some time since i last visited this part of the country. Lowestoft was very run down, lots of shuttered shop fronts and very little to see or do in the town itself. Plenty of supermarkets to choose from and a small out of town retail park. We visited great yarmouth and found this to be grubby too. really gone down Southwold however is such a beautiful town. 15-20 drive from the site, with a stunning beach (sadly no dogs in summer months). So nice, that we visited twice in our weeks stay. if the white house beach site was at Southwold it would have been a fantastic place to visit. Overall, a very disappointing site. the wardens should be commended for doing their best, but sadly I feel that i will not be visiting again. Some improvements to suggest would be - dog bin at the entrance to the beach from the beach site, move the drinking water taps away from the toilet block, better bins for recycling and lastly the whole site needs some tender loving care to improve it's appearance

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eclectus

Caravanner

Reviewed on 22/07/2019 12:47

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shame about the smell

the site is ideally located for the beach which a mixture of scrub and shingle, and is accessed via the beachside pitches across the access road to the holiday camp. A lot of trees on site so not many pitches get full sun all day, probably best side for the sun would be the pitches backing onto the pub and house, so to the right as you enter the site. Standard CMC toilet block, clean but dated, with fixed head showers and nylon shower curtains, the club really needs to modernise their amenities blocks. Off lead dog walk behind the toilets, adequate, I've seen smaller, but as the beach is so close, off lead exercise is not an issue at this site. Lowestoft and Southwold are both reachable by the local bus and dogs are allowed, bus stop 5 min walk from site. We did the 10 mile walk to Lowestoft and back, but took the bus to Southwold as that would be even further. 25 min walk to Co-op in Kessingland. If the wind is in the wrong direction then you will smell the sewage farm which is close by, unfortunately it was. We arrived and once on pitch thought that we had an issue with our toilet, the caravanner on the next pitch who had arrived just before us was washing his hitch and front as he thought he'd followed a lorry carrying sewage and it was him, No, we were told about the sewage farm once on site by another camper. The warden said she would report it as that all she can do once anyone refers to it.

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lms0110

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 19/07/2019 19:10

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By the sea!

Lovely site, very clean, friendly wardens. Located by a lovely beach, sand, shingle and dunes so ideal for families, and/or dogs. We used this site last year as a test run for our new motorhome as it is only a few miles from home, for that reason only we will probably not use the site again...but we would recommend it to anyone coming to explore our lovely East Anglian countryside.

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Scrabby67

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Reviewed on 19/07/2019 10:49

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Fantastic

Absolutely fantastic site in a stunning location, great facilities and friendly wardens.

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Mr Rubble

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Reviewed on 18/07/2019 21:46

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short break

Great weekend weather hot. Site suffered from the smell coming from a local sewage treatment plant for a few hours.

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billycassey

Motorhomer

Reviewed on 08/07/2019 14:22

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Lovely sitw

First visit in our caravan, we had taken 3 children for a weekend break, the warden was really helpful and gave us a choice of plots, even walked around with us to make sure we were ok. It's a lovely site to the point where we will be going back. The walk to the lovely cafe/restaurant and the pub was not far and pleasant. Although the shower block over by the beach is dated and only a few showers we never had a problem with having to wait for showers. There is an new big block of showers on the big site. People were lovely and had a great time.

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Reviewed on 03/07/2019 20:21

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I do like to be beside the seaside

We booked the White House beach site for a week initially and ended up staying 21 nights which is the maximum allowed. On arrival we were greeted by the very friendly and helpful warden. We were fortunate to have a choice of pitches as we arrived just after the half term break. We chose a lovely pitch overlooking the sea. Being on the beach side, there is easy access onto the foreshore and lovely walks for the dog. Although the weather was not great, it was lovely to sit in the van looking out to sea and when the weather improved, it was glorious. The site doesn’t have a clubhouse but it is only a few hundred yards along the promenade to The Sailors Home pub. They do great beer and very reasonable pub grub. They also have live music every weekend. We saw a pretty good blues band. It is only a short drive to Southwold. We walked there one day, which took almost 3 hours with a strong headwind and not the easiest terrain. A little further is Aldeburgh and Thorpeness. There was a free concert in the bandstand on the beach at Aldeburgh which was really good. We really enjoyed our stay and were fortunate to have some lovely neighbours who were there for longer stays as well, so we built up quite a rapport. The facilities were very clean and perfectly adequate although a little dated. The only other thing to note is that the back row pitches on the beach side back onto the road so there is some traffic noise, although speed bumps mean that vehicles are going quite slowly and we were not aware of traffic overnight. This might be a bigger problem in the school holidays as the road leads to a very large static caravan park. If you think the traffic might bother you, it might be best to stay on the other side of the site which is nice but no sea view. I’m sure we will return to this site again.

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Don the bear

Caravanner

Reviewed on 02/07/2019 12:49

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White House Beach

Not a lot I can add to my previous review but having read just about all the reviews so far I would like to make a couple of points. Kessingland was a small fishing village so the last part of the drive in is through narrow lane with houses both sides, this is not a problem if you obey the speed restrictions and have patience. The playground is small but perfectly formed and conforms to the latest safety thinking, our grandtwins were more than happy to play there. If you need a larger playground there is one 5 minutes walk into the village. The beach area is ideal for the children to romp about but if you want a sandy beach go to Lowestoft, Gorleston or Yarmouth. The beach area is great for wildlife, at the moment the skylarks are in abundance I got some good pics just 100 yards from the site. If there is an easterly wind blowing there is a possibility of all sort of rarities turning up. In September there is usually a Wryneck somewhere by the sluice. Thanks to the hardworking, friendly wardens for looking after us and their lovely site

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Oneputt

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Reviewed on 26/06/2019 08:35

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