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Wow - a mere stroll off the site takes you right onto the gorgeous beach. Body boards are a must have - when the tide is in it's brilliant to bob around in the sea virtually on your doorstep!
This fact outweighs the niggles that I have with this site. The showers in the main shower block are far better than the ones in the first field on the right. In the side block was hard to rinse shampoo out of the child's hair as you couldn't lower the shower & they weren't very powerful.
The shop has just about all you need. The staff in the shop have plenty of local information if you need some ideas or advice on where to go and how to get there.
The pitches, we felt, are small. We have an 8 man tent and we felt very close to the tent on the next pitch. We could hear their whispered rows word for word!
There is a no football, no kite flying and no gazebo rule. The football rule is flexible providing that other campers are not disturbed but can be applied if needed. There really isn't enough room for football when the site is full. The kite and gazebo rule is strictly applied for safety reasons.
Because people are crammed in, it feels very invasive when children are playing football near your pitch. We have children but don't want to spend our holiday with the tent, windbreak, car plus us being hit by balls. Of course, alot of this is down to the parents and how considerate they are towards other people. You need to find some space for your children to play any 'wide' games.
There is a quiet time policy - 11pm til 7.30am if I remember rightly.
You are given a list of rules when you arrive - as far as I can see, the rules are not on the website so you wouldn't know that you cant have your gazebo etc til you get there.
You can walk along the beach to Pevensey where there are great cafes. You can also ride along the cycle path into Pevensey. If you hang a left out of the site you can walk to the Marina which is just past the Asda. It has lovely looking bars and restaurants plus some big money yachts to envy!
The Happy Dragon in Pevensey is a more sophisticated version of an all you can eat restaurant. Instead of a buffet style, you choose what you'd like from the menu and it's cooked fresh for you and served at the table. You can stay and eat as much as you want. The food was fresh and delicious and the staff were charming.
There are plently of places to visit but if the weather's good, just go down to the beach. You can pop back to your pitch for sandwiches so you don't have to lug loads of stuff down to the beach. Don't get caught out by the sun in the cool coastal breeze.
So, pitches too small, staff could be friendlier, you're just off a busy main road (used by motorcyclists for racing in the evening), but the location makes up for it all.
Stayed at Bay View for 4 nights, staff are friendly and the pitches are huge.
The campsite is literally a stones throw away from the beach.
Although the campsite is really nice, there were not enough toilets or showers in the camping area although the toilet block was very clean and to a good standard. Only 2 showers and three toilets which you had to queue for.
The campsite is geared towards car uses and families. They were children everywhere and the nearest shops/pubs were 20 minutes or so walk. Which is great on a sunny day but not so good when its raining.
There are no bar facilities onsite. Good location to get a bus to Eastbourne and Pevensy Castle is worth a visit but the bus service is not very good on Sundays.
Pevensy Castle has lovely Tea rooms as well as a cheap friendly pub so I would recommend heading there rather than the Marina bars.
There is no recycling onsite but I would recommend this site if staying in Pevensy.
I agree with what everyone else has said - a lovely site, with excellent access to the beach, and lovely clean, modern toilets, within easy reach of the joys of the town, but still extremely quiet (we were lulled to sleep by the sound of the waves!)
Please make sure you don't forget your mallet! The ground is incredibly hard, and even the rock pegs they sell at the shop are impossible to get more than 3 or 4 inches into the ground. Luckily it was a calm weekend when we went, I'm not sure how tents would fair in windier weather?
Just returned from a long weekend camping with 3 kids under 5. The campsite is very well organised with instructions where to pitch and you are given plenty of room. The facilities are fantastic. Extremly clean showers and toilets, a well stocked shop and the kids play area kept the kids entertained for ages. The park is patrolled discreetly and added to the safe feel of the place.
There is a regular bus service that can take you into Pevensey where we went to the castle and had a great time. We visited 2 pubs in Pevensey both where welcoming to the kids and the food at the both was very good. Less than 10 minutes drive is a retail park with an Asda, Cinema and clothes shops so you can keep yourselves well catered for.
We will be returning as I think we might struggle to find a better site for our needs.
Spent over a week here, had booked in advance by just seeing the website and reviews, so no turning back. We were put on a pitch straight across from the kids play area solid noise all Friday night up to 10. 30 pm, then at 7. 00 sat morning the kids were back and solid noise all day. If I'd had kids perhaps I could have put up with it, but my kids have grown up and gone years since. I asked for another pitch away from this area and finished up near the gate at the entrance, I was told no where else was vacant. After Sunday the site was virtually empty so I could have gone anywhere really.
Anyway the toilet block was quite good there's 3 ensuite type cubicles with shower toilet and washbasin, 2 loos and 2 urinals, ok if its the low season but when the sites busy youve no chance. The beach is 2 minutes away, and Eastbourne just down the road is a brilliant place, all sorts going on there.
