Direct Holiday Homes

Caravan Description

Our brilliant 2019 Swift Burgundy is an 8 berth centrally heated and double glazed van with spectacular panoramic sea-view from our large wrap around glass fronted decking. From the tarmac parking space there are steps leading up between our wooden planters onto the patio area, part lawn, part slabs.

Our caravan is sited high up on Peak View giving fantastic south and east-facing panoramic sea views across Lyme Bay as far as Portland, and across the Ladram Bay site to the hills leading to Sidmouth. The panoramic view needs to be seen to be believed, and the sunrises over Lyme Bay are amazing!

We continue to have brilliant feedback from all our guests who stay in our van - we make it very easy to book, find the van, and we do go out of our way to accommodate what you need, and ensure you enjoy your stay.

The caravan has a main double bedroom with wardrobe, cupboard and drawer space, and two twin bedrooms each with two single beds, wardrobe, cupboard and drawer storage in each.

The lounge has sofa seating with pull-out double sofa-bed giving 8 beds in total. The dining area has a dining table and stools.

The shower room has a shower, loo, wash basin and heated towel rail. There is a second toilet room with wash hand basin.

The kitchen has a gas cooker with four rings, oven and grill, a fridge and freezer, microwave, kettle, toaster, plenty of pans and utensils, crockery, cutlery, glasses and mugs.

The lounge has a flat screen TV (new 2022) with Freeview and DVD player, coffee table, stools etc. and there is an electric fire when needed.

The patio has a paved area to the rear with two-burner gas barbeque, a large table and parasol with six chairs. There is a lawn area with some high planters and shrubs beside the van side decking, and another lawn to the front. By the parking space under the decking is a trunk with surf shoes in various sizes, kids foam surf boards, crab lines, buckets and spades, Frisbees, games, etc - please feel free to use them while you are staying. BBQ cooking tools are in the kitchen cupboards, please feel free to use our BBQ but please clean thoroughly afterwards!.

We provide one king size and one double duvet and four single duvets and eight pillows - guests will need to bring their own bed linen to cover these, along with their own bathmats, towels, tea towels and washing up cloths.

We include electricity in the rental price - we monitor the electricity usage for reasonable use. For higher use - should you need to charge an electric vehicle - please discuss this with us. Gas for cooking, shower and central heating is metered in the van and guests will need to purchase gas credit from the site reception. As a guide, summer guests should only need approximately £10 to £15 or so of gas in a week of normal use.

Bookings

The rental period is normally Saturday to Saturday, we are also pleased to let for weekends and short breaks but we prefer this to be outside the peak summer holiday season. Please arrive from 3pm, but in some occasions we can arrange it earlier than that - just chat to us.
After booking we will then email you the following docs :
- a set of 'Joining Instructions' - how to get there, what's provided in the van and what you need to bring,
- a map of the Ladram site to locate our van, and lastly,
- a numbered 'Visitors Car Pass' specific to our van to print out and display in your car. This will allow you free entry to the site (the site currently does not allow day visitors - i.e. anyone not staying on site) but 'No-pass' means 'no entry'

At the van there is a single tarmac car park space alongside our caravan decking, if you bring an additional car (which will also need a 'Visitors Car Pass', of course) this must be parked at the main gate car park during your stay.

Ladram Bay is a multi award-winning pleasant and enjoyable family holiday park and bookings are NOT accepted from all-male and all-female parties- in addition the lead hirer must be over 25 years of age. Additionally, should noisy or drunken conduct be mentioned to ourselves or to site you WILL be asked to leave immediately with no refunds from ourselves or the site.

We don't allow smoking or vaping in the caravan AT ALL. Its not only our personal preference, our van insurances would be rendered invalid in all cases, so that is a blanket ban, with NO exceptions please.

We are happy for you to use (only) our own gas BBQ, and ensure it is placed half-way between vans, and away from the wooden rear wall when in use and cooling down. The Ladram site recently banned all portable barbeques (foil trays, etc) - after a recent case when fire from one caught a caravan and destroyed it in minutes.

We do not often allow pets. If we do agree to allow a pet - we will need to discuss cleaning, sleeping and hygiene arrangements - an additional cleaning charge may apply (we have never needed to do this, actually). We do ask that the pet has its own bed, is fully housetrained, and keeps off all the furniture, especially beds, AND that its flea and tick treatment is certified as up to date. Dogs aren't allowed on Ladram Bay beach itself, and the site doesn't allow some aggressive dog breeds at all- but please ask us, or take a look at their website guidance, for clarification.

We would love to hear from you to discuss any stay, whether for a short break, long or short weekend, a week or longer - we have many guests who return frequently, multiple times in a season in some cases. We do start booking up for the next summer well before the end of the current one, so please contact us as early as possible. When you respond through this site please provide your email address AND a phone number, in case you mis-spell your email and we can't get back to you, it would be a shame for you to lose the chance to book simply because we can't respond, which has happened.

Please note that we have had a few incidents of damage in the van, which seemed to increase during 2022 and 2023 - broken bed slats, hoover, cups and glasses, loo seat, cooker knobs, kitchen tap, writing on walls, damaged games, etc - we understand accidents happen, but we need to know its happened so we can replace the breakage and not inconvenience the following guests. We place a lot of trust in our guests to look after our van as we would ourselves, and as we hope they would look after their own homes. If you aren't prepared to treat our van, its contents, and all our outside space with full respect and be held accountable for any damage, then PLEASE DO NOT BOOK TO STAY IN OUR CARAVAN.

Prices and Availability

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