The pool and access to the beach were great. Shame that the accommodation lets it all down. Chalet A6, three bed. Inside we could smell damp and mould. No central heating. One wall-mounted fire not working. First night we slept in cold rooms on damp beds. Duvet covers smelt of tobacco. After complaining we were given blankets, replacement duvet covers, two blow heaters and the wall fire was replaced. We were offered another chalet but it was just the same. We stayed where we were. Both chalets had cold concrete floors, no underlay for the carpets. The kitchen needed to be cleaned; doors and floor were sticky and the cutlery was very dirty with food on them. Ants in the living room and kitchen. We did no cooking, we ate out. No hooks anywhere for coats and towels. No toaster and no hairdryer. No Porch light. And no central heating. All the things we have in a caravan, provided for us, were not in our chalet. We booked a brick built chalet too, to get a better deal. How wrong it was! Our chalet had one view; an eight foot hedge about six feet away. The car park was too far away. Compared with a caravan, there is more room in a chalet, but that is all. I would not recommend this chalet on this park. Stick to caravans.

I first went to the site many years ago and as I now have a family and we were desperate for a beach close by we thought we would go to St Ives Bay. We checked in at 3.00pm on the Saturday as our caravan had been cleaned already. The receptionists were very pleasant and sorted everything out very quickly. The caravan (Horizon) was a bit older but perfectly fine, it was clean and tidy and had a fantastic view of the sand dunes, lighthouse and sea. The site is very clean and tidy with litter pickers going around every so often, they have a security van driving around in the evening. We needed a high chair and it was delivered very quickly. The club is good entertainment, exactly as you would expect, the kids club is ok a bit hot and smelly (all those youngsters in one room) our girls especially liked the Nick Knowles look like. :-)

St Ives Bay Holiday Park, Loggans Road, Hayle. TR27 5BH.

Full address given to avoid any confusion with parks with a similar name.

Third visit in June 2010. Previous visits in 2006 and 2009. Previously stayed in two bedroom A5* Chalet.

June 2010 stayed in Longships, one of the three houses on the Park. Cost £1,000 for one week with accommodation for ten people. Check-in was quick and easy and reception was as clean and well-presented as it has been before. The house was spotless and beautifully equipped with everything you'd expect to find at home - washer, dishwasher, fridge-freezer, two bathrooms. The decor is crisp and the floors wooden. The house has the sleeping accommodation downstairs so the upstairs lounge and balcony can give the view from St Ives, right round the bay to Godreavy Lighthouse.

Although the house is next to the bar, conservatory restaurant and swimming pool it was never noisy, so we got an enjoyable and restful holiday. Pubs don't open late, so no boozy revellers wake you up at 2am.

The shop is well-stocked and as you'd expect a bit on the dear side, although there's a Lidl on the roundabout at the bottom of the road, so there's a choice.

The park is clean with chalets, caravans and touring all well set out and facilities for all.

I'll go again!

Having just walked out of John Fowlers at st ives we were delighted come to a well run and organised park at st ives bay. The staff were sympathetic to our plight and could have have took advantage, but instead gave us their last couple of caravans at a huge discount! Smashing location with great facilities, entertainment was good and we welcomed the bar and stuff closing at 11.00, we prefer our teenage kids to be in reasonable early so we don'y end up with 'seperate' holidays. Certainly go back again.

The beach is divine. We stayed in an A6 chalet at St. Ives Bay Holiday park in Cornwall, but I hated the hard thick-plastic covered beds. They are so uncomfortable. They supplied nice clean linen for the A6 chalet, which was great, but it just slid off of the plastic covering on the mattress, and it was hot and very sticky in the night. The rooms had a bad damp smell, so we had to run in and open up the whole chalet to let the air pass through. I would not say it is the cleanest of places. I am not really a clean freak, but the windows inside were full of sticky children's fingerprints all over it, at about 2 ft from the floor. That should have been cleaned off. The toilet brush was so foul and soupy, and yukky inside the holder, that I threw it away and went and bought them a new one. That helped to stop the smell somewhat in the toilet, but I think it was from whatever lived under the lino! They do not supply a hoover, so the sand and other bits get all over the dark carpet and in the beds.

Two men with big canisters sprayed insecticide outside the chalet without letting us know, and we were in the chalet with the windows open at the time and it was hard to breathe for a few minutes, but at least they spray for bugs.

The laundrette is great, with what looks like new machines, but it is expensive: £8.00 for 2 loads (£3 washing machine, and 20p for 4 minutes drying time). The machines do not wring the clothes out very well, so it takes at least £1 to dry a load, but things are still quite damp afterwards. The park staff are helpful and plentiful, and they will go to extremes to make sure your stay is a pleasant one. The park is kept safe with so many uniformed security staff patrolling all the time, but it could do with a better clean after guests leave, and a hoover would keep you from sleeping in sandy beds. The hard plastic covering is a bit much though. It was like sleeping in Tupperware.

St Ives Bay Holiday park is in a lovely location right on the beach!, toilets and showers were nice and clean. Bar hours a complete joke! If you have just arrived after a very long journey don't expect to bar to be open! Also the only site I have ever known with last orders at 11 pm!