Anyway to sum up I would say to anyone contemplating going there, ask to be away from the kids play area if you want peace and quiet, be prepared to get in line for showers etc, if the sites busy. There's 2 camping fields one has older facilities and everybody goes for the newer ones.
Just 15 minutes from Ashford and 25 minutes from fabulous beaches, you'll be ideally placed for exploring the Garden of England. The park is divided into a family area, that is close to the play parks, the sports field and the games room, and a peaceful adult-only area in The Meadows, that is ideal for couples. A range of grass and hardstanding pitches, fully serviced or non electric, catering for all sized of tents and caravans.
On both areas you will enjoy five-star, centrally-heated showers, and private cubicles with toilet, hand basin, dryers etc. Laundry and campers kitchens, a large childrens playground, sports field, games room and television lounge. The park has CCTV and WiFi is available for a small fee. A dog walking area is provided on site. Find out more here
Just back from a weekend at Bay view and we liked it very much. Site is medium sized with a mix of static’s, Tents, tourers and motor homes. Pitches are a reasonable size with room for your van an awning and your car. The site is flat and right on top of a pebble beach but is sheltered from the wind by surrounding bushes. The toilet block is a small prefab building but was clean with 4 showers 2 washing up sinks. The showers were the push button type but the water was warm. Small shop on site selling the usual stuff. A small stroll along the beach to the right brings you to a lovely harbor with restaurants shops and a cinema. There is a small golf course on site if that is your thing. The Girls enjoyed it so much they want to go back for a week. Good clean site in a nice location for surrounding towns. Check your sat nav before you leave, mine sent me down some very narrow B roads with some hairy moments on a few narrow blind bends :) A full suite of Digital TV channels was available until the motorhome pitched up next to us then we had to switch to analogue Dh'o :(
Stopped off at this lovely site on Saturday, on arrival I didn’t think that my mains lead would run to the hook up on the pitch that they had allocated me. So Bay View offered me the choice of borrowing an extension, or choosing another pitch. I went for the different pitch which was fantastic, just a little more secluded than the main ones which was nice.
The facilities are all very new and clean, staff all very pleasant & keen to help.
Site is close to the beach & you can walk to the harbour in no time.
We stayed here over the 2nd May bank holiday weekend, despite the BBC weatherman amusingly saying 'this would be a bad day to go camping' the morning we went!
The first thing you notice about the site is it's fantasic location, just yards from the beach. From our pitch we could clearly hear the sea - bliss. There are no busy roads / flightpaths etc nearby to spoil the peace.
The first couple of nights were quiet as the weather was very wet, but on the 3rd night the place got fairly packed out, but not so much to make it uncomfortable or seem crowded.
The facilities are basic but perfectly adequate. Hot showers, clean toilets, and a small shop with the necessities in there. What more do you need?
The children's play area was slightly dissapointing as it was muddy and generally grubby, but our 2 year old preferred the beach anyway.
There's a 24 hour Asda about 20m walk or 5 minute drive away, Pevensey Bay is about 5 minutes drive and the centre of Eastbourne is about a 10 minute drive.
Overall, we loved this site and will definitely return.
It was cold, it was wet, it was incredibly windy but what a great four days we had at Bay View. I had used this website to research somewhere quiet and close to Rye. We loved the area, the site itself is small, very quiet as no access after 11.30 but still great to sit and have a glass of vino whilst your 9 year old plays with the other kids in the great little play area. Cross a little bridge from the site onto the beach, a very pebbly beach. It was being cleared by a tractor and we sat and waved to the lovely man driving the tractor on the beach.
Facilities - superb. VERY clean and warm shower units no need to ever queue as plentiful, plus laundry room and a great area to wash dishes. All very close by but not too close.
We have just come back from this site.Having had a large tent for some years we have just bought our first motorhome and experienced our first venture at Bay View. What a lovely, lovely site so close to the beach it tookless than 2 mins toget onto it.You can then walk right along to sovereign harbour, through the new developments and to the bars. Highly recommend the italian place for lunch by the harbour beautiful. The site is super, very good price, showers and toilets are immaculate and were warm too even though we had good weather it was nice to have the gentle heat from the rads. Showers cubicles included a basin and toilet and plenty of room for your stuff. Friendly staff, a paper in the morning for my son to go and get and a lovely little play areaw hich is virtually in the middle of the site so you can see them safely. My son watched rabbits feeding in the morning out of his window which he was thrilled about and one of those priceless memories. We would return again, wonderful place.
Just 15 minutes from Ashford and 25 minutes from fabulous beaches, you'll be ideally placed for exploring the Garden of England. The park is divided into a family area, that is close to the play parks, the sports field and the games room, and a peaceful adult-only area in The Meadows, that is ideal for couples. A range of grass and hardstanding pitches, fully serviced or non electric, catering for all sized of tents and caravans.
