Silver Sands Holiday Park, Helston

We booked this site because they advertise as dog friendly but basically they just cash in on dog owners with us being charged over 40% extra on top of the original price for the oldest caravan on the site! The caravan was very old, thread bare carpet, dirty and moldy. There were much better caravans on site but they would not allow us to book them because of the dogs! The hot water tap stopped working on our 1st day (Sunday) and it took until Thursday for someone to come in and repair it! It broke again the same evening so we made do with boiling kettles to do the dishes for the rest of the holiday! Based on our antiquated caravan alone and what they charged for it i would not go back!

However the site itself was brilliant and very peaceful and well kept and i would recommend it to anyone wanting to get away from things. The beach is about a 10 minute walk down a wooded valley but the site advertise shops, takeaway and a pub as 'nearby' but this is open to interpretation as nearby means within driving distance

The staff were ok, not overly friendly but not overly offish either though i did take great exception to being told off by a child within 5 minutes of getting there after an 8 hr drive! The dogs were loose outside our caravan, we were unpacking and we were told to get them on a lead despite them going no further than 10 ft from us after being cooped up in the car

All in all based on my own experience, my accommodation, the excessive charging for pets and the somewhat misleading description of local faculties i would not stay there again