Shorefield Country Park

About the owner

Both my husband and I enjoyed many caravan holidays as children, Rob and his family were lucky enough to own a caravan in Bognor Regis, myself and my family looked forward to our annual caravan holiday in West Bay, Dorset where my mum had holidayed every year as a child – it was a family tradition. As you would expect once Rob and I left school and became adults ourselves we enjoyed holidays abroad with friends. It was only when met, married and were expecting children ourselves that we began our own family caravan holidays again. We fell in love with the Hampshire/Dorset area after holidaying at Hoburne Naish in Highcliffe, we found a lovely family owned caravan that was so homely, equipped with all you could need, including games and toys to entertain our children. We returned at least 3 more times, the kids dashing for their bedroom as soon as we unlocked the caravan door to find the toy box under the bed (the doctors kit was their favourite). One February half term we booked a privately owned caravan not far down the road at Shorefield Country Park having once stayed there before when we booked directly through the park. Our children were 4 and 2 years old at the time and we had such a great holiday in this particular caravan thinking that this would be the type of caravan we would have if only we could afford one! Anyway, I wrote words to that effect in the visitor’s book and thought no more of it. About 8 month later the owner contacted me out of the blue and told me that they were looking to sell and would we be interested??! After a lot of thinking and reviewing of finances we decided it was just meant to be and if we didn’t do it then we probably wouldn’t get the opportunity again so after a bit of negotiation we became the proud new owners of a 2004 Pemberton Lucerne on 30th December 2011. We can honestly say it was the best decision we have ever made and the memories we have made with the children to date have been priceless. The kids are now teenagers, we may not be able to visit as much as we used to due to their sports commitments and their busy social lives but when we do get there our family dynamics change, we are away from work, school and the pressures of every day life and we have the best time. We traded in our beloved Pemberton after 4 years and bought the Regal Kensington that we have now, our aim has always been to replicate the homely feel of the Hoburne Naish caravan that we first stayed in with the kids when they were so young and yes, there is a doctors play kit in our caravan too!