On both areas you will enjoy five-star, centrally-heated showers, and private cubicles with toilet, hand basin, dryers etc. Laundry and campers kitchens, a large childrens playground, sports field, games room and television lounge. The park has CCTV and WiFi is available for a small fee. A dog walking area is provided on site. Find out more here
Spent the weekend here, in the tent and thought highly of the site.
First thing is that it is not a big site, so if you have a tent specifically ask for the tent field opposite the shop; otherwise they will put you squeezed among the caravans - which would be rather cramped.
The other, more open, tent area on the opposite side is further away from the toilets and showers, has no electric hook-up, but is more peaceful and away from chintzy-curtain caravan city.
The site is right by the sea, so you Can get out of your tent, walk over the hump and down, across the pebbles, to the sea. All very nice.
Water, toilets, showers, disposal points were all in working order, well looked after and clean.
The pitches are marked (so you need to tell them of the tent size) and organised so it is no wilderness site, however, being so close to the sea makes up for it.
Note, that they have a no gazebo policy (I guess because of the wind) and lock the gate at night (around 11pm).
So if you want to explore that part of the Sussex and be by the sea - recommended.
We have just returned from 5 nights at this campsite. The staff were friendly and very helpful. The site was crowded as it was bank holiday but we had allocated pitches of 9m square. The site was right on the beach and as the weather was kind to us we spent many a pleasant day swimming and building sandcastles. The only downside to our visit was the shower and toilet facilities - we were in the overflow field and only had 2 showers and 2 toilets which were in need of updating, in the main field was a brand new block but only had 3 showers so we had to queue. Lovely holiday and would go back.
Stayed here for 1 night with friends and six children all under 8, the site is clean , not the prettiest site ever, due to the housing estate the is adjacent to the campsite. The location is great as the beach is just next to the field our tents were in.
The play park is in the other field, for the caravans and electrical hook up. This was a bit of a problem as we had to take the children there due to their age and as there was a no sports, no kites, no ball games, no cycling rule it was difficult to amuse them near the tent.
The pitches were very strictly laid out and numbered and we struggled to get our six man tent and two cars on the pitch. There is no parking elsewhere. Any visitors to the site have to pay for their car and per person. My friend wanted to stay on for a couple of hours on the day we left and had to pay £3 to park her car. Whilst we appreciate that the campsite was filling up as it was a bank holiday weekend, the charge for everything rule seemed rather strict.
We felt that this site was very clean, good showers, but will not return as it wasn't that suitable for younger children as there was no space for them to run around and even if there was they were limited with what they could actually play with.
The site seems more suited to couples, or people with dogs.
This is a marked pitch site with a notice stating "No ball games etc" on the entrance gate . This is unenforceable and shouldn't be creating restrictions on children and families. The showers were situated in a portacabin on our side of the site but there was a bigger shower block on the other field for the tourers which can be used . This site gets 10/10 for location , not so much a stones throw from the beach more a stones throw from the actual sea . A two minute drive brings you to the local Asda and a Cinema ( for wet weather ).
We spent all our time on the beach and barely moved from the site apart from on one evening when we went to Eastbourne to eat . I don't know if it happens every night but there is a swooping starlings show over the Pier which mesmerised the children for hours.
Stayed here at the beginning of the summer hols. Have been a couple of times before. They have updated the site. New toilet block. In the ladies 3 toilets and then 3 shower units each with a sink and toilet in them. Very clean. Showers a bit hot for children. My husband said there are not enough toilets in the mens, gets a bit busy in the mornings! Only two washing up sinks, not enough. Laundry room, fine. There is now a proper gravel road around the site instead of a boggy grass track. All in all great. Right on the beach, had great fun shrimping and crabbing at low tide. Pevensey Bay is a great little village, loads of pubs.
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No Tents 
No Caravans 
No Motorhomes 
No Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
Holiday Homes for Hire 
Holiday Homes for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
No Electric Hookups 
No Hardstandings 
No Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
Rallies Welcome 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
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 
No Freezer / Fridge 
No Motorhome Point 
Wifi Access 
Shop On Site 
Bar On Site 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site 
Kids Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
Fishing On Site 
No Wild Swimming 
Indoor Pool <1 mile 
No Outdoor Pool 
Horse Riding <5 miles 
No Cycle Hire 
Golf On Site 
Tennis <1 mile 
Beach On Site 
Watersports <1 mile 
No Boat Launch 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
Coastside Pitches 
Public Transport <1 mile
No Dog Walk 
Wow - a mere stroll off the site takes you right onto the gorgeous beach. Body boards are a must have - when the tide is in it's brilliant to bob around in the sea virtually on your doorstep!
