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5 best Haven caravan holiday parks in Wales 2019

There are seven Haven caravan holiday parks in Wales, including three in North Wales and four in Mid/South Wales – but which is best out of Hafan y Môr, Presthaven, Greenacres, Kiln Park, Lydstep Beach, Penally Court and Quay West?

They vary greatly in size and facilities, although all of them are near to the coast and they all have at least one swimming pool (though not all of them are indoor swimming pools).

We’ve ranked our top 5 Haven caravan parks in Wales by looking at customer reviews, location, facilities and price.

 1. Haven Lydstep Beach Lydstep, South Wales (small park, beachside, swimming pool)

Lydstep Beach Holiday Village gets our vote as the best Haven holiday park in Wales - with a couple of important caveats.

It's quite small and it doesn't have the widest range of facilities, so it is only a good choice if you want a quieter caravan holiday park. If you want somewhere bigger and busier in South Wales, I'd look at Haven's Kiln Park or travel to mid Wales or North Wales for one of the others on this top 5.

The plus points at Lydstep Beach Holiday Village are that it overlooks a Blue Flag sandy beach and that customers rave about it. In fact, it's the only Haven holiday park in Wales to score 4.5/5 on TripAdvisor from customers and it scores similarly glowing reviews from Google reviews (4.6/5 when we checked in 2019). 

Onsite facilities include a simple indoor swimming pool, a play area, fencing, climbing and an entertainment venue. On the beach you can try watersports such as kayaking.

The main challenge is finding availability at such a small site, as we found it was often fully booked in our price comparisons.

​Price comparison: for our rough price comparison, we looked for the cheapest available holiday for a week for a family of four at Easter 2020, August 2020 and early October 2020. Lydstep Beach was one of the most expensive options in our price comparison, mostly because the cheapest accommodation had sold out a year in advance.  A week at Easter 2020 was £531. August 2020 was £1169. October 2020 was £321.

 2. Haven Hafan y Mor Pwllheli, North Wales (large park, big swimming pool, lots of facilities)

Hafan y Môr Holiday Park and Greenacres Holiday Park (see number 3) are fighting it out for second place, as they are both big Haven parks in North Wales with a great range of facilities onsite. From a bird's eye view, I reckon both of them are about four times as big as Haven's Lydstep Beach so don't come to either expecting silence and isolation.

Hafan y Môr had a big revamp in 2019, so we reckon it deserves second place on this guide to the best Haven caravan parks in Wales. 

The recently revamped indoor swimming pool is a big family-friendly pool, rather than your usual rectangle with lukewarm water. It's got a four lane water slide  as well as splash park type activities.

There are nine restaurants at Hafan y Môr (more than some small towns, I reckon) as well as easy access to the beach, Dragon Lakes Adventure Village which includes boat hire and 'aerial adventures', nine outdoor play areas, soft play, two entertainment venues, minigolf, sports court, segway hire (those silly things that US businessmen ride around on) and a boating lake.

Customer reviews were averaging 4/5 on TripAdvisor or 4.4/5 on Google reviews.

Price: Hafan y Môr was one of the more expensive Haven holiday parks in Wales in our price comparison. Cheapest price for a week for a family of four was £1032 in August 2020, £551 at Easter 2020 or £243 in early October 2020.

3. Haven Greenacres Holiday Park, Porthmadog, North Wales (large park, sandy beach, lots of facilities)

Greenacres is another big and busy Haven holiday park near to Snowdonia in North Wales.

​Much like Hafan y Môr (see number 2) it has easy access to a Blue Flag beach, so you can go for a swim in the water without worrying about what else might be in the water. 

It's got an indoor swimming pool and an outdoor splash zone (i.e. one of those water playgrounds with jets which cause small children to get drenched and cry). Elsewhere, there's an outdoor play area, adventure golf, three places to eat, a bowling alley, a sports court and pool tables.

So, whilst Hafan y Môr has more facilities after its 2019 revamp, Greenacres is a bit nearer to Snowdonia, so it's a good choice if you're the kind of family who like hiking with small children (that't not our family, by the way...).

Customer reviews at Greenacres were the same as Hafan y Môr when we checked (4/5 on TripAdvisor or 4.4/5 on Google).

Price: Greenacres was right in the middle in each of our price comparisons. A week for a family of four cost from £487 at Easter 2020, £972 in August 2020 and £230 in early October 2020.

4. Haven Quay West Holiday Park (indoor and outdoor swimming pool, lots of facilities)

Haven's Quay West caravan park is a good choice if you're looking for a decent holiday park in mid-Wales. It doesn't quite have the range of facilities of Hafan y Môr (see number 2) but there's still plenty to do and it has other things going for it.

Customers give it an average score of 4/5 on TripAdvisor or 4.4/5 on Google reviews, so identical to Greenacres (see number 3) and Hafan y Môr.

There are indoor and outdoor swimming pools and a splash zone at Quay West, as well as tennis courts, crazy golf, bungee trampolines, two places to eat, a bowling alley and pool tables.

It's also near to the beach (to be fair, all of the Haven holiday parks in Wales are near a beach).

Price: one of the cheaper Haven caravan parks in our price comparison. A week for a family of four cost from £485 at Easter 2020, £911 in August 2020 or £230 in early October 2020.

5. Haven Presthaven Caravan Holiday Park (cheap Haven park, lots of facilities)

Haven Presthaven is worth a look as it was the cheapest holiday park in Wales in all of our price comparisons. In the school summer holidays, it was more than £300 cheaper for a week at Haven Presthaven than  a week in similar accommodation at Haven's Lydstep Beach. 

But is it any good? 

Customer review scores are certainly a bit lower than the other four on this list (Presthaven was scoring 3.5/5 on TripAdvisor or 4.2/5 on Google reviews when we checked). 

However, it's very well equipped and certainly has more onsite than Lydstep Beach Holiday Village (see number 1 - the most expensive option in most of our price comparisons) and most of the other Haven parks in Wales. Presthaven has two indoor swimming pools, an outdoor pool and 'lazy river', five places to eat, a climbing wall, minigolf, indoor and outdoor play areas, a go kart track, a sports court, bungee trampolines, an aerial adventure course and pool tables. It's also near to the beach.

It's also very conveniently located for people coming from Liverpool (60 minutes away) or Manchester (90 minutes away).

Price: the cheapest Haven park in Wales in all our price comparisons. A week for a family of four started at £461 at Easter 2020, £857 in August 2020 or £205 in October 2020.

Price comparison of the Haven caravan holiday parks in Wales

We looked at three sets of dates for our price comparison. In each case, we were looking for the cheapest accommodation available for a family of four for a week, excluding any extras or activities which you pay for. We searched in July 2019.
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Price at Easter 2020:
  1. Presthaven - £461 
  2. Penally Court - £480
  3. Quay West - £485
  4. Greenacres - £487
  5. Lydstep Beach - £531
  6. Kiln Park - £547
  7. Hafan y Môr - £551

Price in August 2020:
  1. Presthaven - £857
  2. Quay West - £911
  3. Penally Court - £939
  4. Greenacres - £972
  5. Hafan y Môr - £1032
  6. Kiln Park - £1130
  7. Lydstep Beach - £1169

Price in early October 2020:
  1. Presthaven - £205
  2. Greenacres - £230
  3. Quay West - £230
  4. Kiln Park - £238
  5. Hafan y Môr - £243
  6. Penally Court - £250 
  7. Lydstep Beach - £321

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