I revisited the huge English holiday park following £8million revamp – it feels much more upmarket

LIKE a phoenix rising from the ashes, there’s a vacation parkland successful the bosom of England that’s been fixed a caller lease of beingness aft it went into medication past year.

My boys and I returned to Billing Aquadrome adjacent Northampton to acquisition each the facilities installed by caller owner, Meadow Bay Villages, which present runs the 80-year-old park.

It’s awesome however overmuch alteration the £8million regeneration has led to since we visited past year.

This clip around, we recovered a ­brilliant caller pump way for bikes and scooters, tons of quality activities astatine the Adventure Island ranger ­station and an upgraded outdoor amusement abstraction overlooking the marina.

With an amphitheatre stage, nutrient vans, a splash zone, playgrounds and escapade golf each wrong eyesight of each other, each subordinate of the household tin find activities they emotion portion spending clip together.

It’s fantastic to spot Meadow Bay gathering connected the instauration of the steadfast household favourites already connected site, including a small bid that runs astir 1 of the lakes and a glass-fronted venue looking retired crossed the water, lodging a restaurant, brushed play, arcade and indoor swimming pool with flume.

The beating bosom of Billing has ever been family-friendly amusive acceptable successful a beauteous lakeside determination and present it truly feels similar it’s going upmarket, acknowledgment to the immense ­investment.

There are adjacent a mates of saunas by Willow Lake to unbend successful aft immoderate outdoor swimming, paddlesports or, if you’re feeling adventurous, racing astir connected the inflatable aqua park.

One of the things I emotion present is however galore of the activities are in­clud­ed successful the terms of your holiday.

Last year, it outgo a mates of quid to spell for a ride astir the water connected the train, but that’s present escaped arsenic is the swimming pool.

Lots of the amphitheatre activities similar circus skills, squad sports and scavenger hunts, are escaped too.

Most of the paid-for onland activities are a fiver a head, similar pond dipping, den gathering and escapade golf. And adjacent the watersports are reasonably priced, with pedalo and canoe prosecute astatine £20 per vessel.

One occupation this tract has ever had to contend with is the hazard of flooding.

The touring and camping fields were inactive waterlogged connected the play we visited, portion the remainder of the facilities were gradually reopening aft dense rainfall successful mid-September saw the full tract evacuated.

All the unit I encountered were upbeat, affable and moving hard to get everything backmost up and moving aft the floods.

I deliberation you cognize you’ve recovered a bully vacation spot erstwhile the radical moving determination look blessed to beryllium connected site. When it comes to accommodation, there’s thing for each terms ranges astatine Billing.

You tin enactment successful a bring-your-own-bedding glamping pod with entree to the ablution and toilet artifact for conscionable £38 a night, portion there’s besides a afloat scope of caravans and lodges to take from.

Bedlinen is included, but towels aren’t provided truthful don’t hide to bring your own.

Our golden caravan was cosy with bully fittings and fixtures, including a small veranda for sitting retired successful the autumn sunshine.

Day guests are besides invited astatine £5 a caput positive £5 for parking, which is simply a bargain if you spell off-peak arsenic it includes swimming and the small train, arsenic good arsenic the on-site ­entertainment.

We surely saw the champion of Billing this clip astir and with much inactive to come, it’s 1 to ticker if you privation a interruption by the water.