As featured in Practical Caravan, we spent from last Wednesday to yesterday at Southview Leisure Park in Skegness. Lovely site, good toilets and showers, swimming pool etc (although 20p non refundable for locker). It rained when we put up the awning and a puddle settled inside but we covered it with dusbin bags to keep the groundsheet dry. We missed the rain when we went out until the Sunday. We relaxed in our van until the kids came back from swimming. It had been raining quite hard for about an hour and when we open the van door, rain was pouring off the road through our awning. The groundsheet was floating, water had gone over into the inner bedroom soaking the sleeping bags, clothes etc. We got out what we could which wasnt much then my husband took me over to reception to ask for help. The girl who greeted us rolled her eyes as if to say, "Oh God, we have another complaint" them shrugged and said what did I expect her to do. The manager then came out, sat on the desk chewing gum and also said what did I expct him to do. This was the best site aorund and they never had flooding. It would dry up in 20 minutes, it alwaqys did -no help there then. Our grandson went back to them 1/2 hour later and they sent a man over. We asked if he could get us a plank so we could walk out the van relatvely dry footed which he said he would. Two hours later my grandson went back to reception to be told the man had gone home and there was no wood.
Meanwhile the vans on our side were also flooding and the water had flowed over into the pitches behind and they were frantically saving their things. One man took his car off site and found somd pallets. We meanwhile had also found some wood. Nothing else could be done so we went to bed - 6 in a 3 bed caravan. The water was still there. If we didn't have our sence of humour we would have cried. We managed to get the awning and van onto the road but bent two poles and ripped the awming doing to.
I am physically disabled, walk with two cruches for short distances and but also use a wheelchair and visually impaired, my husband is also disabled. One worked drove by the next morning but I stopped him. He said it was the problem of Anglian Water as they had stopped them from poring more water down the drains!!! and had switched them off. I may be a woman but I'm not that simple. A lady next to us had a six month old baby and when she went back to ask for her money back she was told they could not open the tills on a Sunday and they laughed at her.According to some loca lpeople who live on this site, this is an ongoing situation and nothing gets done. We saw no dranage systen on these particular pitches, only on the super pitches which were also getting under water. All we asked for was a little help but got none.
Will we go back to this site -NO, not if it forcasts rain.
Meanwhile the vans on our side were also flooding and the water had flowed over into the pitches behind and they were frantically saving their things. One man took his car off site and found somd pallets. We meanwhile had also found some wood. Nothing else could be done so we went to bed - 6 in a 3 bed caravan. The water was still there. If we didn't have our sence of humour we would have cried. We managed to get the awning and van onto the road but bent two poles and ripped the awming doing to.
I am physically disabled, walk with two cruches for short distances and but also use a wheelchair and visually impaired, my husband is also disabled. One worked drove by the next morning but I stopped him. He said it was the problem of Anglian Water as they had stopped them from poring more water down the drains!!! and had switched them off. I may be a woman but I'm not that simple. A lady next to us had a six month old baby and when she went back to ask for her money back she was told they could not open the tills on a Sunday and they laughed at her.According to some loca lpeople who live on this site, this is an ongoing situation and nothing gets done. We saw no dranage systen on these particular pitches, only on the super pitches which were also getting under water. All we asked for was a little help but got none.
Will we go back to this site -NO, not if it forcasts rain.