St Audries Bay Holiday Park Testimonial

If anyone had told me just six months ago that by July I would be the proud owner of several extrememly comfortable and well appointed rooms with a balcony and absolutely glorious view of the coast between Minehead and Weston-super-Mare I wouldn't have believed them. If someone had mentioned the word 'caravan' I would have ignored them.

I'm not really sure how the conversion occurred - but, quite suddenly, while looking through an information booklet on Somerset,I saw the advert for 'caravans for sale' at St Audries' Bay and some details of the Holiday Club. I thought - we'll never be able to afford a cottage by the sea but what about a caravan? Might that be a possibility? Perhaps we should find out a bit more and even go down to have a look. It can't do any harm and might be interesting - something different. We're not committing ourselves to anything by looking! I made an initial phone call and spoke to a very helpful young man who turned out to be Richard - of whom more later - and over to St Audries we came - still in a very ignorant, cynical and negative frame of mind. It would not be easy to convince us that a caravan was a good idea. It would take a fantastic view, a remarkable salesman and a complete change of mind about caravans themselves.

So here we are. We came we saw. Our eyes were opened.
We spent the first misty, chilly night in a caravan surrounded by concrete bases and diggers. Not encouraging - confirming all our worst fears. The following morning glorious sunshine and the most beautiful view of the coast from the ugly concrete bases and the sudden realisation that this amazing view would belong to a caravan on that base. Richard arrived to answer all our queries and enable a very steep learning curve with his professional knowledge, enthusiasm, good humour and extreme patience. Nothing was too much trouble for him. Over three days he found time to meet us on numerous occasions, to show us the different caravans available and to tolerate my poor decision making as I wrestled with the criteria involved in choice of caravan eg: seating arrangement (if I have beautiful view then I don't want to sit with my back to it). The seating needed to be to the right of the window to take maximum advantage of sunset over Minehead - and it is and does! All the new caravans we saw were an eye opener - with their central heating, double glazing, french windows(two of them) en-suite master bedroom, brilliant space saving devices and designs and elegant furnishings. Final proof of Richard's care and concern came, after our return home, when my husband suddenly foresaw a possible problem which we relayed to Richard who later rang us - from a step ladder on our concrete base - to confirm that the placing of a caravan next door would not impede our view and he was , of course, right. Now that must be over, above and beyond any salesman's call of duty! What a star! We cannot speak too highly of Richard's before, during, and after care - and still continuing interest.

Richard, Paul and the team who have eased our passage and made us feel so welcome. What an inspiration! Who'd have thought it!! Richard knows that we hold him and Paul entirely responsible for our conversion - and we're not quite sure how they did it!!

Janet Gazard, St Audries Bay