Just returned from a great week at Happisburg. Try to get the pitches closest to the cliff and and take a good mallet. The site can be both rocky and blustery. Excellent views and there are steps down to the beach
Stayed for four days in a tent at £13. The showers were not clean and were 20p a time. The washing up facility was dirty and runs cold.
Apart from that not a bad sight of the sea, although I think you pay for the view only. Others in campervan and caravans said the same. I would only recommend for the views and a bit of peace.
Every month during seasons opening, we visit our favourite place, Manor Caravan Park Happisburgh.
We have a camper and awning, with electric hook up £17 per night. The washing up facility located at the corner of the field has a small electric boiler to barely fill the sink 4″ deep, so dont waste the Hot water! The shower/toilet block is adequate. It is tired, but not smelly. The place could do with a lick of paint but not really neccessary. The site manager Elwin is a really pleasant helpfull chap. He will call round to your tent or campervan etc late morning for fees, if you got there late evening and hadnt got to the site office yet.
The touring park is effectively a field adjacent to the cliff tops, suffering erosion damage from the sea directly below. Pitches are not marked, however we have been lucky to pick non busy weekends to visit there and always prefer our spot somewhere at the top of the field allowing spectacular views across the Channel. At night the shipping lanes and oil rigs stand out with their lights. A moon at night across the sea is as stunning a view as the sunrise that is definetly worth getting up early to see! The sky at night is stunningly bright as no nearby town streetlight pollution to cloud the view.
During windy weather ensure good guy ropes and pegs. Gets very windy here.
Interesting local landmarks such as church and light house.
The local village has a pub (at the entrance to the site) and a small grocery/post office which is open early, closing early at around 1pm. Nothing else! No arcade machines, boy racer car park race track, no funfairs etc (bar the small childrens activity climbing thingy with a slide, located near the Washing up shack.) Abundant in peace and quiet.
Walks are good either way along beach, with return route available on beach or cliff-top.
This place is stuck in time, quiet and relaxing. Pricey for a camp site but to us, worth every penny for the truly relaxing time we have here.
My Grandparents had a satic caravan on the site for 20 years 1960-80 & as children came along we where taken every year in the summer hoildays it was the best hoildays for children.
All four of us in the back of the car seeing who could see either the lighthouse or church first so excited about being back.
We used to go out mon, wed, sat to the dogs at Great Yarmouth, when we got back at night all 4 of us would get our torches out & chase the rabbits about.
Our days where spent on the beach climbing down the cliff steps that the site owner Mr Lomax used to carve out every year.
Then there was shopping in North Walsham at Bobbys he remembered us every year, waiting outside the bookies while the Grandparents would be placing their bets.
Mr Lomax’s sons would help out around the site in the summer, they used to pull us around on a trailer, Kite flying in the camping field & games of football.
Grandad would take us down to the common for the swings on the way back from getting the papers. All 4 of us going to church on sundays sitting at the back because we did’nt really understand what was going on. It was such a safe place to be.
I’ve been back twice the last time was about 4 years ago, the church was having an open day, I got to climb to the top, you could see for miles it was amazing, I phoned one of my cusions he where I was without even having to tell him.
We would have a couple of days in Great Yarmouth at the funfairs boating lake & peddle cars, such happy times.
Out of 4 of us 3 have been back several times its in our blood I think, I Love It.
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Just returned from a great week at Happisburg. Try to get the pitches closest to the cliff and and take a good mallet. The site can be both rocky and blustery. Excellent views and there are steps down to the beach
Cromer is nearby great area if u like crabs and seafood. Top site too.
Stayed for four days in a tent at £13. The showers were not clean and were 20p a time. The washing up facility was dirty and runs cold.
Apart from that not a bad sight of the sea, although I think you pay for the view only. Others in campervan and caravans said the same. I would only recommend for the views and a bit of peace.
We love this place.
Every month during seasons opening, we visit our favourite place, Manor Caravan Park Happisburgh.
We have a camper and awning, with electric hook up £17 per night. The washing up facility located at the corner of the field has a small electric boiler to barely fill the sink 4″ deep, so dont waste the Hot water! The shower/toilet block is adequate. It is tired, but not smelly. The place could do with a lick of paint but not really neccessary. The site manager Elwin is a really pleasant helpfull chap. He will call round to your tent or campervan etc late morning for fees, if you got there late evening and hadnt got to the site office yet.
The touring park is effectively a field adjacent to the cliff tops, suffering erosion damage from the sea directly below. Pitches are not marked, however we have been lucky to pick non busy weekends to visit there and always prefer our spot somewhere at the top of the field allowing spectacular views across the Channel. At night the shipping lanes and oil rigs stand out with their lights. A moon at night across the sea is as stunning a view as the sunrise that is definetly worth getting up early to see! The sky at night is stunningly bright as no nearby town streetlight pollution to cloud the view.
During windy weather ensure good guy ropes and pegs. Gets very windy here.
Interesting local landmarks such as church and light house.
The local village has a pub (at the entrance to the site) and a small grocery/post office which is open early, closing early at around 1pm. Nothing else! No arcade machines, boy racer car park race track, no funfairs etc (bar the small childrens activity climbing thingy with a slide, located near the Washing up shack.) Abundant in peace and quiet.
Walks are good either way along beach, with return route available on beach or cliff-top.
This place is stuck in time, quiet and relaxing. Pricey for a camp site but to us, worth every penny for the truly relaxing time we have here.
My Grandparents had a satic caravan on the site for 20 years 1960-80 & as children came along we where taken every year in the summer hoildays it was the best hoildays for children.
All four of us in the back of the car seeing who could see either the lighthouse or church first so excited about being back.
We used to go out mon, wed, sat to the dogs at Great Yarmouth, when we got back at night all 4 of us would get our torches out & chase the rabbits about.
Our days where spent on the beach climbing down the cliff steps that the site owner Mr Lomax used to carve out every year.
Then there was shopping in North Walsham at Bobbys he remembered us every year, waiting outside the bookies while the Grandparents would be placing their bets.
Mr Lomax’s sons would help out around the site in the summer, they used to pull us around on a trailer, Kite flying in the camping field & games of football.
Grandad would take us down to the common for the swings on the way back from getting the papers. All 4 of us going to church on sundays sitting at the back because we did’nt really understand what was going on. It was such a safe place to be.
I’ve been back twice the last time was about 4 years ago, the church was having an open day, I got to climb to the top, you could see for miles it was amazing, I phoned one of my cusions he where I was without even having to tell him.
We would have a couple of days in Great Yarmouth at the funfairs boating lake & peddle cars, such happy times.
Out of 4 of us 3 have been back several times its in our blood I think, I Love It.