Guest User
May 14, 2024
We have visited Haven parks for years since I was a child and I now take my own children. I usually always have a great time, however, this year was different. I would never visit the Seton Sands park again. Myself, my mum and my sister booked our holiday back in Feb for May this year. The day we booked we selected our caravans as I have 2 young children and wasn’t sure if my partner would make it due to work so wanted to be close for support. We also still have young kids that nap and so being next to each other allows us to sit outside together while they napped. I then got a phone call 5 weeks later to say that the caravan I had chosen was no longer available and they didn’t have any others for the same price all next to each other. I then ended up paying £115 in total to upgrade all of our caravans to be next to each other in a different area. When selecting the caravans on the map they looked as though they were straight across from each other and the third one to the side. However, when we arrived they were nothing like shown on the map and ours was actually a few down and we could not see ours from my mums or sisters. We went to reception to speak to them about moving. A member from the experience team said he would speak to head office and give us a phone. He tried to phone 10mins later, due to signal I missed the call and no voicemail was left. I phoned back 4 minutes later to be told he had left reception but they would ask him to phone when he got back. We never heard from him again the full week we were there. The caravans being different from the map meant I was left alone in mine every day while my baby napped and once they were both in bed at night. We then went to the Boatie Blest restaurant the next day for dinner. We were there at 4:30pm and the restaurant was empty. The member of staff told us that they weren’t currently taking walk ins as there was only 2 of them working due to being short staffed, there was no mention of this on the app or when arriving etc. Had the restaurant been busy we would have understood but it was empty, it then meant there was 10 of us (6 adults and 4 kids) having to sort somewhere else for dinner. We had the chippy the previous night and it was undercooked and not great so we didn’t want to go back there. There were a few other issues while there such as cutlery not being cleaned, floors still with crumbs etc so overall it was not a great experience. I did raise a complaint about the caravan placement and restaurant, however, received a generic reply today without so much as an apology. The photo attached shows the map when selecting caravans. The one highlighted is ours, the two circled in black were my mum and sisters. However, when we arrived ours was much further down. In their email reply, I was told the map is just a guide and doesn’t actually confirm where the caravans will be - this is not made clear at all when selecting, my sister used our code so that they could choose to be nex