Lillies Holiday Park
Lillies Holiday Park
Yapton Road
Bognor Regis
West Sussex
PO22 0AY
Tel: 01243 552081
Pitches : 2 camping fields and static caravans
Facilities :Tumble dryer, ironing facilities, washing machines, showers, washbasins, toilets, chemical toilet disposal, shaver points, dishwashing (coin operated kettle for hot water), drinking water, disabled facilities, site shop, bottled gas, electric hook ups, ice pack freezing, children's play area
Open : All year
Location
Lillies Holiday Park is not actually in Bognor Regis, but just outside the small village of Barnham, which has a railway station, a useful selection of shops and a small supermarket and is only a few minutes walk away. Within a short drive there are beaches at Bognor Regis and Littlehampton, there is Fontwell racecourse (where we enjoyed a great boot sale on a sunny Sunday morning), the city of Chichester, Amberley Chalkpits Museum and Goodwood House among many other attractions.
Nearby
The Olive Branch pub, Yapton – good food, friendly welcome from the owner and a great pub quiz on Sunday night!
The Trading Post, Barnham – a great Aladdin’s cave of a shop with 2 floors of everything from food, booze, household goods and furniture, to toys and garden equipment - all at market type prices. Very useful for any bits and pieces you may have forgotten!
General Information
The Lillies Holiday Park is 3 acres in size and has a camping (tents) field and a tourer, motor home and tents field. There are also static mobile homes in a designated area opposite the tents field. No casual campers are accepted – you must book and a 2% charge is levied for using your credit card. Pitches are in sheltered, hedged fields, edged with very pretty (if somewhat overgrown) flower borders. The grass was kept short and tidy. On the weekend we visited, the owners did not seem to be in evidence, which meant that, although the showers and toilets were clean, fresh and tidy when we arrived on Friday evening (we were booked in by a park resident) they became dirtier as the weekend progressed and, of course, ran out of toilet paper. We left on the Monday morning at around 11 am and still saw no sign of any cleaners - or of the toilet paper being restocked! The washing, toilet and shower blocks are functional, but are DIY type buildings, housing mixed colours of sanitary ware (avocado, pink, turquoise – you get the idea). There are some untidy areas on the site - an abandoned vegetable (?) plot which had stuff dumped on it , and strangely enough, although there were some newly planted flower baskets, they were kept company by last year’s pots and baskets full of dead plants and weeds
Costs
a grand day out at the Chalk Pits, Amberley
For our weekend in May, charges were a fairly reasonable £16.20 per night for the camper, awning and electrical hook-up (each pitch is for 2 adults only). This rises to £18.70 in July and August.
According to their website The Lillies has a 3 star rating from the English Tourism Council and, although we liked the site, we think it probably only warrants 2 stars. It‘s a no-frills, peaceful campsite, with all the practical basic things you need, but it could benefit from some attention to detail by the owners. It was very quiet during our stay and there were no more than 2 other campers at any one time, but in high season when it is full, the facilities could become overstretched. Having said that, the location is good and there are plenty of places to visit, so we would go there again.
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