Summer Holiday Ideas - Trevella Holiday Park, Cornwall: The verdict

As you may know, I was offered a four night stay at Trevella Park in Cornwall for last half term..... It was a dreamy assignment.

The verdict from both the mums and the kids was: Absoloooootely brilliant. We will be booking again and may well enrol the sproglets in some surfin' school activity next summer..... The mums, meanwhile, will be readin' books and eatin' pasties. Yum!

Trevella Park facilities are just what is required. The caravans are spotlessly clean and were fab for our gang of 7 and 3 mums: We booked 3 caravans which was perfect as we felt like we were on tour as we debated where to eat breakfast or dinner, (breakfasts were momumental affairs but dinners were mainly take-aways from the Chinese, Domino's and Morrisons, - well, the mums were on hols too y'know!)

The caravans were warm and toasty thanks to the heaters in every room (too hot sometimes) and the TV was a god-send for those evening when the sea-air had taken its toll. The beds were comfy and the kitchen was better stocked than at home, though I missed the dishwasher and would probably pay more for a caravan if one was available!

All in all, it was the best time ever and though the weather was changeable and the mud relentless, it only stormed at night and, as you can see from our photos, our days were gorgeous. We escaped Cornwall on the Friday before the big, BIG storm battered the UK but we understand Trevella Park was largely untouched.

Book now if you fancy a holiday for next year. When we were there in October, the reception phone was ringing off the hook with bookings for 2014!

Review care of The Archers At The Larches.com

Check out other reviews of the Park here 

Crabbing at Padstow

Bubblegum ice-cream at Padstow

Lobster Hatchery Padstow



THE most gorgeous smelling candle factory
(Boy clearly impressed)

http://www.stevalcandlecompany.co.uk/
A must in my stocking for Christmas



Trevella: Arming sproglets... wrong on so many counts
(Boy still impressed)

Highwaymen hold up Domino's Pizza driver

Beach babe... in October!!!

Crowded!!! Cornland Beach..... Fab weather

Eden Project - a brilliant (if expensive) day out
http://www.edenproject.com/

Tea bushes at Eden Project

What is it with this girl and ice-cream?



Brain freeze!



Pumpkin carving at Eden



Recycling display at Eden featuring The Archers at The Larches.... so famous!

Half Term ideas at Trevella Park

Camp....

We went to Shell Island at the height of the season last year. Never again. This year we escaped as soon as school finished and stayed for almost a week or as near as we dared to the weekend when the site began to fill up with humans with their own 'taste' in music. Personally I like the sounds of nature when I'm camping not blaring music. Some of the nature sounds are better than others. The ones I'm not so keen on are; children bickering over the least wonky camp chair or last cereal variety pack, babies wailing as their parents slap on the sun cream and the father teenage banter as they debate the shoes/no shoes question.

But empty and basked in sun, Shell Island is a paradise.

The rock pools were amazing this year. We found HUGE spider crabs, 12" star fish, fish, hermit crabs, flat fish, jelly fish and watched dolphins leap from a flat, shimmering sea. It was unbelievable.

I'll never leave the UK again. Fortunately I cannot afford to leave the UK again.

Poor Daddy, we're abandoning him again and he's stuck with the animals. He's once again King of the remote.