Flip flops and sandals (Hunstanton)

Member Name: abzibabzi

Product:	Hunstanton
Date:	03/09/03 (2533 review reads)
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Advantages: close amenities, lots to do, by the sea

Disadvantages: pebbly beach

Hello, I’m Abbie, this review is going to be about the seaside resort, hunstanton, next to kingslyn, and sandringham on the wash. I am 13 years old, and I have been there every year of my life with my mom, dad, sisters and grandparents.

When we go there, we stay at the searls caravan site. You can go there in a tourer caravan, camp out in a tent, or go in a static caravan or log cabin. They have cleaning facilities, quite a few toilet blocks with many showers and wash cubicles for the people in the tents and touring caravans.

It is very friendly there, with 3 parks for children with swings, slides, climbing frames and sandpits. Children over 9 years of age are able to go there and play on their own but the younger children have to be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

On the site there is a small shop, with their own bakery. They do fresh bread, meat and cakes. They sell newspapers and magazines, and a wide range of food. They have all the necessary things to go to the swimming baths or to the beach with: goggles, swimming suits, arm bands, rubber rings, buckets and spades, kites, etc. There are many more things as well as that.

Also on the site they have their own leisure center, with indoor and outdoor pools, with a slide, sauna, jacuzzi and shallow water area. They also have their own gym, with all the latest equipment.

They also have their own club, with the ‘sundowner’ room, with children’s bar, live entertainment, no smoking areas, and extension for when the room gets too packed. They have the over 18’s room for the nighttime, with a poolroom for over 14’s in the day. In the daytime, everyone is aloud in there it has the doors opening into the outdoor swimming pool. In the same building, there is the arcade, with rides for little children, and a bar, where you can buy ice cream, and change money.

The site is just a short walk away from the beach. You walk down the
road, through the gully, walk down the path and your there on the sea front. There are steps going down onto the beach, so there is somewhere to sit. The beach is rather pebbly, so make sure that you wear your flip-flops or sandals. The sea is usually quite rough, so I wouldn’t recommend that you go swimming in it too far out. Also at the beach there is a sea ride on the World War 2 ducks, and there is a water ski and air gliding club.

If you don’t like the pebbly beach, then you can have a short drive down the road to ‘top beach’. The beach there is lovely and golden, and doesn’t have half the amount of pebbles that the beach by the site has.

The town is just a short walk down the road from the beach. There are a number of shops, including Britain’s largest joke shop. There are lots of souvenir shops to get gifts from, and there is the tesco’s super store right outside the searls caravan site.

In the town, there is a park, with the usual swings, and seesaw, etc. There is also, a miniature golf, crazy golf and bowls games there. They have all the equipment all included in the price. (Further up the town, there is the pitch and put 18-hole golf course)

For a great day out, there is the fun fair. They have the classic rides, like the Waltzers, the whip, the crocodile, the ghost train, the bump, the umbrella’s, etc and all the smaller children’s rides. If you get hungry there are food stalls, that sell donuts, chips, candyfloss, etc. and of course they have the ‘hook a duck’ and the ‘tin can alley’. If you’re not the one for the rides, then you can try your luck in the arcade.

Somewhere else that you would want to go, is the sea life center. It shows you all the fish that are in the sea and many more. (Including … SHARKS). At the sea life center, they also have their own seal sanctuary. They rescue seals from all over the East Coast
, and house them until they are well enough to survive again in the wild.

About a half an hour drive away from hunstanton, is a town called wells. That is also on the coast, and they have a lot of crabs in the sea, and you can catch them and throw them back afterwards. This is called crabbing. You can buy the bait and equipment needed (crabbing line, net and large bucket) from the shops. If you don’t like crabs, you can go up the town in the shops. Again, there are lots of souvenir shops up there and there are fish and chip shops and there is an ice cream parlor.

Also at hunstanton, there are a few places that I haven’t been to visit:
18-hole golf course on the site,
markets,
Thomas’s arcade, (with 10p kiddy ride section)
Mini ‘bowlingo’ (ten pin bowling)
Budgeing’s supermarket,
The village green, with the bandstand, pier that sometimes has the radio 1 road show.
The oasis center with swimming, roller skating and indoor bowls,
Vegas chip shop with superb value (so I’m told),

I think from experience, that hunstanton is an extremely good place to go for a family holiday. The place isn’t too commercialised, with a good mix of arcades, pubs, shops, and green areas. If you do go to hunstanton, I advise that you go to the searls campsite, as it has received the rose award.

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