Haven Holiday Parks

[squirerichard]

I noticed in a review of various holiday parks in a Daily Mirror Travel supplement that Haven are building new Adventure Golf courses at their Hopton Holiday Village site, Littlesea and Marton Mere.

[Peter Jones]

The Haven park at Prestatyn now has an adventure golf. It replaced a crazy-golf, which I was told was only a small, children's course.

The camp was in the national newspapers and the BBC North-West TV news when Rio Ferdinand took his family and in-laws there for a caravan holiday last year. The Royle Family also stayed in a fictional caravan park in Prestatyn, in last year's Christmas special, that included a miniature golf. Barbera or Denise read out the camp facilities on the way there in Dave's car, and there was also a miniature railway and a couple of other things described in the brochure as miniature, which led to Jim Royle asking whether anything in the camp was full-size. Rio Ferdinand wasn't the most unlikely camper Prestatyn has had, as Kim Cattrell took her mother to Pontin's Prestatyn Sands a few years ago.

One Haven camp I have visited is the one in Ayr with Scotland's only Arnold Palmer course, the Craig Tarra Holiday Park. The caravans can be seen from Ayr seafront, and I caught a bus that drops you off by the check-in reception. There's a checkpoint, so I'm not sure whether a non-camper would be able to get in by car, but a couple of walkers came in through the beach entrance and asked me if there was a wee shop. The course is just by there, next to the beach

I took plenty of photos with a film camera, so I'll send them for the miniaturegolfer site if anyone wants a look. It's surrounded by a children's funfair, where you buy tokens for £1.75 for each thing, including the golf. The scorecards are for 18 holes, but aren't old Arnold Palmer ones. The course is nine hole with a Top Hole, and the obstacles are all original. It was difficult to play the ball from the tee because the concrete around it prevented a proper swing, and it's not the most peacefull of courses due to staff's choice of music - Akon, Dizzy Rascal, and the like - beinng played, loudly, over the tannoys.

[Peter Jones]

There are 360 degree images of the course and an indoor crazy golf at www.haven.com/parks/scotland/craig_tara ... index.aspx? It doesn't show all the obstacles, though, such as the dice one.

[Ace Man]

Excellent.
Nice indoor 9 hole course too
Yes please to the piccies.

[Peter Jones]

There's an aerial view of the new Presthaven Sands course at http.www.preshavenholidaypark.com/aboutthepark/parknews.aspx

[Peter Jones]

I got the link wrong for the Presthaven Sands course. http://www.preshavenholidaypark.com/abo ... knews.aspx